I'm trying to wipe out the contents of my father-in-law's Thinkpad
reinstall Windows XP (home) and start over.
When I place the XP disk in the CD drive and boot, I get a messag
after a few moments: "you must remove the HP personal media drive...

can any1 help plz. keep getting disconnected from msn and aol. was wondering
if a have 2 clear pc and start again but dont know how 2 do it. aol cant seem
2 help with this problem its driving me mad lol. tried everything they have
said but stil happening

I've recovered my pc from a virus/trojan, mostly, but have a new problem with
services.exe slowly building in memory usage.
Things were fine until the virus/trojan hit.
Ran AdAware, SpyBot, HijackThis and a generic antivirus from the web; in

Recently my CD & Floppy drives stop working for me.  I was told that it was
because I was running 100% CPU Usage.  I've read thru all the questions
posted regarding this same problem & I've encountered more problems trying to
do what's suggested.  1. All the processes listed ...

I recently installed a new adsl modem and since that time I've been getting
error messages on start up, The error log shows an event ID 7000 and the
following mesage.
The general purpose USB Driver adldr.sys sevice failed due to the following

Everytime I click on a desktop icon the computer will log off for a few
seconds and then come back on. I can't click on any of the important icons
without doing this. I can't clcik on My Computer, My Documents, My Network
and things like that.

Whenever I try to shut down my system freezes at the log off screen where it
says system is shutting down. It just never can shut down past that screen.
any help would be appreciated.I am also getting an error that says my display
driver is not working properly.

I wish to run a musical performance from my PC and I'm hoping you can
help me get my computer running faster. For the performance, I will be
outputting audio and opengl graphics from a C++ program. This program
also receives UDP packets accross the network. I've noticed that most

is missing and i need the windows disk but i don't have it it came installed

Hi all, can someone please help, when i start up windows my antivirus kicks
in before my network connects, so i have to update  myself every time, im
using AVG antivirus, could this be the problem.
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I'm not sure where to get this information, but I thought I'd give it a try
here.
I am currently using a Logitech Optical Cordless mouse that I'm quite
satisfied with except for the fact that when you use the scroll button up or

Wean I start my computer this Error on blue screen
Seas:
Stop: c000021a [fatal system error]
The sessio manager initialization system process terminated

I want to schedule the defragmentation tool to run but can't set it up. Does
anyone know how to do this?

Quite a while back I tried to copy Windows to disk but of course it was
too large to write to a CD (and a dumb idea to start with).  That
folder has been in my CD Burning directory ever since.  I need to know
how to get these "temporary files" out of my CD burner so I can use it.