I'm have problems with my arrow keys. When playing games or attempting to
move to left or right with my arrow keys they appear to be locked. I get no
error message or prompts. Has anyone experienced this or, can anyone offer a
possible solution?

I have to know as much as possible on
workgroups, user accounts, profiles, etc.
for network consisting of several computers
with Windows XP Pro.

I have a problem with it when I click on a movie on the net and it will play
the movie stop and start and without sound. I have downloaded all the codec's
that I think I may need but still have the problem.
An example, I wanted to learn more about the Movie Maker 2, when I would

This problem happens again and again with my computer. A month ago,
when I restart the computer (which was using WinXP), I found that the
computer couldn't access the harddisk. The BIOS of the computer even
could not detect the hard drive. I replaced a new hard-drive and now

Problem. Neighbor with a dinasaur Windows 98 (2001 version) has computer that
boots up and after it completes booting, it may be 30 seconds, two minutes,
not more than 3 minutes, whether on a program working or just setting there
it shuts off and reboots again. Never stays on ...

Whenever I "paste" a file to notepad, then click "save as", the default
destination is "Computer".  I never save anything to "Computer", as such.
How do I change the default destination for "Save As"  to "Desktop" ???
TIA

I have xp professional with wmp11.  I have always used wmp11 to view avi
files from my digital camera.  I installed a creative zen and now I cannot
view my videos, most of the time a black screen with white snow. the audio is
ok.  After about a half minute I get a message...WMP ...

I decided to delete one of the three partitions on a non-system PATA
disk prior to increasing the size of the other two.
Now the complete disk is not visible in 'my computer' or 'disk
management'.   It is however visible in the BIOS and device manager

HELP !!!!I have alway been able to change my desktop background by just right
clipking on my mouse and hitting set as background. I can't now Any
suggestons? I can't even chang from tile, strech ot center ither..that little
box id gone to =O(

Any ideas what this means?? I've been having it recently on my PC and I
thought it may be a driver problem for something I installed so I unplugged
everything and did a factory re-store and it's still happening :o( ....any
ideas what else it could be please, it's very annoying!

I want the Firewall to exclude a particular IP address i.e allow this address
to connect to my computer.
I have little knowledge of firewalls .
I would appreciate any assistance on this matter.

My Windowx XP Home Edition has stopped responding to CD's. The drive
won't even start spinning a CD. Consequently no info appears in My
Documents.
The drive does however respond normally to DVD's, so it doesn't seem

my xp pro machine has progresses from crashing nearly every program and
having the odd unexplained reboot to now having blue screen crashes.
I look at the blue screen but there is nothing that stands out as a problem.
Usually blue screens are either drivers or hardware failure.

cannot open these files in my yahoo e-mail program??
.swf

OK...here's the deal.  I have an old Pentium III/Windows XP Home Edition comp
that I have replaced with a newer Dual core/Vista comp.  My girlfriend asked
me to set up the old comp for her to play games on.  The problem is that when
I boot-up and it gets to the welcome screen, I ...