I'm using a Digidesign Mbox for various audio projects.  Sound goes through
it fine, but the problem is it won't appear as an option for a default audio
recording device.  It will however show up as a default audio playback
device.  How can I solve this?

I downloaded the latest aim 6.0, and now when my computer boots up, the aol
home page does too.  My home page is verizon, and when I click the "house"
button on internet explorer, it goes to my home page.  How do I stop having
the aol home page start up every time?  It didn't ...

I have recently had my laptop hard drive started over.  There were some
issues with very slow start up and shut down.  My husband put all the data
back on that is necessary for Windows XP.
This has helped immensely with speed.  I used to like to use microsoft

I can run the repair install up to this point only and then have to F3.
How do I find the diagnostic tools to "find" .
Also cannot run windows update and have tried most if not all of the tips
given on here.

Some video play fine, while others play, all I see is color lines.  What
could be the problem.  One thing is I can't find out how to set my default
player.

We have 2 Gateway systems:
System A:
Model: 300S LTD - Shipped w/XP Home edition installed
Ship Date: 11/27/2001

My computer has started to refuse to go on standby from my user account,
although it will from the login screen. Just asking -- can a cable modem
stop a machine from going on standby? I noticed that with the modem
disconnected one time the problem disappeared. Why would it start ...

When I click Help and Support in the Start menu, I get the Help and Support
center window open with Cannot display the page.  Then it says "The page you
are trying to view cannot be displayed.  This may be because:
If you are trying to view this content over the network, there ...

Hey, where'd my original post go?  Oh well.. take 2.
Anyway.. I've not setup any user accounts and the system boots straight into
Windows, but all of a sudden, it now stops at the login screen, where you
select a user account.. but there are no user accounts shown, so it's just

I've just started having a problem with my system at startup.
The blank desktop comes up, then I get my task bar, then DEP pops open a
warning telling me that it is blocking explorer.exe!
This sounds like spyware/malware/virus but the machine comes up clean.

Hi all,  I have a recent problem and seek help, please
My computer has Windows XP Home Edition installed, and a DVD/CD-ROM drive
fitted:  with it, I can play and record DVD's, and can play recorded music
on CD's, via Windows Media Player.

I am using Windows XP SP2. I have scheduled my XP Backup Utility to
automatically back up my "Documents and Settings" on a certain day and
time. If I do it manually, when the backup is finished, there'll be a
window for me to view or print the report. But when it is being

This morning I tried to remove an unwanted program; I received a "Fatal
Error" message, something about 'parsing error.'  I don't know what that
means.  I don't know how to remove the program if "add/remove" won't do it.  
My knowledge of a computer and its works is very basic.  ...

I have a small, 3 computer network setup.  
On computer 1, I mounted a external hard drive to V:\ExtStorage, where V:\
is already an NTFS external hard drive.  On this computer, I can acess all of
the folders and files (open, delete, copy, etc.).

What is the best spysweeper programm which is free or paid?  I use xp home
with sp2.  Thank you.
Regards
Hash