I have been hit hard by some piece of malware.  (Defender, Panda, etc. have
all failed to stop the damage.)  I believe that the malware has been
eliminated by hunting it down and deleting it.  However, it left me with a
nearly non-functional Start menu and various permissions ...

I had properly shut down my slow and old toshiba satellite yesterda
night and when I powered it up the next morning, a screen said includin
the words "Windows did not start successfully" showed up. There is
list for me to choose from Safe Mode, Safe Mode with Networking, Saf

I know there is obviously no single answer for this question, but does
anybody happen to know vaguely the sort of size the average automatic/
security update would normally take up in XP SP2?
e.g. would a single update usually be, say, a few megabytes, or could

re-installing XP on a new sataII hard drive
after i boot, press any key to boot from CD ROM; get thru the windows is
testing my system screens and after i press F8 to accept, I am at the install
windows where screen.

running,  xp home. with windows defender in situ,
though I have not scheduled a scan from the above, as I prefer to do it
manually. when I boot up first thing it tells me I have not scanned for:
5/10 days and to scan now. this is even though I may of scanned the day

Hello everyone, Until a few nimutes ago, I would start my computer and I
would have my desk right there, nothing to do but start working. Now, I have
to click on a Icon to be able to log on. How can I get rid of this? I much
prefer not having to log on as such.

These do different things as far as keeping your harddrive tuned up.  Defrag
removes all the pointers by putting entire programs or data together on the
harddrive (in sequence instead of scattered allover the HD).  Speed Disk
(Norton) is suppose to reorder the data and stack it ...

My boss requests privately to fix her notebook for herself, I think it will
be no problem at all. Her notebook is mainly personal use at home. When I
request her to bring all related software and notebook to me, so I can format
and install every application for her, she assumes I ...

I have a Freecom Toughdrive 160Gb which I want to use as "travel disk".
A part will be public and another part will be private.
Since i'll have some files that exceed 4GB, i converted the FAT tot NTFS.
All is fine as long as i work on the same computer/same user at home. When I

Is there any advantage/disadvantage to using the 64-bit version of XP
even though I have no apps that would use it?  I am wondering if there
is a pure speed advantage if the 64-bit version is used because of the
ability to address more than 3+GB of RAM.  Also, which cpu's would ...

Anybody know what the smallest device is that will run "real"
Windows XP?
I'm probably going to supplement my Palm Pilot with a Windows
Mobile device sometime this year.... more for amusement than any

What does this mean?
Mircosoft Visual C+ + Runtime Library
Runtime error!
abnormal program termination

XP Pro, SP2. I have auto updates on, and it did not update
to SP3. Good. How do I make sure it does not?
HP computer, XP home. Update to latest. It tried to install
SP3. What is the difference?

I wanted to replace the 40 GB HD in my XP SP3 notebook.
Booting from the Acronis CD I backed up both partitions (separately)
to a USB hard drive. Then with power off I replaced the hard drive
with a 120 GB one. Then booting on a Partition Commander CD I

I have a installed a Medion digital drawing tablet (from Aldi) I'm now
getting a message when I close my lid saying WTService is preventing your
computer from going into standby. When I do a search there is no record of
WTService in my computer. I'm using Windows XP home edition.