I had installed a game Baldur's gate 2 expansion. Uninstalled the game later
using the shortcut in start menu. The game still shows up in Add/Remove
programs. If I click on remove it goes through the motions to uninstall it
but the listing is still there. I have tried a registry ...

I've been running XP for several years with few problems.  Late last week the
system has started to freeze, usually when the system was unattended several
hours after work.  Lately, it has now started to freeze (did it twice today)
in the middle of working where there is no ...

Is there a solution for storing sound files on a multimedia hard disk and
not enabling the files to be retrieved ?
(for example, are there multimedia disks which enable crypting sound files,
yet allowing to listen to them, or software solutions)

I was wondering if anyone knows of a way to make the apperance of windows
black and white.  I'm talking about every window.  If you click on log off or
turn off computer you can see what I'm talking about.  Is there away to
change the color to black and white?  Please help. ...

Back in the bad old days, a program called SPEED let you test
the processing speed of a PC based on a variety of benchmarks.
SPEED stopped working as processors reached faster speeds.
Can someone please suggest a downloadable program to do

Hi Group,
Recently I have been hearing an unidentified sound (sounds like 2
camera shutters: woooooosh, followed 2 seconds later by a shorter
wooosh).

hello... I was playing around with domain and workgroup settings, and when I
removed myself from the domain, I notice that it also deleted my user account
that I use to log in. Luckily, I notice that my profile under C:\Documents
and settings was not deleted, so I have access to ...

I have been woking on a computer for someone who had some virus'. While doing
this I also installed IE7 for them. I had the issue where the Tabs band was
missing. After searching on the web I found several articles that indicated
that you should use gpedit to set and then unset ...

I am having an issue where my shortcuts on the desktop are not recognized,
I tried to use system recovery but it asks me what program do i want to use
to run this.
Can anyone help?

Is there a way to make "my recent documents" include excel files?
Also, is there a way to increase the size of this list, and to "pin" some
files to it?
Thanks for any suggestions.......

I can set my desktop background to any color or picture except those that
move...such as glitter graphics..etc...please respond if you have
solution....Thanks..

I am trying to create a WINBoot CD containing the i386 folder from the XP
pro CD and files to FDISK and Format.
I have read that you can get the Boot image from the WIN CD but then this
starts and prompts you for DISK 1 of the Install disks.

When I reboot the windows installer attempts to install a program.  The only
way that I can get it off the desktop is to ctrl alt del and end task.  It is
still attempting to install in the background.  If I try to install a program
I get Error 1500.  "You must finish current ...

Using XP SP2 on a Lenovo X60 laptop, my wireless card is usually (but
not always) disabled on startup or resume from hibernation. It doesn't
matter whether the hardware switch for the card is on or off. It also
doesn't seem to matter what the state of the card was when the machine

I am using XP Pro and have no issues connecting to wireless networks that
broadcast their SSID.
However, at home, I hid my SSID.  The moment I did that, I find that my
network connection drops quite regularly.  The only way to get it back is to