I have a number of applications that are no longer used but who have various
"helper" programs still running in background.  They don't show in the
Add/Remove software list that you access from Control panel.  In one case,
the application never was listed, so I need to uninstall ...

How do I delete my signature in windows live hotmail?

When I lost my audio, I went to troubleshoot, and I can't use it. I got the
message "activeX control on this page is unsafe".

My laptop died.  I pulled the hard drive to use as an external drive.  
Unfortuantely, I used a password on my laptop prior to its death, now I
cannot access the one directory I want.  All the HELP says to move the
directory to the shared folders.  I cannot move it or copy it.  It ...

My VPN was working just fine until a week ago when my home pc had some driver
issues (printer and video).  I restored those just fine, but ever since then
I have not been able to use VPN to get into work.  I turned off my firewall
LiveOneCare firewall, but that did not seem to ...

When I boot up my computer it tries to install Fax and Photo Gallery.  I have
to cance out the attempt to get past it.  It is looking for a disk?  I used
Regedit, no success, restored, no success.  How do I get ti the computer to
stop trying to  install these programs or are they ...

On my IBM laptop I have noticed a new folder on C: drive with the name made
up of 18 different numbers/letters combination, starting with bF and ending
with 372.(size 35mb)
There is a sub folder named wcu, which has sub-folder

I have Windows XP Home Editon and everytime I try to open a MPEG file OPEN
WITH appears to choose a program. I select the program and check off Always
use this Program but the next time I try to open a MPEG file again the same
thing happens.

windows firewall not working at all. xp home edition
i need to access windows firewall program but when i click icon in control
panel box pops up stating "Due to an unidentified problem,windows cannot
display windows firewall settings." thats it no explanation or hint as to

There so many good replies and instead of trying to find them again, is there
some way to save them?  Some replies are extremely helpful and I don't want
to "lose" them!

My computer came with an icon for Dell Support Alerts in the system tray.
I've tried to get rid of it the usual way, by right-clicking on the icon,
and looking for Properties--but the only options on a right-click are View
Alerts, Alert Settings, and Exit. If I click Exit, the ...

My system keeps asking for a program to run known and trusted programs and
them it will not run.  I can't get to simple programs like my sophos
anti-spyware etc.  Please help

I already have Windows XP installed, and use Auto Update. What is the
difference between Dynamic Update/Auto Update? On Microsoft Updates it
explained each one, but not in detail. It seemed to me that if I was going to
be installing Win. XP for the first time I should install ...

I have two batch files - hello.cmd and hello2.cmd.
Here's the contents of hello.cmd:
@echo hello, world!
Here's the contents of hello2.cmd:

how do i retrive the key code from my service pack 2 cd because i lost the
code but i want to use it.