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I currently have a tripple boot set up with Windows 98, XP pro and Vista. I want to remove the Windows 98 (fat 32 partition) and still have a dual boot with XP and Vista. How do I go about doing that safely?

My friend wants to give away his old computer, but wants to erase all his personal data totally so it can't be undeleted. What is the best freeware program to use? Is there one that you can set the drive as a slave and then reformat the entire drive so it is safe to load windows and programs...

Lower the FSB and set the memory from 2.5 to 2 or raise the FSB and relax the memory timings. Higher FSB or tighter memory settings? I know, I need a serious upgrade in hardware, but I am waiting for DDR 3 and AMD quad core cpu's.

I am having trouble with getting script errors. I turned off or disabled script error checking but I still get several when I edit it and save it. Here it the url: http://nwms.ohsd.net It is the school where I work and am the webmaster. I use FrontPage 2003. Also, any and all suggestions...

I have an older system with two HDs and on one is XP pro and on the other I want to test install Vista to see how it works with my various software and some of my existing hardware such as my cannon all in one printer and my dvd burner. My computer only has a barton athlon 3200+ cpu, 1gb of...

Lately something must have changed on my wife's system as when I start it up I notice svchost.exe is monopolizing the cpu and I can't do anything else. Is there a recent cause for this? What can I do to stop it from taking over my wife's computer. AVG antivirus - up to date and always...

Lately when I right click on a menu or icon it brings up the Contribute install window. IF I cancel it it goes to the right context menu finally, what is the cause and how can I fix it? Where in the registry is the right-clicking functions? Can I see if there is something there that is...

What is the best program proceedures for getting rid of sysprotect spyware on a infected computer?

Is there a way to get my TV to work with Vista? I loaded the latest Radeon drivers, but did not see any media center drivers/software for vista? Please help, I like Vista, but want my tv to work also.

Is there a Free program that I can use to check to see if other computers on my home network are uploading/downloading and which computer is doing it.

I tried uninstalling the media palyer and then the runtime, but it still says media player 11. On every machine I instralled MP 11 when I go to mtv's overdrive and try to play a music video either it just shows black or it freezes my computer. I need step by step instructions please to get...

I have a 1900 amd athlon cpu and a motherboard that can only take up to a 1.5gz or amd 1500 or 1600 cpu. The motherboard is a VIA made by Futurepower that is no longer making thoes boards so I can't update the bios to accept a higer than 1.5gz processor. It now has a duron 900 mz with pc...

I installed Windows media player 11 and now when I open wmp it opens then immediately closes.

I thought I read somewere that with Vista you could allocate some of the memory on a usb flash drive as system memory. Has anyone else read that? It would be great for laptops with limited memory.

A friend of mine has a dell inspiron laptop with windows xp home and had clear type working fine, but her computer was running slow so I showed her ways to make her computer a little faster and set her desktop to classic and clear type stopped working even when I went back to windows xp theme...

I did a clean install on a slave hard drive and it shows my old windows install of xp and the vista on startup ok, but when I do a shutdown of Vista, it just goes to a black screen and stays there. What is wrong? Also, if I leave Vista on and don't do anything for awhile over 10 minutes it...

How do I put in a url or something into IE to access my motorola surfboard 5100 modem settings. I can do it for my belkin router and used to do it for my cable modem and can't remember how.

I am not sure which forum to put this. Is it possible to upgrade the motherboard, cpu, memory, HD and video card without reinstalling XP? Here's why: My wife has her email, Hello Kitty theme, and music on this older computer and now I use it to burn dvd's and other things and find it...

I want to get a new video card for my wife's computer. We don't play games on it, but do some dvd burning and watching dvds. She has a SIS 64 mb 315 card in there now and I want to upgrade her to a 128 or 256 card. I don't care if it is ATI based or Gforce or whatever only want to stay...

How to access the BIOS on a Compaq Presario 12XL500 notebook. I tried F1 and Del as it starts, but it doesn't seem to work.