Okay. I'm trying to fix a friend's laptop. it had 2 OS installs on it - one
Red Hat Fedora on 8GB, and one XP on 10GB, and was booting with the Grub boot
loader. XP was completely unusable, it was so screwed up with malware.
I booted to an XP Pro CD, and formatted the foreign disk ...

I have Adaptec Serial ATA RAID 1210SA with 2 x 120GB SATA RAID1 running Win
XP pro.
I have this setup for almost a year. no problems at all. What I would like
to accomplish to replace my 2 * 120GBs with 2 * 200GBs

The President of Sudan is a terrorist. Two million Christians and civilians
have been massacred and forcibly raped at gunpoint and yet the U.N. is still
"thinking" about what to do (maybe just maybe Bush was right about what he
said about getting the U.N. to act) and the A.U. is ...

My new Windows XP software crashes when I attempt to  
load new software from a CD onto the system.  I had the
same problem On ME. I avoided it by stopping read ahead -
slowing down the reading.  Is there a way to do the same

 I am running a home-built PC with an AMD Duron 1.2 MHz processor and
524-MB RAM. It is a dual boot running Windows XP Pro and Mandrake 10.1.
I have not put SP2 on the XP install, but otherwise it is fully
up-to-date in terms of updates.

I have trouble reading cd's with my DVD burner. When a cd
is inserted in the drive XP freezes, keyboard an mouse
does not respond no matter how long I wait. This happens
either when I insert a cd first time or when I exchange

When I try to install the Epson c60 driver I keep getting the following message
C:\windows\system32\autoexec.NT. The system file is not suitable for running
MS-DOS and Microsoft windows applications. Choose close to terminate the
application.

I am developing a DB to run on network server with drive letter S: however on
my machine, I only have C:.  To avoid having to update linked tables and code
each time I do a new release, I'd like to create a partition in my HD and
call it S:, using this to store my development ...

HP Scanjet is connected via pci adeptec scsi and is recognized in that new
hardware wizard correctly identifies it and after it is installed, if I turn
it off, I can get a message that it is turned off or not connected.
However, whenever I try to run software, including the ...

When I try to play my wild tangent games...there is no sound...It used to
have sound with it...but now a window pops up and says, "Your computer does
not have a sound card that supports the adpcm file format...Does anyone know
what is wrong?  or how I can fix this problem?

Please, can anybody help with the following problem.
I am using XP Pro SP1 and I have been using an external USB2/Firewire
OneTouch Maxtor 160go disk for several weeks without problem (either
on USB2 or Firewire).

For the last couple of weeks I've had problems playing music on my PC.  As a
matter of fact this problem coincides with my udpated to XP Service Pack 2.  
Every music file I now play has an awful static noise to it, you can still
hear the music, but there's a lot of static with it ...

Sorry if this is a silly question...
I`m running the English version of XP Pro with SP2, on a Fujitsu desktop
produced
for the Japanese market. Everything is running well. My question is as I

Hi, Every time I run Spybot-SD Resident it shows a DOS
exploit.The fix I got follows:
GreyMagic Security Advisory GM#001-IE
By GreyMagic Software, Israel.

When I do voice recording or anything I have to yell in order for it to pick
up the slightest sound. I have gone to my control panel and turned up the mic
gain to full and it's still nearly silent.
I'm running on Windows XP, Asus P5AD2 Premium.