mjdodd

This may not help but I use Kubuntu (very similiar) with the KDE interface (version 7.1 is downloadable) and this does not screw up or change the grub startup loader; I have both XP and kununtu on this hard disk and a recovery partition.

Did you turn off system restore while you were doing all the removal etc. If not then ther is a real chance that a lot of it will return a the next reboot! Turn off system restore and then clean up then reboot and then reclean and then turn on …

try checking what the first boot device is in the bios setup. I suggest disable the floopy drive until you have done what you want, it sounds to me as though it is lookinig there for a boot system. M

how ful is your HD and have you done all the regular cleaning up removing dead files etc. Check also for clear airways under the machine.... allr hese can cause very slow performance either through lack of disk space and paging or through overheating.

almost all video cards will work at a basic level (ega /vga) with the standard default drivers (as safe mode does this) So installing a new card will or should allow you to see the machine working albeit without the whiz bangs of good graphics. From there it is relatively …

I cant answer directly to your problem but I solved a similir one. most XP machines allocate an address TCP/IP automatically and any firewall should be able to cope but on my network there were various firewalls that could not cope with dynalmic allocation of TCP/IP and so the solution …

also a newbie buts lots of computer experience. I would start by looking at what is happening at startup. There are a nupber of good programs that canhelp with this and I feel ythat even checking what processes are running by using ctrl alt del may give an infdication of …

cant give a lot of help but sounds like you are on the right lines. I had an HP compaq with same fault (but different cause) and hte charging circuit on hte motherboard of the computer was blown. I suspect you may have both problems there and in the charger. …

Windows 2000 was developed for business use and the drivers for things like music and photo cameras were in short supply before Xp became more friendly! They were not really developed at all! However the good news if that often (since it uses th same filing system NTFS) XP drivers …

admin password is often 'admin'... but when I am really stuck like this is use a linux bootable CD and canthen access the hard disk from that running in memory. You can download an IOS file of linux (ubuntu or Kubuntu etc) and cut a CD that then boots as …

if youuse any other sound program (we use a music writer one) then it ( in our case using xp and media 11) turns off the Media player to use the sound card itself! We have to go to the sound card controls to turn on (in the advanced bit) …

Most modern machne have a cpu test and reort by voice if the cpu is not working! (that suprised me too!) However I have had exactly your problem with a clients recently and the reason was the video card fan was blocked with dust and stopped rotating (all the rest …

well as a newbie I tiried red hat, suse, and settled oin Kubuntu 71 as an IOS cd works wonders when all else falls over! It is most like windows nd easy to follow best of luck M

[QUOTE=BabySamba;442776]Hi. I wish to make a small HOME network composed of a Windows XP professional, Windows Xp Home edition, Centos 4.3. I have connected each computer to a router. The router is connected to the internet. I am sure that the hardware settings are correct : in fact, each computer …

ther is a freeware called drive rescue... its worth trying but you mayneed to boot from a CD.

100% cpu usage can be just some software that is got into a cycle. I have had this problem onvarious computers withsome software from HP especially scanner and printer type of software. The oly solution I fould was to uninstall the software, remove all entries in the registry that refered …

I have search google and many threads to find ouot why reently the control panel and some shortcuts do not work. Iam fully protected (spam AV spy rootkits etc) and apparently clean. I ve tried resore but do not want a full restore as so much is at stake on …