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I removed as much dust as possible but I will say that my PC seems to be running pretty hot, based on the BIOS temperature control. I have a fan on my power supply, two more on the back on my PC and one on the CPU and all seem to be working, but this is not in a particularly well ventilated...

Hello, I need some assistance troubleshooting a very strange problem. Within the past couple of months, my PC (running XP Pro SP2) started randomly freezing without any notice. I'm not talking about a program crashing, mind you, I'm speaking of completely having to restart my computer using...

I haven't noticed it at a certain time, per se, although I will pay closer attention next time it happens. I don't think it's necessarily ONLY once a week at a certain time; that was just an estimate of the frequency. I can say with certainty that it's happened on many different web pages.

I considered that as well - it seems to be happening when I'm moving the mouse (not typing), so that rules out hitting ctrl+P. But I know for a fact it's happened without the right click context menu being activated, so I'm at a loss.

LOL, so true. Anyone have any other ideas?

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that. I've run scans for spyware (Ad-Aware, Search & Destroy and MS AntiSpyware) and virii (AVG), all with the latest updates. Nothing found (except tracking cookies, which I removed). Any other ideas?

Hello, I've been having this problem for a few months now and finally decided to make a post about it. I'm running Windows XP Professional SP 2 with all the latest Windows updates and such. When I'm browsing the web (using IE 6.0 SP 2), usually at least once a week, my printer (HP Deskjet...

That's what I figured...all motherboard use the same kind, correct? Thanks for your help.

Hello, I've had Windows XP Professional (SP2) installed on my PC for a number of years now and thanks to the feature that lets you auto-sync the OS time with an internet site, the has always been correct. However, I've noticed over the past few past weeks that, even though this feature is...