In the control Panel there is a icon for program updates,it runs on startup
sometimes and also if you click it.
When the window opens it displays installshield at the top right, then the
problem begins,The rest of the open window is blank, it has control boxes

im giving my computer to my uncle but he wants it "as NEW" meaning as it was
when it came out the box with nothing already on it so he can do it all
himself.
So how do i do this i tried system restore but that dosnt work as it only

In the 'Windows Task Manager/Processes' area I have 59 processes running.  My
question is:  how many should be running and which ones would you shut down
(if you had to) to free up system resources?  Or does that are need to be
cleaned out to make a 'clean boot?'

Guys, apologies if this has been asked before, just joined the group to
remedy the problem. I have a Toshiba sattalite A30, 256 ram. When i use
demanding programmes they cause my laptop to shut down completely. I
have scanned with F secure and Lavasoft Ad aware personal edition but

This occurs sometimes when I am trying to install software can anyone help me.

A chum is stuck in the comres.dll not found loop when starting up his
computer. He can only click on an endless series of boxes with that
error message, refering to various programs/services, and then hard
power off.

Loading google earth caused a crash. when rebooting computer went to nearly
new install of xp.  Deleted google earth . disabled go-back (it didn't work)
and try 4 time to restore back. message couldn't restore  "Installed J2se
Runtime Environment 5.0 update 6"    I have searched ...

Some of my updates will not download onto my computer. I'm tired of getting
failed messages. I also need to know if I have a conflict on my computer
using yahoo dsl as my browser? Thank you,

I had a slow computer this evening so I did a system restore, for 3-24-06. it
didnt work so I did a restore for 3-1-06, I think. Well, now I lost some
pretty important items and wondered if I can restore this to 3-28-06.....or
am I just out of luck? I tried the undo's...but they ...

When I click on Disk Defragmenter to start it up, something pops up saying,
"MMC cannot open the file C:\WINDOWS\system32\dfrg.msc. This may be because
the file does not exist, is not an MMC console, or was created by a later
version of MMC. This may also be because you do not ...

In order to upgrade my video driver, I uninstalled the old one first.  
Unfortunately, now I don't get any video at all.  (I can still make the
computer make sounds with the keyboard, and it shuts down normally, so
there's no crash.)  I've tried Safe Mode, and VGA mode, but I get ...

I had to replace my burnt out PSU with a JEANTECH low noise 120mm fan power
supply, on my P4 processor 550 with HT Technology.
I am sure I have connected everything correctly however I now have a drive
letter association problem.

Windows XP with rvice pack 2 running on AMD 64 with 512 Mg RAM, has a serious
flaw related to the desktop wallpaper.  If a bitmap that is too large is
selected, (and installed) the system begins to thrash as it attempts to
recover enough memory to continue function, and may ...

my computer crashes too much i dont know what happened.cant install
programs,even cant open desktop properties,cant open system restore.i dont
what happened to it,but i am sure it is infected with some kind of trojan or
eploited by a well written script.which is "Js exploit/Bo ...

Hello I'm having problems with performance that I have traced to "MSMGS.EXE"
-- which is taking a hit at my pc about every minute to every other minute.
This is NOT the MSN messenger, but I had read somewhere that it possibly was
part of a pesky, moderately severe worm. I have ...