Have XP Pro installed in my computer.  Lately when I double click My computer
to
list my drives, it takes a long time before they appear, 2 or 3 minutes.  
Also when I try to open Disk Management (Adm Tools, Computer management, it

I went into my computer files and  mistakenly deleted some important files. I
was doing this to clean up. Not being computer intellegent; I erased or
deleted files that are necessary. I cannot "install" Windows updates; I
cannot "install" Windows Media Player (and I had this at ...

During a recent virus scan, I found that I have a corrupt registry. Does
anyone know how I can safely clean this up?

if someone is scanning my ports or hacking in to my computer how do i stop
this,or find out who it is.

a week ago my oc was infected by a polymorph virus called Win32:Delf-AAR,
and it's infected two of the System Volume Information files, so i moved
these two files to the virus vault, and waited for awhile to see if my
machine would suffer any adverse reactions to that, and it ...

I have aquired a computer with access 97 installed and i would like to
remove it prior to installing the full Office 2003 suite. I'd really like to
remove it first so that i am certain of a clean install and don't keep
thinking of it evry time i have a problem with data access in ...

When Explorer is listing files in a directory, it seems to check .AVI files
for some reason. Some of my .AVI files are encoded with DivX, and some with
Xvid. Some (most, but not all) Xvid-encoded files cause Explorer to crash
when you click on the filename. If you double-click ...

Recently (probably for about the past week) every time I return from my
screen saver, a Windows error appears saying that Windows Explorer has
encountered an error.  I then click Send (or Don't Send) a report of this
error, my desktop refreshes, and everything goes back to normal ...

only one of my speaker is working, does anyone have any idea why? i've
configured both and it should both be working but it's not. it's new.

When I run disk cleanup "compress old files" does not completely wipe clean.  
There are still files left after I run this tool.  Can someone please help.  
I already have ccleaner and adaware.

I downloaded a print shop program from 2 cds and it downloaded fine, putting
some new jpeg icons on my desktop.  I made a new folder and put the icons
into it.  Now my problem is that when I restarted my computer I now have 1322
little jpeg icons covering my desktop.  My ...

When my WindowsXP starts up on my laptop I get two error msgs one after the
other:
SIFX.exe  corrupted or missing.
SIFXINST.exe corrupted or missing.  Does anyone know what these files are? I

My system has developed the following problem when I start up. I now get the
following messages:
Event Type:    Error
Event Source:    MsiInstaller

I am trying to do a defrag but keep being told a chkdsk /f is scheduled and
so I can't do the defrag. I can't get out of this loop. Can anybody help?

I run VPC on my Windows XP Pro SP2 machine on a HP/Compaq nc6230 laptop with
a couple of base images. When I run Windows Disk Defragmenter it does not
defragment one of the VHD files. There are two on the hard drive so the other
one is apparently defragmenting.