I am a PC engineer and a problem that I find difficult to fix is where
everything just freezes up.
I would be very interested to know how people tackle this problem.
This is what I do at the moment:

-Computer has been shutting down from being too hot I suspect (CPU fan
slowing to a halt sometimes)
-One time, I cleaned out the fan for a second time, took apart

I've had the strangest problem recently.  I re-installed XP Home, all
went smoothly.  I added each new app that I needed one at a time,
testing them to make sure they worked.  Again, all went smoothly.  Most
of this I installed from CD.  The last thing to go on my computer was

I want to get a low capacity thumb drive to put on a keychain. This will be
used primarily for personal medical records and I would like a drive that
does not require a driver.
Does anyone know of a good 128 or 256 MB drive that can hook onto a keychain

After some recent updates to Windows XP, I am finding that the USB
controllers on my motherboard are not working. Please note that when I first
finished the installation of XP, all was fine.
Now, when the computer is booted up, it fails I believe to start the Human

I'm looking for some suggestions here.  I want to speed up my
applications.  I have 2 drives in my system, both 500GB.
All my apps are installed on my Apps partition. When I load more than
one application at a time, things really come to a crawl.

Hi, I have a PS/2 keyboard for my everyday typing, but I wanted to also
install a USB keyboard on the same machine, the key presses of which should
be redirected to a particular program or two (i.e. media applications) even
when they are not the foreground application being used.

I just retired my P4 2.53ghz and built a Dual Core HT Intel 840EE 3.2ghz rig.
I don't see much performance increase and maybe some slow down in certain
cases.
I am using the Intel 82801 SATA RAID controller with 3 WD Raptor 10,000 RPM

A good friend told me that he installed a new DVD/RW internal on a
system that already had a CD/RW - he just added the new DVD as a cable
select drive to the existing cable to the CD/RW.
After he booted up, he said he lost Admin rights and tried Safe Mode,

3x400GB's RAID5 partitioned as follows (roughly)
150GB    C: System
200GB    D: Installations
450GB    E: Storage

I'd like to increase block size of NTFS partition, can it be done with
quick format or full is needed?

hi when i go to burn a cd with windows media player its starts to burn then
stops more or less straight away and the burning screen thing jus says NO
ITEMS ON THIS CD ?? HELP!!

I have put a shortcut to my Sony DVD RW on my desktop.  A few days ago I
used the CD for a new Logitech multimedia keyboard to install the software
for the board.  Now, that blooming Logitech Icon appears in the shortcut
even when the drive is empty and when some, but no all, other ...

Should I delete C:\WINDOWS\$NtServicePackUninstall$ and
C:\WINDOWS\Installer\$PatchCache$ folders to gain space on the HDD? The
Windows is XP Pro SP2.
My C:\WINDOWS\system32\dllcache is 570 mb in size. May I clean it up?