For the past few weeks my system has been freezing with indications of
massive hard drive activity. Since I am unable to do anything on the system
when this happens, my only recourse has ben to power down and re-start.
Today I decided to wait as long as it took to regain control.

When I click reply to a topic I have hilited in a newsgroup a page comes up
which says internet explorer cannot open the page OR a 'sign in to hotmail'
appears
Any help so I can reply to newsgroups?

I have a computer that has XP Home running on it and it will not load to the
desktop. It shows the XP Logo and it shows the progrees bar going by twice
and then blank. The hard drive light stops flashing and it goes not further
but the green light is on the monitor.

Disabling the popup blocker in msie 7 will allow for eassier interaction with
sites you write to.

Upon launching Microsoft Update, IE window opens and tries to open the active
x component (Checking to see if your computer has the latest version of
Windows updating software for use with the website...) within a few seconds,
the pop-up

Computer was working fine and had no admin or logon passwords.  I ran a
registry fix to clean hoping to improve the running of the computer. Prior to
running the program I did a system restore point.  When the system rebooted
the opening screen comes up requiring a logon for ...

An older version of Windows Desktop Search has stopped working (repeatedly
says to start WDS from the Start/Program menu, but it does not start).
Therefore, I am trying to install Version 3.01 on an XP SP2 machine
(installation program - ...

also cannot populate screen for add/remove programs.  any suggestions?

I am using Microsoft Fax. It defaults its sorting to 'ascending'. How can I
change this setting to 'descending' so it opens up with the latest fax
received at the top of the list?

I am asking Windows NG because I wonder if I am creating a problem for
myself. Very often in attaching files to email, I have an inordinate
wait while in the attach/browse dialogue.
My Pictures has about 12 folders in it, one of which has 1054 folders.

Does Windows XP operating system have a default computer name.  I crashed my
computer and reinstalled everything, when the screen came up about a computer
name there was one already there, I think it was "your z..." something or
other???

Apparently went to the wrong Web site and clicked the wrong button.  I now
have a "Security Toolbar 7.1" with two links just below my menu bar in my
I.E.  The links are to A block adware site trying to sell me their software
and a remove spyware site, again promoting and selling ...

I have been working on my grandaughters computer for the past couple days
trying to get it up and running on the net again.  Thru this board I have
been able to fix everything and it was running good until microsoft
downloaded the updates.  Her computer has been down since Aug, ...

When an image is embedded into a massage on Yahoo Groups, it will be saved
as a .BMP image automatically.
Is there anything I can change in WinXP that will allow to save as a .JPG
automatically?

For the past 2 months my computer has been restarting itself while I am
using it. It does this most frequently while i am playing a game or copying a
CD. When it restarts, it dusplays a message saying "Windows has recovered
from a serious error". So i send an error report and ...