Hi, I have a laptop running Windows XP Media Center and need to get my smart
card reader working.  I accidentally installed the Microsoft Win32 Smart Card
Base Components which I guess corrupts the Base Components on a WinXP/2000
machine.  I've looked around online and can't find ...

I have a problem with most, but not all, of my programs being missing from
the "All Programs" part of the start menu. Start brings up the start menu
with some recently used programs in the left pane and My Docs, My computer,
etc in the right pane. Clicking on All Programs brings up ...

I recently installed a new fan and heatsink and am getting spikes. I checked
the Intel file and they advised to delete the present file and reinstall. I
have deleted the file but cannot figure out all the gobbledegook to
reinstall. Can someone please help??? Thanks

XP Pro SP2:
Something keeps turning the indexing service back on, even after I've
disabled the service. On several occasions I've attempted to disabling the
service by adjusting the settings in the Search window, and also going

XP Home SP2.
The PS/2 keyboard that came with my PC case has three power
management keys, "Wake", Sleep" & "Power, situated just below the
Delete, End & Page Down keys, in the empty space just above the

Ok, i posted several days ago and some helpful responces but still have a
problem. As mentioned before every now and then my "taskbar" and even part of
the screen will turn black shortly and back to normal. Plus a sound would go
off, after checking sound files i believe its the ...

Windows xp keeps restarting on my daughters computer, I have a feeling she
has either clicked something or done an illegal shut down,
Anyway, it loads up to the main screen and just before the windows music
finishes it restarts

'Clean up disk space'  has this option among others.  Should I compress the
old files or not?
Thank you

I was having trouble with my printer a friend told me to find the disk for
the printer, uninstall and then reinstall it. The problem I have is it is
asking for my xp home edition cd, I can not find it anywhere. what can I do?
Thanks alot!!

when the grandkids were messing with the desktop PC, XP home edition, it was
infected with the sasser worm? the one that messes with lsass.exe. The pc
will not boot completely, either in safe mode or regular. gets just so far
then the warning box pops up fussing about lsass.exe ...

Spyware or virus created multiple directory levels. They are so deep that the
length of the string exceeds max. How do I delete the directory. An example
is as follows
/SAM/SAM/SAM/SAM/SAM/SAM/SAM/SAM/...SAM/      "DEL /SAM" does not work.

It is as if Windows has for no apparent reason has disappeared from my
computer.  The icon is still there, but cannot find the files.  I had Windows
XP professional with Excel, etc.  I did a system restore, but didn't bring it
back.  Also, my computer doesn't remember it has a cd ...

Everytime i load my computer it tries to install the drivers for a printer i
dont use anymore. Since the drivers are non existent i keep getting this
error message that tells me the drivers cannot be found. I dont want it to
load at startup or try to install anymore! What do i ...

I have a new( 2mos.) desktop computer: 1G memory, Intel 3.2, XP home.
I can’t afford to leave it run full power all day. Start up is time
consuming, to endure everal times a day.  Other power options are hibernate,
primarily for laptops I believe; and standby.

Sorry to be so stupid, but I need some help. I bought a new laptop in
November 2005. It came pre-loaded with XP.  I now live abroad and last spring
my Toshiba laptop started eating its screen Matrix.  I had it repaired twice
and, after the second repair, the screen seems to be ...