It seems Windows XP is confused. Whenever I open a window, it opens up in a
minimized window. When I try to maximize, the window gets smaller. When I try
to minimize, it gets bigger.
Even if it was backwards, I still can't get it to a maximize screen.

After my last re-installation of Windows XP SP2 (all updates applied), PID
1212 is slowly increasing in memory usage, until the whole OS just acts up
and I have to re-boot the laptop.
What does PID 1212 (Network Service) do, and can I stop it from happening,

I just started getting a svchost.exe error when I reboot my machine.
Nothing new has been installed on it hardware or software wise, and I can't
find any articles about this particular message.  Can anyone help?
svchost.exe - Application error

I am still unable to view video clips, for example at www.weather.com.  I
have the latest version of Real Player and Media Player.  I have 2 gigs of
memory.  When I click on the video it goes to the start page and then
freezes.  As far as I can see something in IE7 is causing ...

We have been having a problem with our new computer that I hope someone can
help me out with.
We got the computer in Jan '07. It is a Dell dimension 061 with Windows XP
Professional.

Hello fellow NG members
Yesterday I asked for help in changing the default opening of Windows
Explorer in the "My Computer" mode and received excellent advice fro another
NG contributor which makes it open with the C:/ drive highlighted. using the

Hi, I have a problem that sometimes happens, I get a message from microsoft
visual C++runtime library that tells me that I have a runtime error with a
program that I don't have installed, but used to, the message also tells me
that I have  'abnormal program termination'.  How do ...

Just recently my connection to the internet has slowed down incredibly.
It can take 5 mins or more just to open the home page on my ISP, Wanadoo.
I am on a dial-up 56K modem which reports a speed of around 45.2Kb/s.
When I try to go to a website I will ofen get just the top of the ...

have an omega ext HDD and its been allocated "J" drive until recently, it
wasn't plugged in and a card reader took over the "J" and now HDD is
"K"...no big deal but meant some shortcuts needed fixing to find drive. how
in future can I manually change the drive allocation?

When the computer is turned on it starts normally. But when Xp should be
starting the screen goes blank and nothing happens.

There may be some trojans on my USB disk? Could you kindly tell me how
to delete the viruses on my USB memory disk?

USB storage devices have gained popularity nowadays. However, they are
always host to viruses, Trojans, hacker toolkits, worms and other
kinds of malicious programs. For example, when you plug your USB disk
into a computer that is infected by viruses, these viruses will enter

I have a laptop with XP Pro.  The last couple of days, when I boot, my
second drive where I keep all my data (in a drive bay), is recognized
by the BIOS and continues to be recognized during the boot process.
However, sometime late in the boot process, the drive disappears (from

I've lost the Security tab I should see when I right click a folder and click
Sharing and Security.  I've tried going through Tools, Folder Options, View,
and then unchecking the Use Simple File Sharing box.  But still no security
tab!  I've done this repeatedly, switching it ...

I have a stickler with my home PC that occured last night sometime and could
really use some pointers.  Windows XP Professional, SP2 + all current
updates.  Fairly clean, recent install.  Only system tools running are Norton
AV 2007.