A while ago I discovered some bad sectors on my HDD. My (limited)
understanding of these things is that the disk may not fail for years, or it
may fail tomorrow - there's no way of knowing. To deal with this possibility,
I do a weekly backup of the data on my disk as follows. ...

we have windows xp and it is slow keeps freezing up , pausing we did have
dial up swithched to DSL and it is still very slow... not much of a change at
ann i do disk cleanup etc defrag all that want to clean it but don't know for
sure without crashing it totally thankyou so much for ...

Recently I have been getting wierd ie 7 errors,not errors per say ,system
restarts during ie7  operation and surfing . Error log shows many strange
things,memory causing hardware error,driver error causing problem,i even
tried removing mcafee and all ie 7 add ons,even google yes ...

So I've been trying to restore my HP notebook (Model NO:ze4230)  to factory
condition. The HP QuickRestore System Recovery CDs DO NOT WORK! I've tried
to, insert them with the computer off... turn on the computer and either push
ESC or F11 immediately/when the HP screen appears . ...

Well, not completely, but it isn't working correctly either.
I am running XP SP 2.  I have an old academic license of Visual C++ 6.0 pro
that I decided I was going to reinstall a couple of weeks ago.  I proceeded
to do so and I got a few strange error messages in the process.  ...

I keep getting a yellow triangle in my task bar saying my Windows Virtual
Memory is too low.
I have gone into System / Advanced / and it is set @ 1534 which was
recommended.

A while ago I placed the Disk Cleanup from the All Programs menu on my
Desktop to remind me to run the program ever so often but, I think, the
Desktop Wizard got rid of the Disk Cleanup icon and now I don't have an icon
nor is Disk Cleanup in the All Programs menu; probably ...

I'm trying to clean up my hard drive...beyond what Microsoft's Disk Cleanup
will do.  I notice scores of folders in my Windows Temp folder with names
"mcu1A.temp", or mcu1B, mcu1C, etc.  May I just delete these folders?  They
contain files named *.mcaf.

Hi all - I've been having issues with svchost running at high cpu's - haven't
been running windows update or anything, but i checked in process explorer --
and it's the thread - ntdll.dll!RtlAllocateHeap+0x18c.  Anyone else having
this problem or know a solution?

When I turn on my computer and it is running through boot process just before
it starts to load the programs in the system tray, the computer beeps 3 to 4
times.  Now this is more anoying then anything but I heard this could meen
that there is a virus or something in my system ...

A couple of days ago, the system deleted all of its restore points more than
30 days old, like it should.  Then, on the next automatic checkpoint
creation, it deleted all of the restore points.  When it created a new
checkpoint today, it deleted the previous point.  I have ...

My laptop works fine when plugged into an outlet.  When it runs on battery,
the machine immediately shifts to safe mode?  Any idea why?

when i try to run disk defrag a message comes up; disk defrag has detected
that chkdsk is scheduled to run on the volume 412261 (c)
please run chkdsk/f.
how do i solves this problem thnx

I am extremely frustrated!!  I was forced to do a system reinstall after
getting the infamous "blue screen".  In addition to losing everything, I
don't have any audio on my system.  I have gone into the sounds section of
the control panel and it says "no audio found".  I have ...

3 times over the past 3 days, Windows has rebooted itself w/o prompting.  
Each time I was doing something different.  After rebooting, I get an error
message that says Windows has recovered from a serious error and a log has
been created.  The last log read as follows: