I have set up my mouse pointer so that an hourglass is next to the pointer when "Working in Background." The condition rather frequently occurs, or is present, at the end of a long session and I'm ready to turn power off. I don't know what's working; Process Explorer (the very latest release)...

It happens that formulated : http://www.freezewall.com/w/Windows http://www.freezewall.com/w/Apple Over 1000 wallpapers and more category High resolution Isn't this the same website that steals artwork from other sources and then slaps its own name on the background...

A while back, I switched to cable for internet access. Upon hooking up the cable modem, every time I boot up the computer I get a keyboard failure message. However, both my keyboard and mouse work fine. This is only a problem when I want to start my computer up in safe mode. Then, I am...

Under Add/Remove Programs there are three updates of Adobe Acrobat Reader: 6.0.2, 6.0.3 and 6.0.4. Can the first two be removed safely? At first glance they seem to be just clutter. And for future use, is it a good idea to remove the previous update as soon as the new one is...

My mother in law is several humdres miles from me. (good) But she needs occasional computer assist. I have Windows XP pro. Can I Remote Desktop to her dial-in connection. I have installed the Remote Desktop client on her computer. I have her ipconfig info. Please email or reply in this newsgroup.

While on the internet my PC constantly hangs up. When I hit Ctrl-Alt-Del I find 2 things "not responding", the web site I am on and CXTPLS. Any ideas??

My Win ME Inbox won't display any emails. Sent, Outbox, and Delete all display email traffic just fine. Is there any such thing as uninstalling and reinstalling just OE? Will going back to a previous restore point possibly solve this problem? If neither of these, what do I do? Reinstall Win ME?

Well, I bought a 250GB Seagate hdd (Pata) to make it my new boot device (on a Athlon Xp 2000, Kudoz motherboard, 768MB Ram - my Bios recognize correctly new boy's size). On my current boot (and only) hdd I've got 4 Fat32 partitions, with 98SE on C: and XpPro on D: What do I do to maintain this...

The NZ Government has just announced the dates of Daylight Saving are to change. NZ Daylight Time will begin on the last Sunday of September at 2 am beginning 30th September 2007. NZ Daylight Time will end on the first Sunday in April at 2 am. I have figured out a Registry patch and tested it to...

i keep getting a error message siae3123 has cause a error in unknown??? can some body help PLEASE!!!!!!!

i currently use musicmatch to burn my cd's. never had a problem before until i ininstalled jave, which i did reinstall it, and i uninstalled outlook express which i know is for mail. i currently installed mozilla firefox because my explorer freezes up on me all the time. now for some reason...

Prior to going online with my Comcast broadband connection, I've had problems with my various versions of MW CW. I had somewhat of a similar problem about 1 1/2 years ago which I rectified by reinstalling Me. When I substituted the old registry, I would experience the same problems. Therefore, I...

I've accidentaly deleted files on my drive using the deltree command. I need help to recover some files if possible. Thanks, Louis

I'm having some of these too. One right now is how or whether or not one could use MS DOS move command to move files between HDD0 and HDD1. I think move: \dir\fartfold\farts\bigfarts//\\othfarts/itstinks/farts] Can you point me to "farting 101" sytax on this? My IBM DOS 3.3 manual is not handy...

Updating system configuration files I just installed software on my VAIO for my new CyberShot camera. It installed a new version of Direct X (Version 9). When I try to reboot (in all modes) I get a message "Updating System Configuration files,this may take a few minutes." It never returns... What...

I'm a novice of most novices. I had to replace my hard drive a year ago. Since that time my scandisk and and restore will not work. Now I have purchased MP3 players for my daughters and found out afterwards that I need to get Windows XP to make them work for me. My 40 G Dell Deminsion...

Is there an update for the custom blocks for Spyware Blaster? Mine is dated Feb. 24. Whats the best way to install it? Jeff Thoele

Thumbnails have stopped working. The option to view thumbnails appears in Windows Explorer but for some reason it no longer shows the thumbnails, just an icon. It used to work and I can't think of any changes I've made that would do this. Can anyone help?

I'm looking for a good freeware anti-trojan program. I currently have AVG, ad-aware, spyware blaster and spybot. Any ideas?

My CEO's laptop from Dell has WindowsME installed. It is rife with bugs and trackware. I want to just wipe clean and reinstall, but.......She lost the startup OEM discs. Dell doesn't have replacements, Microsoft doesn't have replacements, the CEO doesn't want to buy a new OS and Office suite when...