I posted on here before, but didn't really get the help I wanted.  I don't
know a tenth as much about this stuff as you people apparently do.
So:  my internal hard drive is tiny.  So I bought an external harddrive that
is really big.  I  know that it's for backup, but can't I move ...

I have a HP Pavilion dv4000 running XP Home. It came with a remote control
for watching DVD's etc....  I  don't see a catagory called Inferred Devices
in the device manager. I'm stumped on how to get the remote to operate. Any
help????

I was wondering how to disable my touchpad.  I go into the control panel and
do all that stuff and go to disable and apply....  and it doesn't work.  The
mouse keeps working when its disabled.  What can I do to fix this problem?  

I have an external maxtor firewire disc connected to my PC and at
startup of the system it takes longer and longer until the drive gets
ready, i.e. the red led dissapears and the drive icon appears on my
system.  The disc contains roughly 55 GB of data, manly dvd single

Setting up a new pc,  MSI  MB, AMD  cpu,  raid 1,  Win XP Pro.    
When I shut down windows, everything goes normally, then the screen goes
black  and a   no video  signal appears on the screen,  but the pc doesn't
shut off. ?

hi i got a free trail of World of Warcraft and everytime i try to instal it,
the cd-rom pops open. i can play other games and all kinds audio cd's and so
on, but not this disk, can you help?

I upgraded my pc to a new mother board.  Before starting that process, I used
Microsoft's backup utility to back up my C: drive in total to a removable
hard drive.  When I installed the removable hard drive into my new pc it
never shows up under "my computer", but does show up in ...

Can I backup my entire C: drive to a series of CD-R's? (700MB each CD-R, and
I have about 12gig to backup). I tried using Windows Backup Wizard (Advanced
Mode) and checked off both the C:drive and System State and an error came up
and said:

I have a new off-the-shelf system with a LiteOn light scribe cd/dvd burner.
(SOHW 1633S)
In all respects it seems to burn OK and it is recognized by that name in
BIOS and in the device manager.

I just bought an external USB hard drive(120 gigs) b/c my internal hard drive
is so small.  I want to use the external not just as a backup, but I actually
want to put certain large programs(such as media player 10) and erase them
off of my internal drive.  Can I do this?  And ...

Hello all, I have a fairly new Media Center XP HP machine (bought in in
august) and just last week the CD/DVD burner stopped working.  It's a
two optical-drive machine, and the DVD player still works.
Surprisingly, the DVD burner which stopped working can still read data!

I have some tapes and have connected the tape output to the soundboard
input.
When I play the tape I can very nicely hear everything via the separate
computer speakers as I turn on the tapeplayback.

I have just installed a replacement graphics card - an ATI X700.  The card
works poorly with the standard VGA driver however when I install the ATI
driver the screen blanks out completely.  I can remove the driver by starting
XP in safe mode but that leaves me with poor ...

I prefer the "auto play" feature when using various types of removable
media... gives me the option to select what I might want to do, such as, open
folders, view photos, or play music, etc.
I can't seem to get my system to recognize USB "memory sticks" and present