My new laptop with XP doesn't have a parallel port and my
Canon bjc 4200sp printer doesn't have a USB port so I
bought a USB-centronics cable.  So now the printer won't
print even though I get a new printer installed message

My computer recognizes my usb mp3/flash drive, but does
not read the drive. The files on it do not show up in
windows explorer and I am not able to paste new files to
the drive. I do not know what to do!

My error message reads The Device/CdRom1has a bad block.
how can this b fixed?

my dvd writer wont recognize writable discs
pioneer 106d -windows xp
can you help

I've read a few comments about features stripped from
intellipoint 5.0, and while they don't bother me much, one
aspect doesn't seem to work as it did. I had "close"
assigned to the thumb button on my old intellimouse

After installing XP my Epson Stylus C82 will not print.  Epson support reconfigued my port, to use a standard port ? It printed while they were on the line and then when I tried to print later from another application it would not print. Now I am back to the same problem. It does ...

i just recently built a new system from quality parts
bought online.
Antec SLK3700BQE /w 350W PS
Abit IC7-G motherboard

  I keep receiving an error notice that says- "Microsoft
needs to close....please report this problem to Microsoft"
when I try to open my Paint program. I have sent the
required report several times to Microsoft, but still my

My CD rom drive is recognized but I cannot read anything off of any CD's.  I have changed the actual drive and changed the cables.  Also have put it as a slave on the Primary IDE and then I get an IO error that tells me to change the cable.  Obviously that is not it!  Has anyone ...

Is anybody have problems with these devices?  On my wife's
XP machine, a mouse click will sometimes cause a complete
system restart.

We are having problems when we try and put 2 modem drivers
onto 1 COM port.
We need this in two cases: the user may need to attach
different external modems to the COM port (e.g. GSM or

Here's my question, plain and simple
  Is it possible for me to install a copy of Windows XP Pro without SP1 on a 250GB HD and keep the full capacity? If so, how
I have BIOS that recognizes the full capacity
This shouldn't be this difficult.  Up to now, XP has been awesome, but ...

can not download background music to pictures message
says it is copywritted and will not down load? can any
one help

I have a legacy device and software that worked fine with
Windows 98, but now will not work with XP.  The software
can only recognize the download device on LPT 1, 2 or 3.  
I have connected it to LPT1 and assured the BIOS is set

I have an ASUS K8V Motherborad with a Athlon 64 3200
Processor and a Samsung Sata 120GB hard drive.  Doing a
fresh install of XP 64, I press "F6" to load a scsi or raid
hard drive (As XP will otherwise report that I have no hard