I have a Dell Inspiron8300 running Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2
(build 2600) with all updates.  Running as administrator, when I go to
Control Panel, Display, all I get is a screen that allows me to change the
theme.  There are no tabs across the top to select.  I have ...

I Have Windows Xp home with sp2.
I am not able to open Group Policy.
When I tried to open through Start>run>gpedit.msc it gives message file
not found. I copied the file but i gives message "Snap in failed"

I have to do a fresh install of XP PRO on my PC., already loaded with Vista.
I have a professional editing software Avid Liquid that it is not ready for
VIsta period. I have the installation CD XP PRO but is giving me a hard drive
error (blue screen) whne I try to install it. i ...

When I click  Start>Control Panel>User Accounts>"My Account">Prevent a
forgotten password an error message pops up that says:
No Drive
Your computer does not have a removable disk drive. A removable medium is

I run xp. I was trying to some of the of office 2003 and went to "add/
remove" programs. I expected it to pop up a window that would allow me
to remove just powerpoint and excel, but it did not and it removed
everything - inlcluding outlook which has all my emails!

My computer broke down so I installed my hard drive in someone else's tower
while our is in the shop. The problem is that I lost my Windows Explorer. How
can I get it back.

            My Girlfriends mum had a problem with one of the two hard
drives on her laptop. She took it to PC world who remove the Faulty
hard drive and disabled the raid sata. So the laptop would only see
one drive. We have now bought a new drive and want to go back to

On startup I receive the message...Error loading  
C:\windows\system32\ixybbaz.dll
The specified module could not be found..
How can I take care of this?

I have just changed to use Windows Vista, but then don't know how to set the
Window Explorer to display file extensions.
-> can someone give me some hints?
Thanks a lot!

Hi everyone I was doing a search for my problem and came accross thi
site. I really hope someone can help me. when I boot up my pc I can no
get to the boot up screen, I thought it was the monitor so I switched i
and that was not the problem, I could boot up to windows xp  and then i

I have an HP laptop with Windows XP.  Recently I started getting th
message 'USB Device not recognized'.  I have nothing plugged in any US
ports.  The message appears over and over until the computer freezes up
I have tried disabling the device, uninstalling the device, cleanin

I'd like to turn off my harddisk for saving power ,so the option for
harddisk has been change to "turn off after 15 mins".
But almost every one hour,the second harddisk will be waken up(the primary
harddisk with os,the second harddisk just for storage,first one is of

All of a sudden, none of my USB ports are working.  I checked device manager
and is says that all 6 ports are working properly but when I plug into them
either nothing happens or I get the error message "USB device not
recognized".  I was able to print pictures off about 5 ...

I can't not get SP2 to install.  There is an error while backing up files.  
SCESVR.dll can not be copied and I don't know if that is why I can't get SP2
to install.  I skip over the scesrv error and all other files copy fine...and
instalation continues for a brief moment.

Whenever I attempt to run IPConfig I get the following error message "  An
internal error occurred. Unable to query host name".  I have checked the
registry
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters" and