What could be the problem, sometimes it runs perfectly but then it slows down
on whatever im doing, even the sounds sound like its stalling then it go back
to normal...

I am dealing with a machine where the intital version of Windows XP went bad
(why or how is not yet determined - that is the goal).  For some reason this
person then obtained a legitimate copy of Windows XP Home and re-installed
it.  This person obviously did not realize that ...

So, I turn on my laptop which is running XP home, it say si need to activate
windows, I click yes it tells me Windows is already active click OK to exit,
so I click OK to exit and I'm back to the log in screen to do it all over
again... I'm in an activation loop. I called MS they ...

I am encountering a delay (as much as 15 seconds) when I try to open a file
(or want to browse files using Explorer) from our network.  This is somewhat
a new phenomenon in that it is occuring now since we moved offices to a new
location across town.  Here is a typical scenario:

Having problems with Disk Manager. No drives are showing drive letters -
explorer does though - I can not mount a disk at a mount point and none of
the existing mount points work. I had just move My Documents to a mount point
and rebooted so I do not know what I might have done ...

I have somehow lost the capability to copy files to a CD. WinXP SP2
has always been able to select files or folders, and copy to a CD. Now
there is no option to copy to CD. If I select a file to copy and then
try to access a CD to paste, I get an error message window with the

I own a laptop with the charging circuit has died.
The battery is allways connected to a charger so never goes dead.
I want to upgrade to SP2, but error You must be conected to AC power to
install SP2

I now have my restoral disks and would like to utilize the space taken up by
the allocated 'D' drive. I have deleted the contents, but the space is still
property of the 'D' drive residing on the 'C' drive. Could someone get me
started?

I have a ECS K7S5A 1.0 mb with an amd xp 1800 cpu and 512mb memory. I'm
running winxp home. Inside is a maxtor 60g hard drive, cdrw, cd, floppy and a
zip drive. Video card is nvidia tnt 64 pro and a sound card along with a few
fans. The psu is an x-case 400 watt.  when ever i try ...

I've seen this same problem from time to time on a number of computers
running XP, but my wife's HP now does this all the time.  When shutting down,
things seem to go nicely 'ka-chunk, ka-chunk,' with the HD light flashing,
then when the final message comes up on the screen, the ...

I have a system (5 years old) running XP Home ed. and the Windows
system folder is 4 GB in size.  I've got a 15 GB partition and I have
tried to clean up the disk because I have about 1.5 GB left.  Is there
a way to reduce the size of this folder?  Thanks.

I've tried to uninstall "Registry Cleaner" from my system, with no luck. Of
course, I have no idea which program I installed in order to be rewarded with
this <gift>, so I can't just go to that program and uninstall it, then
reinstall without the Registry Cleaner"...any ...

What can I do?  About every 5 seconds the system freezes for about a couple
seconds and it's driving me nuts!!!!  Can someone please tell me how I can
find out what process is doing this?  I have watched the task manager and the
processes but it's not leading me onto what process ...

Everytime I try to install new updates, my computer crashes with a BSOD with
some text on it. The BSOD only stays for a few seconds so I don't know what
it says on it. Any idea what's going on?

I am having an impossible time trying to determine how to specify a
user/pass for the System DSN connection I have selected for recording
performance data using "Performance Logs and Alerts". Whenever I try to
start the counter, it attempts to connect to the database with a blank