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ReImage for Windows XP

I received a question from Adam, a Terry’s Computer Tips web site visitor recently, who was having problems with two of his computers:
Hey Terry, just read your XP SP3 woes, got another one two for you. i have a small home network running with shared internet connection. When SP3 came out [...]

Video Problems – Monitor or Video Card?

Recently subscriber Joe Tann wrote with a video problem.
Terry,
I need you help. Lately my monitor picture begins to occasionally on a random basis do the “shimmeys” (very thin lines of black spread across screen in varying bunches of intervals and the lines begin to vibrate but picture [...]

Printing Problems with the Print Spooler Service

Subscriber Jerry Munn wrote recently to ask about a problem where he couldn’t print from his Windows XP computer.
Also, can you tell me where to go to restar my printer spooler. We had several power failures this weekend and I no longer have any printer info on one of my computers. When I try to [...]

WinXP Slow Shutdown Problem — Solved!

Several months ago, I solved a Windows XP slow shutdown problem that had been plagueing me for about three months on my notebook.
Since I normally let the notebook run overnight or close it to let it hibernate, I wasn’t able to identify when the problem happened, so I wasn’t able to identify the change that [...]