I am the only user on this computer XP Home.  All of a sudden yesterday, I
lost admin rights on the only user on the machine.  Don't know why.  I have
firewall, virus protection, adaware etc.  Now I can't do control panel etc.  
Went into safe mode and found the admin user that is ...

My friend bought a computer but didn't realize that she needed to "purchase"
the anti-virus after it's trial period ran. They use cable internet service.  
There was no anti-virus or firewall protection shortly after purchasing the
computer.  Kids accessed internet and MySpace ...

I just noticed today when trying to rename a file folder that I have read
only access where I've never set my folders or files to read only.  I'm not
sure where I can change this particular setting at.  Any thoughts would be
most appreciated!

Tell me if there is a better newsgroup to post this in!
I am using Windows XP with PartitionMagic 8.0.  All of a sudden
PartitionMagic showed one of my drives in yellow and marked it as "BAD".  It
didn't show any of the 4 partitions on the drive.  Right clicking the drive,

I have the electronic circuit analysis program Pspice V6.0 that I am trying
to run on my Compaq Presario V2000 laptop that runs on WinXP.  The analysis
engine of Pspice V6.0 appears to be DOS based and needs a security dongle
attached to the RS-232 port.  The laptop, that does ...

How do I show a list of DOS commands?
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My windows that I open keep going inactive.  Right in the middle of typing or
browsing.  I have to keep clicking them to keep them active.  I am not sure
why it started doing it.  One more quick thing is a file that keeps opening a
window when I start up my computer.  Not major ...

I had a OEM copy of Media Center 2005 installed on my Dell laptop.  I want to
reinstall using a clean CD free of all the junk that Dell puts on their
computers.  While using the disk that they provided to reinstall the OS, it
began installing some misc. programs (which I don't ...

HI, we need a commerical product back up program eg, Symantec, PCTools or
whatever, that's a good back up program that'll 128bit encrypt and password
protect daily backups of an Access database.  Daily backups are around 330MB
and weekly back ups are about one gigabyte.

I have just reinstalled xp home and now my speakers will not work , on the
control panel it says that there is no audio device connected even though
there is , does anybody know what to do

I have XP2002-SP2 and need an assist.  I loaded a few Google Plug Ins, I
think on Thursday, and at least one of them apparently had not agreed with
my system.  I have been trying to do a SYSTEM RESTORE and am coming up
zeroes.  I have chosen several restore points off of the ...

I had between 4 and 5GB free left on my hard drive those last few months.
Suddenly I have now 10GB free without having cleaned anything or without any
Windows or other major update. How could this happen?

The task scheduler service ITSELF will not start:
When I go to the servicec manager, and tell it to start the Task Scheduler,:
1) I get a pop- up error: "Could not start the Task Scheduler service on
Local Computer Error 5: Access is denied"

I have Windows XP/SP2, Internet Explorer 6.0.  My download time when
accessing certain websites takes too long, and some pages or websites I
cannot access at all. I thought I had a powerful computer, but evidentally
that is not the case (I think). I know how to check for spyware, ...