I am running WinXP and I can't Turn Off or Restart Computer via the Start
menu. I have to manually turn the computer off on the tower.
It's a Gateway, so the XP software is located on a partition. But I can't
find a 'rebuild' or 'repair' feature.

Why doesn't microsoft make it clear about whether remote assistance requests
can be accepted in XP home.  The information in various tech forums is very
contradictory.  From my own experiments I can say that it is only possible to
accept help requests if you are running XP Pro - ...

I'm trying to back-up Quickbooks onto a portable drive and I can't figure out
how to do it.  I've followed directions on the Windows site but I do not have
a "backup" option in the System Tools section.
Can anyone help???

Hi I'm running XP in a virtualized environment (fusion for mac)
Its been working fine , activated succesfully and running smoothly for many
months until last night it did an automatic security update, now after it
rebooted, it says i must activate windows before i log on. if i ...

MS update cannot install "Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0: x86 (KB829019)"
Is this important? and how do I install this.

cannot install the above update..any suggestions?

I keep getting a message that comes up when trying to access help and support
and system restore, all my services are not working properly anymore and do
not know why...
the message is

Can someone please tell me which key/s to get into safe mode? TIA.

A friend of mine has a desktop running XP Pro SP3.  He also had office 2000
installed until recently.  Anyway he had to unistall Office due to some
problem or other but since then he has the following faults:
1. He can connect to the internet but after about 5 mins it just times ...

I'm running XP Home edition w/SP2 and according to what I've read, I should
have a Bluetooth icon in my Control Panel, nor do I have any native Windows
drivers installed for Bluetooth, absolutely nothing on my computer related
to Bluetooth.  I found an article on Microsoft's ...

I have a strange problem with numbers on a computer in my office. It appears
as though integer values are not recognized. For instance, Access has a
version number of 18.4. On this computer, it shows as 18.45649382 (not
exactly, but a long decimal number). In an Access form that ...

XP Yesterday:
I use windows XP automatic updating. I shutdown the PC overnight.
Often the update is applied when I shut down the PC. But yesterday I
clicked a button on the usual messagebox that instructed it to

How do I get rid of the welcome screen and still have my name and password
on the screen? Thanks for any help you can give.
XP Home SP2
Don

Is there a way I can get rid of the Security Information popup that says
"This page contains both secure and nonsecure items.   Do you want to display
the nonsecure items?"  for sites that I have recorded as Trusted?

When I try to access the Windows Firewall, I get an error...due to an
unspecified error, windows firewall settings can not be displayed.
I have not installed any third party firewall and Defender, Spybot and AVG8
tell me the machine is clean of spyware.