I am running Win XP Prof and performed a defrag of my
160GB Slave Drive. After defragging I have lost access to
the drive. Initial error message indicated that parameter
was missing and subsequent messages indicate drive is not

I defragged my hard drive only to find one huge file of
9GB could not be defragmented.  I do a lot of video
editing on my computer and am assuming that the
appearance of this file is associated with that

I have a Windows Xp user with a baffling problem.  
Every time he tries to open any file the PC takes about 30
seconds to open it.  If I context click on the file it
also takes about the same time.

i have recently encountered some errors and wanted to do a restore with my disks provided with pc.  there is a fault it will not allow me to do so.  should i be doing something different???? please advise

I need to close or make stealth port 23 Telnet--please let
me know how.
Thanks

I used the Windows XP Home disk defragmenter and now I
can't boot past the introductory screen with the three
green balls going left to right.  After that there is just
a blank screen.  No matter what I try, that is as far as I

I downloaded an update to windows xp saturday.  Now, when
I try to open most programs like outlook, norton, etc an
error message pops up "unable to locate
component".  "application has failed to start because

Account information could not be set and error
0x80070005 "Access is Denied" when setting XP task
scheduler to do anything. And i am setting with domain
admin username and pw! wtf?!!?

I recently backed up my whole hard drive (which has bad
sectors) in preparation for Dell to replace it with a new
hard drive this week.  During the restore (using Stomp's
Backup My PC, version 5.0 (w/out Disaster Recovery for

when im in the middle of things my computer just shuts down as it i
doin that it playes a short tune of about 4 notes, it comes from th
soundcard, like old games did. i know its probabily a virus or trojan
but my antivirus (AVG - Grisoft) is not picking it up. Anyone heard o

HI, I am having a problem with my xp machine, when I open
add remove programs not all programs are listed if I sort
by name, only about six are. Any help would be greatly
apprieciated. Thank you

For an unknown reason I am unable to load the www.msn.com 
homepage.  This only happens with msn. I have tried all
the usual remedies and nothing is working.  Anyone elde
having this problem?

I have been having some trouble defragmenting my harddrive and I have
finally found solutions.
I just wanted to pass on tips to anyone else like me who searchs
newsgroups for answers.

After 4 months running XP Pro with almost no problems,
Scheduled Tasks simply stopped running.
This includes the WinAmp playlists I'd scheduled to run as
an alarm clock and Norton Antivirus's virus scans and Live

My disk cleanup will not work.  I go into Performance and
Maintenance (on Windows XP), click on free up disk
space.   It will come on and seem to start, get a 1/3
done, then stop and do nothing.  I've left it for hours