You might also want to run a chkdsk /R, I had a PC that did that and ran chkdsk and it went away. But this problem could be almost anything. I would also run a drive test on the hard drive, boot into...

In MSCONFIG did you turn off rundll32 from starting, I believe explorer will not work if you do that. Odd Problem.

That really helps get rid of some annoyances of those Pop Ups.

I believe you can boot into safe mode and change it? I do not normally deal with XP Home, but I thought it went something like that. You can also use ERD commander to do it but that costs money.

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Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 with IMAPI turned ON (Windows CD recording): improved write algorithm to reduce CPU...

I am running dual monitors with extended desktop and I did not notice the same issue on my system.

if you only have a recovery cd, I move stuff off to a usb drive. That is one reason I do not like recovery CDs.

Most of the time for a Hal.dll issue I run a chkdsk /R, if that does not work, I test out the drive and a great deal of the time I have a bad drive, after that I will run the repair install.

Your ISP might have retired a DNS server, and just rotated a new one in with a new IP Address.

I would just run a system state backup and then backup folders you want backed up. I normally try to store a ghost image also which helps if I need to do a full restore.

I use McAfee at work with EPO and it works well, I use Norton, TrendMicro. They both work well, trendmicro seems to have a smaller memory footprint. I use AVG on a few other systems I have and it...

Good info to know thanks.

That is very odd, I am assuming he has tried to setup another keyboard with similar problems? If you boot into bios, do you get the same problem. I would also try to use the XP install disk to get...

MSN seems to also like anchor text a great deal on links. MSN does not bring me as traffic as Google or Yahoo, but the quality is also better for my sites.

can you post or pm me with site url and traffic details, please.

Normally around 1k uniques a day you can start to generate interest, depending on content of the site, once you get above 2k-3k month you can get places like tribalfusion to be interested or...

I normally base it on a combination of traffic and PR. If you are looking for link building you might be able to get a few bucks more. You would then sell links at an SEO site like Digital Point. Now...

I thought it might be something like that, glad to hear you tracked it down. It is always a good idea to start stripping your system when you have problems.To help troubleshoot it.

you will need to purchase a new motherboard and cpu. You can checkout TigerDirect, NewEgg, and Fry's Electronics/Outpost. Now depending how old your system is it just might be better to work on a new...

Good to know I have not used %0 in years good to know I don't need to.

I like to use usb to IDE connectors to do that myself, those drives are fat16 or could be fat32. XP should pick them up so you can move the data over.

Take a look here if you have Roxio 5 on XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q311806

If you have a logitech trackball, search around, there was some problems in the past...

I would disable giant spyware app and see if it still crashes. If it does, I would run a chkdsk on the disk, test out your memory, run some programs like adaware, and antivirus scan to see if they...

I do not think this will help you but I have seen before where DHCP get hosed on the host machine, I just go into services and stop and restart dhcp client, and that fixes the problem. If it is a...

Glad it worked out, I thought it might be a bad hard drive, but why didn't your bootable CD boot?

Look at it in disk management, if you right click my computer, go to manage, then disk management. Does the total size there show 160GB?

I would also defrag the disk, run chkdsk /r, but it just might be that a reinstall is in order. I would also look at the task manager to see what is eating up the CPU.

For a low priced good server try the low end SC Servers from Dell, you can get the SC430 with a P4 for around $300. Now if you want higher end hardware, which I do not suggest for starting out, I...

as long as you can mirror the content, you can use a failover dns to move traffic over to the other server, I have only used commercial versions like DNSMadeEasy. Another thing you might want to look...

You should gain a little bit with a 2MB cache vs a 512k cache, I would verify that the motherboard supports the newer chip.

I have not seen any real life difference, but I have not benchmarked them, I prefer to use 2 slots over 4. So down the road you have room to upgrade.

try to use NTFS for doxs

If you are at a command prompt, I do not believe you can copy files to a NFTS Partition, if I am wrong, someone please inform me. Are you in the repair utility when you are doing this? I believe you...

I saw a problem a while back upgrading Computers and I had to unistall CD Creator, you should be able to boot into safe mode. I hope that is your problem.

can you ping the other computer?

Have you checked to see if you have a firewall running either Windows, or McAfee/Norton. Windows normally will not do that but I know Norton can do funny things. Now does the browsers start up but no...

to get to a cmd prompt are you going to run then enter cmd, then enter the command. I can nor remember a XP machine where I could not do that.

can you boot up on safe mode, You might be having problems when you hit mup.sys (I think that is the name of it). You might want to try a repair install, and or update the drivers. If you are...

are there group policies on the PC, or can you log in as admin and make the change. I do not believe there are any local policies that cover the firewall, but it could not hurt to check them out.

try from the run line "cmd /k ipconfig/release" "cmd /k ipconfig/renew" , now to do it from a giu, go to control panel, then go to networking, double click on the Lan connection to to support then...