In fact, often I love to hate my computer!

It will do things I know even great Mr. Gates didn't intend, and it usually does them at least convenient time (like when I'm on a deadline or in a hurry).

Rather than usual whining and doing nothing about it, I've decided to share a couple of things that previously annoyed heck out of me and solutions I found to help you avoid these same problems.

*Disappearing Internet Explorer Status Bar*

The status bar at bottom of Internet Explorer web browser serves many purposes.

It allows you to hold your mouse over a link to see where link will take you.

It enables you to see a page's loading progress as you wait for it to download.

Most importantly, status bar allows you to see little gold "lock" symbol that lets you know you've made a connection to a secure server (very important to know before you input credit card data).

For some inexplicable reason, from time to time, this status bar disappears from my browser.

Also, toolbars at top tend to move periodically and mess up my "system" for surfing Internet.

This will no doubt give you plenty of heartaches if you're not certain which program caused Windows to not boot up.

If you recently installed a program or application and know where it was installed,you may be in much better shape as for as correcting error.

Here are common ways to correct problem of your computer not completely booting up or not booting up at all.

If your computer will not boot-up at all,hopefully you have made a good emergency boot disk. You can always make a windows startup disk by creating one from another computer running Windows 98 or Me.Perform following if your computer won't Boot-Up At All.

FIRST......Put your boot floppy disk in floppy drive and turn on PC.On some computers, you may have to access bios and select Boot priority to your A: drive.

Save any changes and select "Start Computer without CDROM support" and press Enter.Once you are at A prompt,type dir c: and press enter.

If your programs and other files are present,try restoring your system Registry by following steps below.This may repair Windows,the Config. Sys and autoexec.bat files to where PC may boot up normally.When files are present,its a good indication of a good hard drive.

SECOND......To correct problem of your computer not booting up,type in "fdisk /mbr" and press Enter to restore your master boot record.Type "Scandisk C:" to check hard drive for errors that have occurred. You can also type "Sys C:" to hopefully restore files needed to boot up your computer.

THIRD......If above procedures fail to repair your computer,you can repeat first part of step one above and select "Start Computer With CDROM Support" re-install Windows.

Making A Windows XP Bootable Floppy

Windows XP users should create a boot disk now by placing a formatted blank diskette in A: drive, open Windows Explorer to C:,select Tools,Folder Options ,show Hidden files and and folders,then View Tab.