I am running widows XP home upgraded from windows 98 se. I have tried to run
recovery from the xp upgrade disk but nothing happens.  I have a w98 boot
disk can I try this

Can someone tell me where to look to find out how much MB my video card
has?  I have XP SP2.  I've looked in system/device manager, but can't find
any MB there.  Many thanks.

all of a sudden, my desktop background has changed so i tried to go to
control panel to fix it, howver, that option is now gone from My Computer.  ?
so i go a different way and when i click to change displany settings, a
dialog box opens that tells me "This action has been ...

Can anyone help me with this, Fatal Login Error. hr = 80041034, f =
-2147217356 which appears when I use a hyperlink, I think java script
has something to do with it as it appears before the address im trying
to link to. Please please help, Ive been on this for months and I dont

This is my 3rd topic I had to open (sorry for that, the other 2 can be
removed) because I have problems with my microphone. When I go on like
"Teamspeak 2" the sounds I hear are send to the others as if they were coming
from my microphone. Furthermore, my microphone picks up ...

Happy new year to all!
Here's , I hope, a simple question for the new year.
I have a pc with an XP PC with 1GB of memory and occasionally run processor
hungry video editing software.

I'm using a Dell 8300 with windows XP.  Computer is approximately 3 yrs old.  
I had purchased a new video game and it would not launch so I went to update
my sound, video and chipset drivers from the Dell website.  As each updated -
and I believe I already had the newest on my ...

I have deleted all the files in the Temporary Internet Files folder, however
when I right-click and select properties, it shows 4,877 files and size of
65.6 mb.  I have turned on "Show Hidden Files and Folders" and turn off the
Hide system files and folders, yet I still can NOT ...

I have a Latitude D600 laptop, after charging the battery, the laptop will
not run on it, even though the laptop says that the battery is 100% charged.  
I ran the battery down, the laptop switched itself off and  has never worked
on battery again.  Never had a laptop before, so ...

anyone know what this means?  When I start up my pc this little box appears
saying:        MDATA.DAT file not found, then I click OK and next little box
says:  MKBDATA.DAT file not found.  And I click OK and then start using pc.

After rebooting the computer does not star. I get the message that a file
might be missing or corrupt. I read that the solution might be on the start
up disk, but my computer did not bring such disk when I bought it. Is there
any solutuion please. Thank you.

New PC build, new SATA drive with Win XP Home SP2.
Just added an IDE drive from an older PC and Disk Management is showing
as disk 0 and the first partition of this as a logical drive and
*active* (there is no system or data on it).

Suddenly ... after something is downloaded, the AOL screen freezes and the
only way I can open the download is to
click CTR/AlT/delete
get out of AOL

When I go to certain sites I get
Micosoft Visual C++ Runtime Librar
Runtime Erro
Program: C\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EX

I'm trying out several disk backup/image products and have been using the
disk management routines to delete, create, and format partitions. On a
number of occasions the quick-format has hung and can be terminated only by
ending the process in the Windows Task Manager. The same ...