Group;
I'm having problems playing any DVD's on my computer.
I also have problems reading certain DVD-RW, DVD-R and CD's that have data
files on them.

Hi. My sister has an old IBM thinkpad.
She's not sure how it happened but the numeric pad is activated which means
that all the right had keys on the keyboard are numbers instead of letters.
Normally you would hold the Fn key while pressing F10 or such, but we have

Brand new  HP Pavillon A1560N  XP SP2 Multi Midia Addition; Monitor HP VS 17
flat.
In device manager there are twomonitors listed; getting rid of one doesn't
work it will come up again at restart. If a user/guest is disconnecting, the

I've read that HD's over 137 GB that are being installed in a system that
lacks the supporting BIOS,BUT does the OS's support for large disks (i.e.
Windows XP SP1 or later) can be partitioned as a single partiotion and
accessed by the OS,regardless of BIOS inability to access ...

I have a HP pavilion with a dvd writer/cd writer combo. This device has
previously (for 2 years) worked OK.. lately,  although the drive works OK as
a CD in both read and write, I am unable to write to a DVD...read is OK.
Message I get when attempting to write a erase a DVD ...

Reposting it from XP-General news group. I got one suggestion but it did not
solve the problem.
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I have two ext hard disks, connected via 1394 (name = New Volume) and USB

My Mac recently died (3rd power supply) and I need to retreive my files on
the Mac HD. We installed the drive into my PC and realized that Windows may
not be able to read the data on the drive because the file system is
diferent. I do not have another Mac to back up my data. How ...

Suddenly, I am unable to see my Inbox/Deleted Mail., etc folders using
Windows Explorer. As far as I can get is C:/Documents and
Settings/Owner/Application Data but nothing is listed under Application
Data. I was always able to see the folders even when "show all files" wasn't

hi all, thanks in advance
modem not working. device manager pci simple communication controller(which
i take it is where the modem is plugged in ) has yellow "?" "properties" says
"drivers for this device are not installed. (Code 28)" how/where do i get them

thanks in advance
modem not listed in device manager.
"PCI simple communications controller" has yellow "?" and  properties status
says  drivers not installed. where can i get them?

I have an
Buslink DL 40-U2, usb 2.0 Disk on the go/lite 40 gig
It has worked for a long time, now however, it connects but will not show up
in Windows Explorer. The fun part is that it quit working on my main XP

I dont know if this is possible, hence me asking, I have a DVD player
(yamada Chilli) that has a USB connection, and will accept USB HDD.
What i would like to do if possible is make a shared drawer on a PC
appear to be a USB hard drive, and connect the PC to the DVD player via

I just installed a new DVD burner that I ordered from newegg.  It's a Pioneer
brand, but it did not come with any software.  From what I've read, Windows
XP does not have DVD burning software included, so do you have any
recommendations on free software to use?  My main purpose ...

I have a gameport enabled on my Creative (Audigy 2 ZS) sound card.  It works
fine with either MS Sidewinder Forcefeedback pro joystick or my CH
ProPedals.
I'm now trying to configure the standard gameport on the motherboard,  so

I am having a problem with a computer that seems to be stuck on one baud
rate.
Whenever I use a program to dial out on the modem. It always connects at
33600. I can manually dial out using AT commands and it will work, but it is