can someone walk me through the system restore process,,,my understanding is
that I either should choose a specific date or create a restore point,,,which
one should I choose?? I have to go back almost a year. I don't understand
creating a restore point, I have only done dates ...

I have to do a system restore , if I system restore to a time when I had a
virus will the virus come back???

My computer is getting slower and slower - it takes about 10 minutes to open
Internet explorer after switchng on.  The hard drive sounds as if it is
ticking away non-stop.  It's got gradually worse and worse over the last six
weeks.  My computer is a Philips 76.33 GB pentium 4 ...

It doesn't seem to matter: Outlook, IE, Mozilla, task manager; They have
begun to freeze up more and more each day.  i wind up booting up two or three
times a day.
i have 160gig hd (30% used) with 1 gig ram, run XP home. I run two spam

Windows update keeps detecting that I do not have security update KB922616.
However, whenever I download and install the update, it fails. No information
is given about why it failed or what I need to do to resolve the problem. I
have searched the MS web site and can't find any ...

A few years ago I lost some important files and was able to reset the time to
before I lost the files.
Today, on a diff computer I was adding and removing programs and now realize
some things are gone from my desktop. I can't remember how to restore my

Dell Latitude D400 with XP SP2.  No Adware, spyware or any other malicious
software running.  When booting normally, the Preparing Network connections
screen stays up for over a minute, before moving on to Applying computer
settings.  I have plugged it directly into the same ...

When I click on "Start", "Turn Off Computer", then "Restart" or "Turn Off",
all I get is a quick screen flash. Nothing happens. The compute goes back to
normal operation with no hangs or errors.
When I perform the shutdown routine a second time, everything works fine. No

when i boot up, i get a black screen with the following message:
"SATA Primary drive 0 not found
SATA Secondary drive 0 not found
Primary drive 1 not found

When I turn on my computer, XP loads, but then - instead of seeing the
Windows XP logo on the left and the names to log onto on the right, I
just see the logo on the left. I attempted to run Windows XP in Safe
Mode with command Prompt. After a long wait, it finally comes out.

I'm running XP SP2. When I do a Find in Regedit in HKLM/System, I inevitably
crash w/a BSOD.  I have unchecked "Automatically Restart" in Startup and
Recovery, but nevertheless, the machine restarts automatically.  When it
boots back up, and after I log in, I get "The system has ...

I have a four year old computer with Windows XP Home.  Generally, this
computer has done me very well, and still runs pretty good for it's age.  
However, over the years, I have had to reformat it several times due to
various malfunctions.

We run an application that writes a large number of small (~20KB) files to
large volumes (~1 TB). We have started to see the $MFT corrupted on a regular
basis on many machines with various disk controllers (SCSI/SATA/IDE.)
In each of these situations we run chkdsk /x on the drive ...

WinXP Home Edition SP2
In a backwards kind of logic, Disk Cleanup deletes categories of files which
are not checked, instead of those which are checked. As a result, I
unintentionally deleted WIndows Components which are not used often, but

I am imaging with UIU 3.0 but it does not find SMBios.sys. Although it
is there under system32? Anyone expierenced with Ghosting that can help
me? I am a computer newbie.....