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The problem does not occur if I disconnect my slave drive. However, I used to have what is now my slave drive as a master with a 10 GB slave, and this did not happen. For kicks, I tried putting in my old 10 GB drive as a master and kept my current slave drive. No problem. Then I tried using my...

Have you tried using FIXMBR from the recovery console? -Zaphod

I noticed someone said there are ad-banners on DVD Profiler. Has it been checked for Spyware? Sounds like a great app if it doesn't. -Zaphod

Yup, even ran a Burn-In test from Maxtor and let it run for 8 hours while I was at work. No errors. It's probably just a combination of my POS motherboard and having two HD's on the same IDE channel.

Making a DOS boot disk will not work unless you formated the HD as FAT32 before installing XP. Otherwise, DOS will not recognize the NTFS drive. You can download a "Live" Linux OS will boot and run from a CD-ROM. Knoppix is good one. They will recognize NTFS hard drives, and you will be able to...

I forgot to add: An easy way to fix printer problems is to go into Control Panel->Printers and delete the printer. Then just click add printer and add it back on. You might want to reboot after deleting the printer to make it as clean as possible, then add the printer. Also, make sure you have...

*sigh* no luck yet. I've made sure my BIOS is up to date (it is), my MOBO drivers are up to date (they are), DMA settings are correct, the drives are set in BIOS to the correct 16 or 32 bit transfer modes, the drives have the correct jumper settings, virtual memory is enabled, programs are set...

VBS is an extension, as in Something.VBS (Visual Basic Script, I think). Try to find what the full name is, then consult this great site. Thanks to Perris for this link. -Zaphod

AVG is a great FREE antivirus software. It's rated as one of the best available. The free version differs only from the paid version by being able to have a little more control over scheduled scans (the free version scans every day at a specified time). Other than that, it's great, even has...

Well, I decided it would be best just to keep my 2nd HD on the same channel as my primary. There won't be alot of inter drive swapping anyway. But why in the world would doing something as simple as running a search on a single dive cause my PC to screech to a halt? It doesn't lock up, but it...

Won't having a CD drive on the same channel as a HD cause slower speed from the HD? -Zaphod

Yup, the jumpers aee set correctly. I don't want to move the HD to the other IDE channel because I have A DVD-RW and a CD-ROM drive there. I don't want to mix the CD drives and the HD drives. Before I bought this drive, I had a small 10 GB drive slaved to the 120GB. There were no problems then...

Just found another instance. The system slowing down also happens when I just do a "Search" on the new HD, not even involving the other hard drive. This is a Maxtor 250 GB Ultra 16 drive, by the way. -Zaphod

If you are using XP Pro, go into the Group Policy editor (enter "gpedit.msc" in the run dialog box) and navigate to User Configuration->Administrative Templates->Start Menu and Taskbar. Enable the "Remove Balloon Tips from Start Menu Items" -Zaphod

For future referance, you can also try running your anti virus and/or anti spyware apps in Safe Mode. That way, it won't start the unwanted programs from starting as running applications, which causes the "Cannot delete" message in your removal programs. -Zaphod

Does the same problem occur under another user account? I have seen similar problems before (never figured out what caused it) and it only occured under a certain account. -Zaphod

I have recently bought a 250GB Maxtor HD. I installed it as master one IDE 0 along with my old 120GB drive as slave. I put a fresh copy of windows on it (not dual booting). I kept my old windows install on the old HD until I get everything up on the new one. Everything works fine unless I...

I guess the above link doesn't work, but any 98 or 2000 machine can use msconfig. You can download it here: http://www.techadvice.cc/files/s29k2/win-xp/msconfig.exe I keep a copy on my thumb drive. It works great. -Zaphod

I don't know of a way to "jump" to a spot in the registry. I think they purposely make it difficult to navigate through the registry to scare off novices from mucking about in there. However, if you are attempting to slim down your startup processes, you can check the services on your machine...

Do you mean the text that is output by running the executable? Or do you mean the text IN the executable? If it is text within the executable (you found it by editing the code) you can copy and paste it to this web site http://world.altavista.com/ It's a translator. But beware, Chinese is VERY...