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Sorry for not following up but I was on vacation for a couple of weeks. I did another dumb thing before I got the administrator account screwed up. I disabled the system restore. I tried the registry change mentioned but when the desktop appears it is a new one without anything I had stored on...

I have been using XP Home for over a year and happy with it. The system would load up and go straight to the welcome screen and then the desktop without any intervention. Today, it was asking for the user name to be clicked in the right pane of the blue screen. There was no user name in the...

I followed both of the solutions recommended at the Black Viper site and still no improvement. With the Windows task manager open and no other applications running and the processes tab open <explorer.exe > cycles about every 2 seconds from 40% to 99%. The update speed is set to normal. The Mem...

I looked at the Black Viper site and he gives two potential solutions. My question is which one solved your problem? - One solution mentioned was to disable the system restore. - The other one was to delete the system indexing Thanks gettyup

I am having a similar problem with XP Home. The problem I believe started following the upgrade to SP1. When I open or even move an avi file the CPU usage goes to 100% and stays that way until I reboot. In the processes area the explorer.exe is running close to 95%. Sometimes I have to reboot a...

I want to thank everyone who contributed to helping solve my initial problem and walk me through the installation of the second drive.

Well, I plugged in the additional drive and the XP booted up correctly. No need to hit F1. I went back into the bios and set slave to auto detect. I then went to disk management. The new drive is shown in the right pane but is not allocated. If I right click there is no option to format. There...

The slave was set to auto detect. I set it to off and that took care of the boot up with out hitting the F1 key. Thank you. Now if I plug in the new 100gb digital drive and use the slave position on the IDE cable. What do I set the bios to for the drive. Then do I go to computer management in...

Hi, I just purchased a used Dell 8100 with XP pro installed. My problem is when I start up I get a screen stating : The primary hard disk drive 1 not found, hit F1 to continue or F2 for settings. When I hit F1 windows then loads up and everything seems to work fine. I would like to solve this...