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This behavior occurs because your computer processor detected an unrecoverable hardware error and reported it to Windows XP. To do so, it used the Machine Check Exception (MCE) feature of Pentium processors or the Machine Check Architecture (MCA) feature of some Pentium Pro processors. The error may be a result of any of the following: […]

Normally caused by having one or more RAM sticks that are either damaged or not placed into the computer correctly. turn off the computer and double check the RAM seating. If the memory is seated correctly, it could be that you have a bad DIMM. Try swapping out the DIMMs one at a time. Link

One of the core Windows system hives (the SAM hive, the SECURITY hive, the SOFTWARE hive, or the DEFAULT hive) cannot be linked in the Windows registry. However, this error does not mean that the hive is damaged or that it was not loaded successfully. Link

This step-by-step article describes how to create a mirrored volume on a remote Windows 2000 Server-based computer by using the Disk Management snap-in in Microsoft Windows XP. You can use the Disk Management snap-in to create a mirrored volume from unallocated disk space on a dynamic disk, or mirror an existing simple volume on a […]

Get Rid of Unwanted Balloon Tips Open up the Registry Editor and expand the tree to display the following key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER Software Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Explorer Advanced Then, created a new DWORD value named EnableBalloonTips and set it to 0x00000000.

Start – run – type RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection C:windowsinfwmp.inf,Uninstall

This article describes how to recover a Windows XP system that does not start because of corruption in the registry. This procedure does not guarantee full recovery of the system to a previous state; however, you should be able to recover data when you use this procedure.Warning Do not use the procedure that is described […]

Without a doubt the most asked question is what is svchost.exe and why is it running so many times at once. That’s a fair question, especially if you’ve looked in Task Manager and seen it listed three or four times, each instance gobbling up memory. The official answer, straight from the mouth of Microsoft is: […]