I notice that "Disk Cleanup" lacks an option to clear out the folder
"<Sys Drive>:\Documents and Settings\<Current User>\Local Settings\Temp"
even though it can grow to many gigs in size.
Can the files in this folder be safely deleted manually?

Each and every time Defrag completes, the report results shows approximately
83,000 fragmented files.  I've searched many Windows XP databases, but have
been unable to find a way to simply delete these useless, fragmented files.  
Would someone be kind enough to tell me how I can ...

To solve some nagging registry/performance issues, I took a blunt instrument
approach and simply did a reinstall of XP.  Mostly everything turned out
fine.
Prior to the reinstall, I had three "Users", one of whom, me, was the

Computer: Asus P4 Terminator
RAM - 736 MB of RAM
Hard Drive - 250 GB
Processor - Intel Pentium 4 1.70 Ghz

I have an Lenovo / IBM Thinkpad X60s with a fingerprint sensor. It is
connected to a domain. When it is switched on at the office, where the
ethernet is plugged in, it comes on normally.
When it is switched on when it is not plugged in (e.g at home) when I log

I have a Problem on my Windows XP Pro SP2 System. When I try to read the
data on a network share I get a blue screen of death. I googled about the
problem. I found an article at the microsoft support center about this.
http://support.microsoft ...

This week I have suddenly had a new issue with one of our PC's. Syptoms are
spiking of the CPU at 95-100%. I have used McAffee VirusScan Enterpirse 8.0i
to scan for viruses and spy-bot to search for spyware. Both have reported
clean with the acception of cookies. These symptoms ...

I recently purchased a SeaGate 320gb hard drive and did a fresh install of XP
Home edition, downloaded all updates (including SP2). Unfortunately, Windows
only partitioned the first 128GB of the drive as the bootable sector, leaving
170gb unpartitioned.

I am experiencing some weird behaviour of the default My Documents shortcut.
I had to move My Documents from its default %userprofile% location to a
different partition following the standard procedure (right click on the My
Documents - Properties - Target tab - Move, etc.).  ...

Hello all – in something of a mess here and any help gratefully received!  
In tidying up, using a file shredder to do so, I think I have been far too
keen, and deleted a load of key operating files.  Problems that I have found
so far:

Computer crawl along at a slow speed
System freezing up or crashing for no reason and without warning
Error messages that don't make sense
Computer freeze

Can anybody tell me why i have a new user account appeared on my
computer. its on there as "the one" , it also had a password but i was
able to delete the account. could i have been hacked?

For some reason, my XP Pro install stopped sending error reports when it
BSOD's.  I still have "Enable error reporting" enabled along with both check
boxes underneath it and the "dot" for all programs in the choose programs
section. Under Startup and recovery, all boxes are ...

I found the program running so I ran a virus scan to see if it was, I deleted
it and on next start up and every start up after it said Windows cannot find
file then It says to search for it and found nothing. Found a few answers but
non were very clear on how to do it. Why does ...

When I am surfing the net, after a while a message appears telling me I am
low on Virtual Memory. Everything almost grinds to a halt. Is there something
I can do to sort this ? It seems to be getting worse.  I clean unwanted files
regulary etc etc, but still get the same trouble.