Looking at the system specs, I will assume Windows XP. (This time it shouldn't be dangerous...lol) If the system has not been messed with, XP should handle your virtual memory just fine. If you...

They'll have it fixed by the 5th major OS release. That's how long it took to migrate from dos-based Windows to NT-based Windows... (3.1, 95, 98, ME)

If it's still under warranty, let HP handle it. I don't mean to drive you away from us, but they could be more helpful, especially if a return/exchange is needed.

Sounds like you've really got it screwed up.

Get a bunch of CD-Rs (the cheap ones are good enough) and back up your hard drive. When that's done, you can format and reinstall. Do NOT COPY...

When you get it fixed, make sure you make back ups of all your documents. 25 gig of space (via CD-Rs) costs $10 now, so there's no excuse to not make back ups. Some programs will even automate...

RAID is a multiple hard drive backup technique. What that means is data is stored on multiple hard drives in such a way that if one (or two, in some set ups) goes down, you lose no data.

If you...

Even though, always make a backup. Space is cheap, there's no excuse not to back up your data files. (About $10 for 50 CD-R discs... That's 35,000 MB)

Has there been any hardware changes made to the computer? Also, is it a desktop or laptop? Sometimes you have a NIC (network interface card--"Adapter" in XP-speak) that is plugged in to the laptop...

Start the computer from the XP CD, and use the repair options there.

Open the task list (either use ALT+CTRL+DELETE or go to Start > Run and enter "taskmgr" (without the quotes.)) and look for processes using 100% of the CPU, if you find one, that may be your problem....

AFAIK (As far as I know) Service Pack 2 hasn't been released yet. All that's out there is "Release Candidates" which may contain bugs themselves. Wait until SP2 is officially released and then get...

Does 2000 have USB drivers installed/loaded?

You may want to redownload MSN... sometimes a download gets corrupted in just the right place to make it useless. (But it still appears to work...)

Have you downloaded the latest updates from Windows Update? Sometimes a fix breaks something else so they fix that...

Don't use MSN. Use Trillian instead.

You can change the behaviour of windows so it doesn't reboot on errors, somewhere in the control panel.

It's normal.

There is a virus that executes as svchost.exe, but it likes to use 100% of the CPU when it can. I came across that when I forgot to put up the firewall. (Format and reinstall, then...

Go and celebrate by having a nice cold can of root beer. I find Barqs is best Ice Cold. ;-)

Can you extract them from the command line how you want? If not, the rest of the post won't be very useful.

To get a file listing of all the zip files in a directory, use:

dir *.zip /b >...

It's either a mouse problem or a software problem. Try unplugging the mouse and plugging it back in, and see what happens. (I had one that I had to do that too, it wouldn't work at all.)

If that...

Congratulations. It's good to hear your program works. (By definition, a batch file is a program.)



The only rules/restrictions that apply are attributes and path rules. I'm sure you have...

Did it not work? It looks correct.

Not all systems can do that (easily). That's what the boot disk is for.

Look for a hosts.txt file on your system. Take a look at that, and see if it points to the "wrong" site.

Google "remove windows messenger" for steps on how to do that. Microsoft included Windows Messenger with XP as a replacement for its WinPopUP messenger for LANs. You can't remove it, only the icon...

msconfig

As far as removing processes goes, msconfig (run it from the run box) will help get rid of some, then you have to check the "run" keys in the registry, and the "startup" program group. ...

Do you have the latest video card drivers? Is there anything in your running software you can shut off and try again? Some programs (for whatever reason) interfere with multimedia files.