First, the batery indicator light and the two adjacent lights (one for
power, the other, the processor) were flashing on and off.
Then, my computer cut off while I was using it. The screen didn't go black;
rather, I heard a whistle noise of sorts, whereupon a blue screen came up ...

Got an older Brother laser printer attached to the USB port
running XP Pro SP2. When we first boot up, printer works great.
But during the course of a day, with the PC going into and
out of Hibernate mode due to disuse, soon we can no longer

When attempting to run Defrag, error message " Disk Check is scheduled to
run, please run disk check".  I have run Disk Check, but still receive
message.  Disk check not listed in scheduled tasks.  
Any assistance appreciated.

Hey there,
I am running XP Home SP 2.  When I boot up Windows, I get the following
error message when the desktop appears:
The instruction at "0x7c918fea" referenced memory at "0x00000010".  The

what does it mean when I get a "virtual memory minimum low - windows is
increasing"....?
Is there something that I should or need to do to my computer ?

I have installed a new large disk in my system and reinstalled OS.
Now i want to add my old disk to system in one of the slots available( this
disk has os on its primary partition with drive letter as C:\) and its active
bits are not wiped.

I was wondering is there only %1 available when changing Folder Options/File
Types?
I'm noticing the %1 passed the whole filename including folder, I think this
is causing a program with the DOS program I'm using and I was wondering if

Is there a free software to get Anti Virus 2009 off my computer,it's
driving me crazy with pop ups.....

I have reinstalled windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 on my Inspiron
6000. I did not save anything, so I am starting fresh. I am unable to access
the internet. What is wrong? I can't play videos or cd's because it is
telling me that I have no sound device. I go and check, and ...

The Problem:  "A fatal error has been detected and the application must be
terminated."  I have been having trouble with Net Zero dial up (not
connecting) so I uninstalled and reinstalled the program several times which
didn't resolve the problem.  Then I started getting the ...

What is the lsass.exe process in the Task Manager?  I see I/O reads and
writes against this process and this is after an O/S rebuild.  The CPU
Utilizzation is very minimal, almost nothing at all if that much.
WinXP SP3

My mother-in-law has a Compaq Presario desktop running WinXP Home edition.  
40GB HD with 26GB free.  Last week, while trying to install an upgrade to
Norton antivirus. she encountered problems with the installation and was
unable to compete the process. Somehow, it also affected ...

I recently purchased a Blackberry Cell phone and loaded the DeskTop Manager
program that enables me to sync it to my Outlook data. When other users on my
computer log on, the Desk Top Manager loads at start up. It takes several
munutes to load and is an annoyance to them. I have ...

I have 2 hard drives. Vista home premium sp1 64bit was installed on the
first and I just installed windows xp pro on the second drive.
now i can't get into vista anymore even when selecting that hard drive for
the boot drive in my bios. i only can boot into xp.

These both happen on one laptop sometimes:
1. Windows Explorer freezes when changing navigation from one folder to
another. Sometimes it will recover itself after a minute or so. Or we can
click close to stop non-responding program. The desktop shell then restarts