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Can anyone tell me why I shouldn't buy a Sony PS3 to play BluRay movies, especially when the price for a standalone player is about the same or in many cases more?

I recently installed a new copy of Vista on my wife's computer. We don't know how but somehow she lost all the recent programs and icons on her start menu. The programs are all there but I can't figure out how to get them back on the start menu. I attached a screenshot so you can see the...

Hi, I've noticed a number of complaints involving vista security and recommended updates either not installing properly or generally screwing up a perfectly good windows installation. I suspect the last problem I had (when system restore stopped working) may have been due to a bad update. I've...

When I try to create a system restore point I get this message and I can't figure out what it means: Could not create the scheduled task for the following reason: The task image is corrupt or has been tampered with. (0x80041321) Has anyone seen this because there's only two mentions on google...

I value your suggestions so here's the situation: A friend of mine (a professional photographer) is preparing to spend some serious dollars on a high performance workstation laptop. He's trying to decide between a Lenovo T61p mobile workstation or an HP Compaq 8510w Mobile Workstation. He...

Hello everyone - Seems Avast4 (free version) is taking up a lot of my hard drive space under DATA/moved folder. All the files are labeled in numerical sequence as :msi.dll.###.vir. There are currently over 5000 of these files in my data folder and each one is 1.83mb in size - which means...

Hi, Just wondering if any of you folks can recommend a silent or at least quiet keyboard, so I don't wake up my wife when I'm busy typing away at 2am? It would also preferably be wireless. Any thoughts anyone? Thanks, I'll keep checking this post...

After witnessing the fiasco over Terry Schiavo, God Bless her soul, does anyone know of a good program for making a Living Will?

Does anyone know how to remove this (msview) from my windows system folder? Adaware, spybot, MS antispyware and trend don't seem to catch it butthere are hundreds of product files listed inside the folder, eachabout 35.1kb in size. I have been googling but can't find anyfree help to remove. I...

I've been procrastinating for some time on whether to install SP2 on my WIN XP Pro installation because it's working so well right now. I guess I've also read a few horror stories about continuous restarts and software issues with some programs that seem to require endless patches and patience...

Does anyone know how to disable the Adobe LM Service - or know if this is in fact a type of spyware and should it be cause for concern? http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=321444#answer

I have an MSI K7T266 Pro2 motherboard gathering dust after upgrading my system. I'd like to build a second PC from the leftovers. What's the fastest AMD XP cpu that I can put into this board? It looks like anything after XP2400+ has 333 FSB and this board can only handle 266. Another...

newbie question. Can't seem to figure out how to make a bootable floppy to flash an ASUS K8V Deluxe motherboard with the latest bios kv1005. Can anyone show me how to make one. I downloaded the zip file from asus support and copied it to disk but my machine won't boot from the floppy (even...

I'm looking to upgrade my older Lite-on 24x cdrw to something a little more recent. Any suggestions for brands, reliability, noise, buffer capacity, price etc...? Any brands I should avoid? Thanks in advance for your opinions!

When I click on any neowin link this is what I get. Does anyone know what it means and what I should do?:

Hi.. I noticed Kazaa version 2 is out. It looks colorful, Has anyone tried it? Anyone know if Kazaalite plans to release a version 2 as well? just curious.

Hi all, I can't seem to play any of my online radio stations on wmp. I keep getting the error code below. Is it possible a registry file was deleted and if so how can I fix this? Hope there's a solution out there somewhere. Thanks if anyone can help me out with this. Error#...