During normal use my system will at random power off, the
system has been restored to factory with service pack  1
installed, the shutdown is not due to standby or sleep
modes. when it rebbots somtime it will state that there

I downloaded a spam eliminator yesterday and this morning not only was my entire screen green or yellowish green, but I could not get online. I finally did a system restore which got me back online (but  first bought and installed a  new ethernet card and adaptor and spend  hours ...

The System32 window pops up when I start my computer.  It
seems to be running OK, but when I ran AVG anti-virus it
says I have Trojan Horse virus' that cannot be healed or
removed.  The virus is attached to syslaunch.exe which

I had to replace a bad motherboard that caused an initial
system lockup, and then boot failures. After installing
the new motherboard I ran Norton Disk Doctor and Norton
Win Doctor. Win Doctor reported several errors that it

I spoke to microsoft last year when I had a problem, they
helped me fix the problem by having to delete everything
and then re-downloading it all back. I just noticed that
my microsoft word is missing and my search states that the

if an error message comes up as>;    " rstrui.exe - Entry Point Not Found (X)  The procedure entry point RemoteAssistancePrepareSystemRestore could not be located in the dynamic link library WINSTA.dll " when i try to run a sys restore on a computer that is running XP Home, that ...

I have tried to install the application (compressed - 116meg, unpacked - 1,6 gig) and during "InstallShell extraction" process it says that there is not enough space in TEMP directory.
Is there any possibility to increase the limit of TEMP dir?
Or any other solutions?
Thanx

Okay, I'm really desperate here. Everything on my other
computer is on the line. Here's the problem:
I'll start with how it happened, I was going to turn my
computer off, but I accidentally hit restart instead. So,

Lsass.exe - System Error  "An invalid parameter was
passed to a service function"
Formatted hard drive (Dell Inspiron 8100) and loaded XP
Home and XP Service Pack 1.  Loaded other software and

I am unable to back up to either a CD or a floppy.  This
message appears when I attempt to back up to a floppy.
Using a cd, I get a message that says the path is
incorrect.  What am I doing wrong?

Have Dell Inspiron Notebook running XP. Computer came
with only 5 GB Hard Drive and is totally allocated as
Drive C. Due to my space limitations I added a 120 GB
External Drive which works great and is now "D" drive. I

My system is slow starting up an even slower shuting
down. Does anyone out there have any solutions to my
problems?

Does anyone know of any good tweaks to speed up Internet Explorer & my NTFS
file system? Using 2.6 AMD Athlon, 512 ram 120gb hard drive. It's already
pretty fast but not fast enough.
TIA

My PC is getting slower starting up and sometimes hangs I am sure this is becasue of too many background programs running.
Problem is. How do you tell what each running program does when you look at the systems tray?
I wanna avoid reinstalling XP to clear the cr*p but my reboots ...

I am careful to defrag, get rid of files I don't need, I turn off and restart daily, I have tried everything recommended in Help and yet my system is so slow to open anything at all.  Once open, things improve.  What am I doing wrong?