Can someone please provide a solution or suggestion for
the following dilemma? Each time I boot-up, I have a long
delay before I can use the system, as Mcshield.exe goes
through a lengthy hang-up prior to abending. It is only

when iI start windows i get a stop message 0x000000ed
tried to put in the startup disc but the computer wont
start from the disc. any ideas                        /

I have a 60 gig hard drive, 256 on the board.  I just
installed XP because I was told it handles memory better,
and it does.  I was just working in MSWord and I could
not save my letter because the hard disk was full.  I had

I have been having difficulty scheduling backups using the
built-in backup utility in WIN XP Pro. I keep getting a
message "0x8007007a: The data area passed to a system call
is too small"

Under WinXP I receivbe the following error message on
closing Outlook Express:"The memory could not be written".
Does this indicate a memory problem?
Neville Smith

2.6 ghz p4 / 80 g seagate drive / xp home / drive 50%
full / defrag often  / ran seagate utilities - reported
very good numbers " read and write etc" from dos but have
poor performance from windows xp.  sequential read and

Hi  I have a computer that keeps rebooting and gives the following error:
c0000218 registry file failure. cannot load the hive
file\systemroot\system32\config\software or its log or its alternate
it is corrupt, absent or notwritable

I recently upgraded to a P4 2.6Ghz with 1Gb of RAM
running XP Home.  My drives are dual 80GB (not SATA)
One of our tech support people asked if i'd changed the
IDE transfer speed.  He hold me that he 'understands'

I want to get files from one computer into another
computer. I have two laptops. Laptop 1 will not allow XP
to start, I have resorted to using MS DOS. Laptop 2 is
fine and has Windows XP working fine. I want to save my

I faguely remember reading somewhere or finding a program that would delete
these folders.
These are KB and Q folders. I know if I delete them I will not be able to
uninstall xp fixes or upgrades, however by deleting these folders you can

I recently bought a new HD and installed XP Pro. After the
initial POST screen, I'm getting this annoying black
screen with this broken white bar across the bottom. It
turns solid from left to right (like a progress bar) for

I don't know if this is the right group.  I have to do a
system restore virtually every day because system
checkpoint fouls up my legal-size Mikrotek SCSI scanner.  
I am forced to check the scanner before I install any new

trying to deploy defrag. takes me to the above web site.
unable to determine how to remove & replace with defrag
program. any ideas?

Can ANYONE help ????  All i'm trying to do is install a
common microphone(labtec) for some online gaming.  
Hit "test hardware" and get "Error code 0x80004005  Can
not execute DpvSetup.exe"

using windows xp, the Disk Cleanup program always freezes.  Any ideas, please?   Thanks, Mike