I need to know how to download software updates e.g. SP-1
to a CD on a PC with a broadband connection in order to
update the OS on a PC with only a dialup connection.

My PC originally had 98 on it. I installed XP home
version over it. I now want to reformat the entire
drive.  Can anyone tell me how?
Jack

mu system now in the last couple of weeks takes 2 to 3 mins to start what's
going on? any answers would be great thanks

HELP!
Norton have Id'd 4 files infected by Blaster and Welchia
worms. All are .exe files in windows\system32\ directory.
I want to delete them but how to tell if they are

Argh!  How many processes should be running at any given
time? My computer had a major meltdown....turned itself
off for a few days then decided to wake up...had a blue
screen message...unmountable_boot_volume...took out the

when i'm i the middle of something what i am doing will go back to the messenger i can not even get through my mail and it pops back to the begin screen

Hi, I have a Sony Vaio with a P4 processor.  If my laptop has been running for a period of time (over 30 minutes) and I am doing video editing, photo editing, power point, scanning, printing, or watching a video clip the machine will just completely shut down (no warnings / no ...

 Thiis is the second time this has happened.  I reported it about a week ago but I had to leave town to get a response back so I still dont understand what it keeps shutting down for. can somebody help me! Im doing school work for college and its not helping me by shutting down ...

Hey for anyone else that encounters what I did with the
windows update error.
I discovered a trojan ..this is an old one from 2001 that
was  going around "JS/IEstart.gen.d".  It compromised

When I hit Ctrl+Alt+Del, the processes list shows me all the processes I'm running, I've noticed that the process called svchost.exe appears 4 times in the list. Two are being ran by SYSTEM (14.244Kb and 4.380 Kb each), another one by NETWORK SERVICE (3.376 kB) and another one by ...

How come my Windows keeps crashing/freezing??
It keeps coming up with "Virtual Memory low" but its a
1.1ghz 20GB PC..it won`t even let me ctrl,atl, del either
i have to pull the plug ??

Windows Xp Home Edition was already installed on my
computer at time of purchase, so I have had to seek
support from them re. performance problems, The reply I
got sounds a bit scary for a novice computer user like

In Windows XP Home Edition, Disk Cleanup hangs up while attemptiing to compress old files.  I have read Knowledge Base articles 812248, 812930, and 823302, which describe three different procedures for addressig this.  How are these three related?  More importantly, is there an ...

When rebooting computer with Windows XP i get no task bar
with the start-up, anyone else ever have this problem or
know how to fix it? Thanks.

I have installed XP on my computer and after installing several programs, the start button is locked. I can start all programs with the icons and I can also rightclick on the start button and get to my programs that way
Using the Windows button on my keyboard doesn't work either