some one can suggest me an utility to check the RPM Speed of my Hard Disks?
Thanks to all

I'm cleaning and backing up my HDD's and noticed this directory in C:\
(C:\found.000\dir0000.chk with the contents System.Design.dll AND
__AssemblyInfo__.ini which I assume is from Visual studio or Visual Web
Developer).

XP Home updated to SP2.  I've just taken on a USB2 External HDD which I
(foolishly) reformatted from FAT32 to NTFS. I can read from the drive as any
user, but I can only write to it when logged on as administrator: when using
my own User Identity I get a "write-protected" message ...

Is Pentium 4 2.8ghz HT faster than Pentium M 1.5 ghz or are they both even.

By popular demand, I've created a method to get rid of the F Lock key for
keyboards that use the USB connection.  This new method will work on both
USB and PS2 keyboards (this is in contrast to the other method that was
previously published that only worked on PS2 keyboards).  ...

KAM PROBLEME ME MAUSIN. C'FARE DUHET TE BEJ?

Dell Laptop C610 Windows XP Pro SP 2
I need to connect to some legacy equipment using com ports 1, 2 or 3
When XP Boots, it assigns virtual ports to devices starting with 1 (I think)
If there are 2 or three devices, it will then assign any device that is

i've just had a network problem with my router (not from a virus, i manually
unplugged the wire to disconnect on purpose). so i decided to restart my
computer.. after clicking on restart, my computer frozed, so i shut the power
down by pulling out the power plug. then after ...

ok have an iomega 48x24x48x external usb cd-rw
have windows xp pro sp2 plus all the lastest updates
the problem is can't burn disc to the cd rw, it says its not an cd-rw, can
burn using windows inbuilt support or by using hotburn pro (iomega app)

My 4 year old XP Home PC (AMD Athlon 1800, 512 MB) has no USB 2
support. I gather I can install a card to add this facility. Could
someone tell me exactly what these are called please? My searches so
far have turned up 'USB Adapters' that appear to be merely extra

Hi to all.
This is my problem, hope some could afford and help me solving it.
I have a Toshiba satellite pro 4600, now i have changed the TEAC cd rom with
a new Samsung CD ROM DVD drive but windows XP seems not to recognise it.

I have Toshiba Laptop model 2805-S603  with  DVD-ROM/CDRW  combo drive
model SD-R2002.
It was working good but after I reinstalled WinXP Pro it no longer reads
CD-R and CD-RW. It can read DVDs

Had this problem before about a month ago and formatted my hard drive and
started again.  I have been using the system for the past month with no
problems but yesterday after booting up the system the following happend
again:

I recently added a 300GB IDE drive to my  XP system. It has an existing SATA
drive in it. The new IDE works fine, but it shows up in the Safely Remove
Hardware icon in the taskbar as a removable drive. There is no check box to
uncheck as in Win98 (or at least I can't find it). ...

I have two desktop computers running Windows XP. One is hard wired to
a NetGear Wireless router for my cable modem and the other is
wirelessly connected to the router via a Wireless USB 2.0 Adapter.
They both have internet access, so I know that the router and