I installed the Upgrade Advisor, after being told that I had first to
install a .NET program. Now that I know my system is compatible with Vista,
how can I uninstall the Upgrade Advisor? It does not appear in Add/Remove
Programs.

The on/off button on the monitor is sticking now and then. I push it in to
turn on the monitor and it "sticks",........ie will not come back out. Is
there some safe lubricant I can use to correct this problem? Thank you, Steve

Help I cannot get my computer to boot up without having the windows xp
cd in the drive, if it is in the drive it boots up fine after quiting
setup menu on the cd, then it switches to the xp bootup on the hard
drive. any help??

I had always thought that no matter when you saved files on a hard disk 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.

Currently tried various methods of solving this and I'm at my wits end right
now.
1. When attempting to boot in normal XP, all loads fine until user select
menu. Only one user exists, selecting it forces automatic log out back to the

We're about to take delivery of a new (actually a Dell refurb) computer with
a 320 hard drive and XP Pro pre-installed. I've always previously had a
small C drive for the OS and programs and a large secondary drive, called D,
for data, so a single hard drive of this size is ...

Just yesterday, my computer has been receiving random pop-ups or ads.
Whenever a pop-up occurs, a small white window on the lower-right hand of my
screen would appear with the following message: Ads from InternetProgram
The message is not clickable and goes back down. Is my ...

I bought a new pc about 3 years ago, I have a problem installing  a download
from microsoft.  I have been advised that running   (sfc /scannow)  may help
solve my problem.
However when running this programme i am asked to use a windows xp home

I have lost the user abilities on my keyboard and mouse associated with
intellipoint 6.1 so I tried to unistall the programs and recieved an error:
"Error applying transforms. Verify transform path is valid" Can anyone help
as I do not know what a transform path is or how to fix ...

Just yesterday, my computer has been receiving random pop-ups or ads.
Whenever a pop-up occurs, a small white window on the lower-right hand of my
screen would appear with the following message: Ads from InternetProgram
The message is not clickable and goes back down. Is my ...

We moved my son last weekend and when we plugged in and set up his computer,
it boots at a snail's pace and only goes as far as the desktop page with no
icons, no ability to access the start menu, virtually unusable.  When he
disassembled it, he admitted to just unplugging it ...

I can't run the add/remove for Office 97. Not from the control panel, not
from the CD, and not from a copy of the CD on a seperate partition. I can
run the CD on a differen computer.
setup.exe will not run on the Office 97 CD. It will not run when I copied

I'm trying to install files to view Japanese programs/websites. When I go
Control panel/regional options/add languages/languages
I check" install east asian languages" I get the box that lets me know it
takes 230MB to install. I click ok, then apply and it asks me to install "XP

I'm getting a mup.sys type stop error saying "UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME", on
both my XP and W2000 desktops, caused likely when I had a recent power cut
and I just happened to have iPod's charging. No new hw/sw changes had been
made on either machine. Both powered up ok after the ...

When I use disk clean up, the 'compressed old files' does not empty itself
completely. If I go into options for them and change it to say 5 days instead
of 10, then it just changes the amount that are compressed, but still does
not empty completely. Any ideas?