I have a problem here whereby after installing a network printer into the
pc, the adminstrator can print whereas the rest of the users in the pc cannot
view the installed network printer. Only way is to again manually add the
printer from the user profile. Is there another way to ...

My hard drive which had been running in DMA mode for the past couple of
years was forced to the much slower PIO mode yesterday.  (I think this was
a result of some drive reading problems caused by bad clusters which have
since been fixed using the Chkdsk utility.)

Inside my PC is an Athlon 64 3000+ processor, with stock heatsink/fan.
There's also a Radeon 9800 Pro in there.  If the computer is idle or
if there's only a light workload (ie internet surfing), the CPU
temperature is around 45 degrees.  When there's a heavy workload (ie

I have a dell dimension L933 with windows XP home.
About 20% of the time it boots up with no sound, when I try to use media
player to play mp3 file, it says my sound device is not working or
something. The remedy is to reboot.

i have this card for my laptop but it doesnt paly on usb1 and i bought  a
pcmcia card with usb2 port but it didnt work cause of not enough power and
being not compatible.do anyone knows a pcmcia card that it will work at sure?

How do I reinstall System Restore? My SR is corrupt and
won't let me do anything. I created a restore point to
specifically test this function and it would not restore.
Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance.

I bought an HP a350y Pavilion in late December 2003
loaded with windows xp. For awhile the dvd/cd writer
combo would copy audio file from the cd rom and burn a
copy of it with no problem. It also worked fine as far as

My computer with WinXP SP2 did not boot, so I booted
from a win98 floppy, used a DIR command and saw that all data
still exists :-)
Then I booted from my WinXP CDROM - Repare - Tried the FIXBOOT command.

I have a very strange problem with a pc i need to install.
I put the XP-install cd into the drive and boot, the setup start and runs
without any problem so xp is installed without any problem.
But then , when i put any cd in the drive , windows can't read the cd, the

I uninstalled AOL for Broadband, then on restart, I got this error: "file is
missing or corrupt, windows/system32/config/system"
When I try to boot in safe mode, the system stalls and reboots.  
When I boot to the XP setup CDROM, it either 1) hangs after "starting

After upgrading to SP2, XP Prof. , system reports only 1
Gb space total on the drive, with 246 Mb available.... yet
when you use chkdsk or other tools, it still has about 76
Gb space left.  I am unable to run chkdsk /f to repair

I've been uploading digital photos from a Fujifilm camera
for 2 years, first to a Windows 98, then to XP home
edition as of a year ago. Since I installed Service Pack
2, I cannot. Downloading the driver from the Fujifilm web

A friend running xp pro, went to Epson web page,
downloaded and started to install wrong driver. Now system
hangs after going to check disk. She reports f8 only
brings up frozen screen with driver info, any thoughts

I bought an external HDD for my notebook. I'm now very
surprised to see that it is recognised in the hardware
list and that it seems to be running. But when I open the
explorer I cannot find the HDD. Any help or advice around?

I have just reinstalled win xp pro and now it won't
recognise the intellimouse optical usb. the mouse works
fine on my second machine, but niether mouse works.
can someone please help?