I have an IBM Thinkpad 770ED.
I just upgrade the memory from 128 MB to 224 MB.
Do I need to wipe the HD clean and re-install WinXP?

I've a 56 kb modem and a portable with installed Windows XP. But the
portable haven't an RS232 port. So how can I do to connect my modem to
my portable?
Thanks

where do I find the recycle bin?  All I can find is Norton
Protected files.
I am trying to find a desktop icon excel file that was
deleted from my desktop but can't find the recycle bin,

Hi,as you can see from my subject,i've changed my whole computer except my
harddrive.I want to keep the same windows,so what should i do to reset
windows settings so i can install the new drivers and be able to continue to
use the windows.

I tried using the REGEDIT to fix my drive problem but it keeps closing out
before I can do anything to it. Am I doing something wrong?

Just helped a friend set up and plug in a new Dell machine (can't remember
the exact spec right now, but I'll get it if it's important) and it's
running Windows XP Pro with SP2 and all the updates.
Almost from new it's been crashing with STOP errors, the major one I've

This may fall into the stupid question of the week category but...
I want to use infrared technology to transfer photos, etc. from my
Sharp phone to my Compaq Armada 1750. I have never even thought about
infrared before but I see it as an option on my phone and it seems to

On XP Pro SP 2, running with Microsoft Update. Working system with a Logitech
USB already installed.
Intellipoint 5.0 installed fine, Wireless tab says Battery Good/Signal
quality High, but mouse pointer doesn't move.

i have a game that keeps crashing  i have been told by the helpoptions on the
game that i need to update my vidoe card and sound card i have xp can any won
help please

Hello, I was trying to install a program on my computer but the disc would
not load automatically. When i went to manually open the disc my cd drive did
not show up in my computer. When I went under device manager to see what was
wrong with it, it showed the disk drive icon with ...

My laptop which is a Sony Vaio PCG-k23 was working fine until last week
that my windows hanged. I tried to reboot and windows hanged on startup
(when windows xp logo is up and the loading process bar freezed). I
tried to boot in safe mode, and the boot process stopped when it tried

Hi guyz,thx for answering.first of all,let me show you the situation i'm in:
i've said the following solutions not acceptable because it takes time.
In fact,i use norton ghost to restore a complete windows xp (multiple
programs already installed like office,photoshopetc.) on ...

Any one know how to solve this?
I had a notebook, my DVDrom is not working.
I checked with msinfo32, it shows " MATSHITA DVD-RAM
UJ-840S    IDE\CDROMMATSHITA_DVD-RAM_UJ-840S________________1.50____\5&3599A6A&0&0.1.0    Failure using the VxD loader."

I have the drivers for the modem on my XP machine but when i go to add the
modem and then click on have disk and browse to the file it doesnt appear to
accept this inf file,any suggestions??
The modem is a HSP56k modem

Built a machine in March 05, using P4-640, 1GB and used two 20GB IDE drives a CD-ROM and a CD-W/RW stripped from my old HP with XP Pro, SP2 as an OS.  I want to install a 80GB SATA drive in a non-RAID arrangement but with the option of adding a second SATA and converting to RAID ...