My son has an HP system with a DVD and a CD ROM.  For some reason the system
quit "seeing" both of these drives most of the time.  Sometime, however,
they appear to work, but most of the time they do not.  They are both on the
same cable.  What would be the most likely reason for ...

have a VB6 executable talking via serial port to an external instrument.
It works fine on a number of machines running ME and Windows95 on a old
IBM380D laptop , but fails on any newer IBM T40 running XP.
Any change to serial comm driver in XP?. How can I revert to a different

I reformatted desktop computer harddrive & reinstalled it with XP PRO. Before I did that, I saved/backup all of my important data to my external Maxtor 3000LE harddrive.
Here is the problem, before reformatting I set the security properties for the backup folder (on Maxtor) so ...

I have an older compaq computer, each time I plug in a usb
printer the computer will not boot, it will not even go
through post, I unplg the printer and all is well.  Other
usb devices work just fine.  I'm puzzled, any help is

Hello world!
I have a question...since original HP cartridges are very expensive.....In
Israel they cost $10 more a piece ,than in the US.
Here it would cost $42 .And there's no way for sure to know when the ink is

Is there a way to disable the "thumb"/"jump"/any other name usb drives on
XPPro without disabling the USB Ports entirely.  We don't want people here
to be able to just walk up plug in download and go. But we may have need to
use other USB devices, such as mice or keyboards.

I am working on a computer with XP and the mouse will not
work.  I have used the same mouse on the same computer
before, but it will not work now.  I connected it to
another computer and everything is fine.  In Device Mgr,

Good day,
I got a bluetooth optical mouse in trae but, it did not
come with the original CD.  Does any one know where I can
get the drivers for this?

Whether I'm using iTunes, WMP, the built-in XP cd-writer, or any other burning application downloaded from the net, my result is always the same when i try to burn any type of cd (both data and audio): The writing process completes as normal... when it's done, the program says ...

i here there was a cap on the maxiumum ram usable on
Windows XP home (512mb)
is this true?

i would like to install a second HDD but i'm not too sure how to go about it
can anyone help with some productive pointers?

Lately I have been having a problem on my computer that is
starting to turn into a severe one, since my family needs
to print things for school, etc... My problem is: One day
all the printers on my computer disappeared, and I could

I am currently building a new computer and have to install
windows XP on new computer to get it up and running. I
recently bought XP about 6 months ago and installed it on
my old computer. What I am asking is that am I breaking

I frequently get SVCHOST.exe errors which causes the MS
OFFICE & Explorer to not function properly.  Is there a
common cause and fix for this?
Regards,

Running XP Pro and 2ghz machine.
Just noticed I have two CD/DVD roms listed.  I only have one a
Toshiba.
But a AXV CD SCSI drive is listed.  I took it out in Device Manager