Recently, at times, my IBM laptop running XP Pro slows down, almost
to a crawl.  Doing a CTL ALT DEL and I look at the process running,
the Windows Updater is showing 5 or 6 of the thing running, doing
what I don't know, as I had just done an update manually the day

I am taking a computer software course and have been instructed to use
Windows XP Newsgroups.  Why can't I access Windows XP Newsgroups via Help and
Support, in the Start menu as instructed by my textbook?

I have a notebook preinstalled with Vista.  The email program I'm using is
'Mail'.
I'm wanting to delete Mail  and install Outlook Express.
As the machine was pre installed I have no installation disk. (usual with

On attempting to drag an Icon on my desktop using my built-in mouse the
computer freezes.  Also, I am unable to select individual sections of a text,
hence I cannot use the ctrl c & V properly.  It used to work ok until
recently. These problems do not occur when I use an external ...

Using win explorer under XP Home and want to print out the dir listing.
Is there a way to just print out a dir or folder content?

Hello! While experiementing I somehow lost the searchbar in the "Start - All
Programs - above Run".
How do I  repair this fault?
Nurmi.

In my internet explorer history I get notification that I have visited
rad.msn.com and then a reference to ADSAdClient 31 or 32. To my recollection
I have not visited this site and further when I try to reach rad.msn.com I am
refused entry

THis is the response I got from someone from whose web site I wanted to copy
photos and use them on my web site. My single page website has the first 2
sections used for non profit Christian information and copied photos and the
bottom 1/3 of the web page I put inforamation about ...

For the past 5 days, my system doesn't start normally, it starts
booting only in debugging mode. I use Windows XP Sp3. What could be
the issue? How to solve it.  Please suggest

Bought a new laptop and accidentally selected French as the OS language
instead of English.  Je ne parle pas francais!  That's it for my French -
except for counting to neuf.  Running XP Home.  I called MS they told me to
call Acer.  Acer told me to do a system restore (no files ...

Hey guys,
I have Window Vista in my new laptop and i want to install linux.. But
i get some problem while installtion.. I need to overwrite on Windows 7
not remove windows. I am new for this OS, Please help me. How can i do

I'm running Windows XP SP3. It is worth it to delete  SP3 in order to
install the Recovery Console and then to reinstall SP3? I also use Acronis
True Image and I'm trying to decide which would be the best way to go if I
can't get Windows to boot up. Thanks.

I asked this about 10 days ago, but although I received several
replies, they were not relevant.  Apparently no one here knew
the answers to the questions in my original post, so I'll
repeat it as a fresh thread.  (Sigh.  I should get used to

Specific application: end 80's Lotus Symphony 2 under Dos.
Using newly found "EMS Magic", I was able to run Sym2 on my laptop.
That was great.
But it opens in full window AND not only hides the windows of running

I know one way to join files: in a command box,
copy /b filea+fileb filec
. However, if filea is huge, this takes a noticeable time, because the
entirety of filea is copied to filec (followed by fileb, obviously).