Does anyone know how to remove programs that have somehow
attached themselves to my computer.  Of specific interest
are the programs called "Bargain Buddy" and "Lycos
Sidesearch."  I don't know how these programs managed to

when I try to close of the internet the pop up ads that
are ad-microsoftinternet off line keep popping up at least
5 or 6 of them how do I stop them, so I can just sign off.

Whenever I try to cleanup my computer or rearrange items
on my hard drive it tells me the filing is missing.  I
have searched trying to resolve this with no luck.  Any
help/suggestions would be appreciated.

I'm running XP on 576 RAM.  I installed internet explorer
6.0 SP1.  Since then.. when I try to open My Computer or
the Control Panel from the Start Menu... I get an error
message stating that Windows Explorer has encountered and

everytime i shut down windows XP home, i get this application error for this file ( ddcman.exe)
can someone help me?

can someone tell me what are all these windows xp
hotfixes i see when i go to add/remove programs . do I
need them ? why are they there

Help - i need to find out the error in XP will not
startup cleanly and Safe mode asks for password which we
have never loaded or had.  What can i do to get this
computer running

On start up I get an error message:   "The procedure
entry point SetUpDigetClassDevsExW could not be located
in the dynamic link library SETUPAPI.dll"
What should I do?

My pc locks up all the time because a process known as
explored.exe keeps loading and utilizing 80 to 90% of the
cpu. If I remove the process, it comes right back. I am
ready to move to a different operating system if

When I go into task mgr.   it shows that windows is using 133 Mb when just idleing, is this the right amount that should be tied up??
I was having trouble with a program, and the company said I didn't have enough memory. PC has 256 Mb..  Program used to run fine on Win 98 with 128 ...

Several people have told me that the transmission of
pictures via E-Mail has failed.  This includes pictures
that I am forwarding.They are in differentparts of the
country with varied servers. I have XP Home Edition.

I am having problems installing my downloaded updates.  It keeps telling me I don't have the required .dll file to install.  How can I fix?

I loaded Norton System Works 2004 on my machine and now it
runs really slow.  When I try to login it sometimes takes
a couple of minutes.  Is this just a problem with Norton?

I have a separate hard drive where I store image backups of XP.  I would
like to make the image files unmovable when I defrag that drive with the XP
defrag utility.  How can I set this up>
J

I need to give my power users the ability to run defrag utility. Currently XP Pro will not allow anyone to run defrag unless they are an administrator. I do not want give anyone admin rights for obvious reasons. I have gone through rights and permissions for the utility with out ...