I have a problem. I have a pc in my network with one harddrive, 3 network
drives and one dvd-drive.
Everytime someone uses a usb memory device, the device is stored under a
driveletter already in use by the networkdrive. Of course, I can change the

my new Notebook runs winXP Home, which happily detects my USB stick and
installs the correct drivers. Unfortunately the device automatically switches
off after about 6 seconds. The USB stick appears very briefly in the device
manager as Massenspeichergeraet = masstorage device ...

When re-installing XP, not updating, but actually re-installing, does the XP
installation re-format the harddrive?  I know it deletes everything from the
computer, but does is actually re-format the harddrive as well?

Anyone know where I can purchase mobo mounting hardware & screws?
I've tried to run some searches and have unsuccessful.

I hope you guys are not laughing at me, because I just don't know about this
issue. I sit in one room of the house and like to use my laptop (wireless
needs to be used via a PC card slot, not build in) in another room. Can I
plug in a wireless setup into my Netgear ProSafe ...

I have a ZIO Smart Media card reader.  I use this reader to recover my smart
media card when my camera no longer recognizes it.  I use the SMPREP utility
to do a low level format and my camera can now read the card.
The last week I needed to reformat my card and found that I could ...

I have a hard drive, used as a slave, and was changed from fat32 to ntfs. I
am giving it to my daughter, but she must use as fat32. I am using winxp.
How do I format the drive so she can use it on her computer?
Thanks,

I would appreciate some opinions please!
Having a motherboard that can utilize RAM designated from PC 2100 through PC
3200 (using an AMD Athlon 3200+ processor), which of the following
configurations do you think would be better for video editing?

I wonder how much memory WinXP pro Eng can use. I have now 4096MB but Xp only
shows 3.00GB.

I know you can add another display to stretch the desktop to two instead of
one.  To do this, I just need to add another video card to the computer?
Thank you.
Jeff

The sound on my computer has recently become very distorted. I get the
feeling this is tied up with Direct X 9c but I can't be sure when that was
installed. I have tried system restore but that fails every time, even to a
restore point I created myself about a month ago. Can ...

hey....suddenly...i just noticed that when i tried to open something off of a
floppy disc that the A drive was not an option...???? this and other problems
have occurred since i put windows xp pro on my computer?? can someone tell me
how to get it back?

Does Windows XP Home Edition have a limit on the amount of RAM it can
properly manage?  My system runs fine with 512mb, but everytime I try to
upgrade to 1GB, regardless of the manufacturer of the memory, Windows scan
disks on boot up giving me "TRUNCATING BADLY LINKED ATTRIBUTE ...

After installing sp2 (on winxp pro) it seems I no longer have a scan wizard.
I have removed the scanner from device manager and let xp find it again but
this doesn't help.
Also, when I go to add hardware, Canon is not listed as one of the

I have a Memory Card Reader (connected to the USB) which used to pop up
the Removable Disk Detector Dialog ("What do you want Windows to Do?")
when I inserted a camera memory stick. I can still read the sticks after
inserting them, but the dialog was a real convenience.  This ...