New here, searched a bit, no on-point posts to be had ... otherwise
simple question:
I'm running Win XP Pro (sp2) on a basic 250gb western digital drive.
Had no problems. It's connected via SATA (SATA power as well).

I remote desktop into a machine over a Juniper SSL VPN connection
using version 5.2.3790.1830 of mstsc.exe.  When I toggle back to my
local session my taskbar does respond properly.  I have to minimize
all my windows and then select the one I want.

Friday is the last day which Bill Gates will control Microsoft.Love Or
hate Microsoft's software you have to admire the man for his out an out
business acumen.

Yesterday, I had a small problem opening up a Notepad file.  
double-clicked it and it showed up in the Taskbar but it would no
maximize on the screen.  It still does that today, as does my websit
program, Cutesite Builder.  All other programs open up fine from th

I run 2 computers, both connected to a printer, one via wireless connection
through the wireless hub that the printer is connected to.
I had tried to print without having the printer activated, and go an error
message "PrintServer connect fail".  I turned on the printer, and am ...

On two of my PC's the mouse pointer has started to behave as if it has a mind
of its own.  While moving it around, it will suddenly jump to some place off
the screen.  I have checked the Hardware Manager and there are no conflicts.  
I changed the mice from PS2 to USB and it made ...

Whenever I try to do a search with WDS under XP SP3 now, I get a
"Windows Explorer" dialog box popping up with the error: "The path '-
Windows Desktop Search' does not exist or is not a directory." I've
searched around and found very few reports of this problem and no

Create restore point before reformat, after removing previous points, save
the files to another drive, then reformat? Would the system accept the saved
restore point when copied to the new C:\?  Thus, reinstalling apps would be
unnecessary. Is this proceedure workable?  TIA, any ...

I have (legal :-) XP on a CD. However, it's not a bootable XP CD, it's
a CD with all the setup and cab programs that originally ran with a
script.
I need to do a repair installation. Is there some way to create a

Does Microsoft distribute any version (MSDN, Retail, or OEM) of Windows XP
Media Center that includes SP3 slipstreamed in?

An issue that I thought would be addressed with XP; Excel retains old
external references in the Applications.Names group and the files grow to
unreasonable sizes.  Has anyone had success in deleting these names with a VB
program?

Could somebody please recommend a nice, free program that repairs XP registry?
Cheers,
Noah

My Xp computer beeps exactly once every minute.  It is the same sound made when you try to do something illegal in a game.  I have
checked the task manager, but it shows no applications running.  How do you fix this when there is no error message to help?

1) Is this unxxx.bat legit system file or need be removed? (has created
recently):
C:\WINDOWS\system32\unxxx.bat
and it code(in notepad):

I've had a problem where the monitor stays in standby mode when I resume the
computer using XP Pro SP2.  I've tried two different video cards.  The only
way to get the system back is to pull the power cord.
I've gone so far as to remove the video card and put it into a different