here at the office we have several computers, all running xp that were
all named oddly - in an attempt to standardize the network, i've gone
and renamed them all to a standard format we came up with here.  they
all have worked except for one - it shows the computer on the network

I got called out to a friends who claimed that Word had disappeared from his
machine.
When I got there I checked the whole hard drive and discovered that the
whole of Microsoft Office had disappeared.

Hi. The the CD/DVD drive on my son's laptop stopped recognizing CDs,
(just makes noise) but  DVDS run fine from the drive.
So, for other reasons we want to reinstall WindowsXP, but as you know it
is on a CD. Can somebody tell me how to accomplish, making a

At START menu and right click  "properties"
Went to start menu, cutomise, advanced
scroll down
But still can't see the RUN command

how do I deleat them?

I am trying to update Windows XP to SP2 on a dell computer that is about 2
years old. I have uninstalled all the excess spyware and antivirus software
that was not needed. I also disabled McAfee via the msconfig. The
installation stalls about 1/3 of the way through and gives the ...

I've read various reports and solutions to the (apparently) notorious
Windows Defender Error Message 0x800106ba, but I have a slightly
different question - is it really needed??
To get rid of the annoying message I ended up removing Windows Defender

I note that there is a line enry list of every program that I have
accessed and used in Start. With time this list grows to enormous
proportions. Is there a way to prevent these programs from appearing
in Start?

Have been wondering about some folders lurking automatically within my main
hard drive. To be exact, they all fall under the main Windows folder and
have numbers from various Windows updates, such as "$NtUninstallKB885836$."
Started out with not so many, but of course as the ...

I recently had to do a lot of work to reinstate my system
because my backup method was not configured to completely
restore to a new disc after the old had to be replaced. The
backup method has been rather good at restoring a few

I use WinXP Pro SP 2 with all updates & hotfixes
.
Using ToniArts EasyCleaner, the Startup Inspector shows the following
programs as starting:

Using run I type in msconfig.exe and I get the hourglas for less than a
second and then nothing. It is in the correct location according to the other
posts. I expanded a copy from my Win XP Pro disk and that didn't work. Some
help places on the internet say a virus will hit ...

Hi my install of  IE7 on XP pro SP2 crashes as soon as it loads up. The
message below is in the event viewer. System is up to date with all
updates.Help
Justin

I can't install Microsoft Photo Info 1.0.  I get the following message:
"There is a problem with this installer package.  A program run as part
of the setup did not finish as expected.  Contact your support personnel
or package vendor."  Unfortunately, there seems to be no way to ...

After trying to connect my NVidia card to the TV (no luck), my Dell PC
shows only a blue screen with my wallpaper. There are no icons and no
taskbar. Ctrl-Alt-Del doesn't work. Right-clicking on the desktop gives
the usual menu: "Show icons" is on. "NVidia display" shows "TV" and