i have 2 boxes on my desktop that will not close.  i have uninstalled the program to which they belong and restarted my computer thinking they would go away.  they are still there.  what do i do to get rid of them?  one box has an "X"  in the top corner, but will not close.  the ...

Ok suddenly 2 weeks ago i turn on my computer running win xp pro it boots
then stops at black screen with system info and says press del to continue
and you have to press del to continue booting the system im not virus or
trojan or spywared and this just suddenly happened can ...

I have recently run into a problem with trying to save documents and other
files to places other than my computer.  When I try to save something to an
external flash drive, the program becomes non-responsive.  It does this
through both Word and PowerPoint as well as when I try to ...

i have a Dell Optiplex GX110 Desktop and i am using Windows XP with 2
hard drives and 2 CD drives when i put both hard drives on the primary
IDE the computer cannot find either of them but when i put just the one
hard drive on it it works fine. Also it cannot find either of my CD

i'm trying to clear up some disk space on my computer and noticed that the
"C:\WINDOWS\Internet Logs" folder contains over 300 mb of data.
can i safely clear out this folder without damaging windows?
thank you for your help,

When C drive failed I installed XP onto a D Drive (smaller second internal
hard drive.) System now boots to D drive and C drive is used for data storage
only. Question - when I statup my computer- it still opens a screen asking
which of the XP installations I want to boot to even ...

I was defragging the boot drive of my WinXP Home installation using
the defrag utility supplied with XP. And there was a hard power
failure that lasted about 40 minutes. Of course I don't have UPS.
After power was restored WinXP boots and looks OK, BUT what is the

About four months ago, Internet explorer got disabled/corrupted on my XP
Professional operating system after I browsed a forum.  I have not been able
to reload IE because it keeps looking for an older version to update.  Ever
since then, I have noticed that startup and shutdown ...

Using XP Home Edition, logged on as administrator in Safe Mode, I make the
change to
HKLM\sware\ms\windowsNT\current version\winlogon\Shell but, after I close
the registry editor and reopen it, the value has returned to its original

I got a HP Pavilion notebook about a month ago, and having little experience
of upgrading software etc, I 've tried to leap into the "wonderful" world of
upgrading software like drivers and so on.
But what the sites like Windows Update and HP Software download won't tell

Every time I turn on my laptop, the window for System 32 is there and I have
to manually close it. I don't know why it started opening, I don't think I've
done anything different, but how do I keep it closed?

When I start up Windows XP I get the error message "A problem is preventing
Windows from accurately checking the license for this computer. Error code:
0x8007007e"
Any suggestions?

Windows XP logo comes on and appears to be loading but then the systems turns
itself off. Then when I turn it back on the message related to Windows
shutting down improperly eg. Start in Safe Mode, Safe Mode with Networking,
Most Recent Config etc. Doesn't matter which option I ...

Every time I try and add drivers for my computer I get an error message which
reads  "C:\windows\system32\autoexec.nt.  The system file is not suitable for
running MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows Applications. Choose close to terminate
application.

I hope someone can help me as I am unable to get free tech support anymore.
I have Windows XP at home. Today, after I turned it on, I opened yahoo
messenger as I always do. The computer crashed and ran a disk check. After
the disk check was complete, windows rebooted and an IE ...