When I boot up my daughter's laptop the taskbar is visible for a
fraction of a second and then it disappears.  I also see no desktop
icons, but the background is visible.  The problem seems to be with
explorer.exe  I can run most anything, except IE, by starting a new

I didn't get a windows CD with my computer (pre-installed).  Is there any way
to get NTBackup installed without it?  XP Home Edition

We are unable to open My Computer, My Documents, My Pictures, or Control
Panel.  When we click on those icons we go on the clock for a few seconds,
then it reverts back to the desktop screen, without opening anything.  Any
help would be greatly appreciated !!

I want to be able to see all the windows I have opened, one besides the
other one. Even if I uncheck "group similar taskbar buttons", it is
impossible to have them in the way I want. Instead, they appear grouped
together, which requires to scroll down or up each time I want to go ...

i have windows xp and deceided to load vista on dual boot because i have to
drives on one hard drive just to see how it would be like.so then i wanted to
use vista now because its good to use so i formated computer and tried to
load vista again and it will not take the 25 number ...

Running Windows XP Home SP1, the computer starts and loads my desktop and
after a while its hangs up with no hard drive action that I can hear. Before
this happens I can acess Task Manager and watch the Processes or Performance
windows. At the point it freezes under processes ...

My computer ignores the first request to logoff or shutdown, but executes
properly on the second request. I used the XP troubleshooter (and msconfig)
to trace this problem to the Windows Management Instrumentation service, but
that service seems necessary for other activities. ...

I know that I should have had a registry backup/restore point, etc.
Trust me, I've learned my lesson.
While attempting to delete the service entry for an old piece of
recalcitrant software from HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services, I

For the last week or so, my event log is full of a bunch of Failure
Audits, about every 5 minutes or so. They all look like this
Event Type:    Failure Audit
Event Source:    Security

When I try to save certain photos or gifs in an e-mail I get the message
that the mshtml.hlp file is missing.
I searched my C:\ and it does not exist.
I went to the Microsoft online support and could not get any add'l info.

I've been running the same XP SP2 setup for a long time and a couple
of days ago I noticed the time and date had got set to incorrect
values.  I reset them but next time I logged in the problem was back -
the date was set to sometime in 2006.

I allowed the critical update to run the first part of the week and since
then no matter what webpage I try to go to in IE7 a  File Download-security
warning box comes up and has in it. "do you want to save this file? "  Name
navcancl   type unknown file type, 2.64 kb. from ...

Whatever application I open up starts with a minimized window. It changes
when I click to maxamize. I've tried stretching the window but after I close
and re-open it is again minimized. I think this started after an upgrade. ???

Hello, my volume icon isn't showing on my taskbar. As a result, I can't hear
anything. I tried rebooting the computer and going to "Control Panel", but
nothing seems to help. Any suggestions?

How do I rename an XP Pro user name connected to a Domain without
renaming the account on the server?
I need to rename an existing user account on a Windows XP Professional
machine, which logs into a domain.