Hi, I have a problem with my computer shutting down and restarting for no
reason.  I have cleaned fan etc. and all is clean inside, and have scanned
for viruses and it's OK as well.  I was thinking maybe a short in the
electrical supply, any other suggestions?  Thanks

You need a PCI raid card to use 160GB and higher IDE PATA (>>P<<ATA)
hard drives with Windows 98/Me because of the 137GB operating system
limit, right?
What about SATA (>>S<<ATA) 160 GB and up drives?

Anyone know of a way to change the *default* font that Wordpad uses?
I get really tired of changing to Times New Roman every time I open
Wordpad.
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Several posters here have earned the silver metal for Expert Zone 'web based'
newsgroup support.('nass', 'Byte', et. al.) Did the Vista launch kill the MVP
program's interest in the Expert Zone?
Must have Windows Live ID to enter>

I am running Windows Media 2005 and have a peculiar problem with regard to
selecting files.  I often, in the past, have selected multiple files in a
folder by clicking the first file, hold shift key, click last file in
sequence and open or move all as a group.  When I try that on ...

I have Windows XP SP2.  I tried running the System Configuration Utility
(msconfig) to see what programs are run on Startup.  But in the Startup
list I see four entries for which both Startup Item and Command are
totally blank.

I had an XP PC that got a blue screen of death upon booting up,
something about the registry failing.
I could not boot in safe mode or get a floppy or CD to boot either.
I decided to try reinstalling windows, but since the CD drive would

Can't work out how to fix this problem. It seems to have started when
a Vista skin (but not Vista itself) was installed on my PC, which is
running XP Service Pack 2. It was uninstalled about a week later as I
didn't like it but ever since then I get some - but not all - dialogue

How do I do a scan of a floppy disk for bad sectors and or any dammage to
one? Im using win xp home SP2
Thanks
GK

I had a software problem with Verizon.  The tech had me do a hard reset on
the PDA (Treo 650).   He then told to do a hot sync.  Unfortunately what he
didn't tell me to do was give the command of Desktop over rides the PDA.  
Hence when the hot sync was done, took all of the ...

Newbie running Windows XP, SP 2, Processor Intel 2532 MHz, Total memory 512
MB, Available Physical Memory 64.29 MB, Virtual Memory 2.00 GB, Available
Virtual Memory 1.96 GB.
My hp pavilion 754 n is extremely slow on start up... taking about 8 minutes

I have a laptop that is configured for my office domain.
I also have a home network that has a workgroup.
I would really like to be able to access the storage on other computers from
my laptop, but can't figure out how to do that without disabling the domain.

I have had the same problem as others in this group with XP randomly
asking for a password. I have two user accounts one with a password
and one without. It is annoying and sometimes logging off and on fixes
this or rebooting will.

I have XP Pro SP2/Celeron
I created two accounts Sadat (member of Administrators group) and Sadat_2
(member of Users group) and allocated disk quotas for them.
I wanted the Sadat_2 account to run only Internet Explorer. So I logged into

I am trying to help someone with a computer problem and could use some
adivce.
This person says their computer became very slow after they finished
playing a computer game. I cannot figure out why it's so slow.