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ReImage for Windows XP

June 8, 2009 By

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 both computers immidiately downloaded the update. on PC1 the same happen to as did to your previous writer with the dvd-rom issue (gave up and bought another) on PC2 my onboard network adaptor, uh, mulfunctioned and my computer no longer registers any outside computers from my network port. i do not want to use system restore point. is there a way of repairing online? SP2 cd does not work

I wrote back to Adam to tell that there is a new online service about which I have been reading, that might be what he was looking for. InformationWeek, NetworkWorld and eWeek had very interesting articles about it. I also advised him that I have not tried ReImage yet.

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Filed Under: Driver Corruption, Operating System, System, System Repair, Terry's Computer Tips, Windows XP

Video Problems – Monitor or Video Card?

August 29, 2008 By

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 on screen is still discernible albeit distorted) but screen still reacts to commands ( if word processing I am still able to do that). Any clue as to why my screen does this? Thanks.

Joe

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Filed Under: Driver Corruption, Hardware, System, Terry's Computer Tips

Printing Problems with the Print Spooler Service

July 2, 2007 By

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 reinstall the printer drivers I get a message that I need to restart my printer spooler. I cannot do this. Help if you can.

Thanks,
Jerry Munn

The Windows Print Spooler is a Windows XP “Service”. You can start it via the following steps:

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Filed Under: Driver Corruption, Operating System, Services, Terry's Computer Tips

WinXP Slow Shutdown Problem — Solved!

November 27, 2006 By

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 occurred.

Read more in my article WinXP Slow Shutdown Problem — Solved!
at Terry’s Computer Tips.

Filed Under: Driver Corruption, Operating System, Registry repair, Speed Tweaks, Windows XP