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I had my comp working well with a Gainward 6800 GT card (AGP). I wanted to try installing a Radeon 7000 card, to reduce the noise level. I've uninstalled all graphics card related drivers with a special uninstaller program available form guru3d.com. With Radeon 7000, my comp has following...

Why is it that I can't access a few files on my HD? There are a few video files, executables and archives like this. I have downloaded them just like any other file, but I can't do anything with them, not open, move, rename, copy, change attributes etc. The only thing I can do is look at the...

Has anyone tried the Update Rollup 1 for XP? I installed it yesterday and I've got 2 BSOD's since with error code 0x0000008E. Any ideas why this might be happening?

I'm sure everyone else has noticed this one too. When there's a lot of hard disk activity (let's say we move a 1GB file to another HD, or defragment a HD), XP gets really non-responsive and user has to wait for disk processes to stop. You can move the mouse around but that's about it. This...

I'm having an odd problem with my CDRW drive (Lite-On LTR-40125S). The problem just appeared out of nowhere: when I insert ANY CD (audio, RW, CDR) the following happens. In My Computer view, the CD drive text changes from "CD-RW Drive" to "CD Drive". Message appears: "Please insert a disk...

I removed a program called Aston Shell from my system but afterwards most icons that belong to registered file types (such as Word document, BMP-files) have lost or aren't shown. Instead the icon picture is the one assiocated with unregistered file types. However, Windows recognizes the file...

I ran Advanced System Optimizer (www.systweak.com) program on my computer (WinXP pro). It found plenty of files and registry values that seemed to me they were useless so I let the program delete them. After a while I tried to login to my network admin service, which uses cookies and CGI...

How can I edit the registry of another Win XP installation, which is located on another hard drive? I need this to get the other hd to boot, since I changed my motherboard and the obsolete IDE driver (of the old mobo) won't allow booting and gives the blue screen with 0x0000007B error (aka...

I'm trying to defrag my C: drive and after pressing Analyze I'm getting DfrgFat.exe application error. Then there's a message in the defragmenter saying "The connection to the defragmenter engine has been lost. Restart defragmentation." Any ideas how to get it to work?