This is a strange request but I must ask anyway.  I know that modern CD-ROM
drives are pre-programmed to spin down after a few minutes of inactivity to
help save power or just to make them quieter.   However, is there a registry
setting or utility to actually keep the CD-ROM ...

Today 9 July 2008 two windows updates were installed in my system
1. Security Update For Windows XP (KB951748)
2. Security Update for windows xp (KB951978)
after these updates i restarted my  computer as usual and my internet

I have a Dell Dimension 8200 with XP, SP2, DSL connection with 130GB
of free space on my hard drive.
The problem is this, most web pages I can back space with no problems
whatsoever. However on Yahoo, MSN and IMDB it doesn't work and just

Recently, every time I boot up and wish to listen to some MP3s I have
noticed that the sound volume setting under the Play Control is set to
zero i.e. no sound., and I have to manually move the slider to get any
sound. Not sure why this has started to happen. Any ideas on how to

Hi readers,
problems with security update
Follow the link below , download new udate version of ZA 70.483.000, and
download the security update KB 951748 afterwards.

Computer stops running but doesn't turn off.  Monitor goes black and
the yellow "access" light on the cpu goes out, but the computer
remains on.  I have to turn it off and on again to restart.  No error
messages or other symptoms.  Seems to be virus and adware-free based

I'm trying to help out a friend with their computer running XP. When I go to
Windows Update it, as usual, attempts to determine the update level and asks
to run ActiveX. I click "Run activeX" on the information bar but it seems
that either ActiveX is not installed or it's become ...

I have an error msg during Windows start up. Can one pls help me to solve
this problem?
STOP c0000221 Bad Image Checksum The image 0lecnv32.dll is possible corrupt.
The header checksum does not match the computed checksum

Hello all, my Windows XP SP2 cannot shutdown! When a shutdown selected,
Windows will be restarted?! What's wrong? Please... Thank a lots!
BN

this is the following error i get when trying to share a folder or drive;
"an error occurred while trying to share XXXX. the data is invalid. the
shared resource was not created at this time."
can anyone think of what might be the problem (simple file sharing is off,

Windows XP SP2
We are currently evaluating Vista for deployment in our environment and we
have learned that one of the supposed advantages to Vista is the enhanced
power management features when running on a Certified for Windows Vista

When I hit the dash on my number pad, my computer goes into sleep mode.  When
I hit CTRL my favorites menu pops up.  The keyboard was working fine until I
had to restore and reload Windows XP.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hi.. I have a notebook running XP, Office 2003 - Recent problem developed,
and not know why?    Always good before....
PROBLEM: Whenever I try to tpye a message inside a Word document or Outlook
email and press the 'Enter' key to go next line.... my whole message and

When I came home, I was getting errors every time a program tried to connect
to the internet. They went something like "C:/WINDOWS/system32/mswsock.dll is
not a valid Windows image". I downloaded and replaced the file with one from
http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/dll-files ...

I can't get Internet Explorer to load any pages, keeps telling me there's
can't display WebPages?
Can someone please help me?
I did a defrag to my system today that is all, I was able to get online for