Will an Intellimouse Explorer mouse work with a laptop touch-pad?  I would
like to retain the functionality of my touch-pad and still use the features
of the Explorer mouse when connected.

Device manager shows this as a CDRW, and will only load the standard CDRW
drivers. The DVDRW cuts out after makng a few short attempts to kick in.
However it plays and records CDs fine.
Can anyone help?

Is it possible to use a single external hard drive as a boot drive with
several different computers?  For example, consider an external SATA drive.
I read that external SATA ports will soon be common on motherboards.  It
would be great if we could just move our external SATA ...

I'd like to switch to a wireless keyboard, but I'm wondering if someone with the right kind of electronic equipment in the next house or in a car parked on the street could tell what I'm typing. Or perhaps someone in the next house or in a car could type things into my computer ...

I have received a webcam, unfortunately without any software.  It's a
Webcom brand, 001, model number M07B.  When I plug it in to my USB
port, the Hardware Wizard comes up with the heading "PC Camera" but
cannot find the drivers necessary.  My searches for it have only turned

This is on behalf of a friend ...
He uses a Logitech cordless keyboard and mouse.
When typing, it misses out letters and spaces.
The mouse requires a double click when it has been set for

I have a HP DVD Writer 300n that came installed in my HP Media Center.  It
has worked with the media that I have many times.  (Sony Cd-r's and some
genernic Cd-rw's)    When it does decide to work it will start to burn to the
cd and then the process stops and said it failed.  The ...

I have a DELL Inspiron 5100 laptop.
Running Win XP Home causes no problems but if I install Win XP PRO the DELL
doesn't plug and play USB devices.
I have to shut down and plug them in and re-boot for the OS to recognise them.

OS: Windows XP SP2
After the replacement of the ink cartridges the above printer prints
only in black&white.
Any suggestions?

I don't know how long it's been happening, but the other day when I went to
write to a cdrw disc using my plextor cdrw drive, it wouldn't read it. I then
put the same disc into my BTC dvdrw drive and it worked. The day after I
bought an Asus cdrw drive to replace the plextor ...

How (without removing the casing) do i discover what hardware is in the
computer?

I have a customer with 2 P3 systems running XP home that is fully patched
and they both use Microsoft wireless desktop 1000 mouse and keyboard sets.  
Both mouse and keyboards will just stop working for no apparent reason.  They
can be freed up by disconnecting the USB reciever ...

I have an old eTower 400ix that im trying to install XP pro on. I know its
not tested and built for XP, but i've had 2003 server on it, and it worked
fine, so i know it can hold the OS. I have an 80 Gig Seagate in it, and the
eTower supposedly has a 20 gigabyte limitation, so ...

Have XP Pro and a new 300GB External USB HD.  Critical data, and so I'd like
to mirror it to another external USB HD.  Is this even possible?  
If XP recognizes the two USB drives, can I select 'Create Mirror' in Disk
Management?  (If I have to erase the HD I'm using now to set ...

I just got a new wireless intellimouse explorer for Christmas to replace my
malfunctioning original intellimouse explorer. I installed the Intellipoint
5.0 software that came with it and now the center button has lost its
functionality in my applications. Whenever I click the ...