Wireless Desktop Standard UK 1000 Keyboard and Mouse keep Freezing after
some erratic times.
If disconnected from USB and reconnected, sometimes work again.
Most of the time needs a reboot.

there are two computers on this network, a desktop and a laptop. Both have
intelli-products (keyboard and mouse) from MS. They are connected by cat5.
The movement of the mouse on the desktop affects the notebook mouse, which
opens folders and files as per the desktop mouse. They ...

Hello, I have Windows XP Pro installed on my 2-year-old 80 GB Western Digital
hard drive. I recently upgraded from Service Pack 1 to Service Pack 2. Today,
I checked event viewer and found this warning:
"The driver has detected that device \Device\Harddisk0\DR0 has predicted

Your server has unexpectedly terminated the connection. Possible causes for
this include server problems, network problems, or a long period of
inactivity. Account: 'mail.bellsouth.net', Server: 'mail.bellsouth.net',
Protocol: POP3, Port: 110, Secure(SSL): No, Socket Error: 10053 ...

I have downloaded a program and uninstalled it using add remove
programs,but when i search for the program and try to delete a file
from it , it says access is denied, is there any way to delete this
file even thought it has a message, through something else on the

I had to do a system restore of my computer(XP Home Edidtion). And i wanted
to save some of my files so it saved my old system files. It took up 4GB and
i want to get rid of it. I've tried deleting it, used the disk cleanup and
did the disk defragmenter. I've tried deleting it in ...

I recently upgraded to an Athlon X2 3800+ dual-core processor.  I am
currently running WinXP Home Edition with SP2 and all patches.  How can I be
assured that WinXP Home is taking advantage of the dual-cores?  Task Manager
does show 2 graphs under CPU and the My Computer Properties ...

A friend's Time Computers laptop hard drive started playing up, so I bought
a Samsung replacement and stuck it in. That was the easy bit. Now I know
about the dreaded hidden partition business, but I figured formatting the
drive and reinstalling with an OEM XP disk (with Service ...

I added an additional 512mb ram to my existing 256mb ram. The system does
recognise the new ram(shows up in the setup), but it seems gcasdtserv.exe(MS
Antispyware, i presume) has problems recognising it. Once it flashed to run
ckdsk utility, it ran successfully. The problem is ...

I put in a 2nd hard drive it formated and has got a drive letter but every
time i start the computer up it loads in to the main screen then nothing so i
shut the computer down and then restart it then it will go in to windows and
picks up the 2 hard drives can any one help please

I'm running WinXP with SP2 on a Compaq mini-tower. Within the past week, some
kind of corruption must have set into the registry keys that control my
Creative Audigy 2ZS Sound Card.
On at least 3 start-ups recently, WinXP had to rediscover my sound card

Dear firewire experts,
I've just received my first 1394 cards. The goal is running windbg over
firewire.
One card is a cardbus, another one PCI.

Did something pretty dumb (as you probably picked up on by now!). Installed
a new DVD/RW drive to replace my CD/RW. Only one problem. Forgot to take the
CD disk out of the player before removing it. Dumb.
Can anyone tell me if there's a "trick" to getting the darn disk out without ...

My computer (not connected).was stored 10 months under following conditions:
room in wooden house (cold in the winter, +15-17C, in the summer +20C)); it
stood below at a window.. Humidity of air is high: up to 90%( in summer),
and 75-80 % in winter. Is there probability of some ...

I'm useless on hardware but I want to connect an external drive to my
computer which already has two HD's (one is drive and one is slave)
So the connection willl be via an USB 2 port.
In these circumstances, do I set the external HD to 'drive', 'slave' or