I have a "vista" machine.  I've had nothing but trouble with it. (Vista)  I
won't go over my complaints,  but as far as I'm concerned, it stinks.  I
found a copy of XP on Ebay (   NEW Microsoft Windows XP Home, Full SP2!! w/
Legal COA)  for $84.00.

Windows XP Home, SP2, IE7
High speed cable connection with DHCP, no router
Everything is working properly until I leave the PC untouched for several
hours, say overnight, then I cannot check my email or bring up web pages, and

My desktop XP Pro machine is connected to the internet wirelessly
(Netgear WG111v2) via my Linksys router.  It is getting an IP through
DHCP.  I have another laptop XP Pro machine connected to the internet
directly to the Linksys router via DHCP.  Both can access the

Please can someone help us here as we are not really technically minded with
computers. I know my way arounds roughly. We have a problem with a message
that will not go away no matter what I seem to do. It says that we ahve too
many anti virus/security programs running at the ...

When I goto the Date and Time Properties>Internet Time tab and click on
update now I get this error message "An error occurred while windows was
synchronizing with time.windows.com The time sample was rejected because:
The peer`s stratum is less than the host`s stratum". I ...

Anyone know a prog that will do the trick, i just want to be able to access
internet through another computer on the Lan. I am looking for an http proxy
which I wish to install on a hacked computer. A google search did not help
me in this regard.

A friend of mine who has a laptop running XP Pro wanted to create a new
profile to log on to a domain (but she wanted to retain her desktop,
bookmarks, etc.). So I created a new profile, deleted everything in it,
then copied everything from the older profile in it.

This message comes up every time I open the computer.
How do I get rid of this

Dear Sir,
Thank you for regularly updating the OS for security and performance reasons.
However I notice that each time when the updates is installed, the PC would
need to be reboot. During this process the user  need to reconnect to their

If I remember correctly when I did my re-installation, there is no partion,
hence there may be a default small partiton which I never observe under Disk
Management.
The other day I scan another hdd (as secondary slave) and later took it out

<2 year old DELL Dimension Desktop B110
After a good shutdown, Boot the next day quickly displays black screen with message:
...Missing or corrupt file
...\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM

Before I find the funds to replace my laptop with a broken keyboard letter
(e.g. "k"), I would like to know if there is a way to redirect a rarely used
key like "+" for a more commonly used key. I had thought with DOS awhile back
that you could redirect one letter key to another. ...

The time on the desktop has been changing and this seems to have been
affecting Zone Alarm and AVG (antivirus). I put in a new battery but
had forgotten to change the bios settings,
I changed bios but am still having problems as the time/ date in bios

After some navigation in specific sites, I get "page cannot be found"
error. The same page is accessible, if I try reopening it in a new
browser.
I removed all the cookies, temporary files also. Still the same

I just installed XP PRO on my machine. I try to install office 2003. Then, it
auto plays. It says it can't find a certain file. I try to open it again and
it is completely gone from "My Computer". I don't know what the file is
called because it will not let me open setup anymore. ...