When looking in my add/remove prgroms list, I noticed
that there is about 5 gigs of my hard drive taken up by
this windows xp hotfix.  there is about a dozen or so at
about 320 mb a piece.  Do I need these?  If not, could i

I posted a question the other day, but it did not help. I
am asking for more assistance please. My computer will
only boot up over, and over again. I cannot get past this.
I tried PF8, PF5, AND DELETE. These have not helped. The

error log: the COM+Event System detected a bad return
code during its internal processing. HRESULT was 8007043c
from line 44 of d:\nt\com\com1x\src\events\tie r1
\eventsystemobj.cpp. please contact microsoft,bla bla bla.

i run windows xp and downloaded some upgrades last night
after they downloaded and installed the computer shutdown
and restarted on it's own but now it won't shut down
either way. please help if you can

Can't remove a windows program from the change &remove program
When I click on a program to remove the change/remove button do not come up.
Can any one help me?
thanks

I just ran the brand new symantec Norton Antivirus 2004 on
my system.  It came back without any problems except one.
Apparently there is a file called MSHDKN.EXE in my system
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I have a PC that someone was borrowing.  The pC was already turned on, and they didnt realize this, and therefore flicked on the surge protected power source.  This is turn shut the pC off while it was loading, then restarted it.  Since then it goes into a loop of booting.  It ...

I'm having to constantly keep reclicking on my screen to
type.  I'ts as though my my computer is going to sleep
without going to black.  Anyone know why, or how to fix
it?  Help!  I'm about to loose my mind.

I was writting an essay for a school project using the Office.org writer that came with my computer.  The program froze and a message that read "program not responding" came up.  I couldn't do anything with the document except close it.  I was not able to save four pages of work ...

I want to create a bootable flopy under Windows XP, as
described in this article:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=305595
But if I format a floppy under Windows XP, the bootsectot

Our son removed many temporary files about 3 weeks ago
and we haven't been able to install Photoshop 5.0 or
Microsoft Street Finder since then.  We asked for a
Windows download and it said that there was a problem

I had a problem with my operating system. it gave an error
where it said that my system file was corrupt, it would
not boot,
I tried reinstalling xp but it created another operating

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file shows up on my notepad as all gobbledegook.  No
program will execute-just show up on the notepad.  

can I uninstall and then reinstall everything?  I don't
care at this point if I lose stuff, I'm going nuts with
daily system errors.

Whenever I format a paragraph (e.g. bold / italics,
adding numbers or bullets) my whole document change to a
font 10, italics AND the format I wanted (e.g. all lines
will be numbered).  I am running 3 computers, all with