Is there a way to find out how much of memory is actually being used at any
point in time?  Does the commit number in task manager indicate the memory
used?
The purpose is to determine the amount of memory required in my PC.  I

   I've built two PC's using this mobo, with the Intel Core 2 Duo (LGA775)
CPU. Problem is that one mobo started up just fine, with all cables
connected, whereas the other one has the problem of the CPU fan not spinning
up at start, then stopping immediately.

Greetings,
I am using Windows XP as my operating system.
How can I disable the "print to file" option from the print dialog box.
Also, Is there any way to restrict user from "Add Printer" option.

Of late whenever I try plugging in any new USB device to my Compaq nc6000
laptop which has XP professional version 2000 Service Pack 2 it brings up the
"found harware" window even if the driver is already installed from a disk or
even if it is a simple pen drive. And if i use the ...

I am using a laptop with Microsoft Windows XP home edition v 2002 service
pack 2
I recently had a problem with a virus. I cleaned it. After that, however, I
was unable to open C drive:

I have a Gateway M505 B2 notebook (out of warranty) with dodgy ports. This
model has 1 in the rear and 2 on the right side. The rear stopped working a
year ago and the last of the side ports just quit. I believe it is just a
matter of solid contact with the 4 wire contacts. There ...

I inherited a drive and thought it to be clean, formatted NTFS and
loaded XP from my retired PC. I always believed the drive to be about
40G. Last night I rescued another good drive that I knew to be 80G
and

The only thing I can bring up is the task manager, otherwise all I see is
screen    saver.  I have restarted and shut down - no change.  Please help.

I have a box running W XP Pro. The board is an Intel DG965WH. 2 SATA drives
configured as RAID 0. Intel Matrix Storage managing RAID. HDD 0 has a
recovery failed and the stripe failed on boot and said non bootable. When
attached I do hear a noise like the armature is trying to ...

My daughter cannot find a rather ordinary sound device (or I should say windows xp cannot find it) after she had to format and re-install windows xp from the MS CD original.
The sound did work before, same computer, same sound device, same everything as far as I can tell when I ...

Suddenly, my Dell Desktop running Windows XP Home Edition does not recognize
the two hard drives which were originally installed on this system since new
(over 2 years ago) and which have been running fine...until just recently.
I have one CD RW and one DVD drive. Both have power ...

Can someone please help me.  I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling and
trying to update the driver and nothing seems to work.
This is the error that I get:
"Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be

I'm having trouble copying files using explorer from my internal hard
drive to an external drive.  I'm running Windows XP(version 5.1 with
SP 2) on a Dell desktop computer.  The external drive is a Western
Digital Passport drive with 150GB.  The drive is recognised and has

I resently purchased an Encore TvTuner Pro PCI card. Works great!
However, since I installed it, I haven't been able to use my web cam
(Logitec QuickCam Express). With the cammera DISCONNECTED, the webcam Icon
shows up in my Windows Live chat sessions. If I start a video chat ...

I have recently bought an external hard drive for backups. I've got my
PC in my office and I was hoping to keep the external hard drive in
another room approx. 20 meters away. The hard drive has got
connections for USB and Firewire but the longest USB and Firewire