it will be very helpful to me if anyone tells me a way to find out the
details of the installed devices in a system like display adapters,
network adapters, keyboard, mouse, monitor etc., through code, which
in general we see in the 'device manager'.

My shortcuts and icons for all Office XP products are
displayed as the generic icon.  Up until a week ago they
were fine.  All my other icons are fine.
I have not installed any new software or hardware.

Ok here we go. I will try to explaine it clearly.
I have 2 displays. 1 is on an AGP card, the other is on a
PCI card. All was fine for the last 2 years. I tried a
different DVD software than I had been using. THe problem

I recently posted on this newsgroup and within 24 hours,
my email address was hijacked and I began receiving return
email notifications.
I take responsibility for being stupid enough to post my

I have the blaster worm on my computer. I go to microsoft
online in order to download what I need to solve the
problem but I alway end up having my computer shut down
before I can get the info I need. Is there anyway to get

My DVD/CD-ROM drive does not recognize any dvd's it ask's
me to insert a disc..... and its already in. i think i
need a decoder but i cant find a d*mn site that i can
download one. Any sujestions or am i just too damn stupid

Just installaed Windows XP Professional on a HP Pavillion
8630 with the above onboard sound driver, which is
resulting in the PC rebooting every time any audio
programs are accessed. Aureal appear to have gone out of

I'm thinking of upgrading my wifes Thinkpad with 300 MMX
PII, 192 MB Ram and a 4 gb HD to run Win XP Home. Is this
feasible? Has anyone run XP on this level of system?
Jim

Hi,
Im having troubles with Windows XP picking an industrial
serial device (used for weighbridges) as a serial mouse.
The current baud rate of the device is 2400. I cannot

Is it possible to reinstall Windows 97 into Windows XP? I
recently updated my puter with a new hard drive, memory,
CPU etc. I had Windows 98 before with Windows 97
installed on it.

I had a DVD player sitting on the secondary ide cable which I
temporarily replaced with a hard drive to copy some large files over
to my main hard drive.  After I put the cable back on the DVD drive,
windows sees the DVD drive but wont allot a drive letter for it saying

I'm running XP Home but have only one partition on the
HD...can I add a second HD & install WIN98 on it?
  Rainer

I want to erase my hard drive so that I can reprogram my
system. When I first got my windows XP, I messed up my
system and it has not been the same.
                                        Al G.

I'm having trouble formatting XP from my hard disk.  When
I try in Windows it tells me the disk is locked.  If I go
through a command prompt it does the same. In FDISK it
tells me that I can't delete the partition as there are

I am running XP Pro on a Gigabyte 8INXP motherboard with
Intel 3.06GHz processor. Hyperthreading is enabled and
active. I have installed 4GB of DDR ECC RAM (chipset
supports ECC). The problem is that I am fairly new at