The problem: The system slows down a few times over say a few hours of
use, where it takes WAYYY longer to do anything even as simple as
switching between windows already on the screen, or accessing another
web page, or looking at files in My Computer, or closing down something

For any MVPs that will help,
   Below is the Latest stop code. It came upon a reboot
after startup from cold off state.
STOP: 0x0000000A

Hi - I've been trying to backup/image my computer, the C: Drive, and keep
getting errors.  I have an external Hard Drive (drive F:) which is bigger
than my C: drive, so should not be any problem there - both NTFS.  I've
tried a couple of versions of Ghost and it always aborts ...

I have 39 programs running when I have nothing running on my desktop.  Thats
seems like a lot.  Where can I go to get help and knowing what programs to
shut down etc.

http://badvista.fsf.org/
“Vista is an upsell masquerading as an upgrade. It is an overall
regression when you look at the most important aspect of owning and
using a computer: your control over what it does. Obviously MS Windows

I use a program called FreeRam XP Pro and when I start up my computer the
virtual memory is showing about 93%, after about 10 hours the virtual memory
is showing 0%. My computer then freezes up and the only thing I can do is
reboot. After the reboot everything is fine until the ...

I am looking for someone who knows how to run a IBook system

Although the E drive on my laptop plays dvd's perfectly it no longer plays
audio cd's, despite being cleaned all I get is 'no disk in drive'. As its
only just over 28 days old it would have to go back to the manufacturer
(Acer) for repair. Anyway I can get it going again?

I need a tool to monitor my system health, such as the status of my
hard drive, among other hardware components. What do you recommend?

My son who is stationed in Japan with the Air Force
recently sent me a file with the .xfd extension.  I have
tried everything I can to view the file but still unable
to do so. Can someone tell me how I can view it, it would

I believe I corrupted my windows\system32\config\system file when attempting
to install IPOD from the Apple site. Windows will not restart, as it says the
aforementioned file is missing or corrupt. It says to go to the original
setup disk and type "r".  I have done this. It asks ...

i installed a ethernet card and removed the fan for cleaning in my dell ,now
windows will not load until f1 key is pushed , i have cleared all message log
several times, i can not clear the error

When I turn my computer on I have about 700MB of free memory but during the
day this disappears to virtually nothing. If I reboot everything is fine
again. I am getting an error message coming up saying 'Your system is low on
virtual memory, Windows is increasing the size of your ...

I'm running an XP SP2 machine that has experienced an incredible
decrease in performance over the past couple months and I'm trying to
determine why. At first I thought the hard drive might be at fault
since I was seening It would appear to me that the machine is

my computer won't shut down, nothing happens when i try to make it turn off.  
i tried turning it off through task manager and it still won't work.  ALSO i
can't open :  (from the start menu) help and support, system tools-system
information , and i don't think i can LOG off now ...