i've done a fresh install of winxp home, after loading all motherboard
drivers, sound card, graphics etc and programs it takes over a minute to get
into a workable state.
i've removed all addtional startup items from msconfig but it makes no

I may have to completely reinstall my Win XP home SP2, Swedish. Since I have
a modem, updating with Win Update takes very long time, but my present
installation is completely updated.
Is there a way to download all the updates since 2004 when SP2 was released

   Using XP Pro, until recently i was using this facility,  i did a system
restore and now have lost this function.
I have tried to set this again , comp returns another file or folder is
using this, none details whatsoever.

I'd like to completely wipe everything out and start from scratch.  Delete
the two 2 gig partitions on my drive, make one more like 3 gigs and one of
them 1 gig so I don't have to try moving files back and forth to make things
work.

My startup is really slow.
My user profile appears to be c. 4 Gb - contains (Itunes) music files,
photo's, documents etc. You name it, its there.
Assume I can speed up my reducing the size of my profile, but what's the

I installed aditional memory so now I have 2 GB, but after that Xp became
unstable restarting sometimes, and IE also stops some times with errors. I
already checked memory with memtest and it shows no errors. I have also set
virtual memory to "managed by system" and reinstalled ...

what is the best firewall.  running mcafee at the moment but due to expire.
thanks
lee

hello, after dowloading Kaspersky Int.Sec. I noticed my pc is unable to keep
history records. Is it a setting problem? Help me out here please... thanx

Hoping this is in the correct area of the forum...
Ok basically just looking for the best route to switch users (About 300-400)
who are using printers on a current print server (Windows Server 2003 box),
we'll call print-serv1. So all the printers they use are currently on that

Since I removed my slave HDD it take 28 minutes to boot. There no error
messages and after boot it runs normally. So far took these actions:
1. set jumper to CS and master
2 reinstalled an additional drive trying both master-slave jumpers and CS:

My DVD/CD Writer worked perfectly for  more than three years.  Suddenly
without having made any changes to the system and in spite of the Device
Manager showing this Writer as working properly, it fails to to see full
and/or empty DVD Disks.  It does however play CDs.

hi all. i'm running on Win XP Media Center Edition ver 5.1, SP2. 2 days back
i did a norton antivirus update (norton antivirus 2007), the next moment i
know, the Generic Host error mesage pop out. below's the details:
szappname: svchost.exe

Ok so i'm having the age old problem of the Windows installer failing to
start because its either in safe mode or the installation has gone wrong.
Ive been reading through what members have posted on here and then I
attemtped to goto the "services" and right click and try to ...

When I click on My Music, My Documents, or My Pictures, it displays the
search window.  When I right-mouse click on these the Search option is bold
and first in the list of options.  I can open them correctly if I right-mouse
click and click Open.  It was working correctly ...

I just got a msg about "Virtual memory set too low & Windows was rasing the
page area".  When I was running ME I came accross a list of pgms that could
be removed from startup with the msconfig cmd.  Cannot find that list & am
running XP anyway.  I'll try to be brief:  I just new ...