computer- AMD 3400 sempron 1G ram; os- windows xp pro sp2; problem: strange
artifacts after nearly 2 years of problem-free operation; when xp boots up,
the usual black screen with the logo and moving colored bar has in addition
several evenly spaced square clumps of blue dashed ...

when starting/booting my pc, i get these messages
DLL error C:\Windows\system32\wdbclnt(2).dll
UMonitor C:\Windows\system32\guard.tmp
the system is unable to run either, nor am i able to gain access to them

After clicking "Replay to Sender" the program is trying to access e-mail
addresses you have stored in Outlook. Do you want to allow this?
If this is unexpected, it may be a virus and you should choose "No".
THEN APPEARS an Empty box for confirmation "Allow acces for" and dropdown

Probably a dumb question!! But I have had to replace my hard drive on my
notebook. I don't have any back up CD (Doh!) as the re-installation software
was on a partition on my old drive.
I guess I can get the various drivers that I will need from the Web, but

Hi everyone :) Last night upon restarting my comp. The dialog box "windows
cannot load locally stored profile...." pops up. Upon reaching the desktop
most everything is gone( a few but not all icons, desktop image) and all of
my settings are gone. including IE7, realplayer, ...

I hesitate to do this unless I can exclude JPG files as surely they would
lose some quality. Is there a way to exclude them from compacting?
SG

How do I find a file type? I got an attachment sent to me and it wont
open--create an association i the Folder Options control panel etc........I
cant find what sort it is to create??

When I boot my PC the "MY Computer" folder opens on the desktop. I've tried
googling to find answers. Lots of ideas but no answers that fixed...any help
appreciated. I've been looking for answers for 3 weeks.

I had always thought that no matter when you saved files on a hard disk
under XP that they would be listed in ASCII order in the directory (once it
was refreshed).  I think I forgot that the length of the file name might
affect this.

I have a Dell workstation with a 160GB SATA WEstern Digital Drive in
it.  It has been functioning fine for the last several years.  I have
Norton Security installed on it, and regularly scan for viruses and
spyware.  No problems, except some intermittent slowness recently.

I'm getting the following message:
MMC can not open C:\WINDOWS\system32\devmgmt.msc
Can anyone help me with this?
Thanks in advance.

I've bought a new graphics, Radeon HD 3870. The problem is, that it have
poor performance. I found, that HW Interrupts takes about 40 % of CPU. I
think there is not problem with PIO, because every other graphics is going
well and this graphics goes good on other PC (I have ASUS ...

I have my desktop icons hidden.  When I right click the desktop and choose
"show desktop icons" my wallpaper disappears.  I can see the icons but not
the wallpaper.  When I hide them the wallpaper reappears.  Thanks for the
help.

Please someone help me! I have installed windows XP Home in bootcamp on my
iMac.  The keyboard works fine accept for the quotation marks, greather than
or less than & question, forward slash.  I have to be able to use these keys
for homework purposes.  When I use the quotes this ...

I have a defrag program that I have set to run when my screen saver is on.  I
also set my monitors to turn off at the same time as the screen saver because
they don't need to be on.  I set the screen saver to turn on and the monitor
to go off at 2 minutes.  after a while my ...