Out of the blue so to speak my start up time is about 2 minutes.Windows XP.
768 Ram. P4 1.8 gh 250 g hard drive.
This is the Error message I get in the Event Center:
Event ID: 7026

I have dell desktop, its working fine but when i try to shut down, some time
it does not shut down, some time it takes 4-5 minutes and while shutting down
it shows thats its ending some programs like ccAPP and some others like this.
What may be the problem how can i resolve this?

In trying to defrag my hard drive, got a message that said I needed to run
check disk first. I've discovered the disk is marked as dirty. So I attempt
to run chkdsk, get a message says 'cannot lock current drive-cannot run
because volume is in use.....want to schedule to check ...

I have 2 hard-drives. The 1st hard drive is nearly full.  The 2nd hard drive
has lots of space.  When I try to move files/programs, etc from hard drive #1
to the 2nd one to have more space, Some of the programs don't run, or
malfunction.  Not sure how to make the best use of the ...

I recently bought an 80 GB external drive to use as a backup to my computer.  
I ran XP's Backup Utility and directed it to send files and folders to the
new drive.  I am only backing up about 10.1 GB, but received the following
error (not sure why, since the new drive is 80 GB!):

I need to detect when "New Hardware Found" is in progress and pause a script
until it is completed.  Not an issue every time so I need to trap for it.  
Ideas?

Using WXP Home (completely up to date with updates).
I have recently installed a gigabyte wireless adapter, to share a cable
internet connection thru a gigabyte wireless router. (ie there is a cable
modem and wireless router - connected to an "other PC" by cable)

Oh my gosh you may be suprised when i tell you this so prepare yourself...:)
My labtop (only 6months old) is running real slow. I did the disk clean up,
removed temp files, and removed un needed programs. It recomends 15% space to
run defrag and i only have 4% available. Is ...

AMD 64 3500+
1GB RAM
256 7800 GTX
ASUS A8N SLI DLX

Hi there, I was pretty sure Windows XP included a neat application which
would show all the programs, registry settings, ect. that are loaded during
startup. There were several tabs, and it allowed you to suppress them -
selectively or completely(this included drivers). I've used ...

I'm using a Windows XP SP2 notebook & when it boots up there is a long delay.
After I get the XP Welcome screen & audible, the Wallpaper background comes
up but no Desktop icons and it sits there for 3 minutes with no hard drive
activity & then it finally boots.  It is a new Sony ...

Hello.
Recently my i was getting the Blue screen of death looping on my laptop with
Windows XP Home, so i tryed to recover it using the console, to no prevail,
so i reinstalled windows, which went fine,  untill the next time i turned it

I started doing video editing with Movie Maker and other software. I have a
second hard drive to store all of the files associated with the making of
movies. The Movie maker application itself runs from the first drive. My
question is: What hard drive should I use for my virtual ...

When I boot up Windows XP explorer.exe doesn't seem to be running, I press
contol alt deleate and then go new task, explorer.exe and it starts to work
for about one second then exits. What the heck am I supposed to do? I am
running Windows XP SP2 on a Pentium 4 1.79GHz with 768MB ...

I keep getting Runtime error, line 41, run debug yes or no.  After I ran
debug, the same error keeps poping up and I can not use the web site.  Please
tell me what is wrong with my Microsoft internet explorer that gives me
Runtime error.  How do I get rid of it?