Running XP Pro with sp2
I was installing a program that requires having Framework installed, so I
went to the update page and installed it.  That went smoothly and then I got
all the latest critical updates that were associated with Framework.

Greetings.  Someone told me I have too many program icons scattered on my
Windows XP (Home) desktop, so I should delete some of them because they waste
RAM.  Would it be OK if I made a folder on my desktop and dump these icons
there, so all I have to do is open the folder to find ...

Hi, all
Any chance i can hide "C" drive to the limited users, i dont want them to
edit or save the files on that system drive. They have to save their files
on the "D" drive, which is a data drive... Thanks heaps

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Could someone with some pc knowledge please tell me the idiot guide steps for
me to prevent my pc having messenger service pop up's.  I did this once
before in a previous set up, before kids decided to mangle etc.
ta v much

I have a HP notebook,& with just the system ON the taskmanger shows that
about 185MB of Ram is used .The machine has 256MB of Ram.
What is generally the good size of Free available ram for fast operation of
PC with Windows XP pro?

Recently my PC has started to show the shutdown/log-off menu without any
prompting during the course of normal use.  It just appears and thereafter
the programs running freeze till the menu is physically deactivated by the
<ESC> key.

Hope someone can help, I have been having some difficulty with figuring out
how to close an open internet explorer browser window, Norton finds this all
the time and I had ad aware and have just recently removed it for the new
microsoft ad aware program, but this has been going ...

1. I don't know much about computers. I enjoy my media
player as it is except I don't know how to make a song in
the library into a wav.file instead of an audio file.  
There is a test wav.file in my music file but I don't

I'm using a Dell Desktop and a IBM Thinkpad Laptop.
I'm using Windows XP Professional on both.
I am on a Network and have a Linksys Wireless G Broadband Router 2.4 GHz.
Since yesterday, I have been able to view the Internet on my Desktop, but

just got a new lap top which had norman anti virus software not a misspelling
norman.not what i expected so went the add/remove way to install thought it
was completed but keep getting folders when search for files and warnings
that either cant delete file or it will affect other ...

hmmmmmm...........
thanks guys, looks like I'll hold off on upgrading my BIOS. dont really
have any problems, so Im gonna keep well enuff alone!
anyone out there done a BIOS flash?.... was it a good or bad thing?

I'm new to PC's and XP. In the last week or so I've noticed that most of my
files have undergone a name change.  For example:  In a folder Home resides
a file Lasagna Recipe.  The file now is called LASGN~1.  Some times it's at
the folder level: a folder Phone Numbers has been ...

******Test*****do not open*****

I've forgotten the password to the comp. admins. account and i don't want to
reboot the computer, cause then I'll lose all the info. Is there any way I
can bypass or allow another account to be a com. admin. without logging into
the other com. admin.?