During the boot-up sequence, I receive the error message
Unable to initialize 2000017 (I may not have the exact number of
zeros...)
When I click ok on the message, the boot process continues and

is there a way to have the start bar on both monitors when extend your
monitor is used?

I have been using MSD ergonomic keyboards for several years now.
I bought a new one a few months ago and since then I seem to be loosing
a little bit of  function over a long time period.
Can anyone suggest where I should looking to try and find a solution to

OK.   Maybe this post belongs in this group instead.
When your right click on a drive in windows explorer, and get these
different reported sizes, what is the story?
Example, for a 20 GB partition - rounded to 3 significant digits below:

hey all,
do you think an old video card i was using in a pc back when win98 was
popular would work in my new pc now?
i'd like to add a 2nd video card for dual monitors.

I see that there are a few software solutions out there, and I trialed one
and it seemed to work, but I don't have $100, and was thinking maybe what I
need to do requires less than these software solutions (ie. Fabulatech's
serial splitter).

I just replaced my boot drive with a larger Seagate ATA 320 Gig 16 MB
cache on a five year old computer. I used Seagate Tools to copy my old
boot drive to my new drive and all went well. I can now boot from the
new drive.

I have a strange problem that i can't seem to get a solution for
An HP notebook had some virus problems wich were cleaned but now
windows gives me the file association menu each time i try to access
the c: drive.

Windows XP Professional SP2.
The mouse has an irritating problem.  Whereas all the mouse buttons work,
the scroll wheel won't do anything untill I go into control panel, change
the scroll behaviour, change it back and click OK.  It now works, but if the

What signifies this SCANDISK messge ?
(in Phase 1, I think, no later than Phase 2)
"Windows was unable to complete the task"
This is on a Dell-built WinXP(2SP) PC, running

How wise is a complete reinstallation of WinXP on
a Dell Dimension (DIM 2400) via the Symantec Dell
PC System Restore (which the manual says on p.43
is "only as a last resort . . ." ?

I have a TSSTcorp CD/DVDW SN-S082D. The drive will not read any sort of disk.
When I first got the laptop, it worked perfectly but after a while it would
read or write any sort of C.D. However, it has now stoped reading DVD's
aswell. Please Help... I really need this sorted.

I think that my laptop has a memory problem.  Is there any way to test
that with the utilities or what ever is included in XP Pro SP2?

I have had to reinstall my OS  lately. sicne them my clock will not stay set
set in the BIOS or by the clock setting. It whats to jump ahead always two
hours. the time zone is correct, a new BIOS has been installed. all dirvers
are up todate and working. the clock will just not ...

I was wondering if anyone knew why my external western digital drives
(500GB) always end up "corrupted".
We use all XP stations at work and somehow XP corrupts the drives so
we can no longer access them, delete the partition- reformat...it