Hello anyone who knows,
Is there a way to configure XP so that the desktop only appears on boot up
once all startup services and programs have loaded and are running?
This is something I've wondered for some time, because on both my and my

I have Norton System Works with System Doctor monitoring the fragmentation of
my hard drive.  For months now, I get a warning every two or three days that
the drive is too fragmented.  I run the Windows Defrag and then System Doctor
says it is back to 100%, but two days later I ...

I want to backup my computer with all its installed programs and settings in
order to be able to recover from a  crashed disc some time in the future.  
According to the documentation the Automated System Recovery is the primary
tool for this task:  It wil copy only the files ...

Specific problems with Windows XP?, especially in references to the OS
and its software?? Feel free to email me at windowsguide@hotmail.com.
If you think this is an attempt to harvest e-mail adresses, then you're
probably too damn paranoid for your own good.

I've been having a problem with my computer freezing for the past couple of
months and I was hoping you could help.
At first it always seemed to happen when I was running Azureus, this led me
to presume that the problem lay here and I tried to find out what the problem

Good morning,
can someone please suggest me a benchmarking tool ?
My windows xp sp2 has become relatively slow and I don't know why. Maybe the
reason is not even windows xp itself ! Maybe I should remove installed

I also hv a problem with "dear" dr. watson. Sometimes when i want to
delete ONLY media files ,avi. in particular, dr. watson appears as an
error and ALL my PC is freezing. It doesnt happen for any other files
and to those happening arent corrupt files.

Someone PLEASE HELP!!!  For some reason I am unable to click-and-drag my
icons to where I want them.  I can right-click, cut, and paste SOME of them
but this is very tedious and not all of them will move.  I have already
unchecked the "auto arrange" from the drop menu when you ...

This is a really weird problem.  I keep rebuilding a computer for one
of our employees and after a month of using the computer, suddenly
accessing files and folders in My Documents and on some network drives
and in some other areas on C moves at a crawl (up to several minutes to

Joe can you tell me in email attachments can you send a music video as an
attachment?
Thanks alot.

I have a Dell Inspiron 8600 1-1/2 yrs. old, 1.6 GHz, 1024Mb RAM w/60G HD
(NTFS).  I've recently installed a Seagate 300G external HD (Fat32) w/USB & a
500G Western Digital (NTFS) also USB.  I use the Seagate for backup only &
the WD for files, photos, music, etc.  The Seagate has ...

I have WinXP SP2 and Office 2003 installed. The problem i'm facing is that
when i close Excel, the process EXCEL.EXE continues on task manager and using
99% of CPU. The Memory Usage decreases very slowly and while the process is
still active the computer becomes very slow. ...

Quick question... I am getting very frequent BSOD errors for which a
minidump is sent to MS. However, all that pops-up is that I had a
"driver conflict".
I would like to try to determine which driver is at fault and correct

The problem Ihave is that windows seems to every minuet or so to hang, or
freeze for a second or so then will work fine. This includes the mouse and
keyboard to stop responding, audio and video to cut out etc..
I have checked in the task manager with the system at a standstill. ...

I had my HD not passing SCNDSK on the XP's DOS like Screen. stops at 50%. Can
not re-install XP since says DISk Damaged. Aftr Severl tries, Manged to fix
and now can see C: contents (but obviosly damaged file and Directory pointing
to lost file). Can not start SAFE mode because ...