do I have to do anything prior to defraging my computer, like scan disk or
cleanup? My husband blew up the mother board on our old comp by doing
something with the defrag and now I am scared to do it, please help!

Can any one recommend a good Technology news group or maybe one that is
maybe more peformance orinted.

Every now and then when I turn the computer on and windows has loaded up, I
can still hear the hard drive.  Sometimes it's my AVG anti virus checking my
files for bugs. I found that out by starting task manager and ending a few
processes until I found the culprit. But it's ...

In a new Western Digital harddrive -fresh install of Xp-home-patched to date on Aug11
and an internal card reader installed on Aug 15 by repair technician service. He did
a double check on the new hard drive( partitioned c and d) and the older second hard
drive with his utilities ...

i cant seem to figure out why my computer went into safe mode or how to get
it back to normal.
please help.
thanks!

When I try to search something in the registry, the computer crashes all
the time. I use Regedt32 and Registry Workshop, and the crashing happens
with both. I get a "PAGE FAULT IN NON_PAGED AREA". I think my registry is
corrupt, and was wondering if there is a utility which can ...

Hi Guys (and other Gals),
I went to compress OLD files only on my (Media Center Edition 2005) PC and
when it was done it told me that some operating system files were replaced
with older versions, did I really want to do this? It asked me to insert the

I have an emachines desktop computer which was working fine till i turned it
on the 1 day and it came up with File is missing or corrupt:
C:\Winnt\System32\Drivers\Pci.sys and says that the problem can be fixed with
the orginal CD but as it was preinstalled when i got bought the ...

I'm having a tough time trying to do the following:
(1) Start my computer from scratch and format C drive completely
(2) Reinstall Windows XP.
I have an LG LW65 computer that came with an OEM Recovery Disk.   I use that

I was just wonder if my pf usage was high. Normally, when im not using any
programs, the pf usage is around 300. To me, this seems a bit high, however,
i do not have great knowledge with pcs and this may be normal. If it is too
high, please tell me how i could fix it and make it ...

Hey all,
As the subject says, it's random, but anywhere from 5 to 45 seconds after I
connect, it disconnects. I have two pc's and the other one is fine, so it's
not the provider. I've compared one to the other and all the settings seems

Hi can anyone help me, I have an external haed drive to store large files
video etc unfortunately some of the audio projects i have saved have files
missing or in the wrong place could it be because the file system is fat and
if so how do i change it to ntfs any help would be ...

I went to boot up my laptop today, but got a message that said
"The following file is either missing or corrupt:
<Windows root>\system32\ntoskrnl.exe
Please reinstall a copy of this file"

The last post in this forum on this topic was in 2004, and pertained mainly
to SP1. Now that we all have SP2 firmly in place, I would like to know if the
uninstall files for SP2 can also be deleted or not. I did some research on
this, and the general consensus seems to be that ...

When I go to shutdown or restart my computer, I get a window message that
says: "End Program - DDE Server Window". It will stay on the screen until I
Cancel or End Program. Then my computer will shut down or restart. [It does
not happen all the time; but I can't find a pattern ...