A friend of mine just rang me because he's just got an iPod for his birthday
but when he plugs it into a USB port on his PC, an error message pops up
saying something like "Unknown device. A device has been plugged into a USB
port but Windows does not recognize this device" or ...

I have a 5 year old Sony desktop running Windows XP.  The computer has a
partitioned hard drive and the C drive filled up to near capacity.  I have
been trying to take off or move programs, but none of the utilities work
except Windows Explorer.  When I look for files such as ...

How can I change this in Windows XP:  When I go into windows explorer (right
click on START) and click on a folder, the "search results" screen comes up.
Only if I right click on a folder can I select explore, then the folders
contense is shown.  If I use the folders view on the ...

Have received Installation Failure Code 0x8007F01E.  I am not able to find
this error in the Windows Update error listing.
I am finally (at long last) trying to upadte my VAIO PCV-RX550 XP Home SP1.  
The biggest move was to finally install SP2.  I had been reluctant to do so

I upgraded to the free version of AVG 8.0.   With the 7.5 edition there was
an icon in the task bar.  The Icon is no longer there with this new edition.
   Is there a way to put it there and have it stay there.    I can go to my
programs - AVG free 8.0 - and click on AVG Free ...

I had one of those notices (the little yellow shield icon in my
systray)when I booted up today saying that new updates were available
for my computer, and the icon's details  said it was XP SP3, so I hit
the the "download" button and the icon disappeared and nothing

I have a strange problem with my ThinkPad T61 running Windows XP Pro. The
laptop has a 120 hard drive, the C-Drive is 105 GB where Windows XP is
installed and there is 15 GB ThinkPad recovery partition. Here is the
problem. The other day I noticed I had only 1.5 GB of free disk ...

Dear Friends,
Few days back During development of a time trial demo software in access
2007 I had changed the system date to advance the end date of demo to check
the result and forgot to change back to the system date on the same day and

I have a problem, when i start up my computer, a black screen pops up and
tells me to choose between windows xp and windows xp.  It gives me 28 to
choose. I the first one and it sends me into windows no problem.  How can i
delete that window?

I did download it manually...still had problems

I tried to update to SP3 and now I can only boot in the safe mode. Otherwise
I just have a circular restart to restart without booting to XP
PLEASE HELP!

I recently installed new MP3 software and want to associate MP3 type files
with it.  In Explorer I used Tools/Options/File Types to change the
association, but it did not change the icon in Explorer.  I now see a Windows
Media Player icon, although when I double click on the file ...

folks, as you can probably tell from the subject matter - olde clever one
here went and uninstalled the PnP enumerator from set up, i can see through
msinfo32 when and where it went from but have no idea how to put it back.
would be immensly grateful for any info on how to SIMPLY ...

Hey all,
I just turned my computer on today (presumably after it installed some
updates) and got the above error message. I found the MS support site
describing the issue and providing instructions to resolve it (

Every time I start my computer I get the following error message.  "The
procedure entry point symsetcontext could not be located in the DYNAMIC LINK
LIBRARY DBGHELP.dll"  Can any one help me fix this problem?