Hi I am having a problem with the color on my computer especially web pages.
The reply and send are nonexistant visually but if I hunt most times I can
find it. My emails' color is missing. I went to Color, System,and all that I
can think of in Control Panel.....now I am at a ...

Hello experts!
I have this problem with my USB Flash disk (PQI U230 1Gig). Whenever I
plug this on a XP machine,
the context menu displays gibberish menu items. How can I remove this?

I cannot start my computer...error message unmountable_boot..cannot even
start in safe mode.Help me please....I need to access my old files (not
backed up)

Thanks in advance for any help.
I recently did a fresh install pf XP on a new hard drive, but left my
second drive in the computer when doing so. I had a little difficulty,
but now everything works well.

In a case like this I am sorry to say that it sounds like a hardware, CD
failure. Upgrading to 98 will probably serve no useful purpose. The good
news is, CD drives (read only) are very cheap. May be worth the
replacement....may not be. The final decision has to be yours.

I apologise for this vague query but I'm hoping someone can educate me as to
the processes involved or give me a fresh angle to investigate.
I have a user who is claiming that her PC is slow to print.  She's using a
decent PC and I don't believe it's not a hardware issue.  She can ...

My disk is dying - reporting bad blocks. I have created an image backup to
load my system onto a new disk. During the backup, the utility (Seagate
DiscWizard powered by Acronis) was unable to read one bad sector. I
instructed it to ignore the sector, in order to complete the ...

The short version is I changed a setting that lockied me out of my PC
completely. I used my quick restore disk from HP. That was supposed to
re-install XP without erasing everything else. Now XP is up again, finally,
but there are no programs available. I can find program files ...

Im trying to copy several files from one computer in a network to this one.  
It includes several music and data files (more than 600 files).  I select all
on the source folder then copy and paste to the new folder in this pc.  
While copying the files, I encounter errors for some ...

Ahhhhh! I'm freaking out! Long story short: I'm having trouble with
'checkdisk' which keeps wanting to run every time I boot up my computer. (See
previous post: 'checkdisk' problems' for more background info.) Now I'm
getting error messages: "The file or directory C:document and

While installing XP Pro on my laptop, the technician accidentally used the
wrong Product key.  Instead of the one he was supposed to use (the one issued
at work) he used a VLK which is already blocked.  Now I'm having problems
downloading updates i.e. updgrading from IE 6 to IE 7 ...

I'm trying to identify a disk (\Device\Harddisk1\D) on which I've some
errors on the event logger.
On my PC I've an old IDE Maxtor 80GB (on which I know I've few
problems) & a SATA Maxtor 200GB.

I was just now working along in XP, when I started hearing odd noises
from m computer and the CD ROM started misbehaving, playing the same
few notes of a song over and over.  The system froze.  I lost all
keyboard and mouse capability.  I turned off the power and turned it

My old Dell Dimension 4100's main hard drive is dead.  I use this
computer as a music server with a secondary internal drive to play
through my Tivo.  Now I can't and I was hoping someone could give me
step by step directions on how to replace that drive (all the drivers,

when i try to run most *.exe i get this message:
Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have
the appropriate permissions to access the item.
whats going on?