I have lost my START toolbar. My operating system starts up and gets as far
as displaying the background but then nothing happens - no Start bar, no
applications loading, no security loading.  I can get into programs through
Task Mamnager but even though I have tried to reair and ...

I recently installed on my notebook a 160GB hard disk. The BIOS recogniuzes
only 137 GB but XP recognizes all 160GB. I heard of that '137GB boundary'
problem but my notebook is a bit od so there is no longer newer BIOS. Now I
partition this harddisk to only 130GB something and ...

I have this computer that's running an instrument that is having problems
with the software that runs the instrument.  The program is freezing.
I looked in the event log and there's frequent EventLog 6004 errors and from
what I can read it looks like it's got something to do with

My computer has been locking up or halting almost all the time now.  
Sometimes I can't even restart.  I'm trying to save my C drive files.  I'm
running Windows XP Home Edition and I'm connected to a home network setup.  I
want to backup as many folders and files as I can.  I ...

I'm using Windows XP sp2, and i've google'd around for the last two
hours trying to solve this problem i have with a bunch of my music
album folders, where the folder.jpg file has become invisible...
When i say invisible files, i mean as in - NOT hidden files, and not

I'd love to have my 6.0 back, the 7.0 isn't working but I don't want
to use system restore as there's been to many folder changes. Is it
possible to reinstall 6.0 through a Widows site or elsewhere?
Thanks Airpix

When ever i try to open a chart object from my PPT, I get the following error
"The server application, source file, or item can't be found, or returned an
unknown error. You may need to reinstall the server application"
but it does not install the application when i click on "yes" ...

I've lost all my network connections -- the network connections window
is completely empty.  I have a hard time even opening that.  What can
cause that?

   I have done the add/remove prog...........windows components
.........windows messenger
   process and that didn't work.
   My Granddaughter started using it when she was visiting and now I get

I just switch from w98 to XP Pro.  on W98 the mouse pionter would
automaticlly move to a dialog box, but I can't figure out how to get it to
do so on XP.
TIA

A friend of mine recently got a computer with XP HOME.
He also attached an old Panasonic dot matrix printer (KXp-1123).
Anyway, it works well but not perfectly. For example, if he uses WORD or
WORKS and sets the page at 8 1/2 by 4 1/2 it still thinks it is 8 1/2 by 11.

For some reason my java is not working right. I was told that my java needed
to remove and re-downloaded. I did that java worked all day yesterday but
when I logged into pogo today its telling me that java is not found on my
computer or its not working. Can anyone help with this ...

I would appreciate some help, I have tried everything I know.. when I log in
to XP Pro SP2 the systems gives hour glass
forever and returns to login (good or bad password doesnt matter). I made a
new account, same symptoms.

Windows update says I need KB8229019 and KB928416 concerning NetFramework
2.0 and 3.0.
Both of them always fail to install...Why??

i am getting eventid 1029 error after installation of symantec 10.1.
event id source is FSM.
now my system is not booting in normal mode . but is is working in
safe mode with networking.