I have a very slow laptop. I am sure that it is very clean.  However, I
suspect that over the years the Registry may have suffered a 'bump' or two.
If the reason for the slowness was there, would an upgrade from XP Home to
XP Professional make sure that any problems withe ...

Attempted to copy files/pics from c:\my docs, to cd readable drive. message
received: access denied see system administrator. I am administrator.
How do i correct this ? Could be possible virus ? Also have gotten internet
explorer errors. possible connection ?

Hi!           30 Jul
I have a Windows XP hard disk with NTFS compression enabled. I now understand
that the compression is at the cost of performance, which I cannot afford.
Can I disable compression on a drive that had NTFS compression enabled? Or

A removable hard drive enclosure went kaput.  The drive inside, 200GB WD, I
kept.  Installed into a removable enclosure that fits into the bay of the
PC.  This connected to a Promise UltraTX controller card.  Wiped the 2 FAT32
partitions, and made 2 NTFS partitions in XP using ...

My laptop has XP pro with SP3.
In use, after a short time (5 mins to 30 mins), either sitting idle with no
programs running or engaged in activity (eg. word processing), the mouse
freezes. Everything else is working OK and I can navigate to other programs

Greetings!!!
I had a problem with my dvd writer. I was not able to access. Then while
googling, i found a solution that deleting few registry entries upperfilters
and lowerfilters will solve the problem. but, when i delete entries and

is there a way to start computer from cd into a 32 bit console loaded
into ram?
(the prompt you get from -xp safe mode with command prompt option)
xp CD recovery console does that but then one cannot acess (not even

I downloaded a program called exiftool that gives me all sorts of info
on JPGs - basically it reads off the exif data in the jpeg header.
Where can I put this file so that whatever cmd prompt I'm at it will
execute?  Since I move around alot in directories I don't want to have a

Hi Guy's
I got this error, whe I trying to connecting is some of our workstation .
 \\computername\admin$ is not accessible. you ight have no permission  to
use this networl resources.

I have the Classic Start Menu. Suddenly the width is twice the size it used
to be. I find this very troublesome.
How do I put it back the way it was? Something in the registry perhaps?
Thank you.

I just recently bought a new hardrive and installed XP Pro. Because i was
having a problem where the process "explorer.exe" was using up a lot of my
cpu (70-99%). But by doing this I didn't solve anything so I figured there
must be a patch or something i can do to XP to make this ...

My computer came with windows xp already installed. My wife loaded vista with
a friends disc. How do I now restore xp and get rid of the vista??? I do not
have an xp restore disc, but can I still restore the xp??? Any help PLEASE!!!!

I have a laptop with XP connected to a printer. I have just bought a
Vista PC. Both are wireless.
TheXP laptop is configured for file and printer sharing.
If I open Network in the Vista PC it shows the laptop. If I double

I recently upgraded my Nvidia drivers for my home-built rig running
XP, SR3.  Video card is NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS (640 MB) .  All my
games used to run fine before SR3 and driver update and simply
restoring system doesn't see to help.

This morning I went to turn on my laptop -- Windows XP, Service Pack 3 -- and
all I got out of my laptop was 4 loud distinct beeps and then it attempted to
restart.  It got to the Windows XP screen and then went black.  Then nothing.
Forcing a restart, I once again get the 4 loud ...