This is probably an easy question to answer but for the life of me I
cannot find the setting anywhere to fix it. The question is - Whenever
I connect my IPOD to my Windows XP machine, Windows opens a Windows
Explorer window with the contents of the attached drive (IPOD). How do

this is a strange one and I'll try to explain it as best as I can.
First, my setup
Asus P5PE-VM
E6400 dual 2 core

Posted this to an XP basics ng yesterday but no responses, maybe better luck
here.
Trying to get a Samsung SGH-E370 mobile & Cable & Wireless CWBTA12 bluetooth
adapter to work together.

OK, my dvd is vanished from my Explorer and from my deviece manager and I
would like to get it back.
Now a little bit of background:
This is  a LiteOn "Super All Writter" DVD writter.  I installed it and right

I've bought a 60GB laptop hard drive+caddy that I want to use for USB
input to my car stereo[1]. I've formatted it as FAT32 using the
mkdosfs utility (http://www1.mager.org/mkdosfs/). (I had to do this
because Windows XP's Disk Management tool won't let you format FAT32

I have a serious problem with my PC.
I had to format my disk and reinstall Windows XP (with SP2), but I can not
get to in web because Windows thinks that my network card is of Asound, but
its of Realtek.

Can you have two PCI-E video cards on one computer...I have been told that
you can only run one PCI-E card on one system...unlike the multiple PCI
cards I have used in the past ?
If I add an additional PCI-E in my media center computer...will the

the sounds in my computer suddenly disapeared. I tried turn on and off, tried
unplugg  cables , checking the sound card, and nothing worked. I also tried
the volumes too. Is there anything else I can check ?

When I installed XP, the BIOS was left at its default setting - S1
suspend mode. I want to change it to S3 without reinstalling the OS. I
have no devices that should get in the way of doing this and wake on USB
devices is disabled. Is there a back door to make the switch or am I

Hello,  I have XP Home SP2 and 512MB USB thumb drive, used to work
fine together, as I plug in the drive, a new drive letter is assigned
in Win Xplorer.
Not anymore, now, XP Dev Manager just says "uknown device" and

I have just completed the addition of a second hard drive to be my bootable
drive, but I still have a problem with the old drive and my USB backup drive
not being visible under My Computer. They show up in Device Manager, but not
when I do Start, My Computer. The following are the ...

I recently built my own computer and everything is going fine but after the
third or fourth day (rebooting after differently program and driver installs)
it started in with Safely Remove Hardware for my C: drive, which I can
obviously not uninstall.  I have  a BFG Tech 590 SLI ...

I just obtained a Targus wirless mouse for my laptop. It comes with no
special driver(s), as the manual says that it works with the drivers that
come with XP. When I try to "add new hardware", and get to the part where the
driver is being installed/copied, I immediately get an ...

Everyone is probably tired of questions about batteries by now, however
windoews will not recognise my battery.  When plugged in the battery light
indicates that it is charging, but as soon as the power cable is removed it
switches off immediately.  It says that a battery is not ...

When I plug in new hardware (USB) it shows in in device manager with a yellow
bang.  Clicking on it shows that "no drivers are installed".  I click
"reinstall driver" and it does.  
This is a pain for devices such as printers that require multiple devices to