I have bought a compaq notebook a few months ago. Since
the notebook come together with Window XP home edition,
the salemsman help me to setup my username. All this
while I log in my computer only using my own username.

Due to a corrupt XP file of some sort, I was instructed
by PC tech support team to reinstall XP.  I did so, and
although the original problem was resolved, I now have
under "C:\Documents and Settings" the original

Was in Costco today and they have a MS Wireless Intellimouse Explorer 2.0
MODEL 1007. I tried a google search and also looking at MS site but can not
come up with any info. Hoping this post reaches a user of this mouse and can
post a review.

This may be a simple one, but I can't get it.  When I
turn on my system (Windows XP Home) it goes to the screen
where I must click on "User".  I want to turn on my
system and have it go directly to my desktop screen.  

I recently upgraded to XP Pro.  I had put all the files
from my old windows ME computer on an external harddrive.
When I plugged it in to new XP computer, I can see the
files on the external drive with explorer, but I cannot

Is there any way to disable or kill the irritating little messages (look like
text from a comic strip) that keep popping up to explain every little action
that I am about to take.  Maybe the first day they were useful, but now they
are just a pain.

Should my new computer have a Cd with it other than the DVD eMachines
supplied?  

Because of a vicious Trojan my significant other
accidently downloaded, I had to reinstall XP Home
Edition.  Everything worked well, fixed the problem(s),
and I can see the old user accounts on the C drive (so I

I'm new to XP, had 98 before. This SHOULD be so simple to
cure, and yet, despite doing everything I know should
work, I can't stop the BT Yahoo Broadband folder from
boing open on my desktop when I switch on my PC.

I just installed XP professional. At start up I get a
window that has the error message "Can't run 16-bit
Windows program. Insuffiecient memory to run this
application. Quit one or more Windows applications and

I have a hardware firewall and don't want to use the XP firewall. i
have told the SP2 security center to not notify me and that i have a
firewall solution of my own. yet...even after setting that, every 3-4
startups the secutity center pops up the balloon and tells me that my

i need to know the type of discs to buy for my dvd burner
1.  can i go to my computer, select dvd drive and click properties t
find this.
2. if the drive says it is a +R/RW can i buy both +R and +RW disc

I keep getting the following in the Security Log of Event Viewer:
"IPSec Services:     IPSec Services failed to get the complete list
of network interfaces on the machine. This can be a potential security
hazard to the machine since some of the network interfaces may not get

I installed XP over Win98, I was told that there might be
problems later but I continued and it installed pretty
well.
then computer started fine, I went to Windows update to

Can I install multiple WinXp on my pc? How to do that?