Running Windows XP Professional
New PC has been running for about 90 days.
Loaded Quick Books 2008.  Ran fine.  (This is the only change that has been
mde recently) A week later the OS would reboot unexpectently.  In Normal Mode

If you plan to Update to the new Java 6 Update 7 be careful. If you do not uncheck the Open Office option at the start of the download it will install Open Office on your system

My computer has gone very, very slow. There are no viruses, trojans, etc, as
I've done extensive checks.  Assuming that soemwhere along the line the
Operating System got corrupted, does the installation of Service Pack 3
restore verything in the OS to what it should be?

I have recently reformated by C drive and installing programs.  When trying
to install my Adobe Photoshop CS2 I get an error message -- data1.cab file is
corrupt of missing.  Can't install.
I don't know what to do?  Can anyone help?  

Whenever I open a folder from the XP GUI it shows both the items in the
folder on the right hand pane and the directory structure for that
folder on the left hand pane. How can I change XP globally to show only
the items in the folder and not the directory structure ?

I use WIN XP Pro and have a question about an annoyance in the “open “,
“Save”, or “Save As” dialog box that appears with just all programs and
Internet explorer.
It seems the “open “, “Save”, or “Save As” dialog box defaults to the

I've got a folder with about 3000 pictures. My sister has gone through and
made a list of pictures she wants to remove in excel (instead of actually
deleting them). She now wants to get rid of the files on the list. I was
hoping there is a way of using the excel list to delete ...

I installed EMC10(Easy Media Creator) and attempt to launch it then an
error message was displayed which said something to the effect that
DAO.msi is missing. It appears to be a file associated with the OS.
Could anyone help?

I am curious, what are the reasons that some applications after being
uninstalled leave some entries in the registry, or leave behind a
corrupted registry?
Are the application developers incompetent? Or is it just difficult to

My problem is like this, i have Xp pro installed on a SATA drive which is
having 2 partitions as C: and D:, size of disk is 80 GB
Xp is installed on C:( Both system and Boot partition are same)
Recently I started having a lot of chkdsk error while satrting the machine

I tried the end of last week to download Windows XP service pack 2. I needed
to do this before I upgraded to Quickbooks Pro2008. The process took over a
hour and a half before I had to leave the office. Left the computer on over
the weekend. Came in this morning the computer was ...

YMMV, but on my system (WinXP Media Edition with SP3),
two directories hang off C:\Documents and Settings, but are
invisible by all normal means that I can discover in Windows,
with one exception: if I go to Command Prompt and do a

I am using XPpro and PPT2003, which usually works perfectly. However, every
time I attach a LCD projector to do a presentation, the first slides shows,
but then PPT freezes up and I can no longer change slides. Other office
applications, such as Excel, also act up and by itself ...

Please Help Anybody - I am dead in the water!
When I power up my desktop I am receiving the ugly blue screen with the
following contents: DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
Tech info: STOP: 0X000000D1 (0X00000018, 0X00000002, 0X00000000,

ok I've found this error in the event log from a few days ago
Event Type:    Error
Event Source:    crypt32
Event Category:    None