My computer thinks its fall and sets the time back one hour. my CMOS clock
loses a whole day.
My CMOS battery is fine as I never turn the computer off and the time zone
is correct. I don't leave the time synchronization application running for

my problem is on my dell insprion 4000 it used to have 2000 pro and xp pro
those os's were clashing so i reformatted my HD and now when i click links in
internet explorer the links never load and windows and microsoft updates
won't load becuase it's a link web site my windows ...

This is a new problem. When I go to open up Internet explorer it will
not open......but it does create a new shortcut for interent
explorer....and when I tried to open that one up it created another
shortcut for internet explorer and it never did go into the internet.

When I startup my computer the Welcome Screen is not displayed with my user
accounts.  Instead I am automatically signed-on to Administrator (no
password).
How can I get the Welcome Screen to display

I attempted to back up my E-mail files by sending the .dbx files to be burned
onto a CD.  A dialogue window informed me that I had 889 MB of data to burn
onto a 702 MB CD - So it could not be done.
Next, I deleted hundreds of E-mails, emptied the Delete Folder, emptied the

My PC crashed and I had to restart it in Safe Mode and run Systems Restore
to a date which was before a major changes were installed in my Firewall
with ZoneAlarm. This meant that my Firewall protection was eliminated by
Systems Restore. I then tried to activate Windows Firewall, ...

Message reads. Cannot access the Windows Management Instrumentation software.
Windows Management files may be moved or missing.
I'm new to XP and like to find how to restore this problem . I'm using
Windows XP Home Edition. Thanks

This has been happening for a few days now.  Yesterday I again found that
all my restore points had disappeared so I uninstated S/R and rebooted:
reinstated S/R and rebooted, finding a restore point made at that time.
However, that restore point has disappeared today, repeating the ...

I have uploaded some JPEG files from a digital camera to my hard drive. I
was able to rename, copy, delete, and move the files, as well as change
attributes files and preview the image in Windows Picture and Fax Viewer.
Then, for some reason, I could not change these files and I ...

hi, my system crashed suddenly while i was palying games. i reinstalled the
window xp ,but i could n't find my files. the files i saved in the hard drive
are gone .any sugession to retrive my files . please help.

For the past three days I have been unable to get anything on the Netflex
site other than a page with the url
http://www.netflix.com/entryTrap.html?why=cookieless
Per my internet provider, I deleted cookies, deleted files and disabled my

I get error msg that says ncobjapi.dll missing. not computer savvy - what do
i need to do?

Have two computers - desktop and laptop.  Both run Windows XP. On the laptop
, to the right of the START button, there is a tool bar which shows 7 dots
i.e.

Hello,
Here is the stop code that appears on the BSOD.
0x0000000A (0x00850808, 0x00000002, 0x00000001, 0x806FA16)
Would be appreciated, if someone could help me out.

I have a really strange problem. When I right click the desktop, taskbar, or
anything related to explorer, I expect to see a menu with a bunch of options.
However, when I right click, all I see is the shadow for the invisible right
click menu. If I move the mouse in the invisible ...