Trying to create automated system recovery disk using the
wizard on XP home (installed ntbackup from winxp home cd)
Get the following error msg
"Backup Status

Four profiles on this computer, and *one* randomly resets
itself to default settings.  Suddenly all files in MyDocs
are missing; icons are gone; background is default.  This
seems to be unprovoked.  Virus scans come up with

I can't get my mouse to work and my keyboard's locked up
when i first boot up.  Without these, my computer won't
even boot up all the way.  Anybody have any suggestions?  
Yes, i've checked the connections.  Thanks.

Had a sudden and unexpected  'disabling' of Checkdisk in XP Pro and could
not resolve it!  Carey was on the money with diagnosis! ZoneAlarm 5.0 Free
is the culprit.. Thank You, Thank You, Carey. I had tried every command line
anyone could come-up with;  checkdisk would NOT run on ...

When I tr to delete any file from my c: drive , its takes
about 1 minute before the message "do you want to delete
this file" comes up, also the window that was displaying
the fiel system is frozen the whole time. Any ideas on what

When I start my internet connection (adsl modem - Alcatel
speed touch) my windows explorer virtually stops working.
For example, whilst online and I try to open say 'control
panel' or even 'task manager' they fail to open. I have

i loose internet conection at least 10 times a day i have
to maulaly disable and reinable my network connection to
get it to re start what is causing this problem and how
can i fix it

I think I might have a spyware program or something?  I
ran Adaware and Norton Antivirus but it turned up
nothing.  My machines take an extremely long time to boot
and I can only run a couple of small programs before I

I keep getting the following message when I try to
install PrintMaster Platinum 15: An installation support
file C:\Program files\Common
files\InstallShield\IScript\iscript.dll could not be

I went to the instructions on how to remove XP (add-
remove, and so forth). When I looked at the Add-Remove
screen, there was nothing listed as a program 'Windows
XP',....only a reference to Win 32 application.When I go

I have several old programs installed on Windows XP and
can't remove them using the add/remove installed programs
because it will ask for the disk and I don't have it.  
Can they be removed any other way?

I know this probably get's asked a lot but whenever i play a game after a certain time a message comes up saying my virtual memory is too low. The thing is i've got XP and a newish computer and i've put my virtual memory paging file at max (4504 MB) so i don't understand why it ...

i recently upgraded my lapton from ME to XP and when doing
so converted to ntfs from fat32. I have discovered that XP
uses too much memory on my laptop and has slowed it down
so much that any task takes a lifetime to complete. i

One of Norton's system programs keeps telling me that mscoree.dll is missing or corrupted. Norton will repair it then after a scan is done it will show the same error. Is this an essential Windows file or not? Is there anywhere I can find a listing of valid system dlls for ...

Some advertising program has hijacked my desktop-it is
active in the background. How can I remove it from my
computer?