Wp sp2 seems a real progress!, The firewall installed worked fine untill it  
refused to start the service! I used once a third party firewall included in
Trend Internet security 11, then the firewall was disabled. Inquiring with
Eventlog I found something like" stopped with error ...

I keep getting the message:
"Fire Daemon has encountered an error and must close."
What's up with that?

I had to reinstall (overwrite) windows xp pro because there were some system
problems. After the reinstall I updated everything and installed all my
programs only to find myself not able to access the old documents left over
from previous install. It gave me access denied error ...

I don't use internet expolorer, instead I use AOL. And whenever I get on AOL
internet expolorer pops up everywhere. Is there any way you can uninstall
internet expolorer?

I get an error message that "a recently installed program has disabled the
Welcome Screen and Fast User switching.  File name msGina.dll"
Can anybody help me identify this program or tell me how to remove it?
Thanks,

No color display in Money. this is supported, and the tech says it is a
Windows problem since Money platformed on Windows. However, the website says
no support available because OEM software puchase.  the tech at Sony said to
format the drive, but i only want to do that as a last ...

Is there a way to change the permissions on the option to "Safely Remove
Hardware"?  As administrator, I can safely remove hardware, but not as a
normal user.  I can't seem to find anything that will allow me to change the
permissions so a normal (non-administrator) can access ...

A problem came up a couple weeks ago, the first time I rebooted after an
optional Windows Update.  I logged in as a non-Admin user, the system
said it was checking user preferences (or something like that) and
showed an hourglass and didn't go much beyond that.

I'm trying to reinstall windows, however when I load the re-installation cd,
it says that there is a newer version on my computer than what there is on
the disk? How is that so and how can I change that? Thanks!

I've been using XP only about a month and shortly after set up I scheduled
Disk Clean and Virus Scan for weekly maintenance, as I did on old cvomputer
with 98SE. I discovered a week or so ago, the tasks have never started and
the a message "could not start" appears. What's going ...

Hi, I am running Windows XP at home, the problem I have is when I display a
web page instead of getting pictures associated with the page I get a red
cross on some sites! Also with some cd's instead of running animation I get a
small square box with a triangle and a circle inside ...

when I click on windows explorer it opens my documents. How can i make it
open to navigate in normal mode? I found kb295044 but it says it is for win
me. thanks

During a virus scan I discovered 1357 file, 78 folders in
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\config\systemprofile\Local Settings\Temp
231 MB (242,298,880 bytes)
Some of these files relate to programs not even on the computer anymore.  I

After sitting without use for about 5 minutes, computer will reboot.  Also,
if I go to 'standby' after a few seconds in 'standby' it will reboot.  

To make a long story short, I ran system restore this afternoon to back out
of a troubled AV install. I didn't get the results I was looking for and the
old AV program was back without a working uninstall.  So I backed out of that
restore, attempting to get the system back into ...