I am reinstalling XP Home Edition, I reformated  the partitions  on the hard
drive  and  then Windows started to install XP  , but froze during install  
with 36 minutes of install time remaining.  Note that first I I got an  alert
said "cannot install  msls31.dll",  I  pressed ...

I think I may have had a power surge or a virus, not sure. I have multiple
problems but my biggest is that I am trying to get my pictures off of my
computer and can't.
I can access My Documents but I can not copy, cut, delete, move, transfer or

Recently my 'puter died - fried motherboard. It was a 2.4 AMD with 2
internal IDE's (80 & 160 gigs), an external 500 gig HD, HP scanner, HP
inkjet, cable modem, Sony DVD writer, 20" LCD ACER monitor, and running  
store-bought XP (with all the thousands of upgrades and fixes) Home ...

Sorry, I found a thread on this topic, but unhappily can't find the solution.
Can you please assit? My Task Bar doubles height when I launch Quick Launch,
probably because I resized it, but now do not know how to come bqack to
normal.

Is there some way to change the desktop icon text from white to black?

I ahve several users defined on the computer.  One works great.  On the
othres I can get internet response and when I startup Outlook an install
shield window pops up for a few seconds.

On opening my users account I am greeted with the following message Windows
cannot find C:\Windows\system32\geede.exe.  There have been variants of this
message with the geede being replaced with vtsqr and ssqrp.  It appears to
be a problem associated with viruses W32. Trats and ...

When i go into my computer and click on my c:drive, it opens up the
search screen.  Also if i right click on the c:drive, the option on the
top of the list is search, not open. Can anybody pls help

I have Roxio CD/DVD Creator 6 installed and I am trying to uninstall it.
I use the control panel removal app and it will not uninstall it.  I
tried to delete it manuall that does not work it says file is in use.
I tried the unlocker program and still can't get it removed.  ...

Entered my OE this morning and found all the inbox messages have gone but
they were still there last night, can someone tell me what will be the cause.
Thanks!

Dell 4300, Windows XP sp 2 home edition
In the process of trying to get rid of spyware I changed something in the
registry.  I was trying to get rid of the file vtstt.dll.
Now I can not logon in either regular or safte mode.

I have been dogged by several variations on the following problem in the past
two days, an annoyance that seems somewhat intermittent. As a preamble, let
me mention that whatever is going on does not occur in Safe Mode, and also
that I have checked the system with with both NOD32 ...

I have an error message isapnp.sys is corrupted, follow all the instructions
to repair by booting the system with XP got myself to c prompt. When I tried
to rename the file isapnp.sys to isapnp.old it kept saying that the file name
is not a directory. I have tried everything I ...

or maybe i should say, how do *i* get rid of him?  i'm using OE as a
newsreader.
any suggestions?

Morning,
When Windows XP Home (on Dell Computer) starts up, it goes to a black screen
that has a message with short white line that spins at the beginning, the
message says " Client MAC ADDR: 00 0F 1F52 FF D4 Guide: 44454C4C -