Imagine the frustration when the laptop crashes & you dont know the reason?
Well mine's been happening a lot lately, atleast twice a day. It is going to
be a long post as I have tried as much as I could without taking the laptop
apart. So please provide suggestions after reading ...

(I'm submitting this for a less-computer-literate friend.)
I have a friend who has been using a Sony Vaio PCG-FX 340 for some time, and
when she put in a wireless card (I believe it was a Linksys or Netgear) in
the PC Card slot while the machine was off and tried to boot it up, it ...

I was noticing some degradation in performance yesterday and looked at my HDD
usage.  In the 35 GB of the hard drive, only 4 GB was available - and this
after dumping the trash bin and offloading a mess of documents.  I've looked
at all the directories that I can see, including ...

Trying to replace two sticks of memory to to bring a dell demension 2400 up
to 1 gig.  Currently at 512 mb with two sticks.  When I add the new it halts
on boot up and goes to the screen that start that lets you chose the safe
modes or last known but it goes into a continual loop ...

I have a Quantrum Fireball Plus hard drive I removed from an old windows 98
formated it to NTFS. Having connected it to my computer (XP) as a back up
storage disk the system does not regognize it, there is no sign of it
anywhere on the system.

Guys
Sorry if this is the wrong NG
I'd appreciate a bit of help please.
-Using XP SP2 fully hotfixed and SP'ed

I'm using an XPE image, with customized shell and a program that starts
each time, which is the only program accesible on the machine. My
problem is that sometimes, when I select shutdown or restart from this
program, after closing the program and shell, I get a blue screen with

How do I find a printer on my local network?
I have assigned the printer (in the printer menu) a IP numnber (i.e.
192.168.1.10)
And I can therfore ping it, but when I try to install it in XP (or W98) I

Backup XP hardware.  I also have a USB 150 G external HD.
What are some restore / backup / methods / for XP home on a new Laptop with
XP Home?
This notebook crashed.  So now with a new HD, XP home, MS updates, etc. but

Is is possible to get direct BIOS access using INT13H to floppy drives?  I'm
trying to figure out a way to close some olde floppies that have 256 bytes
per sector, which is not supported by the higher level Windows media
formats.

When I try to run a process that accesses the microphone,
it works allright if I run it from an administrator account.
If I run it from a limited permissions account, either the
process just dont get any data from the microphone or

In the last couple of days, I posted a couple of questions about
noises emanating from my 15 month old WinXP computer, and I was
encouraged to make a ghost copy of my harddrive, which I did.  Today,
I again had some difficulty booting up the computer (it did eventually

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HDTUNE 2.53 shows one RED block on a  full scan - which indicates an error - but the sttaistics say no problem...
The "HEALTH" tab seems to do nothing........
HD Tune: WDC WD2000JD-00GBB0 Error Scan

getting delayed write failed -c/windows/system32/config, any data would be
lost, and just after getting blue screen stop 0x00000024

any help appreciated.....
One of my hard drives (D:), was randomly triggering the 'autorun' window to
appear.  As I couldn't work out why and because I was experiencing short
lock-ups on my machine that started at roughly the same time, I decided to