My XP home edition seems to be corrupted and will not boot up. Trying to
recover from disc gets following message from Windows setup : " setup did not
find any hard disk drives installed"
Any help?

I noticed on my computer that the archive folder stored in My Documents is
very large (16GB). Are these files critical to the system or can they be
deleted?
Thanks in advance for any help

Every once in a while  my system will not get past the first boot screen.
It's rare enough that I usually forget the "solution" between events.
The solution is to unplug USB devices and reboot the system.
I can then plug the devices back in and things usually go back to normal for

I have noticed lately that my pc is becoming dreadfully slow.  For that
reason, I installed Process Explorer from www.sysinternals.com.  I have
nothing allowed to run in the background at startup other than my antivirus
and other security app's, yet when I would open my task ...

hi, I have given my laptop to my partner, but it needs to be returned to
factory settings as it is so slow and has so much on it he doesn't need, I
have tried system restore, but obviously will only let me go back a couple of
months.  Sorry I am not a wiz with these things

Using Win XP Home, 2.6 ghz, 2 gb ram.  I just bought a 500 gb WD Ebook
external hd, and am trying to copy all "my documents" from an older drive to
the 500 bg drive as a backup.  But there is one video file that will not
copy... it's just over 5 bg.  A box poped up and says there ...

i have 512MB of ram. My paging file is set at 756MB can i increase my paging
file to 4095MB safely??

Today I received ~30 mail returns from people I have never heard of
(mainly in Italy). I ran SpybotSD and found numerous intrusions, removed
them, ran Ad aware and found one which I removed.Subsequently when I
boot from cold the Intel splash screen remains for some 2 mins before

Sometimes when I click shut down my computer ignores me.  How can I get it's
attention and tell it to shut down.  Note: ctl-alt-del/shut down gives same
result.
Win XP SP2, AMD64 proc @ 2ghz, AVG antivir, Ad-Watch active monitoring.

I partitioned an external hard drive with Partition Magix 7 but failed to
make a note of the old drive letters, Drive Mapper found no changes.  When I
requested up-dates from Norton on Magix I got the following response: Windows
Installer is not correctly installed.

I've just reinstalled XP Home.  I then installed Acronis True Image Home
v10.  I see in my startup list three Acronis entries:
       Acronis Scheduler
       Accronis TimeounterMonitor

windows appears
then a pop up can't load "windows\system32\jernone.dll"
also, ms word 2003 the cursor moves around while typing.
thanks.

I have some annoying, really annoying crapware named
"drivecleaner"........there are several -so called freeware methods to remove
it.......but i havnt gotten any of them to work........seems like the sure
thing is hijack this....start in safe mode and two or three more steps of

I have a computer that has WinXP Pro (up-to-date) on it.  I'm going to give
it to a relative but I first have to uninstall all of the software licensed
to my company.  After I un-install these applications, is there a reliable
tool for cleaning out obsolete entries in the ...

Running Windows XP Pro. When I turn the computer on and click on a program
including Internet Explorer, it sometimes takes as long as 45 seconds before
it responds. Have defragged, cleaned disk and scanned for viruses, no
change.Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. Natlo.