When I try and bring my computer out of Standby the power light comes on the
fans start (not sure if the Hard drive spins up) but the monitor and all USB
devices do not start. I have all the latest XP updates and drivers and the
problem just started a few days ago out of the blue ...

After updating to Windows XP SP3, everytime I try to install or uninstall an
application Windows Installer requires the application's source CD-ROM
containing the *.msi file.  There is no *.msi file, just setup.exe;
therefore, the application cannot be installed or uninstalled.

When i check the c drive with norton anti-virus it says i have approx 1
million files, 700,000 of which are in c:\windows\installer. What are they
and can they be safely deleted?

I've been having trouble with connecting USB devices. I get the found new
hardware wizard but it doesn't find the correct driver. I found a post with a
similar problem and it said to run system file checker then to uninstall all
USB devices and then restart. I did this now when I ...

Yesterday I backed my XPpro up using both image and clone. Went to
MicroSoft Updates and did their 'download and install'. I would rather
have downloaded just the SP3 file, naturally, to have it available for
a later possible update, but Microsoft prevents this, only offering

Lately my PC has been slowed down greatly after 5 or so minutes after start
up by what appears to be a process called svchost.exe, which is taking up
almost 100% of my CPU making everything else nearly impossible to do. I
downloaded the Process Explorer to find out which one it ...

While rebooting after the initial installation of SP3 I got:
BAD_POOL_CALLER
0x000000c2 (0x00000007, 0x00000cd4, 0x0210000d, 0x8910b5e8)
This was well after the installation had completed, and well into my

My wife has a small problem which I hope someone can answer. She was using
her laptop which has XP installed and as she was writing the magnify came on
and we cannot get rid of it. We have looked at help and it only tells you to
start it but not finish.  Help

Recently, my computer had some windows updates.  I let them install and then
when I rebooted, Windows asked for a password.  I am the only user on this
home computer so I did not ever set one.  It won't let me log on at all.  
I've tried entering nothing and everything I can think ...

Whenever I try to use an online shop such as amazon I can order the item but
then even though the baskets says the item is there when I continue to the
checkout it doesn't recognise that anything is in my basket. This happens on
every shopping site I have recently tried it is as ...

Have a new one: seems to be a common problem, but I can't find a solution on
MS's website or on the Net generally.
Running XP SP2 on a Pentium 4, Norton SystemWork's WinDoctor turns up the
message: '"C:\Program Files\Common Files\Corel\Shared\Shell

I use an external HD for backing up. Often its letter changes when I use
some other USB devices so that the script for the automated backup
doesn't work . How can I assign a fixed  letter for the external HD ?
thanks

Lately I had to do a manual power down and restart, only when I restarted and
reached the 'windows failed to shut down/start properly...' screen i found I
could no longer get to the desktop. Starting in safe mode populates a list of
several drivers from the system32 folder, says ...

After installing SP3 on my Laptop,when I boot up I now get the following
message, "Stop Device, This Application will not run in this operating
system".
All my programs run and short cuts in the task bar are working.

I received WU for SP3.
I selected Download, So far nothing is happening.
That was 2 hours ago.
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