I have an intergrated sound card on my pc (HP d530).  About a week ago I was
changing some audio settings and now my sound isn't working correctly.  I
reinstalled the audio drivers and there is no red or yellow markers in my
device manager under audio components.  The only sound ...

Hello to All (again)
I have found that system monitoring prog. I was looking for to take the
place of Probe.
It is called Everest - only problem is that it is no longer available from

COMPUTER: my mon-techie friend's home Dell Dimension 8250, with WinXP Pro
sp2, with latest Windows Updates and Office XP updates applied
PROBLEM: imo, XP not recognizing file systems on any drives other than C:\
drive. I belive this is an operating system issue and not a hardware ...

OK, so, about a year and a half ago, I bought the Logitech Cordless MX
Duo, and it has worked fine for me ever since.  I never bothered to
install the Logitech drivers for them because the standard Windows ones
have always worked fine for me.  Up until a few days ago, I have had no

I just built a new computer, with all new parts except the hard drive
and cd drives.  More exact specifications are:  ABIT UL-8 motherboard,
XFX Geforce 6200 graphics card, AMD Athlon 3200+ processor, 1 1gb stick
of Ultra PC3200 ram, Ultra V-Series 350 Watt power supply, Seagate ...

For some odd reason the recording tab is missing on my CD-RW drive. I can't
click the "Write these files to CD", and all I get is a ping when I do. I
can't even click the delete temporary files when I drag and drop files to the
drive, and also get a ping. So how do I get it back? ...

alright... i'm having a problem with my computer.. when i download some
files off the internet that are installation files, or zipped files...
they download as wordpad documents.. i tried changing the ending to
.exe to see if that would help.. but it doesnt... can anyone help me

I have a large, PA system style unidirectional microphone I wish to use with
WindowsXP - its working, but even with the volume set at maximum I get very
low volume output. I suspect the standard computer mic, being much smaller,
amplifies sound as an input device more ...

I have a computer that is about 4 years old and after about 15 minute
everything freezes up and I have to restart. I am thinking that this is an
overheating problem? How can I check if this is the case and what can I do
about it? Are there any programs that I can use to check ...

Have you removed a BIOS password?
How can you remove the BIOS password to your Gateway Solo 9100 notebook?
Thanks.

I used to be able to access my handy camcorder through the usb. I tried to
re-install the drivers it cam with it. It gives the New Hardware Found, but
in the process of re-installing the drivers, it gives this error: "An error
has occurred during installation.....Invalid Data... ...

I'm having a problem with USB storage devices... Maxtor 300GB external,
SanDisk 1GB Thumb, and some other random Thumb drive.  All the drives
work fine on other machines.  USB Mice and Keyboards work fine.  When
you plug in a drive it assigns it a drive letter but when you go into

Accidentally , I disabled recording on my DVD rewriter . Now , the
"recording" tab has disappeared ( when I right click and select properties on
this drive ) and I'd like to know how to get it back because I can't use the
CD Writing Wizard , or make a CD with WMP anymore . I am ...

I need to do a clean install of Windows XP Home. I have the original XP Home
CD and another with SP2. I don't have SP1.
1.    What can I do now to have all of the updates at my finger tips rather
than trying to do it all afterwards?

I have recently had several Toshiba 2.5 hard drive disk that will not format
unless you have them connected to the Pri/Sec cable as master.  For instance,
I have an external USB 2.0 hard drive adapter and I can use it to format a
normal sized hard drive (and other 2.5 laptop hard ...