I'm new to Xp Pro. and could use some help, before XP I had ME and every
thing was working fine, I formatted my hard drive and installed XP and my
hardware and software that I need. Now my computer stays on even after I
shut it down. Some of your thoughts maybe I have a Virus, but ...

Is there a way to view the temp folders that are NOT under the windows
folder. I believe they may be hidden. I'm running XP and I downloaded some
files that said they were being downloaded to a temp folder and I need to
find it.

On my xp system I cannot make a folder private. When I right click, the tab
for make folder private is shaded.  The harddisk is NTFS format.
Furthermore, how does one make a folder inaccessible to other users, i.e.;
stop entry of others to the folder on xp?

I have really made a mess of things and would appreciate help in returning my computer back to the way it was when I received it . Is this called erasing the hard drive? and if so, how do I do it?  Thanks

Can anyone help?
I am new to XP havubg previously used all previous
versions up to and including Windows ME.
After, finally, installing Windows XP Professional and

Monday I am installing a new hard drive with WindowsXP on
it.  I am currently using win98SE.  Are there preference
files or folders that i need to backup and save to an
external drive to migrate onto the new drive.  Cookie

HELP!  my antivirus (PC-cillin) keeps reporting ping
attacks and netBIOS browsing.... i have the firewall
enabled so is this a matter to worry about and how do i
stop this.. any help PLEASE!!! thanks

I posted this once before.  One person answered and told me to post the
question on the Windows IE newsgroup and one person (thank you ,Frank
Saunders) tried to help by telling me to uncheck "Do not save encrypted
pages to disk"  This wasn't checked so I didn't need to uncheck it.  ...

I have xp and i lock the start menu in place but it keeps
disapearing. plz email me instead of posting a reply THX

I was hoping someone could help me. plsssssssssssss
last week my computer die, so I got it fixed, everything
was fine with it,
properly cos I did not have anything on it, lol only the

THIS IS GETTING REALLY PATHETIC OK!!!!!!!!!! THIS IS THE
REAL SARAH FROM AUSTRALIA HERE.... I AM A MICHAEL JACKSON
AND ALWAYS WILL BE.... WHO EVER THE HELL KEEPS SIGNING THE
GUESTBOOK USING MY NAME ---- AND MY EMAIL ADDRESS... JUST

I want to wipe out my drive and do a clean install of win Xp home. What is
the best way to do this? Normally with Win98 I would boot off the CD and
format the hard drive, but with my XP CD it does not look as simple. I want
to make sure the disk is wiped out completely and I ...

Lycos has hijacked my IE search function.       It also directs me to lycos
when I type an address in the address bar and use ctrl/enter to add the http
and dot com .  I think it came in with another piece of software and it left
a program remove in the Add or remove programs and I ...

I have recently installed a new computer and networked it with my old one. Everything seems to be working O.K. with one exception. I can't save to either of my two CD 's. I get the message "Can't save to this drive. Read only".
I have spent several days trying to fix this, and I ...