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  1. chriski

    can not see the external hard drive

    Hi Wahnula, Thank you for your trouble. No the drive had not been visible in Disk Management. After reading heaps of forums I found a simple solution, to use a different USB port, one that is mounted on the USB card and not on a hub. It only took about 6 hours or so to work it out !!! Once...
  2. chriski

    can not see the external hard drive

    Recently I had to re-install XP and all programs from scratch. Other than being a huge time wasting exercise everything went fine other than: The system can not see the external hard drive. When connecting the ext. HD to the PC the win “device connect” sound plays but win explorer does not see...
  3. chriski

    explore drives on the network

    Recently we changed our small LAN of 3 PC’s to wireless. When trying to explore drives on the network I get mostly old drive names which have been superseded or renamed some time ago. What is the secret, how can I flash the memory settings so that explorer identifies the drives correctly? Thank...
  4. chriski

    Tip: remember folder view settings

    Often XP did not remember folder view settings for me. Not a huge problem but enough to be annoying. For example XP again and again displaying folders with .jpg's in File view and display folders full with document files with annoying thumbnail icons, that sort of thing. Recently I read on the...
  5. chriski

    CPU running at 55 to 70% usage when idle

    After booting the PC in the morning the CPU is running on 1 to 3% usage when idle. After a few minutes the CPU usage is going up to 70 and never below 55% when idle. I’m getting concerned about heat stress for the CPU, the cooling fan and the MBO as well as for my ears as the cooling fan is...
  6. chriski

    Drive Image 2002 will not install

    I have been repeatedly trying to install Drive Image 2002 on a new XP Home system. The installation has been failing under XP SP1 and SP2. The same program ran without a problem on a previous PC but I can’t remember if it had been installed before SP1. Does anyone have some experience with this...

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