A friend gave me an older HP tower. The only thing I know about it is that
it has XP on board. When I attempt to boot it, it gives me three sets of
three beeps, followed by a single beep and nothing else happens. Can someone
shed some light on this?

I tried to delete my cookies with several methods. Impossible to delete them.
They stay there in the temporary internet folder. Do I have a virus or
something?

I cannot Log Off or Turn Computer Off. Using XP Professional Do Not Have
Norton Anti-virus (MS only asnswer)
Have to reboot system to switch user

I have a small Office 2007 Powerpoint presentation that runs continuously on
a PC at the front desk of a company. It displays a page of phone numbers,
waits 10 seconds, then displays the next page. It is a self-help PC for
incoming contractors and visitors so they know how to ...

Running Windows XP Pro SP3 with all updates.
Silverlight wants to update but can not find silverlight.msi, so it quits.
Silverlight version 1 shows in add remove programs, but can not be
uninstalled because it can't find silverlight.msi

I run Windows XP Home SP 3. I have two internal hard disks: The first has two partitions - a software partition and a data partition. The second disc also has two partitions - a backup partition (where I store backups) and an empty, formatted partition. (BTW: I also store backups ...

Hi - I recently deleted Spybot Search & Destroy via the control panel and
replaced with Ad-Aware Anniversary Edition which I decided to try out.
Everything seems OK however, right clicking on a file or folder, the drop
down menu still has 'Scan using Spybot&Destroy' on it as well ...

I am frustrated and ready to give up. This message won't go away, no matter
what.  I have already done a "system restore" to free myself from this
download error but to no avail.  When I update my computer it is back on.  
This is what happens:  It is an update from Windows I ...

My disk that was keeping the system partiton started failing on me to
the point that now I can't even get whole the way to Windows. It
starts loading but then it bluescreens with some error. Same with Safe
mode. Tried fixboot and fixmbt but it didn't do anything. Tried repair

I have a newly acquired laptop and changed the router to a wireless one to
be able to use it around the house.
The LAN has two wired PCs and a wireless printer as well as the laptop.
I have been chasing down a problem in trying to access files on one of the

Everything on my computer runs fast.  The clock, timers in games, etc.  It
was fine for 4 years and then about 6 months ago this started.  I am not a
computer geek, don't understand the lingo.  If anyone has the answers to fix
this, you will have to tell me in very basic terms.  ...

    I had a tcp/ip corruption issue that I resolved...am not sure what caused it
other than a power outage...after rebooting from resetting my tcp/ip my
network connections are not showing and my windows firewall is not available,
I tried to enable the service but get the 1068 error. I ...

Every time I print a printer icon shows in the system tray. I don't
hide system tray icons so I know what's going on there. The icon won't
go away. Keeps saying x documents to print. The printing is done. I
open every printer I have and make sure nothing is pending. Nothing in

I can't change my background.  Followed instructions, went into control
panel, there is supposed to be an icon for 'appearances' but I have no icon
for that.  I can't even get the backgrounds that came with the system!!!  
When I right click on a picture (photo) I can click on ...

I am attempting to connect to a PC running XP Pro using Remote Desktop but  
upon connection, the remote PC immediately disconnects and displays the
message  
Remote Desktop Disconnected