I think I've made a mess now.  I did a clean install of xp home on a PC
where I had 2 partitions on the hard drive - the c drive was ntfs and a
smaller d drive was fat32.  When installing from scratch I was prompted
to delete the partitions and I didn't want to delete the smaller ...

In Administrative Tools_Computer management- Disk Management i noticed 3
partitions the 1 i created and 2 others. 1 is ( EISA Configuration) its 31MB
.The other is an "Unknown" and its 3.41GB.     The one that is  3.41GB I can  
 erase .The other 31MB I cant. I dont recall seeing ...

I wish to install Media Player 10, but there are quite a few files relating
to #9. There is no uninstaller, and since I have reinstalled my XP Home Ed.,
I have not installed 9. Does one just go ahead and Download 10 and follow the
yellow brick road from there? (Something I'm not ...

my internet has suddenly gone really slow and jams up and takes ages
for a new page or the next page to show
im on broadband so it shouldnt be like this
any ideas

When I turn on my pc, usually there is a scanning process (a colored bar
moving from left to right ) on the screen before a password sign in page
appears.
Although the sign in page still opens for me to type in password and do my

System failed to boot.
2 80g HDs.
Primary master may have been failing.
New install from CD to slave unintentionally.

WHEN I TURN ON MY COMPUTER, AND SIGN ON TO THE INTERNET.  THE WINDOWS
INSTALLER RUNS EVERY TIME.  I WENT INTO THE SERVICES AND IT WAS STOPPED AND
ON MANUAL, BUT I STARTED IT AND SET IN ON AUTOMATIC.  IT IS STILL POPPING UP
EVERY TIME I START THE COMPUTER AND TRY TO SIGN ON TO THE ...

I am trying to defrag a disk but keep getting an error message saying the
following is corrupt:
D:\WINDOWS\Prefetch|WCESCOMM.EXE-2D7B0821.pf
Can anyone tell me what to do to clear this.

This appears on computer: The instruction at "0x10005fbe" referenced memory
at "0x10005fbe". The Memory could not be "read"
What doe this mean, and what can be done about it?

Hello.  I've searched this discussion group and Technet, and cant find the
answer to my question.
I have several tasks scheduled in Windowx XP SP2 Scheduled Tasks.  These
have been running fine for some time, with no error codes returned.  

every time i go into micorsoft word and start to type a error message keeps
coming up saying de bug winword line 133
can anyone tell me wot this is and how to fix it pls,

ok i usually start task manager right away when i turn my computer on but i
didnt,  and my computer usually takes a long time to load so i dont want to
restart it.  when i press ctrl-alt-del though task manager does not pop up so
i went to system32 and clicked on the task manager ...

Hello how to change  the settings  c:\my documents  what is usualy the
Program drive from the programm drive to the Data Drive.
bcause the my documents are not programm it is CLEAR DATA.
Thanks

the pc starts normally and takes me to the user page.  once i sign-in and my
desktop is visible it takes very long for the pc to be able to do do any
other operation, it is clear my hardrive is working during this time as if
still starting up(the light is blinking on the from of ...

I have Windows XP.  I attempted to flush DNS because there are times that I
can't upload:  Start > Run> cmd > ipconfig/flush.  It wouldn't work. I
received a message that says "Could not flush the DNS Resolver Cache:
Function failed during execution."