Somebody please help me as i have discoverd that my windows is not genuine i
have purchase a genuine copy but dont know how to uninstall the not genuine
copy from my computer. And I need to know how do i reinstall the genuine copy

DVD RW drive does not read any disks.
I swap the drives connection. Still DVD RW does not work.
Other drive works.
Is it possible both lens of DVD RW dirty and won't read.

My computer can recognise the USB devices properly but once I unplug the
device, the computer cannot recognize the USB device until I re-boot the pc.
I have USB 1.1 on the main unit and a USB 2.0 card add-on the system.  Both
have same issue.  Can someone advise the possible causes ...

Over the past week my computer has begun freezing if left unattended for a
couple of hours.    It seems to go into shutdown mode - the computer is on,
but the screen black and moving the mouse does not wake anything up.
I am running WindowsXP SP2 and receive all the automatic ...

Hello i have an Emachines m6811 laptop. I am using a firewire 800 cardbus and
a Mybook Pro 500gb external HD, win XP SP2.
When i use the My book with usb it works great and when i try to use the
firewire 800 it will give me an error message saying "The request can not be

I'm wanting to burn a ghost image to a raft of PCs from an external usb hard
drive. Can anyone give me any ideas of how to be able to see the usb drive
when booting with a boot disk?
Thanks

I wanted to know whether two sets of Dell bluetooth keyboard/mouse combos
would not interfere with each other in a single room (My bluetooth key/mouse
combo is the only Dell product that I own, BTW).
So, I sent email to "pre-sale customer support." Got an auto reply which

This is the situation. The system (Dell) in question came with ME
installed (HDD0 'C'). I then put in a second HD and installed XP on it
(HDD1 'D') and ran it as a dual boot until I was comfortable with XP.
Next I removed the ME install (leaving some suggested system files in

In Device Manager under "Other Devices" I have three entries as "Unknown
device". Is there anyway from the "Device Instance ID" or "Hardware Ids"
listed in "Details" to determine what these are?
This is XP Home SP2.

Can I use one set of bluetooth keyboard/mouse combo on one PC and another
set of the same brand bluetooth keyboard/mouse combo on another PC? My PC is
about 10 feet away from my wife's PC in our PC room and she likes my Dell
bluetooth combo and loves to get one. I wonder whether ...

I have a Garmin GPS that I'm trying to connect to my Compaq V2310US
laptop, running XP Pro.  I have purchased two different usb to serial
adapters and can't seem to make either play.  Garmin's software can't
find the GPS with either.  When I hooked up the first one, it gave me a

My system - P4 3.4 Intel 915GAV 2G ram 2 - 250G SATA drives ( not a RAID)
In checking around on the system, I noticed that the SATA drives are capable
of DMA6 but are using ATA 100/133 DMA5. Could find no setting in the BIOS to
change this. Is this a configurable item? Need BIOS ...

I have many video files in the form of AVI/RMVB/DVDRIP on the hard disk. I
found that these files really occupy much more space of disks than Audio
files like MP3/WMA/RM. Three video documentaries, each of which lasts for 1
hour, may make one DVD-R fully written, but 400 MP3 ...

My mouse has lost the ability to double click from the wheel in Windows
XP SP2
I have tried three different Microsoft wireless USB mice, all with the
same problem. I am currently using a Microsoft Wireless Intellimouse

Under settings "Screen Saver" in Display Properties, I've set it to
turn off monitor in 3 mins of idle and turn off hard drives off in 5
mins. These times setting work fine for my use and have noticed every
few mins the hard drive starts up (not monitor) for minute and then