Gidday,
I've come across a problem with saving files to my hard drive. No matter what PROGRAM I use, when I open up the 'save' dialogue box and select ‘my computer’ I can’t see my hard drive’s, I can see my CD drive etc. and can save to my hard drive in a roundabout WAY using a shortcut on the desktop but the whole business is really bugging me.

I have tried to system restore but it won’t complete no matter what date I take it back to.

I have an Acer TravelMate 260 Laptop running WINDOWS XP service pack one.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks very much
You need to have service pack 2 and all updates. What are you using for virus/spyware protection? Has it always been this way? If not, what happened prior to this? Do you have a real Windows CD if you need to reinstall?Thanks for your reply.
I will install service pack 2 this AFTERNOON to see if that helps.
I am using Spyware Doctor, Zone Alarm, Ad-Aware, AVG Free edition and some other free spyware programmes.
I recently uninstalled Secretmaker (Popup/spyware program)
I have had all this gear on my system for a while and don't think I added one just before the problem showed up.
I'm sure I will be able to find the Windows CD around here somewhere, how much of a drama is reinstalling windows? Might be a GOOD idea to refresh my system.


Thanks againTo reinnstall, back up all your data files, then insert the Windows CD and restart the machine. When you see "Press any key to boot from CD" press a key. The rest is easy. Be sure and reformat the drive when given the option!

If you don't have drivers for your video, audio, etc. you may want to write down what they are from Control Panel/System.