Control Panel applets are showing empty.
All  my printers & scanner have gone, how do I rectify this..?
Nothing has been added or removed, hardware or software, or lockups or
crashes..

I recently fitted a new hard drive but when I installed XP home edition it set my DVD Re-writer and my LITEON CDRW as SCSI drives instead of ATAPI drives. This is causing me problems as I don't have a SCSI interface and my burning software won't recognise my drives correctly. Is ...

After plugging & unplugging my printer USB cable a number
of times, now my computer does not recognize it at all.
As a result, I am with out a printer for the time being.
I have tried updating the drivers for the USB, to no

hi, this is my 2nd MS optical mouse and have jsut gone
the same way as my 1st one. the wire has broken or there
is a loose connection somewhere, every time i try and
left click on something i usually doubble click's and if

I have a memorex 52x24x52 that i recently istalled like a month ago, the other day I got to my computer to find that it is not there. The device drivers are installed but says the hardware is not there. I have restarted it several times with and without the cd drive installed and ...

Using a Compaq Pressario 1200 series with a clean install of Windows XP Home and Media Player 9 and all updates, I get a messgae that I need to run the recovery disk from the mfg to get the DVD player to work.  I tried the Toshiba and HP (Compaq) websites for current drivers and ...

I would like to have something other than the generic icons that Microsoft
Windows XP Professional uses for my SanDisk  ImageMate 8 in 1 so that I can
easily distinguish what drive letter corresponds to a particular memory
slot.

I just re-installed Win XP on a Dell desktop system which had a HP 680c
deskjet printer connected and working perfectly, now the printer prints out
strings of random characters at the end of each page. HP website says that
drivers that come with the OS are all there is, and the ...

Hey, I recently purchased Windows XP Pro. I reformatted my entire computer, and reintalled everything. Now when I am playing music, or recording, most noticeably in Winodws Media Player, there are extremley loud buzzes every once in a while. I am clueless as to what is causing ...

Running WinXP Pro.
Recently, my CD Rom stopped reading CD's.  It's about 2 years old.  It's got
power - opens, closes and the CD's spin, but I can't get it to read any of
them ... not music, data, programs ... nuttin'.

How can I Make my bluetooth headset work as sound
plaback and recorder in my labtop.
Any help will be much appreciated
bleutooth headset(FreeSpeak 250)

I currently have a computer with a usb 1.0 port. Can I use usb 2.0 devices on it or do I need some sort of converter
Thanks, Tom

Sir,
Today I have purchased a MS Basic keyboard, but no
installation CD have been provided by supplier. Moreover,
keys are not producing correct impressions, e.g. against

i have no sound on my computer. all i get is a message
c00d11ba error. i have tried everything i can think of to
sort it , sound card properties nothing is muted, where
can i get a new driver to install?

The second device on my Primary & Secondary IDE
Controllers get set to PIO even when DMA is enabled.
Microsoft has acknowledged in problem:
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 817472