We are currently using IE 6.0 as a video over IP viewing window on XP
Pro.  The CPU usage spikes at 100% and the image freezes (this happens
periodically).  We also incur numerous page faults.  We're told that
the maximum sockets allowed by XP is 65,000 with a refresh rate of 4

Recently I have noticed my computer is responding terribly slow to
commands....I am running a desktop with an Intel P4 2.8 with ht and  2 gigs
of PC4000 ...This system is used for gaming mostly as well as e-mail and
surfing the web...what used to take MAYBE 5 seconds to open can ...

Windows installer tries to install "InstantShareDevices" at reboot time and
the only way I can stop it is to end the task with Task Manager.
I'm not sure how I managed to get this but would to get rid of it!
Does anyone know where this came from and how to fix it?

   I was benchmarking my system when i noticed that hyper threading was
turned off. I have a intel cpu that supports it and was wondering if any one
could tell me how to enable it.

When I insert USB memory drive into my HP a850y it asks that I copy the file
to my hard rive for editing.  My IBM think pad does not do this, adn allows
editing right on the stick itself.
What an id doing?  This is realy a nuisance.

I'm just wondering what's causing deep HD metadata files fragmentation here
lately. I was pointing on some new software I had installed recently but they
aren't the culprit (uninstalled them for testing but fragmentation persists
from time to time). Is there any way to find out ...

I have Fast User Switching enabled and sometimes when I log off my user ID or
my wife needs to switch to her ID, I click on Start...Log Off Greg... and
then either Log Off or Switch.  It appears that my Log Off goes as it should,
but then the computer does nothing.  It remains on ...

When I tried to transfer my file, applications, etc to my new computer, the
only things that transferred was my outlook express settings and mu
documents.  I used the option to put the gransfer file on a hard drive, then
used that file on the new machine over my LAN.  There are ...

I'll try to be as concise as possible and this is an overclocking issue
that I haven't found a reasonable answer too. I am hoping the problem is a
general one that applies to many systems rather than a hardware/brand
specific one.

I heard to set max and min size custom to the reccomended mb size as
custom is best way to optimize the swap space for xp.
Anyone feel differently?

purchased laptop @ xmas for daughter with windows XP. couple off months ago
Norton anti virus ran out. since then system performance completely slow even
with other anti virus software on system done all checks  with spybot +
ad-adware everthing coming back clear! HELP !

When trying to copy files and folders to CDs I get a message telling me to
please insert cd in disk drive F. I already have a cd in disk drive F. That
seems to tell me that my computer does not 'see' the cd inserted. The blank
cds I am using are Sony CD-R 700 MB. They have the ...

I recently wanted to make a restore point, so I went to Control
panel/Performanceand Maintenance/System Info to adjust max . restore page
file and recived an error of 'System Restor Encountered An Error Trying To
Enable/Disable One Or More Drives. Restart Your Machine And Try ...

over time I've connected several external hard drives to my PC.
Sometimes things screwd up during hardware recognition and I ended up with
some corrupt keys under HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\USBSTOR
Here I list only the corrupt key names, that should display "Maxtor" instead

(XP Pro)When I tried to log in, I got an error message saying explorer failed
to start since the component "normaliz.dll" could not be located. System
Restore is not working, any  suggestions?