We look after the IT infrastructure for a Small Business that has offices at
various locations.  Travelling between the sites can be very time consuming,
but due to the staff turn over levels the number of profiles on the machines
often build causing performance issues.  What we ...

When I start my PC up, it says that it is trying to install something but I
don't know what.  It takes about 5 minutes and repeated pressing of the
cancel button to make it stop.
Any ideas how I can make this go away?

Despite defragging and removing any viruses, two problems persist.    
Firstly, I can't drag the Word icon onto the desktop, neither will it create
a Word shortcut on the desktop in the 'normal' way.  Secondly, Word is
desperately, and I mean desperately, slow to load.

I am using windows xp service pack 2 is installed.  The newest version of
Internet explorer 7 is installed.  Have all the latest updates.  Problem is
when I defrag my computer as it is running slow, it only defragments about
half to three quarters of it and comes up saying that ...

I have built myself a pc with:
via chipset p4m800
western digital wd3200jb-00kfao hard drive and
maxtor 6 l200mo hard drive

I am making a batch file for running certain services
like services.msc stop <this service> or  services.msc start <this
service>
Trying to run services.msc command from dos command prompt and

Using the Win32_ScheduledJob Class able to create a schduled job/task without
any problem but appear to have no control over its name...they always have a
prefix of "At"
The name property refered to is as shown in the "Scheduled Tasks" Window

I have an Intel Duo 2.66 GHz dual core processor, 512 MB DDR2 RAM and Intel
motherboard with 945G chipset.
Previously, I had a Pentium 4, 1.9 GHz processor, 512 MB DDR1 RAM and a slow
Mercury motherboard.

Hey All,
I would need to remove a network driver, but Device Manager does not allow
me and says something like "it might be needed for booting".
The uninstall would be necessary as while booting I receive a blue screen of

My wife's Toshiba Satellite failed to sucessfully install the Security
Update foe Windows XP (KB917422). I have tried several times to install this
but alway obtain this same message. Any suggestions?

I have Windows XP Version 2002
I am trying to install a printer and it is stating that files do not exist
or is the incorrect version, it says the file is part of windows and is
provided on the windows installation cd

If I do a system restore will it wipe out my downloaded music, videos ect...?
Can someone walk me through the system restore process, should I create a
restore point or use a specific date what is the difference?, my problem
started almost one year ago, I do not know the exact ...

after  installing IE7 and latest update  my laptop began having serious
performance issues. It even lags during text entry in word.
Cpu seems to be busy most of the time even when none of the apps are
running. The memory usage is 3 times more(350-390Mb), then on my desktop or

  My computer has turned very slow, just one day I turn it on and
everything began to slow down. I have already scanned for viruses,
uninstalled programs I don't use, run an antispyware program, updated Windows
XP pro, defragmentated the hd and looked for errors in it; but the ...

On Sunday, I restored my PC to an earlier date because my system has been
running quite bad.  After the restore, it restarted.  Then, it went to a
black screen and said a componet was missing which would not allow Windows to
start properly.  So, I reinstalled XP and repartitioned ...