Need advice . . .
I'm considering using the Disk Cleanup option to compress old files.  My
boot partition¹ is 4.5GB and I currently have 870MB free space.  Last evening
I received a system warning that I'd gotten down to 80MB of free space.  That

The Log Off/Log On process is really slow on R51,T60s Laptop. I've checked
the profile and it's only 15MB. I've checked the start up everything looks
normal. I've ran sigverif to check unsigned driver, I've got 3 drivers which
are used By IBM Thinkpad. Not to mention shutdown it ...

There is a system alert flashing in the notification area of my taskbar.
System has detected a number of spyware applications on my computer. It was
from a program called spydawn.  I got rid of the program but the icon keeps
flashing.

Hi Gerry,
I wanted to say that I had read one of your threads where you were helping
someone else with a similar problem with stop and error messages. And you had
mentioned about checking a website for scanning for bad drivers. Well, I took

While reading some of the MS tech pages on the Windows Registry, I hit upon a
page that discussed using the supplied Backup utility for saving "system
state" data.  I've had my WinXP/Home system installed for some time now, but
have never bothered to use this utility before.  To ...

My Windows XP is running acceptionally slow ever since I was infected by
viruses from MySpace.com.  I have since installed Zone Alarm and have
supposibly cleaned out all viruses.  I have run "Disk Clean", Defrag, and
cleaned out unused programs.

When I brought my computer, the Traditional Chinese MUI pack is already
installed on the system. I want to get rid of the MUI pack and install the
"Language Interface Pack" instead. When I try to install the Language
Interface Pack, it says "Your computer already have MUI pack ...

I'm using Windows XP SP1 at work on a corporate LAN.
I have a number of network drives and to speed up my startup, I run a batch
file at startup that subst's the network paths to drive letters so they only
connect when I use them (because Windows is too stupid to do this

I have XP running on a Pentium II with a 10 GB c: drive, and have a backup
40GB f: drive with plenty of space. The c: is also formatted as fat32 and the
f: is ntfs. I want to optimize performance by making the f: drive my boot
drive and running xp from there. Any suggestions ...

I have both McAfee (all protections) and Spy Sweeper (with Anti Virus, v.5.3)
loaded on my Dell computer. Start up is VERY SLOW. I have done de-frag,
general housekeeping (emptying unused files, programs, etc.) nothing seems to
help much. Any suggestions? Will I be safe if I ...

I use XP SP2. I have moved several of my settings folders to the C:\ root.
I do not recall moving "Recycler" to the C:\ root, but it is there.  Inside
the RECYCLER folder are three Recycle-bin-icon type folders, all named with
a series of numbers and letters.

I got this popup  that says i have been infected by a virus and it sends me
to a website to scan my computer for free. it gives me a security warning and
has put an extra toolbar called protective toolbar on ie7. i found in ad &
remove softwarea new program called system alert ...

i was wondering how to fix this error message.....on start up my cpu
interupts and says.....Update.exe-unable to locate component.....this
application has failed to start because System.dll was not found. reinstaling
this application may fix this problem.  through some reserch on ...

Hi Forum,
Just want to know what to do with a bad mouse. Its on my HP Notebook. (laptop)
The mouse has an attachment clinging to it, a tiny small rectangular box. It
shows up every so often. It fouls up my scrolling. Is it something to do with