im having a problem. For some reason, sometimes my computer may freeze
temporarily for about 15 seconds, and then unfreezes. a few moments later, it
freezes temporarily again, then it unfreezes again seconds later. When it
freezes temporarily, the cursor itself freezes too. ...

When booting, the PC stops on the initial BIOS screen and displays "Insert
book disk and restart"
Hitting F8 during boot up is fruitless; it's impossible to get to safe mode.
What step should I take now?  

Can someone recommend a registry cleaner?
I have been looking at Registry First Aid 6.0, but before I buy it I would
like to know if it is worth it or if there is anything better out there.
Not surprisingly, all the products websites claim to be the best!

Can somebody please help me
On trying to install a new mouse
LoGITECH v200 cordless OPTICAL notebook mouse
my computer detects new hardware & looks for mouhid.sys

I have a PCMCIA card (WPC54G v3 linksys wireless-G notebook adapter)
used for my internet connection. I have a dual core processor with
Windows XP sp2 uptodate. I installed my wireless adapter on the
notebook and got internet connection easily. But the CPU usage showed

I have Windows XP Home and updated my drive's firmware but:
I read all of "how-to" and "faq" documents carefully then did as
exactly what steps are instructed. But after flashing successfully, my
drive's firmware is STILL displayed as P1.3 which means old firmware,

I've installed HP printer driver I have downloaded from HPweb, then
installed HP USB printer driver, use HP LaserJet 3050 CDROM. Its unclear why
my My Printers and Faxes folder show few extra HP LaserJet 3050 printers,
which marked as 'Auto HP LaserJet 3050 Series PCL 6 on ...

I am running windows xp sp2 my wife and I have seperate desk tops, when she
went to log in all her settings have changed ie background etc and she cannot
open any programmes she gets the following message: windows cannot access the
specified device, path or file. You may not have ...

Does anyone know what error 0xeb020b88 is?
I am trying to burn an audio cd and each time it gets to the burn, this is
the error I get?
I am getting fed up with it now as I have tried 3 different types of

I recently discovered that I can no longer Right Click an item in the START | PROGRAMS
menu with any result. I've tried several different mice and options on plugging them
in, no luck. I'm used to dragging shortcuts to self-created, organized folders by
category.  I can no longer ...

WinXP is shutting down as if someone hit the "Reset" button on the computer.  
No warning, no error messages, no event log entries.  
Maybe here are some clues.  When logged on as Administrator if I shut off
System Restore and/or Automatic Updates and am running an application such ...

Is there anyway to use something other than a floppy disk, like a USB memory
flash stick, when using the backup program found under system tools. It lets
you backup where you want, however, at the end of the backup I get an error
since I do not have a floppy drive on my computer. ...

if anyone can help me please.
Our laptop has recently been infected by a virus, my mom thinks it's the
Trojan.
My brother and I have since restored the system, but lost all the pictures.

I am having an odd problem with "My Computer" that seemed to start after the
last batch of updates:
When using "My Computer" to view the contents of a CD, (any CD) all of the
icons for folders and various file types have the Internet Explorer 7 icon

While attempting to change a Fat32 partition to NTFS I was informed of
errors which required CHKDSK to fix.
Using Cmd Chkdsk /f, DOS responded that Chkdsk could not function unless all
folders were changed to files.