My XP Mc pc shows three hard drives when I look at windows explorer.
Device manager lists two ( one drive partioned ) and admin lists two, what
is this other hard drive? and if I can see it in explorer why is it not
listed elsewhere?.

Hi.  I use shawcable with shawsecure (F-S        Secure 2.0 7.00 build 387
F-Secure Anti-Virus 7.30 build 13161
F-Secure Automatic Update Agent 8.21 build 1923
F-Secure User Interface 6.80 build 2540

For some time now, I've been unable to use the keyboard when running DOS
programs under my XP Pro SP2 (assuming they start at all, certain programs
(which worked in the past) now seriously affect the stability of the entire
system).

I formatted a hard drive.  I have all my data on another hard drive and
wanted a backup data drive.  So I copied all mmy data to the newly
formatted drive.  The copying stopped when it came to the System Volume
Information - so I said go ahead and copy the SVI that was on the

Since I moved to XP, my scanner is not recognized.
I have a Pacific Imaging ScanAce 360p, I have checked with the manufacture,
and the drivers are compatable with XP, I have upgraded my Paperport to the
XP drivers.  Any suggestions on how to get this to work, I am in desperate

My old computer died but the hard drive is alive and well.  It is in a new
computer that will not boot off of it.  (it is a IDE and the new computer
uses SATA II)  How do I transfer the setting and files off of the old hard
drive to the new one.  If I knew which files ETW were ...

Everytime I turn on my pc, it wants to install this update. It seems to
uninstall evertime I turn off my pc though. I have ran my anti-virus and
other security features to find any thing amiss. Each time, there is nothing
found. I am running Windows Live OneCare. Any ideas as to ...

On my XP laptop I have a drive letter that is mapped to a share on NTFS
drive on a Windows 2000 machine using Windows Networking (peer to peer) and
has Offline Files enabled.
If I create a text file on my laptop's C: drive, then right click on the

I recently purchased a Microsoft keyboard (optical desktop 700) in Spain, the
keybord is a Spanish variant keyset. However my language is english and my pc
is using XP set to English UK.
The problem is various Shift and AltGR keys are not in the marked

Hi!  Yesterday I had to restore my Windows XP system from the hard drive
because I hadn't made any back up discs and a file was missing in the
Windows system and it wouldn't boot up.  I used Full System Restore (with
Backup).  When I did this, it moved the contents of my hard ...

I was looking for a document in the My Documents folder based on a word or a
phrase in the file.  The word was june.  I have many documents that have the
word june in them but not one of them showed up when I put *.doc as the
filename and june as the word or phrase in the file.  ...

I have a dell Dimemnsio 5150 with SATA hd that norton trashed. I order to
get the data off of it, I put an IDE drive in the box, installed a parallel
ver of win xp, but the SATA drive is not under my computer. In computer
management, disk mangement the SATA drive is disk 1 NTFS ...

I can not even finish typing this sentence without a symantec security
alert.please help

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  i managed to locate 5 .tmp files under the folder 'application data' , 4
of which i manually deleted. i'm unable to delete the remaining file which
probably implies that its running.i've scanned the file for threats and it
appears to be clean.should i reboot my system and delete ...