I have been having the svchost problem (cpu usage rises to 100 percent
- virtually disabling my computer).
After disabling the "background intelligent transfer service" in
administrative services cpu dropped back to normal (first time in two

The file search tool of "My Computer" is not functioning
properly.  If searching for a file (by file name), it
correctly searches a specific folder, but fails to search
any of the subfolders.  I've run registry cleaners of

Can anyone tell me how to get my System Restore to work?  When I select a restore point, and go to the next screen to verify everything is correct, and then click on next, nothing happens.  I've checked to make sure that the System Restore option is checked (turned on) and it is. ...

I have run into a real nightmare recently. I tried to
install musicmatch 8.2 and all seemed to go well. At the
end of the install I was told that the system must
reboot. I hit OK and BAM I got a windows system file

I get a system shutdown box about every 15 minutes on
average and it's driving me crazy! Does anyone know why
thiscould be happening? I just upgraded to XP from 98 last
Sunday and it happens every day. Thanks.

I downloaded and installed the five{5} critical updates
last week and now the "turn off computer" performs the
restart program. The "restart" also performs restart! How
can I turn off my computer saftly.

For some reason several of the files on my computer are
behaving strangely. Anytime I select the file the
computer freezes for quite some time. I can't even delete
these files. They come up with an error (Cyclic

A few days ago my pc would not startup. I got the message windows could not start. Because the following file is missing or corrupt.<windows root>\system32\hal.dll.  So I had to reinstall windows xp home edition. I had most of my files backed up on cd. So I wasn't to angry. But ...

When trying to view animated gif files on Internet
Explorer 6.0 using Win XP. I can see the picture, but
there is no movement. In tried using Opera with the same
results. I only have this problem while trying to view

how do i remove Trojan viruses from my computer. Norton
can't remove them

My computer acts like it is resetting and won't let me
open hardly anything. If I click on my computer,
settings, recycle bin, my control panel, and a few
others, my computer goes bland except for the background

My name is Gai
I'm just learning about computers . So I don't know a whole lot about them.I really would like to speed up my computer
Any suggestions

I get runtime errors several times a day while on the
net.  It asks if I want to debug and I say no and it lets
me view the site I was trying to get to.  Why does it do
this and what is the fix?

I am running Windows XP Home edition on a Dell computer.
For the past six months we have had trouble with the
screen image "flickering." When this happens, if you
click on the Start button to open a program, the program

Can anyone tell me how I can automatically or manually
delete .tmp files from My Documents? I use MS Word, and
you get more and more .tmp files! Makes me nuts. Tons of
files like ~WRL0400.tmp etc etc. I've tried to Search them