I just installed a PCI firewire 1394 card. Upon restarting I get an error
message stating "a network cable is unplugged". I plugged another computer
into the same Cat 5 cable and was able to connect to the internet. Any idea
on why the firewire card has disrupted my Ethernet ...

When booting up my computer the volume level is VERY high before I
login. After I enter my password and get to my desktop it changes back
to normal volume levels. I'm using the on-board soundcard on a Sony
Vaio desktop. I'm not using a 3rd party sound application or anything,

My typing seems to be a lot faster than what my computer can keep up with.  
There is a delay of some seconds before it catches up - this problem started
occurring about a month ago.  Any suggestions?

I would like all video files that I download/import onto my computer to be
formatted for windows media player; however, for some reason unknown to me,
all video files that I download/import are automatically in the .mov format.
I have made windows media player my default player ...

I don't know where to go with this, perhaps someone can point me in the
right direction.
To put it in perspective:
Systems affected: WIN/XP - started happening about summer of 06

Is the "Inherit Permissions" setting turned off by default in XP for the
Documents and Settings folder and sub-folders?
Thanks.

I have a problem I can't install (or uninstall) anything that uses the
Windows installer system (*.msi). All other setups and installs work
fine. I get an error message .. "This installation package could not be
opened.Verify that the package exists and that you can access it, or ...

My XP Pro workstation is connected to my Server 2003 domain.  I have 3
network printers.  Recently when I send something to any or all of the
printers from ANY application it shows up in the print queue but does not
print to any of the printers.  Restarting the printjob from ...

I tried to send an email with a video attachment made from Windows movie
maker and now the email has not been sent since yesterday and because it has
started transmitting I cannot delet it according to the dialogue I get when I
go to options.  How can I delete this email?  Thanks ...

For some reason all of my drive have disapeared in My Computer. Where
the drives should be is a blank white page in My Computer.
I can access the drives by selecting them off the drop down list in My
Computer but they just don't appear where the drive list should be.

New Pc. Had it for one week now and ever since I've had it all of the
graphics, images, pictures, ect are blury and distorted and pixilated-like. I
tried everything I can think of to fix it.
I tried:

XP home IE7
Just recently IE7 will close suddenly when trying to view some pages (it
tends to happen with links or log ins within a website)
I have checked for Viruses (AVG 7.5), cleared my cache, and lowered the

I posted last night that my hard drive seemed to fail and my system
would not boot  This failure took place while the computer was running
and I was doing work   I was advised to try a new disk and then save
data from the old one.  I put a new hard drive in and tried to install

While working on my parents' HP laptop running XP I decided to check for any
security upgrades. Since they had automatic upgrades shut off, the MS website
indicated that there were 58 critical upgrades, so I initiated the
download/installation process.

In a dual boot configuration with 2 disks drive C:\W2K and drive D:\WXP, I
want to delete drive C to get it's full space - same scernario would happen
if drive C dies. How to make WXP bootable then? Available tools: Acronis
DiscDirectorSuite-10 & TrueImage-10, WXP-Recovy-CD only.