Using XP Prof on a Dell PC with Office Proff 2002.  After buying Office Prof
2003 it was upgraded.  The install / upgrade went fine.  But now in Outlook
express I lost my contacts and email.
In Outlook 2003 the calendar is lost.  Can you help?  It is a different

Hi - I'm thinking of putting XP HOME SP2 on an WIN98SE machine - 350MHz
P-II w/256MB of memory.  If I turn all the graphic performance tweaks
off (make it look like WIn98 Windows "classic" GUI) - how much slower
will it run than WIN98SE - will it run faster?   Does it need more

I am trying to install an Iomega external hard drive on my XP desktop system
and keep getting the message that it can't be installed because the filter
driver is invalid.  This is a PNP device and I successfully installed it on
a Win2000 machine.  No drivers are provided with the ...

Strictly a rhetorical question, I guess....
Maybe I'm in the minority, but I can't help but feel that things should have
gotten easier with the evolvement of computers, rather than the other way
around.

My computor detected a virus.  I have AVG 7 free adition
anti virus which identified it as Trojan horse downloader
wren F.  How do I disinfect it or get rid of it, is it
harmful.

A few weeks ago I downloaded the latest version of MS Media Player from the
MS website, assuming that it would be an improvement over the previous
version.
I've had nothing but problems since.

When I try to clear the passwords and forms saved in "Auto Complete" it
hangs and I get the (Not Responding). I have tried it several times,
restarted, tried it in safe mode, it didn't hang but it didn't clear
anything either...

Have just installed all software via my own administrator account, then find
that switching to another adminisrators accout ( we have 4- all family
members) they cant access some of the programs- how can I make all software
accessible to all users/ administrators?

Is it safe to delete all desktop.ini and *.gid files?
Thanks.
Bill Ridgeway

the aol software starts automatically after i close it.

I use an hp ipaq and I beamed an excel file/ to the laptop and I cannot open
it,,

Hello !!
         I got a great problem here....My computer gets hang after
20 second.sometimes it gets hanged when computer checks that NV Ram on the
very first screen,sometime it gets hang on BIOS[blue screen]means i cannot go

It seems that recently, a great amount of pop-up, ads, etc have been
slipping into the updates that MS sends out. My 2 AV programs seem to be
catching most of them (?) but I would like to turn off the auto-update
process, but can't seem to figure out where to do it. Any help would ...

I can't close any window, if I'm using IE or Windows explorer even Control
Panel windows. All I get is a pop up message that says   " The operation has
been cancelled due to restriccions in effect on this computer. Please contact
your system administrator" I'm loged on as  ...

apperently since i custom built my machine and have an oem license, i cant
get help from microsoft... anywhoo. when i first loaded xp pro, i only
installed my self as a user, not "guest" account, nothing. in other words i
could hit the power button on my computer, walk away, and ...