I have a PC with WIn xp home ed. and USB 2 with 512 mb of ram. I
installed a 160 gb external hard drive which connects to one of my USB
2 connections. Recently when adding some family photos to the external
hard drive I got a fleeting pop up that said something about the drive

I don't think it is responsible or considerate for MIcrosoft to deprive its
users of an importan tool which is of burning  and viewing burned data on
CDs.  Many have made backups of their systems on CD-Rs but will be surprised
when they pop that CD and find NOTHING after they ...

I bought a new WD-800JD hard drive as a replacement. I'm trying to load XP
Pro w/SP2 on it. XP asks for info on the HD, I've tried every driver I could
downlaod from WD, XP, ASUS. Nothing  works. I'm using an ASUS P4S8X mother bd
which has SATA on board. I have updated the bios. ...

does this mean anything to anyone.. i have an old laptop i haven't turned on
in forever and was trying to get some pictures off of it and was met by an
onslaught of error messages and rundll processes... i cant seem to get
anywhere and want to get some info off it then destroy it ...

Every time I scan my disks (partitions) for errors, more of these types of
errors are found:
 Cleaning up 928 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9.
 Cleaning up 928 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9.

What is dumprep.exe?
This on occassions brings my laptop and PC to a halt churning up CPU.
I'm sure it happens when an application has just failed or had to be
closed forcefully.

I have a strange situation. I installed DB2 connect on a machine that
had just 1 account (administrator). It appears that the application
created its own account as computer administrator. Now at boot up I
only have the option to log in with the new account. Under windows

I recently got a bug in my computer despite norton, ad aware avg etc.
It was 'utimate defender' and all its crap! I went to
http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?p=1006050 I followed the removal
instructions which seemed to work but now my internet and email is slow and

Everytime I use Internet Explorer, I get this bleep sound every couple
minutes. The frequency of the sound made me think it was from a pop-up
blocker, but I've disabled every known sound device and option on my
computer. It's a major annoyance and I've been trying to get rid of ...

The following update failed, no error code, HELP
Security Update for Microsoft    .NET Framework    , Version  2.0
B928365   )
Security Update for Microsoft    .NET Framework    , Version  1.1 Service

I downloaded the Welsh language pack from the Microsoft website for microsoft
office 2003.
However now my start menu and contents etc are all in WELSH!
How can I change this back to English please?

When visting websites with greek text the text encoding is in cyrillic
The same happens in Help Center and some with with greek text. M
Windows XP is in greek. I also can't install programs. The installatio
program doesn't even start. It appears that the deafault encoding ha

I'm getting this message all the time.
"Windows - Delayed Write Failed. Windows was unable to save all the data for
the file \$Mft. . . "
Before today it never used to happen and I have not changed anything.

I have reinstalled xp home cd 3 times now.  I have tried to use the fixes on
the microsoft kb, but I cannot retrieve these files.  Puts my computer back
to a blue screen each time with a memory dump.  My xphome edition is from
2002 and I did not have these issues until I uploaded ...

I am working on a computer running Win XP Pro.  They recently did an upgrade
and now nobody can logon to the computer.  Users that did not have passwords
are now asking for passwords.  leaving the field blank did not work as it had
in the past.