My computer takes a long time to start up and shut down. I know that there
are many things running in the back round that are not needed. When I used
windows 98 I would go to start, run, type in "msconfig" and then I had a list
of what was needed to run windows. I would turn off ...

My PC has a 3.06 GHz P4 with 1 GB of RAM running Win XP Pro 2002 SP2 on my
main 200 GB hard drive.
For a long time (until last week), I had so many video files on my main hard
drive that the free space averaged only about 7 GB, and sometimes my

I am using a 160 GB Maxtor "One Touch" external USB drive for backing up my
system.  I run Synchback SE every night by the task scheduler.  Synchback
shuts down the system by executing the "shutdown /s" command after completing
the backup program.

When I try to run or analyze the disk defragmenter on my C drive, I get  the
message that it can not continue because of corruption in the file
c:\windows\system32\xxx. (xxx is various different files) Everything else
runs fine, and there is no virus or spyware present that I ...

When I try to run system restore, the wizard runs and restarts the computer
and then I get a message telling me my computer hasn't been restored.

When ever i startup my computer, it takes for ever and a day to do so. I have
a brand new sony viao with 0.99GB of ram and 65% space of memory. i am unable
to run multiple programs at one because they skip. My task manager saysthat i
have about 52 processes running at all times ...

The above file is consuming all of my CPU.  I cannot tell what it is.
MaAfee says it is not a virus, howeve when I delete it reappears.  I
have no virus on my pc, so I am not sure what program is creating the
exe...

I have Windows XP Pro + SP 2 Installed on my LG Notbook and have Internet
Connectivity by Broadband using LAN on notbook. THis Internet Connetion is
always ON.
Whenever I close the notbook (not shut down, just closing of notbook i.e.

I have Sony PCV-RX550(UC) computer and I'm having trouble with the cd-rw
drive.  I have trouble with it dissapearing.  My CPU usuage surges up and
down and computer is jerky and after this runs sometime the drive disapears
after I reboot.

I've been through this before, but forgotten the procedure.  How do I
re-enable S.M.A.R.T. on my H.D.s?   On one of my systems (Asus MoBo) I can do
it directly through BIOS at boot, but on my other system (Gigabyte--a
miserable board with even worse tech support)  this is not an ...

I am having difficulty resolving an error that is reported in the system
event log.  Source: Service Control Manager
Event ID: 7000
The Lexmark X73 MFP Scanner service failed to start due to the following

I've just got a new computer and tried the open My CD Writer but I got a
message saying all of the drives were disabled and I needed to disable at
least one of them.
I went into Removable Storage Service which was showing as disabled.  I

I have Windows XP Home Edition.  I finally decided to be good and back up My
Documents.  Went to All Programs, Accessories and clicked on System Tools.  
There is no listing for Back Up.  What gives?  What can I do to back up my
files besides copying them to a CD?

Windows XP installer runs automatically to install Photo Gallery which I
don't wish
to install every time I start or restart.I've had this problem for 3 days
now.What can I do to stop this?

\System Volume Information \_restore{F3C90... Defragmenter cannot defragment
completely. View report states twice that \System Volume Information
\_restore{F3C90...  has 3 and 16 fragmented files. Is there a way to fix this
problem?