Archive for the ‘Windows XP’ category
Keep your Windows OS up-to-date to help alleviate potential performance problems
Do you keep having intermittent performance issues or are worried about having such? I’ve been seeing lots of comments and posts on computer helps sites where users have spent hours, days, weeks and often times lost important data, while costing themselves enormous amounts of money all because they weren’t keeping their Windows Operating Systems’s (OS’s)”up-to-date”, aren’t [...]
HELP. . . . . ABOUT:BLANK keeps showing up on my browser and doesn’t let me get to web sites. What do I do?
About:Blank is one of the most frustrating Browser Hijackers to stay around as long as it has and continue to do damage to systems. If you are hit you will totally be frustrated until you realize you have to do something. What you see that tells you your system has been hijacked by the About:Blank [...]
This copy of Windows is not genuine – how to fix
Microsoft, in a rather brilliant move, has released an update that checks your OS serial against a list of known leaked serials (corporate edition keys, etc). If your serial matches one of them then it puts a darling little message on the bottom right hand of your login screen, and also a system tray icon [...]
How to reset the Administrator password for Windows XP
If ever you’ve lost a password in Windows XP and feared that you’d have to format your computer – worry no more. This article will tell you how to reset those passwords so that you’ll be up and running in no time. The first step is to get the Emergency Boot CD. Download it, and [...]
Internet Explorer Will Not Open
Spyware and Adware and Malware, oh my. Internet Explorer not loading for you is yet another thing that you can correctly blame on Spyware. If IE attempts to load, or acts like it does, but then nothing appears, it’s more than likely you have a Browser Help Object (BHO) that is tweaking your system. First [...]
Setup could not detect any Sound Blaster Audigy on your system
How to Install Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy Downloaded Drivers Setup could not detect any Sound Blaster Audigy on your system Please ensure that your Sound Blaster hardware is properly installed before running the setup program. Setup will now exit. Just as with my Sound Blaster Live! I’ve now run into the issue of not [...]