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Freestone & BadBigBen : you are both geniuses ! I did use a wireless keyboard & mouse ! I changed to a USB keyboard and it still did not work ! I used a USB-PS2 adapter for the keyboard and the CD booted up right away . So the verdict : the Bios in my PC does not support USB & wireless...

My old PC ( WinXP pro + Sp3 , Celeron 2.4 Mhz, MSI 6728 mobo) developed a booting issue : it does not boot from a bootable CDR anymore (i.e the same disc boots up from another newer PC without any problem !) . I intend to reformat the Hard disk but now even the bootable Win XP pro CD disk...

Thanks turkbear, Vacunita, victorv for your kind responses. It's just an .exe for the trial shareware called "Picture Collage Maker Pro v2.0.7 (Build 2267)" which I downloaded from the author's website . Nothing special about this program at all ! So this could be the author's error in...

When I installed a particular program (System : Windows XP Pro + SP3) , I got this error message : http://i40.tinypic.com/16lxq8y.jpg I guess this is a Windows Installer issue . I have tried these procedures without success : 1)Use Windows Installer cleaner to clear old versions 2)...

I had to re-install Windows and evrything is back to normal again . I guess some files must have been corruptes ! Again, thanks linney for your kindness and true experty !! Best regards,

Thanks linney for your most precious tips ! I'll try and see how it goes . Best regards,

For some unknown reasons, my compter ( Win XP Pro SP2) reboots each time I start Internet Explorer ! Is this a signal of virus or malwares or registry being corrupted ? Do I need to re-install Windows ? Please help ...Thanks

Thanks, BadBigBen , for your kind comment ... I'll try out Avira . Best regards,

BTW, I have ZoneAlarm Internet Security installed and this RootKit Win32 malware was still able to sneak in .... I heard Kaspersky could catch this bugger easily ... Any comment ? Thanks

Thanks goombawaho & smah for your inputs ! I searched the Net , using Google for a solution and by pure luck, I stumbled on a right-on-the-neck fix . It turned out to be a terrible malware : Rootkit.win32 , an extremely resistant one !! I DL the the fix, followed the instruction and...

On the desktop, when I clicked on "my computer" -> Drive: E,F or G, I got this error message : http://i44.tinypic.com/29woorq.gif Note that if I right-click on the drive and select "Explore" , I can still access everything on the drive . Drive C;\ and D:\ are unaffected by this problem...

_Thank you wahnula for your precious help . I'll check out those recommended websites and see . _I would appreciate more perspectives and comments on my laptop issues from other members, please.. Thanks

My laptop Dell Inspiron 9200 (Win Xp + Sp2) suddendly becomes visible only in the right half of it and the left half is totally black with a few colored vertical lines on the left-most side . The laptop runs exactly as before except for the fact that the left-side of the screen is black as...

wahnula: here is a brief description of Driver Genius' scope of application. "Driver Genius Pro v8.0 Drivers Backup: Driver Genius can detect and...

sggaunt : Thanks. But that's the first thing I did : just repair the in-situ Windows O/S . It did not work in this case . wahnula: That's a great idea ! I recently came across a program called "Driver Genius Pro v8.0.0.316" which essentially did what you said (i.e. save all installed drivers...

_I followed some suggestions in the infos but ...Alas ! none of them was help to solve the issue . Finally, I got to go for the ultimate solution : to reformat the Windows-XP-Pro contained drive and re-install Windows from sratch. So far , it solved my problem alright but it was pure hell...

Paint.net can do the job ! On the Tool Panel, click on the icon A ( to get to the Text Mode) . Then type away the URL ! Use Google to check out the latest version of this brilliant paint freeware !

Thanks linney for all these precious infos. I'll digest them then try out to see...

Out of the blue, each time I clicked on the icon "my computer" on the desk top, the popped-up window was blank ( i.e. no drives shown at all ) . The system seemed to freeze . When I tried to close the window , an error message appeared : "Windows cannot find '/idlist, :376:264 ...." Then the...

Repost here...Sorry errors in typing in my previous post making it incomprehensible ! Here is the corrected version ! ------------------------------------ Thanks acewarlock for the comment ... Can you really format the HD without partition first ? Hm..Hm.. I am not sure about this ! The...