Recently, when I went to modify my power settings, somehow they had all been
deleted, save the "home office" and "portable/laptop" which I never use
anyway. When I tried to add additional  power options, I name it and save it,
but when I open up power options the next time, it is ...

Hi, I bought my laptop in january which had the Media Center edition on it.
Since the past 2 months, its been a bit sluggish especially while browsing
the internet. The overall computer performance is quite ok. Only the internet
browsing has slowed down  a lot specially with ...

When I open my address book an error comes up , says "Microsoft Office
Outlook needs to close it encountered a problem and needs to close" What did
I do this time? Thank You Al Cassell

cannot click on any date except today's
wanted to go back one month but cannot.

I recently had a crash and my computer kept starting over and over and
over... the only way to stop it was to boot into my CD drive.  I wound up
having to reformat my hard drive and re-install everything I own back on it.  
Wow... what a mess.  No, I didn't have a backup... (don't ...

My laptop has recently seemed to develop a mind of its own!
Until recently, when I clicked on the 'My Documents' icon from the start
menu, it would take me to the page where I would see the various folders,
such as 'My Music', and 'My Pictures', etc.  However, now when I click on ...

I recently upgraded to Norton Internet Security 2006. I have Windows XP Home
Edition. My Computer has started shutting down - turning off when I am
scanning my Computer with Norton Anti-Virus. Now, sometimes, when the
Computer has almost finished booting, my computer will turn ...

I have a Toshiba 5200 laptop. Increasingly, I get the blue screen when
booting up with this message: A problem has been detected and Windows has
been shut down to prevent damage to your computer.
It goes on to say if this is the first time you've seen this stop error

In the i386 folder are a couple dozen jpeg pictures. What use are they? May
they safely be deleted?

Last night I used my computer (Word/Excel -- Office 2003) and everything was
fine. Complete system Norton virus scan shows it is fine.
When I turned the computer off last night, the little "automatic update"
message was there - some MS updates would be installed prior to shutting ...

My computer boots up fine up to the point where it loads explorer.exe. When
its loading, I find the taskbar and start menu are "locked up" and My
Computer, Network Places, etc display empty folders. My Documents however is
fine. After about 2 minutes, the system tray loads and my ...

After restarting my PC after a windows update, it froze. I cannot restart in
safe mode or last known good settings. It won't restart using the Windows
set-up CD - even trying to re-install fails as the F8 key won't work to agree
to the install conditions. If I try to use the ...

I cannot change any of the power options because a warning sign comes up
saying that i have to turn off my computers microsoft power options and work
with my computers power options. I have no idea how to go about doing this.
Any help would be great. Thanks

I'm following along with "Windows XP Backup Made Easy" by Ed Bott.
All is well until I get to the part to "Decide where to store your backup
file."  It WILL NOT let me choose anything other than A.  I do not want to
back my files to floppies!  What to do, what to do??

My registry shows that I have a copy of Microsoft Works on my computer
but I can't find any links to it and it doesn't give me the option of
deleting it. Is there a way to get it off? It's taking up about 65 megs
of space. I no longer have the software either. I'm using XP Pro.