This morning we were greeted by a blue screen Stop: 0x00000024 (0x00190203,
0x82f2a828, 0x00000000) on start up.  I tried to start in Safe mode, safe
mode with CMD prompt etc.  Everything ends in the same blue screen.
Tried a DOS boost disk to run a chkdsk with no success.  Any ...

Out of curiosity, does running disk defragmenter reduce the life of a hard
drive?
How often should disk defragmenter be run?
Thanks...

I have a gaming PC with win xp sp2 that has had problems at startup
for about a year now. It will hang at the splash screen and the blue
scroll will just roll on, and until recently, I would get the message
"Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected

Win XP Home help and support seems to offer a way to remove previous point,
but my restore wizard doesn't show the way, offer the option.  I'd like to
keep the last 2 or 3 points, and remove the rest, which is clutter and
lengthens virus scan time.

I created 3 accounts along with my administrator account. Now, I can't see or
log in to my administrator account. I have only one limited - user account
that I can log in to - and of course, I can't update my software, etc. as a
result. How do I solve this problem? / get back my ...

I have am IBM laptop runing XP Pro SP2.  I purchased a new battery for it
and everything was running fine then the laptop locked up.  I tried
everything I knew to get it to reboot but was unsuccessful.  I let it set
for several hours and It never shutdown.

I have a couple of laptops that have a problem with certain features like
roaming profiles and syncronization where they do not seem to know when they
are off the network.  Sometimes when starting up at home or elsewhere a
couple of laptops will give the users an error that it ...

I have a problem which is really annoying.  My screen keeps freezing up, I
can 'unfreeze' it by opening task manager, closing task manager with 2
clicks of the 'x', this is because the first clcik is still part of the
freeze and doesnt close it. after ths my scren is ok for a ...

Any way to change the pc ip address without logoff user id ?
currently user don't have right to chnage the ip address

Can anyone tell me a command-line command that would actually invoke a
legitimate BSOD, without causing any permanent damage? I'll take
either variety of: 1) being able to get rid of it with a keystroke, or
2) locking the system up, requiring reboot.

My brother cannot install the above on his HP slimline. All updates are
current. Here is the timeline that he provided for me:
Service Pack 3 Setup Error (the heading in the box)
Access is Denied (after you click on this you get the message below)

I am trying to do a repair install. When I boot from the CD, I don't
get a repair or recovery option, it does "Setup is inspecting" and
then goes into a fresh build sequence (loads drivers, asks me to
select a partition).

I have XP with all service packs.
   My system crashed and I rebooted but lost all USB ports including PCI
 card.  ALso internet access is gone.  I think that I may have picked
up a flash file that trashed my system.  I ran system restore and that

At work, while away, someone plugged there mobile/PDA device into my PC (not
a problem - hotdesking etc). However, every time I log in it comes up with,
device not deteched etc etc. Is there away of stopping this, as I can't see a
don't ask again box?

I'm trying to write a script that will put a .bat file into the pinned
portion of the start menu.  Where are the settigs for that? or a folder that
holds the shortcut?