I have a USB drive (removable Lexar flash drive) and on the desktop computer
it is initally assigned a letter. When I unplug the stick it will work fine
in the laptop or another computer.
When I plug it back into the desktop, it does ot assign the next aaliable

By default, the rear microphone in-jack was disabled  and the front mic
in-jack is enabled.  Now I wish to enable the rear mic in-jack for use.  Who
could help?

I have a laptop I bought in Arizona while I lived there, it has a
American style keyboard and no £ sign on any key, I have to use th
character map to cut & paste it as I use it often now I'm back i
England.

I lived in Arizona and bought my laptop there. I am now back in Englan
and have more use for the symbol '£' but it is not on the keyboard an
I have to cut and paste it from the character map. How do I deselect
symbol I don't use and select the '£' symbol to take its place on th

what des this error code mean as in what causes the error
0x00c379db.

Hey all,
   I have a head scratcher.
   I have a dell computer with XP SP2. I am using a USR 5699-02 internal
win modem.

This is a weird one, at least for me - I've searched the archives of this
and windowsxp.general and can't get any answers so hopefully those with
almost infinitely superior knowledge of external storage devices and WinXP
vagaries - that'll be you then *smiles hopefully*- will ...

Hi, I am trying to add a new drive to my system and all seems well until I
switch the system off, when I reboot the drive is gone.
I am using the initialize and convert wizard in XP, I follow this through
with no problems and at the end I have my D Drive and I can use it, if I

Good day!
im using windows xp-sp2,when I try to save an shared excel(excel2000-sp3)
file on the network,i cannot click the standard button on the excel, the
file menu,etc.

Is it possible to delete existing partitions (windows and non windows) and
create new partitions (windows) programatically?
Some people have given reference to IOCTL_DISK. But I could find very little
on how to use these apis.

       i have had a dell computer for less than three years and i decided
to update my drivers. i have a nvidia Geforce 5200 grapics card, and recently
when i purchased a game i noticed that the gameplay would lag (Age of empires
3). i downloaded the new 91.31 nvidia driver ...

I am trying to install a second SATA hard drive in my DELL.  The bios
sees, Windows XP sees the hardware and says its working ok.  The Disk
Management tool does not see it nor does windows explorer see it.  
What do I do to get the drive up to format etc?

hi, i brought my tower from a shop called Bright house, and cause it was pre
owned, i got no boot up discs with it! My question is, is there anyway to
reboot my computer and start it from a fresh without the disc, as my computer
is riddled with probs. mant thanx.

My Screen is currently as bright as it will go, yet the screen is still to
dark to see some pictures, games, websites, etc. Is their anyway to get the
screen brighter

My OS is Windows XP professional
I bought a new thumb drive (USB drive);
Manufacturer driver not suplied; as it is built-into XP
When I insert it into the USB port a baloon pops up - Found new