For some reason, the toolbars on IE, OE and even Firefox have changed to a
darker color.  I went so far as to do a compete restore back to October and
shortly after restoring my mail the taskbars changed to the darker color
again.  It sort of tan, not beige.  I am completely unable ...

I've got a weird problem here. My Windows XP suddenly doesn't recognize
my USB sticks anymore (although my USB mouse and cam still work fine)!?
They work without a problem on other PCs though ...
Any ideas why this happened and how I can resolve this problem??

I wonder if anybody can help as all of a sudden my sound has gone and all I
get are beeps from the tower when error messages appear. There doesn't seem
to be anything else wrong. Any ideas gratefully received , thanks

You may know that if you disable non-existing IDE drives(device
manager -> ide/atapi controllers-> primary or secondary channel-

startup time takes almost 1/2 less than it was set to "auto detect".

I installed XP from a volume license CD; added desired software,  and ran
sysprep, including the product key in the [UserData] section of sysprep.inf.  
When I ran Sysprep, I did not check the box that says "Do not regenerate
SID".  After running sysprep, I made an image of the ...

Hello, All.
For the past month or so, I have had this almost random blackout
screen when I played avi files. Sounds were on. One strange thing is
that occasionally this did not happen... Any ideas ?

I encountered a problem when running an application on a Microsoft Windows XP
Home edition pc. The application is written in VB 2005. When I start up the
application, it is displayed in the task bar and windows task manager but the
form does not appear on the interface. Other ...

Is it safe to post registry entries that contain your GUID in internet
newsgroups?
Can someone use your GUID for malicious purposes?

I know I'm probably dating myself, but does anyone remember those old DOS
programs that only had LPT1 & LPT2 printer port options for printer setup?
Well, I still have one those ole programs (I know I should upgrade and
probably will one day), and need to know if anyone knows how ...

How difficult is it- once I've reinstalled XP after it crashed- to
reinstall microsoft outlook (i.e the inbox/ address book/ calendar,
etc)?
Any help gratefully received.

Dear all...
Please helps..me... my audio no sound... when i startup and shutting
down..now sound.. i have checked the control panel.. sound & audio device
properties the audio tap.. Soumd playback device Default device is C-Media

XP seems to start normally but when I try and launch the 1st application
(internet etc) then the application doesn't start and I'm unable to do
anthing at all. I can still activate some butons (to re-start, shut down etc)
but these also don't work. My only option is to hold the ...

Ok, so this has been happeneing for some time now. I would like to say ever
since I installed IE7. In fact, lots of errors have happened since IE7, but
that's another day. Ready? Here we go: Like some other folks here, I keep
getting Explorer.exe crashes. Dr. Watson references it ...

i am having Dell Vostro 1000 notebook. Operating system is Windows XP Home
Edition.
for last few days i have removed my battery from my notebook
From the wallsocket the charger was directly plugged in to my notebook and

I have been using a machine that is not totally compatible with Vista. I
could never find the correct display drivers.  After months of dealing with
this I decided to go back to XP Pro.  Before doing so I created a backup
using the Vista backup utility.  Now I can't restore that ...