When I start Internet Explorer, email program
(incredimail), start up "finepix" (digital photo program)
and even opening text files over the network, my hard
drive LED lights up solid like it's performing a giant

In W2K, tracert will give me the host name if I enter the
IP and the IP if I enter the host name.  Why doesn't that
do the same in XP and what do to get the host name from an
IP address?

Just upgraded to XP Home from ME. Everything went well
but all the desktop icons are gone. If I save something
to the desktop it never shows up. If I right click the
task-bar and check desktop I get a tab that will show the

I get the "Access Denied" when I am trying to remove
files identified by my Antivirus as problem files. MS
knowledge base says I need to ask admin for permissions,
but of course, I am already the admin user.

I recently bought a new computer,it ran good until i
install a device driver update for my video card ,and then
it just kept on rebooting, so i use the recovery disk that
came with my computer and reformatted my hard disk and

I have one particular update, 819696, that says it needs
to install every day. All other updates appear to be
recorded properly except this one. Have not found any
help articles elsewhere, hoping some one out here will

After trying to boot my machine, I get past the XP screen
and my computer just reboots. Then continuously tries to
start up only to reboot. If I try to enter into safe mode
or any other the same thing happens. When I disconnect my

I am getting error messages when I try to install new
software.  Says installer will not work because Windows
is in Safe mode.  Which installer would work with Windows
XP professional.(from the list of downloadable

I am having problems with my .exe files. I cannot get any
of them to run. Everytime i click one, the following
error appears:
This file does not have a program associated with it for

I have try to download the latest Windows update about 3
times but after downloading it, it does not installs it.
I appreciate your advice.

Good Day,
I'm trying to change my page file size in XP Home, 640 Mb
RAM (256-256-128), 20Gb HD, To reduce the size.
I would like to set the initial size to 1/2 my RAM (320)

When I try to uninstall anything I get an internal error
code #0x80040707; Access in Denied. What does this mean and
how can I correct it and delete the files? Can anyone help
me with this situation? Thanks...

Error messages during download:
Error occurred while copying file dummy.cat
Cannot copy file to destination directory.
Click retry or....cancel

Hello, I hope this is ok to post this question here....
Can someone please tell me why the price of memory goes up
and down so much. I am thinking of upgrading my memory to
critical 400/pc3200. I hessitated... and now the price has