I have a stupid question. Are the static charges over you hands while
handling electronic/computer components caused by and come from electrons in
the circuit or by frictions of your hands... Sorry first because it is
irrelevant to this group. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

This is the weirdest thing.. The little speaker icon for
Sound, won't stay put in my taskbar.  In Control Panel,
Sound, I click the little box that says "Show sound icon
in taskbar" then I click APPLY and then OK.  It then

When my PC boots it hangs when it supposed to read the
IDE items. So, I press the restart button and it boots
fine. It does this every morning. Any ideas on how to fix
this?

Plugged NEW Sandisk 256M USB flash drive "Cruzer mini 256M" into Dell
Inspiron 1100 USB port. Windows XP recognized drive and identified it as
256M (~261M) FAT, and the Cruzer Mini stick's LED was ON.
Before copying anything to the new drive, clicked on "start/All

I have recently got one of those dual plugs for the phone
connection. Now I can leave the cable from the PC into
the phone as well as having the phone plugged in. What
I've noticed though is if I use the phone and hang up it

Hey, im having problems with my USB on my PC. Below is
the transcript of the chats ive had on here before, i
have fitted the 550W PSU As suggested and it's made no
improvements... Any other Suggestions?

How is everybody doing.
This is something I came across on of of my PC's a starting a few days ago:
Whenever I insert an optical media - DVD or CD disc- the volume label comes
up in My Computer as it should.

How come my XP won't accept the H/P photosmart software. When I try to install it my machine tells me to stop as it may wreck my system. It worked before then quit. What gives?

Which is the best newsgroup to ask questions regarding networking protocols?
Specifically, I have a network with the following-
Several WinXP computers (1 home, 2 Professional)
Windows 2000 computer

I have a problem... I have this error and this error is
                          C00D11D4
and i dont know what it is but i cant copy music from my
media player to a blank cd.

Today I installed a new CPU fan on my AMD 1.1Duron Processor.
Now the PC is very slow and when I checked teh processor speed it stated it
was running at 498mhz.
Have I screwed my CPU?

I just discovered that I don't have the XP firewall
funcioning on my PC. When I go to Network Connections I
only see Internet Gateway, Network Bridge, and Wizard. I
am able to access the Internet through my NIC card which

I am planning to upgrade my motherboard and processor in my PC
I now have a P4-2.4B and Intel GEBV2 card. I want to get up to
3.2GHz HT 800MHz with 1MB cache and a suitable motherboard
I intend to replace just my current board and processor with the new ones

I wish to upgrade my pc to a new motherboard and
processor, but I wish to keep my original hard drives and
all the information there in.
I have heard that XP cannot be moved from one pc to

Just bought intelliMouse 4.0 w/tilt wheel.(wired)mouse
will not focus on the window I move it to without having
to click first. the mouse reacts differently per
application. Eample: in windows explorer I have to click