Hi I just did a fresh install on my computer with Windows XP Home and Service
Pack 2. Everything is working fine till now however system restore fails to
start when I click on the link from the start menu it says that "System
Restore is unable to protect my computer". The Tab in ...

I have been having issues with Windows XP:
I noticed in the past few days when my computer wakes up from sleep mode
that the normal sound that is played tends to skip(much like a record that
has been scratched).  My computer also seems to have been running slower as

I have someone who has lost their install disk for their computer but
it needs to be rebuilt.  I do have a retail XP SP2 disk but I am
wondering if the key he has will allow an install of XP from that
disk.  Do home, pro and media version use the same CD but copy

when i start my window's (i have pc tools anti virus free edition which works
ok but it say's on start up that it encountered a problem and needs to close)
when i click on send error report i get no feedback. this happens all the
time (with error reporting) but when i use other ...

I have Windows XP Pro "Embeded" OS on a 'Point of Sale' computer. I guess to
save space,which it has plenty of, "they" tookout all the native XP printer
drivers. I have older dot matrix printers ( like okidata ML320 turbo, or to
emulate an IBM Pro printer III; I also need a ...

Please help me!!!
My wifes laptop needed a clean down and re-installation. So I used the
FASTWIZ to move the files and settings to external HD. Re-formmatted
the C:, reinstalled XP plus all the apps then ran the FASTWIZ to

I have a laptop which, when connected to the network at the login screen,
cannot log in to the domain.
If the user disconnects from the network and logs in with the cached profile
it succeeds. They then have to reconnect and syncronise.

I recently downloaded a couple programs trying to do something with binder
files. Since then, I have deleted these programs but when on line, I keep
getting pop ups. They are a blank page stating that IE can'tdisplay this
page. they pop up no matter where I am surfing.

I posted yesterday about a problem I am having and got NO "help and
support". This forum should be renamed to "maybe we'll help or maybe we'll
just ignore you!" Thanks for nothing.
Sue

I cannot login to support.microsoft.com page, also I cannot access the
"Microsoft Knowledge Base".
I always get the error message: Internet Explorer
cannot display the webpage. I run "Network Diagnostics for Win XP" and I got

I am running Windows XP home edition with SP2, and Internet Explorer v6. I
had too many problems with IE 7, so I went back to IE6. My question is this.
If I download and install Windows XP SP3, will it upgrade my IE to version
7, or will it leave my IE 6 installed?   Charles ...

I'm a bad boy: I upgraded the bios and a bunch of mother-board-related
drivers and software recently without doing a back up (actually, I did back
up the bios).  I also tried to install some plugins for IE and Firefox that
allows me to do mass uploads of pictures to one of the ...

I recently ran a freeware registry cleaner program because my laptop wa
running slow even after defragmantation. After I did this, I starte
getting spoolsv.exe ("Oxffbadd11 referenced memory @ Oxffbadd11. Th
memory could not be read") and svchost.exe ("Ox7c911629 reference

Running Microsoft FAX
Version 5.1 (Build 2600.xpsp.080413-2111: Service Pack 3)
The Fax trasmits and receives, but the inbound files only deliver to the
Incoming Folder.  I selected to have a copy of the item stored in a folder

Recently I posted here a question re backing up the System Volume
Information folder.  The responses convinced me to stop doing it.  Now
I would like to delete the SVI folder from the backup media, which is
an external hard drive.  I can't seem to find a way to do this using