Sometimes it happens that the wirless icon is missing. After a couple of
re-start the icon appears again. Laptop is used for schoolwork/in classes,
and I need access to wireless all the time. The information  "Show available
network" doesn't appear and not the wirless icon either ...

how do you unpartition a hard drive?

A pop-up message keeps appearing that states a file designated ndisuio.sys
has been blocked from Internet Explorer.  Can anyone suggest a remedy?

Is there a built-in program in XP Pro that will format a CD?  I have Roxio
"drag-to-disk" but's it's very unreliable.  It keeps telling me that my CD is
"bad".  I install another CD and it formats.  I then re-install the "bad" cd
and it get formatted.

I am trying to cut a specific column from a piece of text that I get
as an output through piping. I know that in Linux the "cut" command
does the trick but I do not know what is the command for that in DOS
or if I can do it in dos command line. It would be great if anyone

I currently have a Freecom NAS drive, which under normal
circumstances appears as drive G: (after two hard drives
and two optical drives). My backup software automatically
backs up to G: on first login of each user, each day.

The System Information window displays the incorrect information on the Model
for my computer.  I am running XP Professional SP2.  How can I get the
correct information displayed?

I am running Spy Sweeper right now and noticed that I have 95K files in the
Registry. Is this a regular size for a registry or has some hacker/baddy
compromised my system?

I've noticed, just recently, that when I open the task manager by typing
<Ctrl, Alt, Del> the task manager window that appears is missing the top
portion of the frame which normally shows the tabs for processes, tasks, etc.
Bizzare that this has suddenly gone awry. Anyone with ...

Suppose this question has been asked a thousand times but I'll ask again.
My on-board video has gone AWOL - it gives weird colours and fuzzy text. The
PC only has PCI adapters (2) and I can't get a PCI graphics card here in
Kuwait (Amazon - US and UK will not ship neither will any ...

I am using Windows XP, please help me fix this, thanks!

I'll start from the beginning.
I was running XP SP2 and Vista Ulitimate x86 beta in a dual boot setup with
the following drive configuration:
1 250gb hard drive with 3 partitions:

As the subject implies, my IE6 on XP stopped keeping my visited
addresses in the address bar and login information to all sites right
after I close the browser.
I always have to re enter the addresses and the user/pass....

I have an HP Pavilion laptop with Windows XP Home installed on it.
The laptop has died (display is completely blank, and external
monitors show a blank screen), but the hard drive is okay.  I bought a
USB external enclosure for the hard drive, and I hooked it up to my

When I do a search on my windows 2000 pc for "Containing Text" in
Search files and folders, I get results accurately.
However when I try the same thing in same folder on windows XP pro by
"A word or phrase in the file", I get no results....