I put a new 80 gig harddrive in my desktop an would like to wipe all the info
off the old 80 gig. Is there a program in windows that will do this?? I still
have it installed in my desktop but not hooked up. I have the new one
running. I want to give this to a friend that has a ...

I have a supervisor password, let's say X. I want to change it now for Y. So
I went to BIOS and made the change. It happens as soon as I start the
computer, before entering Windows.
Now at the first step Y is accepted, THEN I am asked for the password again,

I have a system running a AMD 3200+ CPU and when it starts up is reads
1.09GHz in systems properties and sometimes in the properties it is reading
2.19GHz, what is going on here?
cheers

Windows XP Home Edition reported this , and said Windows read the bad memory
block in the D: drive , the CD/DVD combo drive  .
Can I  RUN , for example , fdisk to tell Windows to check the CD/DVD Rom
Drive .

I built a new computer a couple months ago, and right at 30 days(when
all my warranties expired) my power supply's fan started making
clicking noises.  It only does this when the computer has been on a
while and is hot, and it sounds like it is maybe hitting the casing,

Hi all, sorry if this is the wrong group to post this in (if it is,
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Advent DHE1000 computer and it came with an Intel wireless keyboard.
The instructions for setup are for a completely different keyboard so

I just installed Intellipoint 5.5 and my new laser mouse 6000 takes numerous
clicks before it executes the click. It's like it does not recognize the
click at all for several clicks. How do I adjust the sensitivity?

I Just bought a New Toshiba Laptop computer. I installed a software
that i use for my job which is called Eclipse. I tried to print from
that program and it does not print, it says printer not responding.
However, i can print from any other program on the computer by using

A friend of mine has an odd problem: His Toshiba laptop (running Windows XP
Home) doesn't read CDs anymore. However it does read DVDs. Whenever you put
a CD in it Windows Explorer says there is no CD. We can see the LED
lightning - it seems like the DVD/CD tries to read the CD ...

I've had a problem with USB devices in the past but found a work-around but
now it's causing more problems.
1st problem was that I got a scanner (USB) and when the scanner was on, the
computer would not boot in.  Easy solution, turn off scanner and then boot in

I've been given an external Buffalo 250GB IDE hard drive. I am running XPPro.
I thought it would be just a matter of plug & play (?). Not so.
How do I add this HD as a secondary HD?
Thanks for your help

I've got a Dell Inspiron 8600 and D/Port Advanced Port Replicator running
WinXP Pro SP2, with an HP Laserjet 4 connected to the parallel port on the
D/Port.  The printer installs automatically and I can print fine, until I
disconnect and reconnect the laptop.  Basically at the ...

I've got a 1 GIG Sandisk flash drive.  I copied some documents and a
couple of programs to it to take to school.  When I try to copy
another file to it, I get a message that the drive is full.  But when
I use explorer to see what all is already there, all I get is a blank

A month ago I had little trouble with my external hard drives showing up with
Windows XP SP2. Now all of a sudden I can't for the life of me get any drives
to show up at all. After playing with pulling out the cables, trying all 12
of the different USB ports I got them to ...

I am unable to install a program from my CD-ROM drive. When I insert the
disk, the setup program briefly appears on the screen then disappears. The
same thing happens when I find the setup program using My Computer, and
double-clicking on it. The drivers under Control ...