Up until recently when I wanted to dload a picture to my
hard drive I just used to point on the picture and I
would get an optin of enlarging it by an icon in the
bottom right corner if the pic and an icon in the top

Windows XP - I was able to access all websites secure and non-secure.  Now I can no longer access secure websites.  I went to tools and made all the settings the same as a Windows 2000 machine although the 2000 has settings for certificates the XP doesn't have or perhaps the ...

George , I did exactly what you said. No, It is running
and this the problem I having been asking for help.
Please help me in locaing the problem. tahnk you.
sms

I am using XP Home. In the last couple of days I have just found that
the CD burner & DVD burner have become inaccessible. When trying to
see the contents on a CD I get:-
"G:\ (or H:\ which is the DVD) is not accessible

Can anyone provide some trouble shooting hints for the following problem:
At the completion of the whole startup process, I get this  
error--C\DOCUME~1\OWNER\APPLIC~1\MICROS~1\INSTALL~1\_47286~1.exe  
encountered an illegal instruction and had to quit. This error bears the  

I'm trying to change my DVD region to play PAL, I am able
to change it all but when I click ok, I get a warning
saying I don't have administrative privilege but I am the
administrator, of the computer.  Help please , this is

I have upgraded a PIII 700 with 40Mb HD to run on Win Xp pro and uprated the
RAM to the Board maximum of 768Mb .
the system is getting ever slower and now has near contant HD activity,, do
any of you out there have any other ideas or have I got to the need to

I can no longer clean up my hard disk as automated Clean up Manager hangs at
Scaning: Compres Old File stage. Can anyone help?
John N. Liboyi

When clicked on a program icon (on WinXP Pro), it prompted the following
error:
The Microsoft Jet database engine cannot find the input table or query
'realtime_table'.

I have XP, and firewall and virus protector.   I've noticed that two of my
files have changed their names somehow - instead of being "My pictures" and
"My Music" - they suddenly appear as "$'s pictures" and "$'s Music"
Can you suggest what may have happened?   It wont let me rename ...

at the startup when you choose which account to log on to, mine says "2 unread mail messages" however, in microsoft outlook, i have no new mail messages. How can i get rid of the message?

how do you get rid of administrator on XP?  Everytime i try to open a program on XP a pop up comes in and says to go to admistrator and open it from there but i don't want to use administrator so how do i get rid of administrator?

I installed Quickbooks Pro 2003 on my new computer running XP Pro.  When I
try and run it I get the message that the account I am running from is a
"Limited" account and that I need to be running from an account with
"Standard" rights.  Well I looked and I saw when I created the ...

All my comps use XP Pro. I have set up sharing NOT using
simple file sharing and have given permission to all users
on my computer. When I try to log on to my computer from a
different computer, which has none of the same user names

I'm upgrading my WinME to XP and I purchased a used copy
of XP home which is not being used anymore on the original
PC. I was told this can be installed again, is that
correct?