When I get into a song from RealPlayer, it says "Cannot open the audio
device. Another program may be using it."(i've gone to task manager and
another program isnt using it).
So I went to dxdiag and the troubleshooting for sound and it eventually led

I don't know nothing about computers and I want to put a new HD in because I
think the old one is going bad can I just copy the old one over to the new
one or will it just copy the bad stuff over to it to?

how do you set up a NTFS hard drive on FAT32 computer? because i a
having difficulties. i have a old Windows 95 machine, now XP Home, wit
a -MS6116 VER:1.1- motherboard. when i try to boot form the new 80G
hard drive, set as master, the computer doesn't see it.

Can anyone help.
I have a problem with my HP printer not being recognised if I turn it on
before windows XP has fully loaded this I have learned to live with. Now I
have an even bigger problem.

I have no sounds.  I have tried everything.  Could a person accidentaly
delete the sound card?  My kids get on here and down load things and change
things.  I have done everything the book says to do.  Debbie

I have my Maxtor 250GB HD partitioned as:
C:  NTFS  Primary, Boot  Size=16GB
D:  NTFS  Logical  Size=Remaining space
Here's the problem...  I can't do anything involving resizing or joining of

 I have a Sony RX860 desktop and recently when I use the floppy "A" drive
it makes a repetitive "tat."tat","tat" etc type noise on shutdown.
Everything works fine except for this noise for a few seconds that happens
on shutdown after I have used the floppy drive.

Sometime ago I made an attempt to install a wireless PCI card in one of
two open PCI slots on motherboard.  I had installation and software
problems wiht this card so I took it back.  I purchased a different
wireless PCI card and tried to install it in the same slot.  This time

Is there a router product for home network that would allow one to block www
access by setting a time window of access for a particular cable port or by
the mac address?   This to limit kids use of ww after hours vs manually
pulling the plug.  I have Linksys befsr41 now that ...

I am attempting to play a DVD-R burned backup copy of my movie in an older
DVD player in my house. However, the DVD player is not recognizing it and
giving me an error message. When I play my retail copy, it's fine.
Any idea if I need to be using another type of media so it can ...

I have a HP CD-Writer plus 8100i. Since I installed SP2 some months ago I
used it only for CD-R disks without any problem to read an write. It worked
also with CD-RW in the past. Now I try to write on a new CD-RW. It does not
even reckognize the disk in the device. I also tried to ...

I had to replace my motherboard & since then when the computer boots up into
XP it doesn't recognize the keyboard or mouse.  When I'm in the BIOS menu or
any other program that I go into before the computer boots into XP the
keyboard & mouse works fine.  I'm guessing there's an ...

I have a dell desktop that is running WIN XP Home. It we acting VERY SLOW so
I fdisk, formated and reinstalled Win XP but it is still run VERY SLOW. It is
a P4 with 256 RAM and it did not run this slow when I got it. It just started

i have a p3 running on xp sp1. the windows reports the usb controller and hub
are working fine. i connected a samsung mp3 player and it worked. but none of
the other devices( Bluetooth dongle, kodak camera, nokia communicator 9300)
work. will be grateful for any help.

When I log on with an administrator account the jump drive works fine.  When
the user logs on with a limited user account the drive is detected, i.e. you
hear the plugin sound, but it does not appear in My Computer.  Is this the
way WindowsXP Pro SP2 is supposed to work, and is ...