My comp boots really slow....
Does anyone know if microsoft offers a registry cleaner
for Win XP Pro? If not, does anyone know of a
trustworthy, reliable 3rd party regclean tool??

Hello,  recently while running windows xp, it freezes at
a random interval, for no reason... e.g. i might just
leave it for a short while, and return to find it
completly stuck.   somedays it dosnt do it, but some it

Drive Image has set up a second partition (a logical
drive) on my hard disk.  I have now installed a second
HDD for back up purposes and I would like to recover and
reuse the space currently occupied by the now redundant

I have 2 teenagers and their friends who have
occaisionally downloaded games etc. from internet. We
have picked up unwanted spyware, etc. I wish to
uninstall. What are the basic necessities to leave

I just spent 5 hours downloading the latest free movie
players; DivX, Quicktime and WMP9 and none of them  can
play a mpg file I downloaded from a newsgroup. Xnews
downloaded it, decoded it and joined it without errors.

Is it possible to copy my contacts and saved e-mails from Outlook to disk?  When I've tried in the past, it seems to copy the entire Outlook program into an .exe file, which I don't ever seem to be able to launch from the disk.  Any advice?

Folks:
I'm about to replace Windows Me with an upgrade to XP. The
XP upgrade advisor informs me that my current Norton 2000 /
2001 software (Norton AntiVirus, SystemWorks & Norton

Recently my computer running XP will not shut down.  It simply hangs on the
"Windows shutting down" screen.  Is there anything I can do besides pulling
the plug.
Thanks.

After a system restore was "successfully" completed, when I try to save a .jpeg from a newsgroup, the only option displayed is "bitmap" instead of .jpeg...how do I fix this?
Thanks in advance!

Ok, here's my probelem. I really hope that someone on here
can help me, because Microsoft and HP have both given me
NO help. Didnt they used to have online Tech support for
all windows users? Anyway Here's my Quarry.

My PC is Pentium 4, 2,53Ghz, using XP Professional. Now
sometimes it fails to boot (no screen at all) with short
beeps or gives a blue screen with te message:
Check of all software and hardware is properly installed

when i start my computer it says,"system memory has changed,press f1 to continje" when i press it the damn thing either reboots and runs or the screen turns blue with the following message,"stop c0000221 unknown hard error \systemroot\system32\ntdll.dll please help

I have an OEM OEM Product Recovery CD of XP Home.
If I start fron this CDROM I do *not* get the usual screen
   This portion of the Setup program prepares Microsoft
   Windows XP to run on your computer:

My restore window only goes back 3 month. Can I get a
larger window, let's say sept/2003?

We have 4 users on our WindowsXP and whenever someone
logs on to one, directcd starts and takes up massive
amounts of cpu.  Once everything loads, you can just shut
directcd down, but until then you have to wait between 10-