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When I turn on the computer it stops at the Welcome screen and has one name, Administrator. I click on it (no password needed) and the computer starts normally. Then I decided I wanted to bypass the Welcome screen and instead boot right into Windows XP Pro. So I did control userpasswords2...

My motherboard only has one PATA port and the rest are SATA. Will having my DVD burner as a slave on the same cable effect the performance of the hard drive in ANY way? I've gotten a lot of guesses, but I can do that! Does anyone KNOW for sure? Thanks :-)

I have a Dell D620 laptop that won’t boot into XP. It’s starts to, but keeps looping between the Boot Options screen. I tried ALL of the options and the drive tested ok and passed all virus and malware scans. Neither Recovery Console's fixboot nor fixmbr would correct the problem. Is there no...

I have a Dell D620 laptop that won’t boot into Windows XP. It starts to, but when it hits the Windows screen it just loops right back to the Boot Options screen! So far I’ve ran a virus scan on the hard drive which came up clean and I checked the drive with “chkdsk” and all tests were passed...

A friend of mine says I never installed a program on his computer but I'm pretty sure I did and he removed it and just doesn't remember. Is there any type of log in XP the could prove who's right???

I have an IBM Netvista 42u desktop with a system clock problem. When you shut the computer down the clock also stops. Power up and the clock starts again right where it left off! So far I've installed a brand new cmos battery and flashed it with the latest bios. Still,no change. I've searched...

I have an AT&T modem whose web interface can be accessed (192.168.1.254) with any desktop. But when I tried with my Dell laptop and a friends HP laptop,it doesn't work!! What's up with that??

My problem is that now, when I play certain dvds and video files using Windows Media Player, it hangs or crashes the system. But my cloned drive (made 1 month ago) still works fine. I’ve reinstalled the video drivers and WMP 11 but the problem still persists. Is there a way to troubleshoot this...

When I enter the Configuration Utility via msconfig and make a change I get an “Access Denied”error saying I need to log on as an Administrator - when I AM logged in as Administrator ! I’ve been reading for hours and it’s driving me nuts. Probably because I don’t understand how this all works...

All of a sudden, my PS/2 keyboards now only work in Windows. I reset the CMOS and have the latest BIOS upgrade and there doesn't seem to be any PS/2 settings in there. When I boot into DOS with a floppy, no keyboard entries are accepted at the prompt. It seems strange that I can navigate with...

My computer won’t boot up Xp completely. It freezes right after I log on. This started happening right after a visit to Limewire (DUH) . It also freezes when I try using Safe Mode. Now here’s the interesting part: When I scan with my anti-virus program, it freezes right at C:\Doc...

I have two different programs that I use for video conversion but when I use either of them, my computer locks up after a few minutes, although both programs work fine if I run them in “safe mode”!??? They also work fine on my laptop, just not my desktop. Is there a way I can troubleshoot...

I have a computer that I want to do a "clean install" of XP on but I can’t get it to boot from a cd ? I have: 1. tried several cd’s (XP,Win98 etc.) 2. checked the BIOS setting (CDROM, A:,C:) 3. tried another cdrom Drive 4. updated the BIOS software The computer works fine but still will not...

I have an ATI All-In-Wonder video card and the TV tuner was working fine but now has stopped. I have uninstalled the software using the ATI Tool and reinstalled it but still, NO GO ! The tuner will start to load and then stop and CPU usage will stay at 99% until I ctl-alt-del to get out of the...

Microsoft says it no longer supports this and won't give it up !!! Seems like every DVD player I install needs this to work. What can I do ???

I got hit by some nasty Trojan/Viruses ! I ran every spyware and anti-virus program I could get my hands on(in Safe Mode) and removed tons of stuff, but the drives are still not visible in the "normal" mode, only in Safe Mode ..... Anything I can do besides reload ???

I did a clean install of XP Pro using a serial mouse and now it won't see any PS/2 mouse. It's a Logitech mouse and it works fine on my 2nd computer (running the same O/S with an identical motherboard). I tried the "Add New Hardware" function but it doesn't see the mouse at all ..... What's the...

Win 98SE computer won't detect any PS/2 mouse (but there's no problem with any mouse when using the standard comport). I had this problem once before but can't remember what I did to fix it ??? I really don't believe it's the motherboard and wonder if there's a way to test the PS/2 port??? I...

When I try to Export messages, I'm getting "an error occurred while initializing MAPI" ??? This happens with a "clean" install and with Outlook configured as POP, "not" MAPI ! MS Knowledge Base was of no help! :o)

When I start an application, it takes the better part of 30 seconds to load. For example, clicking on a Word doc. file now takes 25 secs. to load (in safe-mode the same file loads in 7 secs!) Seems like this problem started after I was attacked by spyware and used Norton,Ad-aware,CWShredder et...