When I go to add/remove programs in my control panel, it will not let me
remove most of my programs. I am trying to remove a program. And it worked
fine last night. But my computer automatically updated itself while I was in
bed, and when I got on the computer this morning, I ...

Is there any way I can prevent Windows XP SP2 Home from
automatically restarting when it does an update?
A little while ago I was in the middle of downloading about 1.8 gigs
from the Easynews web server when Windows popped up a message box

I just had XP pro reinstalled on my pc,every thing is fine except the
mouse.
It refuses to start up, the only way to get it to work is to pull out
the USB and stick it back in and it works strait away.

I have an HP Officejet 5510v that came with a disk that has HP
Director on it.  If I wanted to scan something, I started the HP
Director and could, among other things, scan a document to PDF or to
an editable text document (OCR).  

I get 3 error messages befor I can get into my account.They are ccAPP.EXE
PIFSvc.exe and osCheck.exe. Tere is also a problem launching Norton.Error
message is UISTUB.exe and it wont open at all. One of my sons has the same
problems in his user account.(he also uses mine so it may ...

I have a Dell Computer with a Samsung CDRW/DVD SN-324S drive.  A few weeks
ago it stopped reading CDs.  I can open the CD, but it will not show any
files.  I can pull up the properties and it says the CD is full.  Also, I
have gone through all the troubleshooter steps, but with ...

I just installed sp2 in my Toshiba Satellite laptop which already had xp home
sp1.  Installation seemed to go fine, programs seem to work ok, but I cannot
view system info.  When I open the My Computer window and click on View
System Information, I get an hourglass like something ...

Event Id # 7023 'service control manager'
category none
type=error
Messsage is "The Application Management service terminated with the

when I want to enter my computer I have to click on my name to login (I am
the only one using this system).
Is there anyway of turning this off? so I don't have to click on my name in
the welcome screen, I know I could do it before, but it's changed now.

After discovering that Live Messenger is not functioning with the share
folder I checked through and found the problem to be a missing usnsvc.dll
file in my system.
Information on how to find and re-install this would be very helpful.

i get four errors on start up C\windows\system32\snvr_w.dll
                                              ""           ""            
\pftj_1.dll
                                           ""               ""          

Can't tell motherboard to set my SATA Drive to boot array, areas are grayed
out and I can't highlight it.  Wanted to use my OS on my large 300GB SATA,
I'm not sure if the bios up-dates that I have seen will be what I want to
happen or something more detrimental to my system.

Hi I had a problem with the OS and repaired succesfully(?) with WIN XP using
the
CD Installation disc. Now my computer will not Boot up in Win XP. It gets to
the Windows Home page and reboots. It will not enter Safemode either. The

I enabled 'Remote Desktop', and switched windows firewall off, however port
3389 does not appear open nor closed when I nmaped the host.
What am I missing?
Regards,

Not sure how it happened but the drive icons I used to see when opening MY
COMPUTER, have been replaced by a generic icons.
Is there a way to restore the original system icons for the hard drives that
were installed with XP Pro?