My system suddenly hangs while going through my outlook folders. Same has
happened while running different applications. Each time I troubleshoot using
task manager, I find out explorer.exe hugs 100% of the CPU even without any
applications running or windows open. My service ...

We have been having problems with slow login times on some of our XP clients
desktops and laptops. To investigate this problem we have enabled user environment
logging. Although we have founds a few issues and resolved we have the enteries
listed below that we can't find out what ...

It's running very very slowly. This all happened over night. One day it was
working fine, the next it was being difficult. Windows take a long time to
pop up, when going into my computer a little torch comes up searching for
files which it never did before, the internet windows ...

We have a number of PCs that we bought from a company with XP Pro.
Since then the company has gone out of business and while updating one
of the computers was told that the volume license used was not accepted
and we had to pay Microsoft to get a valid license.

I am trying to speed up my mother-in-laws computer it is running extremely
slow.  Her system has plenty of memory and usually since she doesn’t use it
for much (correspondence, pictures internet) normally it’s faster than mine.
Her Windows system is Window XP

This would seem like it should be so simple to do, but I have yet to figure
out how to do it.
I just purchased a Thinkpad R51 laptop that was a student laptop configured
for university use. It's has a 40 GB hard drive, which was partitioned into

After non-use for two months, I attempted to open web-sites.
However, 'Action Cancelled' on the top of the screen and not
able to access any web-sites, at all.
Simply, all of web-sites including 'work-off' line refused to

When I turn on the computer, it won't boot up (the screen remains blaci) and
I have to click on the reset button and then it boots up.  How do I correct
this problem?

Hi all is there such a programme that will configure the system so that
optimum speed and performance is achieved? Thankyou in advance of your
response.

I'm quite the novice, but here's what's happening...
When I start my computer, it goes through its little black screen with the
scrolling lights, then when the windows screen would usually load, I am now
getting a blue screen with a darker blue band at the top and bottom and the

Can I get the Hotfix for support article # 828402 anywhere other than paying
$99 to email Microsoft?
I am getting the 8017 error code during daily NTBackup procedure.
Running XP Pro SP2.

I have a PC with Windows XP Pro and a ton of legally purchased software (such
as MS Office). I am in the process of upgrading my PC with a new motherboard
and video cards, and I would like to reformat the hard drive and reinstall
Windows XP Pro., and then reinstall the software ...

every time i start up my pc (HP 235 ) THE DATE AND TIME SETTINGS REVERT TO
DECEMBER 2001, EVEN AFTER RESETTING ON THE CONTROL PANEL, ANYONE ANY IDEAS OO
PROBLEM AND A REMEDY FOR IT /

I am running Windows XP with SP2. When I booy up I get a blue screen with
this message: Hardware monitor found error.
Press F1 to countinue, press f2 to enter setup.
This started after I installed Norton 2007.

I don't know why windows makers have made my music and my pictures folder.
is it worth to save pictures and music in these folders, does saving files
in the same directory
of operating system makes system slower.