When I try to run Disk Defrag, I get an error that Windows Management
Console can not open.
When I try to open the Computer Management Console in the Admin. Services of
the Control Panel, the application hangs for about a minute then gives me an

I have an issue I would like to resolve. I have Windows XP HOME EDITION. I
have an ADMINISTRATOR User Account. My wife's account has somehow become
DISABLED. I know that it is not deleted as I can still see it and all of its'
files in Windows Explorer. I however cannot access ...

a friend of mine has a problem.  when she closes out a program, it gives her
an error message and tells her to "send to microsoft" or "don't send".  what
is this and how can she stop it?  it is slowing down her computer

One of norton's files got corrupted on my computer and I used the
norton removal tool to take it off of  my system. The problem I now
have is this. Whenever I start my computer I get a "specified module
could not be found" error with no clue as to what the module is. Does

I have acquired a USB external hard drive to store music and pictures. It
works perfectly on my laptop but the desktop will not recognise it. I have
tried uninstalling the cd and dvd drives and although Windows Explorer shows
the presence of the external drive it will not read to ...

I am having two serious problems at startup.  First, Windows Explorer
crashes, and continues to crash when it is automatically restarted.  No
faulting module is given.  This problem continues when I do a Diagnostic
Startup, and I'm very worried.

when my computer starts up, it starts up fine, and everything looks
fine, everything is on the desktop etc.
However, if i press Ctrl + Alt + Del and check the task manager, there
is no user active, and i cannot open my computer, when i do, it just

where can i find client services for netware, so i can disable it and begin
using my fast user switching again. right now i'm the only one that can log
on. i have no welcome sreen at all and i cant even switch to let my son or
wife use the pc, only log off.

In a nutshell: I found a posted solution to my problem that the "Found New
Hardware Wizard" pops up every time the PC boots up.  According to the fix, I
should delete an H_KEY in the registry using regedit.exe.  However, I can't
delete the H_KEY.  

Win XP Home sp2 all current updates
1 drive, no partitions, NTFS
My son, a novice hacker, has created his own login.
He ran the DOS utility "cacls" to create a more secure personal environment.

When I try to upgrade to pro from home edition I keep getting these lame
missing .sys file errors when it's towards the end of preparing the
installation. It's never the same file either. I can either retry, skip file,
or exit installation.

Currently using Windows XP Professional. Pressing "START" to display the
menu, when the cursor move to "PROGRAM", the menu cannot expand to see the
contents of installed programs. Furthermore, even click on "PROGRAM" cannot
view or expand the contents. As a result, I have changed ...

Here is the log of my computer, does anyone see anything that
shouldn't be there? Thanks!
Btw, I have my HD partitioned into two. One at 6.8 Gigs and one at
30.4. However, when I run drive doppler on my 6.8 GB one (initially

I'm running XP SP2 fully updated.  In Power Properties I have my HD's
and monitor to shut down after 5 min and the system go into Standby
after 10 min and finally go into hibernation after 20 minutes.
Sometimes it all works and sometimes it doesn't.  When it doesn't

I just installed a sata hard drive and the drive is recognized in bios and in
device manager under disk drives and it also shows up in device manager under
the ide atapi controllers/ primary ide channel but is not listed with my
other two drives in "My Computer" nor does the disk ...