Hopefully someone can help me. I'm pretty new to computers so please nice. I
have an Acer Aspire 1310 with XP Home. I have a 120G external hard drive, now
for some reason I unplugged it yesterday from the cable going into it!! (i've
never done that before!!) and today it wont ...

when i go to all programs, accessories, system tools,
there should be a "backup" option display, but there
isn't.  other xp machines at my office have the backup
option.  how can i perform a backup of my system before

While running mathematica, users hibernates machine.  Upon
start up later gets message regarding insufficient
resources.  Now hibernate is no longer an option at
shutdown.  It is even grayed out on the Power Management

Hi I am running windows xp on a toshiba satelitte A60
and when i shut down Eblcgg32.exe is always not
responding. I would like to know what this is and how to
get rid of it if i don't need it.

My hp864n came with the original Windows XP Media Center Edition. How
do I obtain an upgrade to Media Center Edition 2004??

I got the Automatic Update notification yesterday that I
can download SP2. I clicked on everything to start the
download, and left my computer running with the internet
connected all day yesterday, and since this morning, but I

the problem is the cd/dvd drive functioned properly before
i put in a dvd and then the system no longer sees the
drive at all. i tried different cds and dvds and i tried
to reinstall the drive. nothing bios sees the drive but

I recently bought a Dell that had Windows XP Professional
preloaded.  After getting a few other things setup
(earthlink internet, AIM, McAfee Suite, Spybot, etc) I
started having some problems.  When I access the internet

How do I fix an error message that says this file is
missing:
C:\ProgramFiles\WildTangent\appCDA\cdaEngine0400.dll
Also, what is Wild Tangent, where does it originate, and

When viewing microsoft backup files with the backup
utility is there any way you can see the overall folder
size of all the individual folders saved. I use regular
incremental backups and there are loads of empty folders.

Have just downloaded and installed windows XP, SP2 but
now have 'Could not find the file "swflash.ocx" popping
up everytime I boot up my computer, can anyone send me a
copy of this file please.

When I run search in the start menu, a msg "a file that
is required to run Search Companion cannot be found. You
may need to run setup." Is there other way round this
problem for preinstalled notebook that have no setup CD?

I posted this yesterday but didn't see it apear on my newsgroupe so i will
try again.
Hi Guys & Gals
I just reinstalled windows and everytime i run chkdsk, after windows

After installing sp2 I am unable to receive email through
outlook express 6. I have tried system restore, disabling
firewall, and popup blockers. This did not resolve the
issue. I have called dell techs and they coundn't fix the

After a year of happily running XP with SP1 and selective
SP2 updates, it has started to consume 100% CPU and
behave in very unstable manner, often freezing up so I
have to reboot.