i am now using windows xp professional...the problem that occur to my computer are .....
1)usually news windows update had been installed to our computer appear at the bottom of my computer screen....but it is gone...
2)i clicked into the control panel and afterthat i click ...

I would like to change the default settings so that anytime I create a new
user on my XP computer their desktop background is something other than what
the default is now and the screen saver comes on in 45 minutes instead of
the 10.  Can anyone tell me how to do this?

Administrator Password
My cousin accidentally change the XP bootup to require  the administrator
user name and password but he has no idea what the password is so the XP
will not bootup into normal or Safe Mode so how is the Admin password

My PC tries to read / write to/from the A-drive several times during a work
session, even though there is no disc in it and I have not tried to
copy/move/read any files to/from it. It doesn't seem to caise any problems,
but is this normal?

I have a month old Dell computer which Windows XP Pro was preloaded.
In order to check WinXP update, I clicked "Help and Support".  Nothing
happened.
WinXP Update was accessible by clicking Control Panel/Windows Update.

I thought Windows saved automatically every ten minutes. My monitor went blank so I had to shut down hoping that would fix the problem. It did, but part of a document was not recovered. That part was finished hours before the monitor problem. I went through "history" and Windows ...

my 40GB drive only shows as 31.4, I had it partitioned as a FAT32 but change it to NTFS but it still only shows as being 31.4. will repairing xp fix this or will I have to do a clean install? Or what are my other options.

My computer takes a long time to come on. It boots up and
shows a DOS screen which allows me supposedly to choose
either a F1 key (SETUP) or a F10 key (SYSTEM STORE).
It eventually comes on but it takes 5 minutes. It didn't do

I have Windows XP Professional (2002),  after "Analyze" am told to "Defragment", do so and the end result is that there is exactly the same amount of free space as there was before defragmenting, apparently I have quote:
Fragments       File Size       Files that cannot be ...

in win 98 I was able to auto run or open cd-roms from a short-cut on the desktop. I can't get XP to do this, when I double click on the short-cut it says- "that this shortcut refers to has been changed or moved, so this shortcut will no longer work properly". But nothings been ...

I keep rec'g the following error message:
"Microsoft security Bulletin MS03-043
Buffer overrun in Messenger Service could allow code execution (828035)
Your system IS affected, download the patch from the address below" (shows

Hi i am a new user could you tell me how can i enable my
cookies so i can see some infomation that i recieve from
certain sites.

I have a bunch of unwanted applications running at start up. I can't
remember the app that lets you do a selective startup and view all files
running can someone please help?
TIA

When I create a shortcut on my desktop, I have the graphic with the icon
(i.e. the MSN butterfly). When I restart the pc icons are replaced with the
generic blue letter e in front of a piece of paper. I already clicked on
change icon that's under properties and cant find the ...

my anti virus keeps popping up saying my computer is
infected with W32/banker.G@pws virus and cannot be
removed. it says i have to delete the file infected which
is c:\windows\winupd.exe. is it safe to delete this file