Recently when I boot up the XP, just before the POSE, I got the warning the
chip fan speed is slow or stop and ask me to press F1 or goto setup.
I just goto BIOS setup and stop the warning.
How do I get the details of the problem?

Dell doesn't want people to get XP pro as downgrade rights from Vista
Business...
I have a friend on the phone and she is in tears.. she hates vista (and with
very good reason)

Example:
I turn up the "Device Volume" in Sounds and Audio Devices Properties and
next time I start the computer it's back all the way down.
I put my computer on Standby (start>turn off computer>standby) and it won't

One of my users managed to open a spoof email supposedly from UPS which
unleashed a trojan - some sort of fake virus warning. I managed to remove the
virus which has installed a .bmp file as the desktop image but then managed
to turn off a couple of the tabs on desktop properties ...

"Walmart will soon be launching its own version of the Geek Squad as pilot
program in 15 stores in the Dallas area. The new "Solution Stations" will
supposedly help customers with such tasks as flat panel TV installation and
computer repair and will be managed with Dell Inc."

I'd like IE6 to display the details view of any folder so that all
sub-folders are listed first and then files. Is there a way to achieve that?
Bobbi

I just want to confirm that when I use NTbackup  and check the tree option
for SystemState (BU set is on  tape or another hard drive), that the system
state is included in the actual backup and not just backed up (copied) to
the local system32/config folder.

Just did a massive copy from one drive to another with RoboCopy.  250 GB
total.  I copied and logged and at the end of the 40 MB log file I see that
I had 3 files fail out of the 750,000+ files.
Every file is listed in the log where it seems all of them show "new file".

We have a few hundred identical PC's we built for many clients back in 2004,
on various occasions due to malware or general corruption we format and
reload them. Up until a month ago they were reactivating just fine, now
every one of them is requiring that I call in to get them ...

Amazingly, today, a simple operation like organizing the icons on the
desktop seems to have wiped out the recycling bin... Don´t want to point
fingers, but really, I did not do anything else....
Can anyone tell me how to re-add the icon to my desktop? I would appreciate

I am trying to install a hotfix from Microsoft to fix my 'no audio' problem.
The file is KB888111 and while installing a message says I need to find a
file 'sthda'sys' to continue installation.
Any MS people here know where I can get this file or if there is a way

If I go into the command prompt and type "defrag C:" (without quotes)
everything works fine.
However, if I run that exact same command from a batch file the command
constantly repeats itself over and over like it's stuck in some kind of loop.

The colours used in Paint carry numbers identifying the hue, saturation and
luminescence. Is it possible to find out what these numbers are for any
particular colour? I don't mean the colours given in the colour box but a
colour, say, in a jpeg image imported into or saved in ...

Hello...
I have a user running Win XP sp2. Whenever she double clicks My Computer (or
accesses it from Start - My Computer) all drives are displayed properly. Then
when she double clicks the Shared Network drive, her My Documents folder is

This issue has been always happened to me after using a Tweak/Optimization
program, this is something that i cannot solve, something that i have never
encountered, if i could just talk to bill gates about this issue (lol joking