Unable to boot after crash. Removed faulty drive. Remaining drive checked OK.
Would not boot normally. Boot from XP installation disk displayed choice of
repair or clean installation.  On repair, went thru installation to point of
msg that it needed file 'asms' on CD-ROM.  ...

When I get online, my web connection is lost after only a few minutes. When I
go to Control Panel and tell Windows to repair the connection, I get the
message,'Windows cannot clear ARP cache" Then tells me to contact the person
in charge of my network. Well that's me. I've tried ...

I've gone into the command window and whenever I try to run ipconfig and
ping, but I get an error saying that they are not valid internal or external
commands or batch files,

I use Irfanview to open my jpg files so if I look at the list in Explorer on
my own user profile, they all show the Irfanview icon.
However, on another profile, all jpg shows another icon (Nero, I think it
is). I have tried right-clicking a file and using Open With, changing it to ...

Can anyone explain why a folder is missing under Windows XP?
I can see it using free Commander but Windows Explorer doesn't see it.
thanks

I have a hidden system file in a folder which held images.
The file name is Thumbs.db
I need to delete this file so I can delete the folder.
I'm familiar with dos command mode so I need the syntax only.

I'm using Windows XP and Firefox 1.5.0.12.  I have a URL in a Eudora
email that ends with "index.php" which I'm to use in order to log onto
a blog and post.
If I move a cursor over the URL, it says it is syntactically invalid.

What do the power saving options mean?  I don't know if this is peculiar to Dell laptops or
not... for instance Control Panel/Display/Screen Saver/Power
``When computer is plugged in,
Turn off Monitor _after 30 mins_ (sample choice)

Hi there..I just re-install windows XP home due to fact that i recieved a
message saying that windows is unable to startup because the windows file is
corrupted. My question is, i reinstall windows XP home and it seems that all
my previous data is gone. However when i checked ...

I get the error msg at startup and have followed the directions of the KB
article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/822800
no help from this fix.  anyone else have a fix without totally rebuilding it
from scratch?

The windows process igfxpers(.exe) generates errors whenever I try to shut
down my machine.  (I may have misspelled it - igfexpers?)
I read on a potentially dubious site that it is a process related to an
Intel chipset or video support, and takes a large amount of system memory.  

i have been trying to delete photo files from my desktop but the more i
delete them the more they are duplicating themselves resulting in 100,s of
copies . has anyone any ideas what i can do to get rid of them?

For some reason my computer has started giving me the error message:
16 bit windows subsystem
C:\progra1\symantic\S32EVNT.DLL
*An available virtual device driver failed DLL initialization. Choose close

When turning on computer-it takes 10 minutes for Windows to respond-also
unresponsive to turn off computer-must do this manually on tower. All text
seems highlighted and all colors are flourescent.

Running Xp sp2, p4 2.8ghz, 1024mb ram, Nvidia Gforce fx 5200 128mb, IE7
When I try to run Adobe Photoshop Elements organiser, the organiser shuts
down.
I managed to get this info out of a report file the program generated when