Within the next week, my subscriptions to AVAST Home Edition and
SpyNoMore expire.
In the entire past year AVAST has never detected a virus...until it
was set to expire. Then my Laptop, a Dell Inspiron E1505, went off

I am trying to use Windows XP backup.  In the article "Windows XP Backup Made
Easy" by Ed Bott, he says that if you choose the My documents and setting
option that your e-mail messages and address book will be preserved.  I have
done a backup and looked at it through restore and ...

I updating my whole strategy for backing up my home computers.  I've read
(and re-read) the threads and DO NOT want to go back over cloning and imaging
or, for that matter file/folder backups.
I'm also NOT interested in comparing software (I can do that).  The only

I was wondering something.
When I was having problems installing xp about 3 weeks ago I called tech
support. The XP disk I have I bought at the University so the tech told me
that I can only install 2 or 3 times and thats it. Now he also said that if

I just updated WINXP to SP3.  Now when I try to use my check writting program
Quicken, I get "error 104- missing repository."  Internet search has been
unable to provide help.

When I click on my Windows user account on the XP main user screen, it just
pops up as an error, saying "Insufficient System Resources to log on user
account."  I can restart the computer and it is just fine after that for a
little while, but when it does log on, it takes a solid ...

I am having probelms with my computer. Whenever I try to install something I
get error messages that say:
Error extracting support files, can not find path specified.
I have been all over message boards everywhere and cant seem to find what is

I want to wipe my hard drive and start from scratch, my files are all backed
up but I need to create a startup disc so I can start up windows once the
systems clean, anyone know how to do that in XP??

Has anyone noticed that cleartype corrupts the password character (big dot).  
It's not completely round -- flat on the top, and pointy on the bottom.  This
doesn't happen on initial login (after a cold startup), only after a login
from a locked/suspended/hibernated machine.  It's ...

XP Death Watch
http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/27/XP-deathwatch-T-minus-five-weeks_1.html
Even though it has had its own problems of late, Windows XP remains
the most-used version of  Windows. The newest data from Web metrics

Everytime it happens.  This morning there was a security update ... said size
was about half a meg.  
After the download 4 megs were eaten up.
After the install 40 more megs were used!

Ok, so I did a "microphone" keyword search through here and read the threads
where people have posted having problems with their mics... to no avail.
I'm running Windows XP on a Dell.  The sound works fine, the mic works on
another Dell.

Recently, I updated 2 pcs into SP3. But, I found when I click the "network
neighborhood". It is okay and showing the window. However, after closed the
"network neighborhood" window and re-click again. Since, I always need to
use that function in sharing files with other PCs.

Several applications including all of the Office 2003 suite do not leave
memory when shutdown. Some applications will not restart until they are
killed in the task manager.
Firefox used to do it, but the latest version has stopped the problem.

I have 512 MB of memory and want to know if there are built-in tools in WinXP
Home to tell the memory usage. I am concerned that my PC is running slowly
when I have too many applications open due to this, and may need to add more
memory. Thanks for any information.