I manage a number of XP Pro machines.  Suddenly, starting yesterday and
today, we have a problem with "new" USB devices being ignored upon
connection; USB devices which are currently connected (such as printers and
keyboards) still work, unless they are unplugged and reconnected. ...

It is a big inconvienience as i completely depend on my comp and its
softwares, I changed the password to something i remember, it has a easy
reminder hint and i know what the passsword is but it wont let me log into my
account the admin account so i have to use other accounts ...

Would someone please point me to a step-by-step procedure for replacing the
40 gb boot hard drive in an XP home computer. I have the new 80gb EIDE  HD,
Acronis 10, and an a 150 gb external HD.The computer also has a second
internal HD with 100gb free. The bad HD is making those ...

Hi, all. I decided to sell out my old IDE hard disk, and buy one new SATAII
hard disk, but I am worried about my personal information will not be
protected since there is risk that the new owner will restore all the data
in that harddisk. What can I do?

Is the HD with SATAII really much faster than the IDE HD?

I installed this mouse on 12/9/07.  Mouse works fine but I am unable to
deactivate the tapping functions on my HP otebook touch pad.  I do not want
tapping to perform the enter or clicking functions.  In fact, the tab for the
touch pad no longer shows up in the mouse hardware ...

Please Help.. For some reason neither my cd OR my dvd drives were not being
recognized.. now after trying some of the things recommended by the trouble
shooter, they won't play at all.. ANYONE??

Windows driver update reports no better driver can be found yet Driver
download companies scans report the Intel 8208EB drivers need updating.
Intel does not offer driver downloads for this chip because Mobo has an ICH5
and not ICH5(r) chipset and says use Windows native drivers.

Hi, all. I am really in the dilemma. Recently my 3 year-old motherboard
could not work any longer and I buy one new(upgrade to) motherboard type 945
GCT and the corresponding SDRAM and CPU (the newest version nowadays).
Unfortunately, I found that perhaps I should change my power ...

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Starting last week, everytime I start my computer a message pops up stating
that new hardware (printer) has been found. I click through the prompts and
finally receive a message that the hardware could not be installed. The
problem is that I don't have any new hardware and I ...

I have a c drive that I know is failing. I bought a new drive and now I need
to copy all of my old dricve, including my system files, over to the new
drive. How do I do this? When I do a copy, it does not pick up all of the
files.

hi, whenever i plug out my power adaptor, there will be a pop up in the
corner saying that my lan driver can be safely removed, after that i wil not
be able to access to the web unless i plug in either my power adaptor or my
RJ45 cable or my lan cable,

I would like to know if the internal memory card readers are made to fit in
all ATX computer towers?  I looked at one and it appeared to be smaller that
the 1/4 floppy disk unit I have.
Thanks;

I have a abit mb running win xp pro. The mic line requires the max gain
which results in 'naturally speaking' not working. Sound out works fine (but
not from the mic). Tried tower front & back ports, 3 different head sets but
no banana. Wonder if a sound card would work? Any ...