Hardware problems

Is it safe to remove all those downloaded Windows patches

CecileQ — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:13:26 -0500

SW? HW? ????
Sorry if this is in the wrong place. Just saw a post to here from GAOTDD where they were talking about registry cleaners.

Okay hard drive has filled up and win XP took to option to add/remove programs.
Most of the stuff is the downloaded "service packs" and security patches.

Do I need all those sitting on the hard drive? Is it safe to delete from Remove programs or will that actually uninstall them (which I'm thinking I not what I want to do)

TIA

Microphone not working

TheOAP — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 18:42:47 -0500

Hi,

I've tried replacing my microphone with a working one and attempted to find an update for the driver - AC97 Audio but no joy

My system is :

Toshiba laptop Sattelite M60.

Win XP Home + SP3 + current updates.

2GB RAM

Thanks

Pete Hepple

LAPTOP HARD DRIVE ENCLOSURE

neyudii — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 23:54:12 -0500

I have a Toshiba MK8032GSX/HDD2D32 80GB laptop hard drive that I want to put into an external enclosure in order to salvage it since my laptop messed up. I bought a NEXXTECH enclosure in order to put it in but it seems that it doesn't fit. I was wondering if anyone happens to know what kind of enclosure I should get to put my hard drive in.

Much Thanks..

FROM VISTA TO XP

getemezian — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 11:22:04 -0500

GUYS I NEED YOUR HELP
i have bought a laptop with vista premium.i tried to put win xp (i have
them original ).even if they play the issue is that the noise in my laptop
increased ,maybe from the fan.i dont have addi6tional info to give i know
,but is it possible the mothrboard to be compatible only with vista?i have
the drivers for xp the company from which i bought thye laptop also
provided me drivers for xp.i also have the vista cd from them.but i dont
understand the noise and the overall performance wasnt good.do you have any

Two logical hardrives

C. Overmann — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:16:25 -0500

My neighbor has two hard drives, one is almost full with only 500MB+ left, the other one apperas without format with an unused 30Gb of space.

How can I make the other one useful?

CMOS Settings Wrong.

C. Overmann — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 22:45:16 -0500

As I turn on my computer this new option appears stoping the boot process.

It warns me that the CMOS settings are wrong, for this I have two options, press F2 (or F3 I can't remember) for automatic setup or default setup, and F3 (or F2 I can't remember) to set it up myself.

I chose the latter and the blue (BIOS) menu appears. I choose CMOS settings config and pressed F3 again to automatically detect masters and slaves. I set the correct date and hour, save everything and boots again.

Computer Crashed

Imanuel4u — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 06:37:06 -0500

I tried to install windows xp after 4-5hrs still not working so shut down computer when i went back to try again computer wont except xp or anything i cant get it to work at all as you can tell im a complete novice and should never have tried to install it [how i wish i hadnt ] it keeps saying ntldr not available can anyone help please.

Thanks

Imanuel

New Computer setup

ra1461 — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:23:24 -0500

I regularly use computers, but I only use failry basic features (e.g., word processing, browsing, etc.). I have purchased a notebook computer as a Christmas gift for my daughter. I would like to set it up for many years of good service to her. I have already downloaded many of the security type applications recommended on Gizmo's site. Before I start installing anything though, I want to know if there are more fundamental things I should do to set the computer up. For example, I think I recall seeing some discussion of the benefit of partitioning your hard driv

Printer Not Working

Imanuel4u — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 09:28:06 -0500

I am not able to Print out. I am having Windows Vista. I tried to take a print out. Some Error Occured.

I do not know what to do.

Pleas Help

Thanks in Advance

Imanuel4u

Path Too Deep Error

mytor — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 09:30:11 -0500

For the last three days I am getting this message "Cannot copy 'filename': Path too deep" whan I copy any file to my USB pen drive from the PC.

I am running XP2 SP2 - 160 GB Seagate HDD, 1 GB RAM and the usual CD/DVD.

I have already tried th following:

1) Reformatted the USB drive (Transcend 2GB) as FAT32

2) I have switched using the USB ports on the PC

3) I have changed the USB Cable

4) I have copied files to the USB stick without problem from the office computer running WIN 2K.