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Hi all, I have Windows XP on my primary IDE drive (NTFS partition) and Windows 98 on my secondary IDE drive (FAT32 partition). I would like to use 'Boot Magic' to be able to chose either system on start-up. According to the manual Boot Magic will only install to a FAT/FAT 32 partition and...

I am getting peculiar start-up problems which results in my PC often (but not always) refusing to boot into Windows when it is first switched on. Usually the problem occurs after the machine is switched off overnight and is then switched back on again the next day. The POST is okay and all...

Hi, I have WinXP pro on the primary IDE hard drive and Win98 on the secondary IDE hard drive. At present both systems operate independently and to get into Win98 I have to set the BIOS to boot from IDE1. This situation came about because when I installed WinXP (upgrade version) I removed...

Hi, I have XP Pro with SP1 installed. As I have not downloaded any updates for some time I visited the MS update site this morning and after it analysed my system I was told there were some 21 security updates available. I selected most of them and started the download which proceeded to it's...

Hi, I use XP on a stand-alone PC at home. Every month I get the usual nagging messages about changing my password which is annoying as I don't need to change it that often! Is there a way to get XP to only ask me to change my password say once every 3 months? Thanks, Alan

Hi, I am using XP/SP1 with IE6 and Outlook Express 6 and have a problem with each that I would like to sort out. IE6 : when I click on a web page link in an email IE6 is launched but then nothing else happens. I just sit there looking at a blank page. And before you ask I am online! The...

I am presently using McAfee VirusScan 6.0 with Zone Alarm as my Firewall. I understand that McAfee VirusScan 7.0 comes with the McAfee Firewall which I don't want to use. If I upgrade to ver 7.0 can I prevent the Firewall from being installed or disable it afterwards? Thanks, Alan

I have WinXP running on my primary IDE (using NTFS) and Win 98 on the secondary IDE (using FAT32). I have some free space on the primary IDE and want to know if I can install Redhat 8.0 or SuSE 8.1 with some degree of confidence that it's boot loader will automatically add both versions of...

I fitted a second 256MB PC133 chip and decided to test it with Norton Utilities. After a few seconds Norton told me the test had failed at a particular memory address. So I decided to try the memtest86 program outside of Windows. This tested clear after running through all the tests...

I have recently built a second PC (base unit) from spare parts including a second-hand Motherboard (Gigabyte GA-7ixe4) and CPU (Duron 850) acquired via ebay. The system powers up okay but that is all and it won't boot. I am staring at a blank screen and trying to figure out exactly what is...

I am dual-booting WinXP and Win98 on separate IDE drives and sometimes get a strange message when either starting up or closing down the system. WinXP : this message is only seen occasionally when shutting down. It says... "run time error 216" There is a box to click "okay" and sometimes I...

I recently aquired an old PC from a friend (P2/233) and carried out a few minor modifications to it. Everything was working fine until I switched it on this morning and there was no power. Just dead. My first reaction was that that the PSU (which is about 4 years old) had finally gone down...

Could anyone tell me if it is safe to change the default setting for the PCI latency timer in the BIOS from 64 to 32? I presently have 3 PCI cards - USB 2.0 card, TV card and Video card. As an experiment I found that the slight digital artifacts you sometimes get around fast-moving images...

I recently obtained a Geforce2 MX400 AGP card to replace my old Voodoo Banshee PCI card. I thought I would test it out in Win98 before installing into WinXP. Got the new card installed okay and running with the latest nVidia drivers but my PC started behaving very strangely. The power to...

Until recently I was running a Liteon LTR 40125S 40X CDRW drive and occassionally using it to play audio CD's with no problems. Last week I installed an LG GDR-8161B DVD-ROM as a slave drive to the Liteon unit and everything works fine until I try to play an audio CD. If the audio CD is...

The fan in my PSU recently stopped working and last weekend I replaced it with a "whisper quiet" unit from a local electronics store. Quiet it ain't and it sounds like a vacuum cleaner! Whilst the fan achieves a very good throughput of air I am already getting pissed off at the noise level. I...

This is a strange problem that has emerged over the last few weeks. Whenever I use IE6 it works normally for the first few web sites I access but after that it will slow to a crawl. The first sign of trouble is that a web page will take ages to load and from that point onwards it is like...

I recently installed another anti-virus programme (Avast32) to supplement McAfee. Having run a complete check on my system it threw up a warning about a file infected with a worm called Soltern-D. The infected file is a single exe which is a freeware screen grabber (MW Snap). Does anyone...

I have recently installed the latest version of Zone Alarm (3.1.395) and keep getting a message that pops up in a 'Network Connections' dialogue box every time I boot into Windows. The message says.... You (or a program) have requested information from lockup.zonelabs.com. Which connection...

Having upgraded Win98 to WinXP I was surprised to find that Scandisk is nowhere to be seen in the programme menus. Has this tool now been dropped? If so are Scandisk functions now covered by another WinXP system programme? If the scandisk facility is no longer available is there a good...