Am now running XP Home Edition with SP2.  To get SP3, do I have to download
and install from Windows Update or are their other Microsoft sites I can
download from, preferring to "Save" to disc rather than set it on "Run" and
take my chances? Any input. suggestions or "do's and ...

I think I hide a folder and all its files by mistake.  How do I unhide it?

That disk is IDE pluged in the USB box, and 90% occupied, how to partition
it? Using Acronis?

I purchased a laptop with Vista. I then installed XP to a windows directory
called windowxp. When completed it booted up into XP but I lost the ability
to boot into Vista. I then repaired the boot loader for Vista and then booted
into Vista. Bothe seem to be working fine, Q. Is ...

I am using WIN XP and all of my USB ports have stop working.  Is there a fix
for this. Thanks
Doug

I'm debugging a machine running XP Pro SP2. It gives a blue screen
occasionally with a c5 stop error. It seems I'm supposed to run the driver
verifier utility to deal with this. I don't know which drivers to monitor
and monitoring them all slows the system down so much that it's ...

It's a couple of years old, and my Dell Inspiron 6000 (with Service Pack 3)
has become sluggish opening files and accessing the Internet (100MBPS
connection).  I frequently run Disk Cleanup, Defrag, error checking, and the
machine is malware & virus-free.  I even uninstalled a ...

I have a five year old Dell laptop with Windows XP that someone gave me
recently.  Whenever you click or right-click on anything, or try to open
something, say Word, a dialog appears saying, "configuring [or installing]
Adobe 8.1."  This dialog box just hangs, and you have to click ...

Since the last three days, I am repeatedly getting a set of three
"SideBySide" errors, as seenm in the event viewer.
Event Type:    Error
Event Source:    SideBySide

Does anyone know if there is any type of report I can look at after I
run a disk check in XP via
Disk Properties->Tools->Check Now...
When the scan completes it just displays a message box "Scan

I am having some issues linking a PDF on the root of a cd to the shell
command "read me" via the autorun.inf file. The command appears when I right
click the CD, and adobe opens but it says it cannot find the file. I have
also tried to put %CD%\ in front of the file name with no ...

This on a small insignia pc (my girlfriends) 6 years old running xp  home.
This is what happened I was not there so not sure of exact vergage. Got
notice from virus software that a virus had been stopped. Also got notice
that windows system files had been corrupted. Since then pc ...

Hello NG!
I still got the problem that video files are missing from the TMP folder after reboot.
Was there something known about the phenomenon yet? I think I ones downloaded
something with a video file or even separate from the video file, and I can not figure

I have Windows XP and recently brought my laptop down to factory defaults
and i had to install everything and all windows updates. However, i now have
the welcome screen and have to log on but just my clicking on my name. The
last time I deleted the aspnet user account which ...

XP PRO - RECEIVE THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE UPON UNSUCCESSFUL BOOT ATTEMPT.
"WINDOWS COULD NOT START BECAUSE THE FOLLOWING FILE IS MISSING OR CORRUPT:
<WINDOWS ROOT> \SYSTEM32\HAL.DLL  
I CANNOT BOOT FROM THE XP PRO SETUP DISK TO UTILIZE THE RECOVER OPTION.