My comp, dials on it's own without any prompting! It happens several minutes
to more than an hour after startup. There is no rhyme or reason to it.
I have tried everything I can to stop it, but no luck yet, HELP!!!

Hi, I am trying to restore my computer back to it's factor condition.  
However, my System Restore was turned off and I can't go back any ealier than
today.  What should I do?  Thanks for your help.

- In time I have ghosted/mirrored my hard disk from the orignal 120gb to 300Gb.
- I initially install Windows XP Pro (with no service packs)
- I have continually updated my windows and it is "current" with all patches
and service packs on board (including Service Pack 2).

I have a 40 gig drive that is now full.
I going to upgrade it to 80 gigs or more.
The Question:
I am looking for experience.

*Fail to start System Restore wizard*
During System Restore, my computer failed to shut down, hence forcing me to
press the power off button to turn off the computer. After turning on the
computer, an error message appeared saying System Restore failed and asked me

I'm using WixXP-pro, with all the updates.  Would appreciate help with "MS
Backup" from a MVP or someone very familiar with it.  My question is about
the RESTORE function settings.  There are some options I'd like to know how
to best set... they appear when you click as follows.. ...

last evening, one of my windows profiles (yes, just one) started getting an
explorer.exe error when it attempted to boot into windows.  upon doing so, it
shows just the desktop wallpaper, with no start bar or icons at all.
As far as I can tell, the system is still technically ...

I cannot find HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\kWindows\CurfrentVersion\Uninstall
when I run regedit.  I am trying to remove OE7beta3 from
from Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs while I seem to actually running OE6
Can you be very specific about how I do this?  I am a senior citizen

.I have changed from ME to an EP computer which now stops responding or
rebooting for an unknown reason. ME had an error reporting system in 'system
information' which gave details of which prog. had caused the problem. Is
there a similar system in XP pro? so that i can a least ...

   I am just wondering if any one can tell me what anti-spyware software
their using.  I know I have seen it before but I can no longer find it on
here.
   Thanks for your help

Can anyone help? Recently whenever I open a page on Internet Explorer and
then follow a link in the page, the entire page disappears. For example if I
go to Google. and search. the entire page shuts down as soon as I press
enter. I have Windows 2000. Can anyone point me in the ...

When I go to my computer and left click on the drive it brings up the search
result page instead of opening the drive to see the contents. If you right
click on the drive and click on open, then it opens it the way it should. It
seems to have lost the open association when left ...

When I start my computer I continually reboot.  I can see memory test
complete ok then runs through the drives.  I try to go to safe mode but
the computer reboots.
I've taken out all the pci cards with no sucess.

How do you unselect a program to open a specific file?  ie I have right
clicked on a file, selected properties and then clicked on change.  Well now
I need to de-select the program that I selected.  How can I do that?

My computer wont let me use my USB ports! Whenever I plug something in, it
says that it has malfuctioned and that Windows doesn't recognize it. When I
go into the status box for the port, it says that no drivers were installed.
I don't know what happened or how to fix it, but ...