I ran Windows Update on 3 machines from the Microsoft site and installed the
following patches:
KB902344, KB886903, KB904942, KB909993, KB909520, KB891122, and KB896344.
Two of the machines had Video driver updates which I installed, the last one

I am building a new system box to move from my
older Win98Se system. I will be installing XP Home
in the new box and transferring as many of my
existing peripherals as possible.

I recently upgraded my computer by replacing the motherboard, CPU,
memory and video card. I kept my hard drives, and my Windows XP Home
install. It took some work, but after a repair install everything is up
and running smoothly.

I have tried to install PCTV 100e on a machine with Windows 2003
Server. I have installed it in Windows XP compatibility mode, and the
complete installation process went fine. The same with the graphic test
which was run the first time I started the MediaCenter. Furthermore, I

Does anyone know where XP stores the information about USB flash drives?
I have to update some software on 900 flash drives.  I created a batch file
so I could just stick the drive in, press the space bar and the new files
would be copied to the drive...

I purchased USBTech HDD enclosure about 2 weeks ago and I still can't get it
to work. The HDD is a Western Digital WD1200JB, formatted to NTFS. I'm using
it on a Sony Vaio PCG-FR215H with Windows XP Home. The system recognises the
drive and you can see it in device manager but ...

I recently reformatted my hard drive and now my computer doesn't detect any
sound card. My sound card is integrated to my mother board and I can't find
any drivers for it. Help!

Can anyone tell me how to permanently disable the tapping feature on my
touchpad?  Every time my computer is restarted, the "tapping" feature is
enabled and I have to explicitly disable it.  Thanks.

I have  a 4 yr old Dell 8200 Dimensions, running XP. The hard drive is  F:\
I installed The Zip Drive about one week after computer was delivered.
Some of the drive letters changed when I installed the Zip Drive.  Have not
had a

I have a communication program that uses 2 threads (recieve and transmit). I
have problems when using a usb to serial cable. If the serial device
attached to the cable abnormally terminates ( loses power), I have problems
when the app tries to close the com port. I have 2 different ...

Hope this is the right forum for this but here is my problem and question.  
Recently I have run Windows XP's defragging program to clean up my hard
drive.  After it was complete and I rebooted windows was coming up with .dll
errors and could not find the latest registry.  So then ...

I have a major problem with my keyboard and my mouse, where they stopped
functioning after a keyboard driver change. The keyboard is MS Multimedia
Keyboard (PS/2) and the mouse MS Intellimouse Optical (USB with PS/2 adapter).
The keyboard name in the device manager was not ...

What, if anything, can be done in a home or small office to retrieve data
from a crashed hard drive.  Thanks

I have an IBM ThinkPad into which I've plugged a monitor and a USB hub with a
keyboard and mouse. When I have the monitor plugged in, I want to make the
"desktop computer" my primary one, with the option of using the laptop screen
to view a second document.

What does 'CMOS checksum error' mean.  I had to press the F1 key
as required to get this computer started.
Motherboard is Gigabyte GA-K8V Ultra-939. One gig ram, AMD 64
CPU running WinXP Pro Sp2.