I suffer everytime i need to add hardware to my pc, when i attempt to click
on "Ad Hardware" in the control panel, i get a message saying: Cannot run two
devices installation at a time. It's like if an installating is always
running but i'm not aware on any. I have tried checking ...

I am having a strange video problem under XP Home.
On one of two identical machines, the gray of all menu bars on programs and
folders as well as the background of many, if not all, of the pop-up message
windows suddenly do not appear gray.   These item appear with a dull green

I just purchased a Roland Fantom-X6 Music Workstation and am attempting to
get it communicating with my PC (XP SP2) via its USB connection. I have
uninstalled and installed numerous times with the same result: during
installation I am warned the driver is unsigned (despite the ...

I upgraded my keyboard, that was sticking. The old keyboard had two leads
from the receiver that went into the small, round keyboard ports (I think).
The new one has the receiver plug into the USB port. The problem is that I
can't get keyboard control until Windows has booted up. ...

I've been trying to read up on the subject, and the more I read, the more
complicated the subject becomes !
From what I've gleaned (for my old XP2600 Barton 128kb L1 + 512kb L2 cache)

Have just bought new 'Neovo' monitor.  All games extend beyond screen and
cannot be played.  Sign in, exit icons are off screen.  Auto adjust button
does nothing.
Any ideas gratefully received.

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I have a larger, faster hard drive I just installed.  I want to transfer ALL
the files  from my old hard drive to the new one (including the system boot
files) so it will ultimately replace my old one as the new C:\ drive.  How do
I transfer all the files to ultimately make the ...

well, i let someone on my computer and sure enough, they've screwed it up! my
new problem; six of my drives (3 hard drives, 2 dvd drives, and a zip drive)
all read as scsi drives.  i've been working on this problem for a month and i
just can't get it straighten out.  i've ...

I have a 200GB external (USB2.0) disk drive. (It's an IDE drive mounted
in an external caddy). My computer->manage->disk management tells me
the drive is ~190GB (correct) and mounted on drive E:. However, the
capacity of drive E is shown as 83.99 GB, and windows is telling me i'm

I have a E Machine with a FX5200 video card and a 17in monitor.
Recently I came into a Sony LCD monitor.  After connecting the Sony
(DAVI), on the same graphics board,  I could not remove the VGA monitor
as the Sony would not be activated.  With both connected and on, boot

Hi guys, I'm thinking about replacing my old pentium with a new machine
(probably a Dell Dimension 9200 with a Core 2 Duo) that will have a Raid 1;
so here's the dumb question: can I install a dual-bool (WinXP Pro + Vista)
on a Raid 1 without any problem?

Hi, does anyone know how to disable the optical drive from the command prompt
?

I am getting an unusual error message Installing memtest86: It starts
writing the A drive and then tells me c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe (which is
obviously running) followed by c:\progra~1\symantec\s32evnt1.dll.  An
installable virtual device driver failed dll initialisation and ...

I have been using a USB headset for VOIP calls recently and everything was
working fine. However yesterday the microphone stopped working. I tried
control panel -> sounds/audio -> voice -> test hardware (result: no voice
heard). The microphone was switched on and was not muted or ...