For some reason, the image i use for my desktop's background keeps
disappearing. It will be okay for days and then i'll be gone to lunch and
when i come back it has disappeared and i have to go and reset the properties
tab to get it back. Is there some reason it might be doing ...

How do I tell which version I have???
In particular, how do I tell if sp3 in installed???
Thanks
Herb

Every now and then, when I have Internet Explorer running, suddenl
multiple windows begin to open repeatedly. I don't think it's a troja
or virus because it isn't different ads, it's the same site over an
over. I have to shut down the computer to get it to quit. Sometime

Backstory:
I'm a professional developer. I was in need of a firebug-like tool for IE
for tracing errors in javascript, so I can functionally debug things in this
browser without installing Visual Studio and paying $700 for a javascript

When I view My documents folder and select view thumbnails all my text
disappears.  I see the thumbnails but none of my folders are labeled with
text nor
are my word documents labeled with text.  Can anyone help?

Windows XP Pro SP2
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DOSKEY issue:
'doskey' seems to run but after that it doesn't have any history of my

I have a word pad icon on my desk top named "Read more [1]...  I have tried
to delete it by right clicking and when I try to delete I get the following
message "cannot delete file:cannot read from, the source file or disk".  When
I look at the properties of the icon:

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My computer will not recognize any CD-R that I put in. This is my computer:
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CD burner is the same as when I bought it. I confirmed that the CD burner is
set to allow recording, and that IMAPI is set to automatic.

I had a problem with Paint Shop Pro X2 - it would only run once then I had to
reboot to run it again (no alerts - it just didn't run 2nd time). Then I
noticed that Windows Task Manager is showing multiple instances of every
application I run each day. So, if I have run Excel 10 ...

I'd like to VNC into a PC that is behind a server & router.
Server is on external IP 217.x.x.A as well as having local IP 192.168.100.1
running Windows 2000 with ISAServer (has two NICs)
Router is on external IP 217.x.x.B and is a DrayTek Vigor2800

I've been trying to solve this for almost two weeks now, but I'm completely at a loss of what else to try. I'll give the symptoms, what I've already tried, and what my lines of thought and troubleshooting have been thus far..
First, very rarely, my system will spontaneously reboot ...

I'm trying to set up a dual boot system with Windows XP on one partition
and Windows 2000 on the other partition. So far it hasn't worked. When I
install the 2nd OS, the 1st OS stops booting.
So I'm looking into Boot Manager programs. They talk about "hiding" one

I installed windows defender on my computer, and when i tried to uninstall it
said i was missing a file, i tried to reinstall it to see if that would give
me the missing file, and now i get a box that keeps popping saying beginning
program installation, but it never happens the ...

The SP3 update just installed and now the laptop continuously reboots. It
will startup correctly if I take the wireless internet card out, but as soon
as I put it back in I get a blue screen error message saying the windows has
been shut down DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL