Can anyone help or point in the right direction please?
Have a PC which had a load of virus's on it.  Have since installed virus
software and cleaned the hard drive.  
I do now have a problem though.  Whenever I boot up it asks for the

When I go on my computer to CNN.com and click on a video it says that I may have a Flash Blocking Device.
What could that be?
I looked in My Programs folder and see nothing that has the word "flash" in it.

When the computer is first switched on and my wife logs onto her account she
can send and receive email.  The same applies if I switch on and go to my
account.  However if  either logs off and the other logs on no email can be
sent or received. Even logging off and logging back on ...

I'm trying to help fix a PC running Windows XP that has been crashing for
almost the last year.
Every few months the system crashes with the error message "File Failure -
Cannot load System32\Config\Software corrupt, absent or not writeable.

We get a 4 year old XP machine and it is getting slow.  The HD is always
being accessed (The light is flashing).  Some fellow suggests that it is the
slow HD and some one suggests that the memory is not sufficient and paging
all the time.

I have XP Pro SR2, and all updates, with Office 2003, OE, using Avast,
Ad-Aware, Spybot S&D (occ.about 1/month), and Windows Firewall is on...
The past two weeks my IE has crashed several times, and I'm getting images
of prior windows/screens overlapping on the monitor...rather ...

I will explain the situation first: my primary drive failed, so I replaced
it.  I have formatted and installed XP OS and drivers so I can use my
computer.  Now, I wish to recover all of my user-data still present on the
original drive (which used to be my OS hard drive).  Right ...

I have a LAN, the problem is whenever i click my workgroup in order to
see computer on the net, even there wasn't any computer except me,
MrxSMB warning is logged (event id: 3019) in XP SP2's event viewer.
How to solve that?

Hopefully somebody can help me with this "error". Since some weeks a
window of the Windows Explorer (location - My Documents) appears when
I start Windows XP. There is no entry in the Start Up menu though.
What do I have to do to fix this?

Can anyone help me out on how to stop these runtime errors?  it says the
following on the IE7 page but not always and it may have different line #'s:
Runtime error:
Line 561

I have HP Pavilion 061 with Windows XP Home Edition Ver. 5.1.2600 SP2 Build
2600, A 2.69 processor, 256Mb of Memory,  Award Software, Inc. 3.16,
8/5/2003, 66.71 Available Physical Memory, Total Virtual Memory    2.00 GB, Page
File space of 934.50, I am using Comodo Firewall & Virus ...

How big is a minimal XPsp2 OS? My wife has an old notebook which barely
passes the minimal requirements for XP and I installed XP Home on it and
after downloading SP2 (express install) it now takes up half the hard disk
(i.e. 3 Gig out of the 6 Gig hard disk). Is this too much? I ...

New to this forum and looking for help.  I am having trouble with my labtop
which is now on start up flickering on start up. When the desktop finally can
be seen, before all applications have been loaded, then screen starts to
change color (like bleacing effect) goes from white ...

Is it possible, to have two instances of the same game on one computer
(having two user accounts)?
What i want to happen, is in one user account, the basic game be there, but
on a seperate user account, i'd like the game to have a expansion pack, but

I have 3 monitors on my system. In order to expand my taskbar, I use a great
little software call MultiMon.
However, lately, on my expanded taskbar I've been getting an icon that says
"WaitableTimer". It doesn't seem to do anything, though. Is there any way to