Windows xp pro will not turn off my machine properly every time.
Sometimes the computer gets to the shutting down screen then freezes!
After pressing reset  on the machine and trying to shut down windows again
usually ok.

OS: XP Professional 64-bit/SP2
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600+em
MB: K8N Neo4-F BIOS v1.9.090905 0
After installing .NET 2.0/SP2 into the above environment, the machine boots

I have Windows XP Home SP 3. On my computer there is one Administrator account and one Limited account.
I confess to not having used the Limited account for some time. Today I decided I should get back into the habit of using the Limited account whenever possible.
When I logged in ...

I recently got hold of an APC serial cable, and connected it to my old APC
Back-UPS 650 (BK650MI)
and in UPS Tab | Power options properties, several options became available,
and I was able to select my APC model, and change some settings for it but,

I´have problems in starting windows XP a message on starting Welcome windous
come as : ( Promise??. I´LL been thinking of you ).
Try to remove it from regedit but unable to do it with the antivirus.
Please help me.

The display on the onbpard ATI Radeon grahics system stared shaking and
flashing badly, and would not allow resizing or changing of colour depth. It
would allow changes in safe mode, but this caused the PC to hang with a black
screen on boot up. I restarted in safe mode and ...

How is this supposed to work?
Under win2000, I used NTBACKUP.EXE and this worked fine.
I have now moved the same tape hardware (an Adaptec 29160N SCSI
controller and a Quantum DLT4 tape drive) to a newly built winXP

Not sure this is possible but I have to do a load of screen prints which I
currently paste into Paint. Is there shortcut (or another way to) to
printscreen and then print immediately (without pasting)?
Ideally, alt printscreen and print would be best.

Sometimes I can play it for a half hour, sometimes it doesn't even get past
the opening screens and then it freezes. I have put other games in system and
they work fine. I cleared my cache so memory isn't a issue.
Any help or advice on this would be greatly appreciated!

I have up-graded three computers to SP3 without any serious problems.
However, my eldest son who lives away from home has a problem with his
laptop.  His laptop machine, presently with XP SP2, got half way through the
installation phase when he got a BSOD with a message that a ...

i tried to load windows live messenger and it said it "windows can't find
loader.exe
Can anyone help me with this problem
P.S. i dont know if this problem goes here or not sorry if it doesnt first

In safe mode the administrator account has extra-large high-contrast
fonts on the desktop.
How can I reset them?
... and how did they get that way?

Suddenly, after months of smooth operation, without any apparent
change in updates, SP, configurations, policies, etc, most of the
users of our AD domain (on Windows Server 2003 R2) had their Windows
XP SP2 PC blocked after a few minutes. In many cases they have to

    When I insert a DVD movie in  the player it automatically
selects Media Center to play, REGARDLESS of the setting in the
Menu "Windows can perform the same function, ETC:"
I can check the box "always do the selected action" and select some

I have almost 500 MB of blue uninstall updates (such as
$NtUninstallKB835732$) in the Windows folder and wondered whether I can
delete these or not.
They are, obviously, from their names, uninstall programs, so, as my windows