The hourglass is on the screen constantly with the arrow
until I connect to AOL.  I pressed the three keys: Ctrl,
Alt, and Del. In the Windows Task Manager, there is
nothing running.

I recently upgraded from ME to XP. I have encountered many
problems. Any fixes would be appreciated.
1. Whenever I open a microsoft application, my computer
tries to upgrade to XP professional (I have Home edition),

When I enter control panel in category view it hangs and
does not respond, but when I enter in classic view it
works ok?

Hello,
I am a new user.
I wanted to know if there was a way to take an image of a
hard drive and keep all the clients folders intact in

I'm running Windows XP Home Edition on a Pentium IV with 128 Meg RAM, and it runs far too slowly.
I'm going to add 128 Meg RAM and see how that helps.
How much RAM do you find necessary to have the system really perform well.
Other than RAM, are there any system tweaks which are ...

I keep getting this blue screen with stop messages, what
are they. These are some of the recent codes I've gotten.
*** Stop: 0x000000c5 (0x090000A4, 0x00000001, 080534006)
*** Stop: 0x00000050 (0xF25162F8, 0x00000001, 0x804F410C,

This morning my computer crashed and I got "the blue
screen" it said "fatal system error c000021a" so I
rebooted and got on endless hold with Dell Support. I
rebooted a few times while on hold and it would crash. I

I have the following settings:
- Windows XP PRO SP1
- Norton Antivirus Latest Signatures
The problem I have is that there are a couple of process taking almost

When the computer boots, I get the error message
that "C:\WINDOWS\services\wmplayer.exe" not found.
Any ideas?
Thanks

Hi, I'm trying to fix a computer problem for a Japanese
exchange student.  He has Windows XP on a Japanese
language computer and when he tries to open Add/Remove
Programs, a little window pops up saying "Parse Error @

“Help”…I’m having a problem with my computer that nobody seem to know any solutions for. The problem I’m having is my pointer/curser has an hour glass icon beside it that will not go away it like it’s still reading something or something is running in the background. I try to ...

Hello, I'm having a terrible time with everything taking
26&1/2 years to load. I know it has to be all of the
processes running in the background. I mess things up when
I try to stop some of them,and they always come back when

when trying to install a webcam i get ta message saying
vfwwdm32.dll  is missign from service pack one, how can i
get this file

Thx for the info on the gaobot worm, i get this exact msg
when i try and update: The software you are installing
has not passed Windows Logo testing to verify its
compatibility with Windows XP....This software will not

ok, my system runs realy slow due to SVCHOST.exe taking
up all the cpu usage i think, ive been told it might be
due to a virus called W32 Garobot worm, if so how do i
get rid of this?