For some reason the pages visited are no longer marked. Not sure the
technical term but , for instance. when you select a page from a Google
search it changes color and stays that way so you can see which pages you
have already opened. Now hte color returns to the original with ...

   I get a message on an old installation of XP Home that 'Windows needs to
be activated'. This follows a major crash, where the power-supply and
motherboard bundle had to be replaced because the machine wouldn't boot at
all. When I click 'OK', the machine things for a few seconds ...

I have xp home with sp2.
When I search for something for example in Google it keeps a history of
everything I search for.  So next time I do a fresh search a long list of
previous searches appear when I click the Search box.

My Recycle Bin keeps emptying, about every hour or two.  I can's use
it as it keeps emptying, and dangerous.
I have sent hours researching the why's and cannot find a solution
that is in layman's terms.

Hi!!  I new here! I'm using a laptop with XP and I have a problem when some
windows are opened.  The "ok" and "cancel" buttons are displayed blank or
empty.  When I want to open a file, the “open and “cancel” buttons are empty.
Just the tab shows in blank.  Some web pages I ...

Hope somebody can help. I set up my email account, messenger,etc., on my
father in law's pc a few years ago. Neither of us were big users of the
internet or even the pc for that matter but things have since changed. I now
live elsewhere and have become more of a regular user of ...

i need high quality images, that's why i shoot them in tif format.
however, when i download them to my comp they end up as jpg's, with a
loss of quality. how can i download them and keep them as tif's?
thanks, boyd.

I had the outlook.pst file on my D drive which I used for my Outlook
2003.  I reformatted the C drive and reloaded Office 2003 and when I
went to access my .pst file on D drive it came up empty looking at it
in Outlook.  This outlook.pst file is 43 Mb so there is data in

When I go to Control Panel, ADD OR REMOVE PROGRAMS and the list of programs
show up..... the Add / Uninstall option ain't there for any of them

On an XP Pro computer, I opened the network connexion properties - to
find that even if I was connected only for a few minutes, the number of
"sent" packets were in the hundred of billion range while the recieved
packets were under a thousand.

It's clear that SSDP services causes "missing icons" in XP's taskbar
aftere some boot ups. I don't know why but when it's disabled problem
goes away.
But i want to know: I need SSDP service running and as long as it's

When I rename (change) the application that opens a file, the file opens
with this changed application but the ICON remains the same. It is the Icon
of the former application which no longer opens the file. How do I get the
Icon next to the file name in windows explorer 7 to ...

I recently had several Dell Optiplex GX270 and 280's crash each time a usb
device was connected. I have ruled out malware etc. I uninstalled all patches
from the last month. I even uninstalled most of the software on the system.
If I uninstall all USB controllers from the device ...

I'm using Windows XP on two systems that are on LAN. I am having a
wierd problem, in that, Host A can ping Host B but not the other way
round.
Any idea what could be the problem?

reHelp, I am having a problem with 640X480 MPEGs, when they a playing I get a
hesitation motion.  What do I need to do to solve this problem whereby I will
receive a smooth and consistent playback without the hesitation delay