what is the easiest way to find the actual number of processors in a
system ?
For example, because of dual-core and hyper-threaded systems, u get
multiple virtual processors reported in the task manager.

I have a SONY fs series laptop, also I have the latest driver for Audio which
I downloaded from their web recently, In the laptop I have two OS one is XP
Home in German, other one is XP Pro this i have added into domain also, in XP
home sound is working with out any problem, in ...

Ever since I purchased a 4GB flash drive it takes ages to transfer around
120MB to it, ages I mean at least 10 mins
I had a 2GB drive before this from the same manufacture which wasn't this
slow.

I have a Dimension 8200 that came with an Ethernet card in a PCI slot.  I
later installed a Firewire 1394.  The 8200 functioned OK with both cards
installed for over one year.  One day the 8200 would not power up.  My first
thought was that the power supply was gone. However, ...

One of my co-workers is getting this error, all of a sudden the blue screen
comes up and hence the error. I know this is a badblock in a hard drive, she
has lot of document sitting on the harddrive. I just wanted to know if i can
fix it without getting a new harddrive or run some ...

Folks:
 *  Can anyone explain the purpose of the chipset on the motherboard of a
compute ?
 Any information or references appreciated

Everytime I try to open the D drive it doesn't open. When I click on th
shortcut it says "The drive or network connection that the shortcu
'Shortcut to CD Drive.Ink' refers to is unavailable. Make sure that th
disk is properly inserted or the network resource is available, and the

How can I get Windows XP to recognize Serial ATA drives?????
The drives are recognized by te Bios and shows up in the set-up but when
trying to install xp pro message appears ..... Setup does not find any hard
drives installed in your computer.

I get a DVD+RW (SONY DVD+RW Q58A) on my laptop and have an external USB
CD-RW. Just now, I
installed nero 5 for the external CD-RW. After restart, I cannot find
either of them from my computer.

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The hard drive in my laptop had an "unmountable boot volume" error.  It was
caused by over heating to the mobo.  I have removed the hard drive and put it
in an external enclosure.
When I connect it via USB to another computer and click on My Computer, it

Dear Reader,
I own 2 brother printers, HL-1440 AND HL-1240. My problem is when I cold
boot my computer it doesn't recognize my printers. After the computer is
started, I unplug and replug the usb on the printers and windows

My left speaker is not working, I tried the Control Panel (balance), Sound
Max (Tests). No luck. Please let me know if there's eanything else I can try

My DvD burner isn't responding. Device manager tells me "Windows successfully
loaded the device driver for this hardware but cannot find the hardware
device. (Code 41)". I troubleshooted, unplugged and replugged the device,
checked for new drivers, still nothing. Anyone have an ...

I have a dell laptop and due to previous problems with the CDRW drive I ended
up buying a new one.  I have a clean install of Windows XP Prof. on the
laptop and I have used the new CDRW drive to install office and other
programs.  But when I put in a blank CD I click on D: and it ...