3 days ago, I updated XP after being reminded by Automatic Windows Update.
Since then I have had problems. (Vversion is 5.1 Build 2600.xpsp2
030422-1633: Service Pack 1) - in addition to the XP update, I did an Office
XP update.

(Thanks for looking!)
I have a friend's machine (running XP Home, fully patched) which is unusably
slow.  I can see that LSASS.exe together with one instance of SVCHOST.exe
are effectively using all CPU resources.  I've run updated versions of:

on my laptop, i have 2.4 pentuim 4 chip, this is making
the fans constantly run as it is not a mobile chip. Does
anyone know if u can restrict the full usage of the chip
so does not run at full power. When playing games or

I currently have a Dell Dimension 4500 with a Pentium 4, 2.40 GHz chip,
512 MB RAM.  Running Windows XP Home.
Was wondering if I would notice any significant difference in
speed/performance if I added another 512 MB RAM?  I realize it probably

I am having trouble clicking on links in internet
explorer for windows xp professional.  I will go to web
sites and not be able to click on links.  For example I
cant click on the little squres to read peoples replies

Hey, whenever I try to open up Windows Explorer, it just
sits there until it says not responding.  I can't even
look at the files on my own computer.  Please help!!!

 I started my system today and got the message that
Windows can not start because the file <WINDOWS ROOT>
\system32\hal.dll is missing or corupted. Reinstall this
file. How do I reinstall this file using my upgrade CD?

i downloaded the 2 new updates: KB828741 & KB826939, but
after i reboot and go back to the check for new updates
site, i still get them. also my automatic windows update
shows them, and asks me to install those 2.

hi i have installed windows xp with sp1 everything is working fine no errors no viruses everything is ok but eventhough i have 3.2 HT cpu windows is loading rather slowly actually the same duration as on a 2.4 cpu why is that and after loading the desktop takes also sometime to ...

Need your help!  XP Home hangs in Stand-by, I get the
message ....going into standby... and it just hangs and
never does go into stand-by.  I have to manually shut
down the computer at that point. It all started after I

Where is the file stored for your homepage because every
other way i have tried it will not let me change it it
keeps saying "the operation has been cancelled due to
restrictions in effect on this computer, please contacnt

my new computr sometimes gives  me a message saying its making more virtual memory because it doesnt have enough-i dont have alot of programs on it so-if anyone can tell me where i might look for this or explain it more  fully i'd appreciate the info-it also said i could go to ...

My wife downloaded a free iTune and the iTune software
was downloaded along with QuickTime.  Well, long story
short, now my computer takes a long time to shut down,
start up, start an app.  I uninstalled iTunes and

d:\1\1\1\1\1\1\1\1\1\1\1\.........................
it's so long that windows can't delete
even " rd /s \1 " didn't work
OMG someone help me! Please

When my laptop boots into windows xp i get the blue
screen of death and it says registry_error 0x50. Then I
went to the recovery console to recover the registry but
when I select the c drive/windows partition, I get the