I bought my laptop in the states and now im back in the uk i cant play any
dvd's on it because the regions are different, can anyone tell me how to
change them, i have tried but im told i dont have admin privileges, so i
guess my real question is how do i get that back for my own ...

Im thinkig of using windows backup in my acessories menu, to backup my
computer, i have a question, how good is this? Does it get all the
files?  how easy is to restore everything if needed?
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my system is ibm thinkpad x60 with indows xp professional sp2, all driver and
bios are updated.
The standby and hibernation option in "START" -> "Shutdown"  suddenly
disppeared.

my system is ibm thinkpad x60 with indows xp professional sp2, all driver and
bios are updated.
The standby and hibernation option in "START" -> "Shutdown"  suddenly
disppeared.

A friend's computer seems to have picked up a virus, which is affecting .exe
files. His anti-virus is disabled. Every time I try to use the command
prompt, it tells me that it doesn't recognize the .exe extension, regardless
of the command (regedit, sysedit, etc.) It also won't ...

I try to run scandisk through both the Run menu and through the Tool part of
the Properties (C Drive). I can only run chkdsk, not the whole chkdsk C:/f
(where it fixes the errors). After rebooting to do the chkdsk, the message
says "A checkdisk has been scheduled. The checkdisk ...

What is causing a PC's Virtual Memory to be automatically reset
without any manual intervention. The affected PC's were upgraded from 512MB
to 1GB and  we locally reset the VM from 640 to 1280. However, the vast
majority of PC's we now appear to have had their VM reset back to 640.

To cut a long story short, I tried to uninstall mcafee anti virus becuase i
had another version. On their website they say you should go to add/remove
programs, and remove it from there, which i did. Once it completely removed
it, I immediately get the error:

I am running Windows XP Professional.  When I use to press Ctrl+alt+delete
(CAD) the menu with Shutdown, Standby, Hibernate, and Restart use to pop up.  
Now when I press CAD I get the task manager.  How can I revert back to the
original way of doing things (with it showing ...

I am trying to find out what processes actually need to be running on Windows
XP.  I don't want to stop the processes and then cause more problems with my
computer.  
I do know that taskmgr.exe can not be removed.  

I turned on my computer and found a dialog bog titled "lsass.exe - System
Error". In the window it says, "When trying to update a passwork, this return
status indicates that the value provided at the current password is not
correct." After about 5 seconds of this box showing, the ...

OK, I've been crawling all over the net and can't find a solution to this:
I have a laptop on which I've scheduled a weekly defrag via task scheduler.  
I want it to run at 2am.
Task Scheduler is enabled, and all of my scheduled tasks are configured to

This problem makes me so frustrated. On my Windows XP (SP2) machine, in
Control Panel -> Region and Language Options -> Advanced, the "Code
page conversion tables" list and "Language for non-Unicode programs"
list are both completely EMPTY!

For some time (possibly ever since downloading SP-2) my Dell laptop has been
running with agonizing slowness.  Today a friend pointed out to me that Task
Mgr shows "System Idle Process" using up to 98% of CPU memory and he thinks
that might be my problem -- i.e. that 256MB was ...

I am completely stumped.  I am only getting two or three frames per
second on MSN Messenger video conversations--jerky audio--and warning
from Messenger that I have a slow connection.  I've checked everything
that comes to mind, namely: