Everytime I restart my PC recently, the check disc utility runs but it
stops on a certain file and cannot complete the disc checking. All the
errors are about "Windows Software Distribution downloads. When I tried
to defragment my disc, it says that it's unable to defrag due to a

Do not know if this is the right forum for questions
about outlook - anyways here is my problem.
Got an e-mail with an attached .exe file access to which
was denied by outlook because the file is not secure (rough

Occasionally my Computer restarts itself and I get the following error:
EVENT ID: 7026
"The following boot-start or system start driver(s) failed to start:
ftsata2

Help Please, I am using an external USB hard disk drive with an Ext2/Ext3
volume on it. When I remove that USB drive, the drive letters I have created
with "IFS Drives" (a free utility) of the control panel still persist. I have
tried everything to remove the drives but they ...

i have tried everything to uninstall windows xp from another computer and
nothing works.  i tried dos and i was unsuccessful.  a copycat was installed
on this computer and i can't uninstall it.  i want to put a genuine copy on
it and it seems nearly impossible.

In windows xp, when it first boots up it goes to a screen that asks to press
f to format, or q to quit or another letter for another choice, question is
how to get rid of this screen and do a normal boot process. Have tried a
restore and to no avail, has been in the "msconfig" to ...

I am using XP-Home Edition and OE 6.0.  It's time for a new computer -- this
one is literally on its "last legs" (if computers had legs).  Is there any
way to save a list of the newsgroups I currently subscribe to, along with
the messages that I have flagged to watch?  I don't ...

Say the RGB value of an area on a JPG is 128, 192, 128. Is there a
program that would allow me to transform the color of this area into
any other RGB value I wanted (say, 0, 192, 0)?

I have a question about tabs. My first tab will take me to my homepage.
The second tab automatically takes me to a page called FIRESEACH search
engine.
How can I get the second tab to stop directing to this FIRESEARCH.

For the past three or four days I have the following window appear at
bootup.
Component "actskn.ocx" or one of it'd dependencies not correctly Registered.
A file is missing or invalid.

At the bottom of the screen, over the icons next to the clock, there are
"information bubbles" that occasionally show up..  But mine do not show up,
like "27 days until activation"..I get the sound, but the bubbles do not
show up. Does anyone know how to fix this?  Using XP SP 2

Just want to post this for folks who have problems with MCE not entering
standby automatically. Check your print job queues... both for printers or
for any of the virtual printers (like Adobe Acrobat etc).
For the past few weeks MCE would not go into Standby automatically

When I installed Win xp English on my Japanese Toshiba laptop, it installed
the keyboard as a 101/102 button standard keyboard when in fact it has a
106/109 button Japanese keyboard. How can I fix this issue? It&s not a matter
of region/language settings.

Recently I had a problem with Adobe InDesign CS3 file, which wouldn't open.  
The Adobe tech person helped me fix it with a patch, and it opens fine now.  
The tech person said it seems that my file associations were such that my Win
XP SP2 didn't recognize the program associated ...

After the first of the two 120GB drives on my laptop started to get full I
started storing some files on the second drive.  Currently I have over 2GB
free on the first drive and am using 12GB of the second drive.  All the video
files I have moved to the second drive work fine.  ...