If you are having serious problems with your Microsoft Windows XP Home operating system, you may be able to rectify the issues by performing a repair installation. A repair installation allows you to reinstall all of your operating system files without affecting your data and installed programs.

Boot disks are useful if you are unable to boot from operating system installation discs, are experiencing problems with your current operating system installation or wish to make changes to the operating system prior to starting it. Floppy drives, CDs, DVDs and USB flash drives may be used as boot

Windows Runtime Error 339 occurs when a program asks for a specific file it cannot find. The error tends to happen when you attempt to activate certain functions of a program.

The Cisco Unity Express AvT communication software program is a voice-mail and auto-attendant system application that is designed to work with the Cisco CallManager in small and mid-size business environments. If your phone or phone system is connected to a computer that has the Unity Express AvT so

Also known as Windows Installer, MSI contains tools to help install, upgrade and uninstall Windows software. For big programs or those that may take a while to install, the MSI's wrapper feature may come in handy. This code allows the computer to run the process unattended. Since programs can someti

Corrupt or incomplete installations of Windows XP caused by things such as accidental file deletion or a virus necessitate system restoration to solve the underlying issue. There are two main methods for restoring an installation of Windows XP: One is a full reinstallation, which will require battli

Even though storm windows may be in place only six months out of the year, they need a protective covering to protect the window frame and not detract from the overall appearance of your dwelling. Whether your storm windows are framed in wood or metal, they can be spruced up periodically with a nice

Built into every version of Microsoft Windows, the Disk Cleanup Utility scans your computer for files that are no longer needed. Using this application helps to reduce clutter on your computer as well as increasing the total amount of free space on your drive. As with any computer maintenance progra

Windows Vista Ultimate 32 and 64 might share the same name, but the operating systems are far from alike. Windows 64 utilizes 64-bit memory addressing, allowing your computer to detect additional installed RAM and allowing you to run 64-bit application. Upgrading from one to the other is only possib

You may need to restore the registry in Windows 98 and restore your installed copy of Microsoft Access after major malfunctions to the system result in an error-prone computer that is unable to use Access or other installed programs. You can do this in around 20 to 30 minutes, after which the proble

Administrative users in Windows XP-based computers have full permission to access and change any (unprotected) file they want. These privileges are handy to have if you are a parent, network administrator or if you allow friends to use your computer. It may be wise however to assign other users a "L

Perform a MIDI bulk dump from your synthesizer module to Cakewalk Sonar in order to transfer patch bank information to the sequencer. Most synths that support MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) provide users with the ability to send and receive system-exclusive messages to other sequencing

Microsoft Paint uses the RGB color model, which represents values for the red, green and blue components of a color as a decimal number between zero and 255, allowing 16.7 million different color combinations. The HTML standard also uses the RGB color model, but represents each component value using

Primavera P3 is portfolio management software created by Oracle. It allows businesses to manage their projects, keeping tabs on various products in development and sharing that information. The "Activity Description" field is an optional field in the Primavera tables that, as the name implies, allow

Dr. Web, an antivirus program certified by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, identifies certain files with the PXE extension as Trojan horses. A Trojan horse allows hackers remote access to your computer, where they can steal passwords and other sensitive information. To protect you

Windows XP uses MSStyle theme files to inform the operating system what style and supporting files to load on computer startup. The default themes that are bundled with Windows XP do not have a wide variance in their look and feel. As a result, many computer users have the desire to create a Windows

The Windows stop message, commonly called the "Blue Screen of Death" or "BSOD" because of the message's background color, occurs when Microsoft Windows discovers a problem or occur from which it cannot successfully recover. A BSOD can be the result of a software or hardware malfunction and consists

The HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) port on an HP (Hewlett-Packard) computer lets users connect to the sound ports on a high-definition television or to a set of speakers that are part of a high-definition surround sound device. The port is not always active and must be turned on via the

Plasma TV sets and plasma computer monitors have similar high-quality display capabilities. How these devices differ is in the type of video signal the hardware is capable of rendering. All television sets have a hidden "tuner" on the inside of the unit that receives a video/audio signal from a cabl

The Parental Controls feature of Windows Vista allows you to control the computer usage of different user accounts on the computer. Controls that can be set include Web restrictions, allowing and blocking of specific programs and games, and time limits. The time limit setting allows you to configure