Using IE6 and OE6 with WinXP home.  I recently changed ISP's and now my
computer hangs at shutdown.  I get a "program is not responding...cannot
close" error msg titled "DirectDBNotifyWndproc" at shutdown and have to
manually close popup box and then the shutdown proceeds.  Does ...

by mistake, i had installed Infrared adapter as a prolific serial com port,
now xp recg. it as a s-com port, what should i do now ?

And access to (the important) icon's in control Panel are not opening up. I'n
not able to access the log off/shut down box thus, having to leaving computer
on and not manually turning it off, as that would lead to other problem's. I
have no bottom bar, via Task (?). I can still ...

they are slowing me down
somehow got on downloaded, everytime I start IE it comes up.
How the hell do I get rid of it?
Bruno

I am trying to uninstall Norton Antivirus 2002 and Norton Internet Security
2002 but when I try am told that I do not have administrator or supervisor
rights. I am logged on as administrator so I do not understand why I am
getting that message. I have purchased Norton Antivirus ...

- I created a folder icon on the desktop.
- right click on the icon, i see Search..., explorer, and open, where
search is selected (bold).
- when I left click to open the folder, the search companion view comes

I am using Win. XP Home with SP-2. On Sat. 2/12/05 I did something really
stupid. In "My Computer" program files I tried to delete an EXE. file which
would not delete. For whatever reason I R clicked on it and selected "open
in notepad". The result was that most all of my ...

I know it seems unrelated, but why would a Windows Media Player that was
 installed by the OEM, and worked fine until after this weekend and
above mentioned MS updates... start requesting "set up" information
again... as if it had never been installed or used?

my pc is partioned into 2 drives C: & E:.
XP is on C: and contains the boot. it is 5GB and nearly full which is
slowing my PC down.
E: is 35GB and is empty, formatted and healthy.

I have a 40GB hard drive that is partitioned into 2 drives, C & D ...  C: is
about 15GB and D: is 35GB -- I'd like to keep my applications/programs on the
C:drive, and have my documents, pictures, & music on the larger D:drive... .
but the paths for MyPictures, MyDocuments, and ...

Hi, somebody sent me some ms dos files via msn, and now my pc keeps crashing,
and I can`t open msn!! I`ve tried to delete them using cmd window, but don`t
know the prompts... can anyone help, or let me another way to delete them?
Regards, Dean.

Is there any way to enlarge the taskbar icons (other than decreasing the
screen definition)?  Display Properties lets me change almost everything else
but apparently not these icons.  We oldies are having more and more
difficulty over this sort of thing.

Have a cd im trying to run a program from but keep getting the following error:
'Only part of a ReadProcessMemory or WriteProcessMemory request was
completed'.  I have tried copying the program to my desktop and using a
different computer but got the same thing.  Does anyone no ...

went I'm working on my computer and player music from the Internet and went
I go to open a file.  the music starts skiping and playing very low.  Does
this mean that some is wrong with with my sound card.  Please help.

i want to save the Hosts file, but it makes me save in in txt.  can i save it
without an extension? or is saving it to .txt alright?