Does anyone know why the screensaver will not start on
Windows XP.  I have set it with different settings; to
start after 1 min., 5 mins., etc. but it will never come
on by itself.  I use the standard settings through right

When I left my house today, my computer was running
perfect and it was in the midst of burning a CD. When I
came back home, my computer was stuck in a faulty boot
loop. The only way I could recover, I thought, was to

When you double click on an icon, it sits there. If you
right click on the icon and choose open, it opens. Is
there a function I need to turn off or on...

QUESTIONS:
1. What typically would cause the issues I describe below to happen? (Both the initial
problem of the Update freezing plus the reinstallation of a previously applied update).
2. Will I have to be concerned with these issues whenever I install a new program?  I have

stop:0x0000008E(0xc0000005, 0x82237a30, 0xF25E44a0,
0x00000000)
stop:0x0000008E(0xc0000005, 0xFDA0B398, 0xf26B34A0,
0x00000000)

i have suddenly had really slow boots.  i haven't added
any hardware, etc.  i have defraged, clean disk, stopped
services, stopped startup programs, and still slow.  I'm
running xp w/ 256mb ram, 30gig hd, 1.8gig processer.  

We have a Dell at home with WinXP.  Recently it started
logging on very slowly.  We have about 4 different logons
and it happens when you click on an individual logon
button and it's "Loading your settings" or something like

My laptop runs Windows XP Home Edition Ver.2002 with
Pentium 4 2.66GHz and 512 RAM.  It has never had any
problem until about two days ago, and I had not done
anything to the laptop other than checking my emails for

recently when family users logon welcome screen we are
experiencing a very long delay while loading personal
settings, almost think it isn't going to bring up desktop

A registry cleaner, already in XP,  that if used in "safe mode", it will clean up the registry, but never delete a needed file or feature?
If not in XP, is there a good free download, that ahs been found  to be extra safe?
Registry first aid, I dont totally trust.   And the free ...

occassionaly as i'm working on the computer i notice that
it starts working on something and the cpu % rises. the
wise task manager indicates services.exe as taking my cpu
time, so i guess its one of my services doing its stuff

startinthe recovery console from CD  there should appear something like
  Microsoft Windows(R) Recovery Console
  The Recovery Console provides system repair and recovery
  functionality.

My computer has been waking up at 6:00 a.m. for over a year now.  I've searched everywhere for an answer.  I've called 2 computer specialists.  I've gone through all the control panel information.  We went on a 3 week vacation recently and it was on the entire time.  I don't have ...

I am using Windows XP Home Edition with MS Outlook for
email. Recently, when i send an email message to someone,
the recipient will write back to me and ask "what is
  in your email message?  Apparently it is appearing

Have an OEM version of RealPlayer Basic installed which I want to remove completely. Program Uninstall freezes, as does XP Remove Programs utility. Unable to delete files manually either - at least not completely. Tried re-installing program from CD with no result. No practical ...