I have been using a WDC external hard drive for several years on a WIN XP SP2
Dell notebook system. Today when I plugged it into a USB port, I got a
message "New hardware found - RC15". When I try to install it, I get a
message, "Driver not found". I have not found anything ...

I have one of these cards
http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/VGA/Products_Overview.aspx?ProductID=2334
Upon starting the system from a cold boot my GPU temp is 33 deg C and after
only web browsing for an hour the temp is now 70 deg C

Suddenly got a problem where a left double click on short cuts doesn't
work. In addition, left clicking items on the start menu doesn't work
either. Right click and run works fine. This happened right after
cleaning up a virus.

I have been trying to view my pictures on my cd and cannot do it. In fact, I
cannot open anything I stick into my computer. I think I figured it out, I
don't have a disc e anymore???????????
I am VERY computer illiterate, but was wondering if somebody could walk me

I have been running an Athlon 2500 with XP Pro SP2, 512 MB,  with out
problem.
I have had two hard shutdowns in the past week. I have run 4
antispyware programs and AV.

Window XP Home eventually starts ok.
But the normal DOS and Windows screen that used to show the loading bar
scale doesn't appear and there is a blank screen with an error message that
pops up about 7 times before XP starts that says "unsupported mode" together

I tried to get rid of the "notification" beep (which I get in Outlook
when I receive a new message, in Excel, Word and so on). What I tried:
1) Turned off all sounds in the device manager and
2) Installed Tweak UI, checked the "disabling the beep" or what it's

when I start bluetooth devise its shows no device  then when i go to control
pannel and configer it it com back that com 1 is not avalable now  what can i
do to reconfiger this

Help... I think I might have a virus or something that has disabled my add
remove programs and other programs too. When I open up the control panel (old
view) the icon isn't there, when I open it up in category view I can click on
it but nothing happens.

Hi, I ran WinXP-2K_Pagefile.vbs and it game me a
page file usage of 58MB. If I double my memory to 1GB is it going to give me
better performance? The script can be found in the thread bellow:
Thnx,

http://www.google.com/tisp/
Is this a joke from Google?

I have an old computer and I think all it need is a button to turn it on.  
What part do I need to look for?  I also would like to know could I use an
USB or a cable to plug the old computer to my computer to do some work in it?

...because I am about to lose some very valuable data, and I need some
advice on what I should do.
First off, I know the worthwhile advice is to keep a constant backup of
my data which is something I normally do but the reason for not backing

My Dell Dim E521 (XP MC) started running very slowly, and I started getting
BSODs.  I did a Windows Recovery (chkdsk /r) and it found & fixed errors.  
However, same day, the BSODs started returning with increasing frequency.  
The errors are always different -- but the STOP codes ...

I have a (new-to-me) Thinkpad laptop which I've reinstalled clean XP
from the IBM disks.
Everything seems fine except that plug-and-play items (like the hotswap
CF disk and USB devices) don't show up automatically.