On booting there is an annoying warning message of " 'Directcd' will cause
windows to become unstable....".
How can I unistall or what ever to get ride of this annoyance. It coesn't
show up on the normal uninstall

Can someone please remind me how to get IE7 to open in a new window each
time a link is clicked, rather than just changing the current open one? (OS
XP)
Thanks

I have my computer set so that you have to enter a password "upon resume"
after a screen saver. I know that it is the Admin Password that is used. For
some reason, the real password works to login, but so does just hitting the
enter key and leaving the password blank! (It does ...

Ok I have zone alarm and norton system works for fire wall and antivirus I
have gone to some sites that require flash player and I have the latest adobe
flasher player I get error that says update flash player or enable active x
and script in explore and I have explore 7 and I ...

I have 2 PC running XP (one Media Center, the other XP Home) on a home
wireless network protected by a router.  Both have been kept updated prior
to SP 3.
Since I updated to SP3 one of the PC (XP Home) has had continuing problems

I have XP SP2.
In my Eventviewer>System the last few days it shows the following error ID
7000:
"The Upload Manager service failed to start due to the following error:

My icons change on my desktop -- or disappear, leaving regular folders, etc.
In cases where I've created a shortcut to desktop and a domain's icon is
created, it'll be gone within a week.
I use Windows Defender, Ad-Aware daily, and run One Care weekly.

I was away from home and tried to piggyback on someone elses wireless
connection.
I found two "Unsecured computer-to-computer networks".  One was even
named "Free Public WiFi".  Signal strength to both was good (4 bars and 3

I have XP installed onto a hard drive which is on a caddy. This installation
is rather old and it takes a long time to bootup. I think that it is
therefore time to do a re-install (I have tried everything to clean it up
but cannot improve the bootup time). The trouble is that a ...

Last year my mother had to replace her computer - she got an eMachines
machine with a celeron D processor.    Her computer is much slower
than her old machine which was cheap several years earlier.
Everything is slow, slow, slow.   I was at her house yesterday and

After installing and trying Microsoft Office 2007, I wanted to go back to
Office 2002 XP Small Business so I deleted the trial 2007 programs via
Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs and now when I try to run any Microsoft
program (Outlook, Word, Excel, etc.) I get the following ...

When I lower a window which I've been viewing to the taskbar, it just
disappears instead of appearing on the taskbar as a button. All other quick
launch buttons are there and functioning. Any ideas as to what's going on?

Problem:
XP Home edition, Desktop and Screen Saver tabs disappear from Display
Properties Menu for all members of the administrators group.
[i.e Control Panel>>Display>>Display Properties>>'menu'

Is there a registry entry that disables the Start Menu Button Tooltip "click
here to begin"?