I was not constantly watching the screen during install, after
completion it asks for password to logon. What might it have assigned as
a password on its own since it never asked me for one?
Bob

Using xp sp3. Under Start, Control Panel, Networking Connections, I get a
"cannot find network hardware" message. Also no items show up when I use
Device Manager. I think this may have happened after I installed MMC, however
I cannot find out how to uninstall this service. I have ...

The notification area on my task bar is not displaying icons correctly.  
When the 'hide inactive icons' is checked there are two arrows on the
notification area and when I click one to display the hidden icons the arrow
goes two the left leaving behind a series of vertical lines. ...

I have a new notebook computer, would like to set up a home network. Can my
desktop be a LAN connection and my notebook be a wireless. they're both
connected to my linksys router.

Can someone help me out my favorites list has disappeared and l dont know how
to get the list back on. All my favorites are still in a folder in my
documents but l dont know how to get them back onto the favorites list and
why they went missing in the first place. l tryed system ...

It says "UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME", and under technical information,
*** STOP: 0x000000ED (0x84F23620, 0xc000009c, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)
For background information, it was running very slowly before I restarted
it; I left the hotel running AVG for eight hours on the off chance my

Rather, it insists that I have the correct driver.  By manually
comparing the driver dates, the one I got from Promise is clearly newer,
but Windows won't use it.
Do I have any options?  The older driver prevents Windows from properly

Some 3-4 months ago, I lost all of my stationary.  Whenever I attempt to use
the stationary and click on Messages, a box pops up and says 'unable to
create this stationary'.  This may have been due to a patch?  Would you help
me?  Thanks,  

How do I delete a folder that sits on my hard drive and can't be deleted by
"del" or other general means?
Thanks
Jack

I'm used to dragging and dropping shortcuts onto my desktop. Today I dragged
one from Start, All Programs to my desktop--and then discovered that it's no
longer listed in All Programs. How do I put it back into the list?
Thanks much!

Is there a point of diminishing returns for memory?  I currently have 1.25GB
installed in an Athlon 2800+ system.  The mobo supports 3GB.  Task manager
shows 557MB physical memory available when I load every program I typically
run and I usually don't have them all open at the ...

I got a new PCI wireless adapter.  I went over to the manufacturer web
site to download the latest drivers, but it requires you to install
the manufacturer wireless utility, which I don't want.  I just want to
use Windows' built-in wireless utility.  So I went into the Device

I am running XP Pro on an older Athelon 1700 machine. I have an 80 gig HD
with 512 megs of ram. Recnetly for no reason my machine has just rebooted
its self. It would boot back up and everything would be fine. Sometimes it
would shut down completely but I could restart it and it ...

What backup software to you like for XP? Acronis True Image? I've used
Genie-Soft and NovaStor (not impressed). All we need to back up is data files
and email. We use BING for disk imaging.

   I have an "anti-virus" program that has a "shield", as well as a virus
scanner.
    Most of you know, you can't have two anti-virus programs installed
at the same time, which will very likely cause a conflict.