When I try to check my windows firewall, I get the following message: Due to
an unidentified problem windows cannot display firewall settings.  I didn't
worry about it before because I had a Norton package installed.  I recently
removed Norton and downloaded Avast.  Do I have a ...

I am not exactly sure this is an XP issue:
When I save an attachment to a folder containing a file created in the same
application, the name of the file automatically will default to the
previously existing file located in the folder.

when ever i start my computer i get a pop up message saying [WINDOWS NO DISK]
with a choice to  continue/cancel/retry. anybody out there got any idea's?  
thanks

I have a clean install of WinXP Pro on a Core 2 Duo E6600 with 4Gb of RAM.  
The machine has an Asus EN7600 GS Silent video card with 512Mb.  The system
is capable of HD sound.
About 70% of the time I log in the sound is garbled.  This causes system

I have a problem where my windows xp computer keeps turning itself off whilst
running large programs such as games, editing software and sometimes the
Internet.
I dont have a clue what to do. Any chance of some help.

Have been trying to install Windows XP on a Silicon Image 3112 SATA RAID 0
HDD array consisting of two Western Digital 36GB, 10,000 RPM HDD's. After I
press F6 and Install the appropriate RAID driver Windows XP SP1 Setup
recognizes and formats the the single partition C:\, and ...

I am attempting to reformat my computer. I keep getting this PAGE_FAULT error
everytime i attempt to format my hard drive. I was able to format the drive
yesterday but after completing that i would get the same error while trying
to reinstall XP. Now i am left with a wiped hard ...

Hi, all.  I've got XP and when I installed my new virus software it turned on
my Windows update.  I had intentionally turned it off becuase my boot drive
is small and I didn't have the room for SP2.  Well, it went and loaded SP2 on
the drive and now I've got less than 100M on the ...

Followig restoration of back-up files my machine has generated two
'.COMPUTER' folders (with the dot and in BLOCK letters but wihtout the
apostrophes e.g. Suzanne.COMPUTER). These are located in the 'Documents and
Settings' folder on the main hard drive. They appear to be copies ...

I have no sound at all on my computer. I am running Windows XP Media Center.
I have tried myself to fix the problem, but nothing is working. I looked
under Device Manager, and there are exclamation marks beside PCI Device, SM
Bus Controller, and Video Controller (VDA compatible). ...

MY MOUSE FREEZES ON START UP. I'V TRIED EVERYTHING ANYBODY HAVE ANY IDEAS.
THANKS MUCH APPRECIATED! MILO-MANIA

My computer worked OK for 3 years, but 6 weeks ago it started freezing about
10 or 15 minutes after starting very heavy processing.  The 3 processor hogs
that make it freeze are: 1) An interactive development environment for a
legacy programming language, 2) running computer ...

I recently installed a new monitor (Viewsonic 19" widescreen) I installed the
driver and software that came with the monitor. On restart I am stuck with
having to start in safe mode. The error message window (in blue) goes too
quick for me to read the issue.  I did a System ...

After 3yrs 4.9 Gb Fat32 partition D of my 200 Gb HD is badly fragmented
but there is not sufficient contiguous free space to allow defrag of
some larger files. There is plenty of space on partition C.
Could I temporarily move partion D's contents to NTFS C, defrag then

I tried to update my Daylight Savings Time on my desktop and received
and error message...
KB931836 System Error
Update can not be installed as a newer or same time zone update has