Hi I wondered if anyone can help. I have just installed a third stick of 512ram on my computer which is showing up in system Information, however I seem to have lost a huge amount of memory acording to Norton System Works. On first boot I was showing up the following: Total ...

I'm using Windows XP with 512MB of memory, but I have quite a large paging file (nearly 200MB) whereas I've got 300MB of free RAM memory short after booting
What can I do to force XP to use as much RAM memory as possible instead of using so much paging file memory?

I've tried to update my windows so many times and there
are some downloads such as SP1 that i just can't
do...please help me because it says that that is a really
important update

After start up of computer getting message
regarding 'can't find sndcompat.exe'. What's this all
about?

I have a worm on my system32/msblast.exe file and cannot
remove it because it won't let me
what do I do??

There is no "Performance and Maintenance" icon displaded in my Control Panel which I am advised to click in connection with a troubleshooting procedure. What should I do ?

Does anyone know how to remove items that show up in
msconfig that are no longer needed.

I have recently purchased an external USB soundcard for
home recording purposes.  The Safely Remove Hardware icon
is in the system tray, and every so often the
Windows 'bing-bong' sounds (stop me if I'm getting too

got tired of having to use the installation CD to run certain games.  I
copied the CD to my hard drive , removed the CD, un-installed the program
and re-installed from the file on my hard drive.  The problem:  When
starting the game , it still asks for the CD before running. Is ...

I have never backed up my PC operating on Windows XP Home
Edition (after owning it for 18 months)and am getting
nervous should I catch a virus that would cause my PC to
crash and I end up losing everything on it.

Any one has some idea why the computer shut down by
itself, after giving some short "musical" notice?
I am using windows xp  

I've got a problem and would apriciate some help. for
some reason (virus???) something is using up all mt
paging file space (1.28 the maxium)and programs take ages
to load and close and explorer closes at random and i

When trying to install NAV 2004 I received 6 Warning 1909
messages. Was told that was because Windows Installer was
broken.
How can I fix it? I've been to the KB and there is

Ok, when I turned my comp on this morning everything
works fine except whatever website I'm on none of the
link pictures work. Something is there because when I put
the mouse over it it turns to the hand and I can click on

How do I change the programs that start up when I turn on
my computer.  There are programs on the desktop and
notification area that dont need to be opened when I turn
on the computer.  It is taking a long time to boot up the