B9s (Bitsy Beige Boxes Between Black Borders Bearing Brief Blurbs) -- or
better, by byword "Tooltips" -- persist on my screen sometimes when I
open a new window.
Or when a (benigner?) B9 better begin!

I have a Thinkpad T42 with Xp Pro, with all the latest updates. It crashed
and as I do not have the Recovery CD - in any case, I do not wish to do a
Repair Installation - I am attempting a ' Repair Installation ' with a copy
of Win Xp Home Retail CD.

I'm using Win XP and, using the built in Zip feature, have zipped up 14 files
that include one .exe file and one .bas file.  When I try to Extract All
files it extracts all except these two files.  It says that the files have
been blocked to protect the computer, then I can click ...

I've got a new 500gb seagate harddisk, contained in a casing, which is
connected to my laptop having XP Home edition OS. When i click on the
disk management, it shows the drive, but i am not able to partition
the disk nor format it. It shows as unallocated. I wonder why is it

I have a friend that has an Hp pavilion desktop, for some reason he hit
system recovery on start up, so it wiped out want he had on his hard drive. I
called HP and asked them, is there any way to undo the system recovery and I
was told no.

When I try to open Add or Remove Programs I get a message saying Windows
cannot find C:WINDOWS\system32\rundll32.exe this also happens when I try to
open the Security Center. I cannot access the programs I want to delete. Can
you help please? I am not very computer literate I'm ...

I am thinking of installing the above Backup utility.  Can anyone
confirm that it saves in the file`s native format, please?
Thanks
Kate

Every time I try I get a popup error message:
"C:\documents
Cannot find this file.
Please verify that the correct path and filename are given."

I have a problem my ctrl+c and ctrl+v shortcuts are not working.
Please advise.
Mitka

I have just reinstalled Windows XP and the text (not HTML) in the incoming messages looks considerably different than before the reinstall.  I have tried to make font changes without success.  Can anyone tell me how to change the font on incoming text mssages?    Thank you.  

I was installing Windows XP setup in preparation to install XP on a
second drive, when I realized that I needed to exit the install
without completing.  Setup wasn't recognizing my function keys (F3 to
exit) so at the menu I did a cold reboot.  Now every time I start my

I am trying to transfer a program from my old PC to a new one.  Both with XP
Home.  I copied it to a cd and then copied it to my C drive but when I try to
open it I get this message "comdlg32.ocx or one of its dependencies is not
correctly registered or a file is missing or ...

i have  a old  compaq 5030 that  have  win 98 on it  im  trying to
upgrade  it  to  win  xp pro or  xp hm edt but  when  i  install winxp
hm  i  get  a  mesg  that  say the   I/O  device  is  missing  and  when
i  try installing  xp  pro  i  get  a  mesg  that say the  acpi file

Just put a new mother board and intel duo combo in place and a safe boot
fails at Mup.sys.  If I try to reinstall from an XP upgrade disc I get an
alert that I can't find processor instruction CPUID & CMPXCHG8B.  Bios shows
the processor so I'm confused at that on.  Thoughts?

Hi, my WinXP Pro SP 2 will not address ram memory above aprox 1.1 GB.
It does not go to pagefile.sys - it simple refuses to go above 1.1GB
System has 4 GB, even changed RAM chips to see if it was faulty chips.
System properties shows the expexted 3.25 GB RAM.