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Is there a program that will allow me to see which files I have made a backup of and the ones I have not? I have lots of photos and videos I take with my camera and place them all in one main folder so i can get to them all easily. When it comes to backing them up I can never remember which ones...

I have recently installed windows xp pro onto a pc purchased in 2001. Xp ran fine and was set up to dual boot with windows millenium which had come with the system along with a number of pre installed software which is still needed. Everything was running fine until I installed a second hard...

Thanks, I will give it a go

I hope someone can help me out here. My dad has a computer with windows xp and so do I. I have a broadband internet connection from a usb cable modem. We would both like to share this connection and right now wanted to do it as cheaply as possible as we intend to get a wireless connection...

My pc is slow, its a 1.5ghz pentium 4 with 384mb rdram, when I have my pc running with all the programs that I want I have about 240mb ram free yet everything feels slow. If I have 2 internet explorer pages open and I reduce one to the taskbar and then maximize it again it takes about 5 seconds...

Would it be possible for the person who has become infected to be sending them even if they only used web based email to send me messages?

Since last thursday I have been getting 4 emails each day that are worms. its the same subject heading each time, offering me latest network security patch, latest ms security patch, and 2 which claim to be returned messages. I have not opened any and have done a scan of my system with an up to...

sometimes when I turn my pc on it makes a lot of beeping which sounds like the noise on a supermarket checkout, it almost sounds like I am playing an old atari game or something, if I press reset on the pc the noise goes and everything starts fine. It mostly happens when I am restoring my pc...

Just logged into hotmail and got this message: Hi. I'm sorry to have to inform you that the message returned below could not be delivered to one or more destinations. Undeliverable to nrdgqscuqn@freemail.com Message follows: It was a 144k message, am I sending spam for someone else...

I waited for about a minute, I have a 1.5ghz pentium 4 and 512mb memory on a 120gb 7200rpm drive, all defragemted.

I have 2 users on xp home (sp1). When I switch user I can go from my adminitstators account into the other limited account, however when I log off from the limited account my screen goes black and I can't do anything.

Problem solved with that registry edit, thankyou so much, I would never have thought of that in a million years, my pc is back working the way I wanted, you have saved me going through a whole load of other things, I was even planning on going back to windows 98 to see if it was a hard drive...

I have been doing little tests and stuff to try and work out what is happening, still no closer Im afraid. I have no media files in the folders which are taking so long to open, its just a couple of program installers like winamp and zone alarm and Im keeping them there until I write another...

I think I will start to bug them aswell now

Thanks for taking the time to reply, I was actually hopeing that there might have been a way to alter the registry or something so files are auto moved when I drag them onto another partition instead of just copied. I tried the script, its works great.