I have a problem with an internal cherp,and the hour
glass shows up for just a couple of seconds at the same
time.One of my kids loaded a memory cleanser a couple of
weeks ago,I could find it,but wouldn't let me remove

one certain icons I get lines gong through them.  like the windows icon on the start button, and my windows media player plays music videos, but it comes up as sorta green with lines in it.  help a girl out please?  thank you very much

My Windows XP is freezing up every couple of minutes.  I
can type or use the mouse for 2 or 3 minutes, then it
freezes up again.  Any thoughts?

Is it possibleto tell windows XP to log the duration of
each startup item in a special log so I could see what is
this item that takes for ever wen I start up mu computer?
Thanks

i have this system32\installer\files\ directory that
contains 250mb files, such ad 297f796.msp etc.
what are those files, and can they be deleted without
harming my system?

At start up or reboot, my WinXP is very slow. generally it
takes up to 2 minutes to boot up. I am running AMD 1.01gb,
768Ram, dual harddrives with an external harddrive via
firewire.

my system is very slow lately and I dont know how to check what is wrong. it plays MP3s intermittanly and everything is slow i have even downloaded the latest media player 9 and it is still not playing correctly I have increased the buffer to 50secs but that had no effect so I am ...

I have an Dell Insprion 8100 Notebook and tried to use
Disk Cleanup. The program starts scanning Compress Old
Files and stops at that point. I do not receieve any
errors. Is there a way to retsore this program? I was

Would microsoft reg clean 4.1 work on windows xp home or
would I need another free registry cleaner?
I wanted to remove all traces of old software that was
removed from my computer-thanks

I have Windows XP Pro (2600SP1) installed and there is a
couple of issues that I can't find a solution to.
1. When I click on the Help & Support icon on the start
bar, nothing happens at all.  It wasn't always like

i need to reformat my computer but not sure how to do
it... when i purchased my computer windows xp was already
on it as well it came with a recovery cd... can i just go
and put the rcovery cd into my computer and it will

Just upgraded from 512 to 1GB of Crucial DDR-400 (PC3200) RAM - machine
runs fine, but in games, everything has slowed down. No crashes, errors,
etc.
Do I need to put a setting in the Registry or in Sys.ini like in W98?

is there an upgrade avaliable for
IBM Netfinity 3500  the bios version i am running at the
moment is - NNKT29AUS - please reply to
graemep52@hotmail.com

I have checked that I am logged in as an Administrator.
But click on Accessories - System Tools gives the
following list:
Character map