I was reading an article on a website concerning reducing the Windows
folder footprint, and in the article it is stated that the files(not the
folder) in the
C:/windows/system32/dllcache folder can safely be deleted.The author

Whatever I do, there is a lot of this activities on my machine. Like:
- During boot. Before and after login screen appears
- After I login (for several minutes)
- When I cahnge user and login to new account (for several minutes)

Dear People reading this,
I have every article on this web site about a slow shutdown.  None of them
have helped.  Does anyone have any other suggestions that may fix my 10 min.
shutdown?  Also, I have a pop up virus that is going undetected by my virus

I have a Dell inspiron 2200 laptop and Windows XP. There is something wrong
with my keyboard. When I press 'Caps Lock' or 'Tab' it activates the tab
and/or the caps lock function (it varies).  When I press 'W' or 'Q' the
output is either 'qw' or 'wq'. When I press 'A' or 'S' the ...

I have several projects in VB6. While working as a User, several .ocx files
have overnight become unavailable to these projects. All are Windows Common
Controls. All are available normally if I work in Administration mode.
Any suggestions on why and how to fix?

the first message should read ive tried everything to speed up my down loads
and im hoping someone knows which was one  really is worth evan trying

hi sometimes my system just switches off for no reason, can can anyone help
im not technical but it seems to be at any time i can be in the middle of
listening to music or being on line and then it just goes dead, normally if i
wait 30 mins or so i can switch it back on and its ...

ive tried all the tweaks and fixes trying to speed up my pc now im tring the
download accelerators. i hear alot of people saying they work but they arent
working for me can anyone  tell me which one works?

I have some queries regarding how to manage my hard disks:
I have two PCs, one Home PC (AMD athelon) and other Office PC (P-III).
I have a 80GB Hard disk on my Home PC, which has Windows XP-Pro and
Windows 98 installed on different partitions of this disk. My Office PC

A routine check of my Event Viewer shows the entry "The device,
\Device\Harddisk0\D, has a bad block."
Only a day before, I'd run a chkdsk d:, and that didn't report
anything. WinXP desktop was up when I returned to PC after chkdsk had

While I have no trouble hearing audio files of all description, people I
send audio files to can't hear them.
Any idea why?
Thanks,

My computer is very slow after logging of the net. The only remedy seems to
be a re-boot. My lap top runs normally again untill I return to the net.
I have deleted cookies, deleted all my offline files and re adjusted my
temporary internet files folder to 300mb. I cleaned up ...

I just reinstalled XP Home on a computer I've had for several years now.  The
reinstall went smoothly, but now, when I boot up, I am given the option to
select between two versions of XP.  The first version, which is the default,
is the nice, new reinstall.  So, if I do nothing, ...

I have a Win XP Pro installation on which I experience sluggish application
performance whenever the system has been idle for a while (e.g. after 30
minutes). Several different types of activities are affected: outlook,
office, custom Java application, ...

My laptop runs slower and slower as the day goes by.   Geez, when I start up
it's slow.  When I open AOL, it's a joke...takes forever.  When I turn on my
computer, I close the programs I know for sure are running that I don't want.
They show up on my desktop menu.  However, when ...