I have a friend that is running Windows XP home (not pro) he got hit with
the "trojandropper" virus. Now when the computer reboot a message comes up
with the blue screen that the registry is corrupt. I tried to go into setup
and do a repair, the first repair with console I don't ...

Help. Acer laptop. Got message corrupt or file missing:
windows/system32/config/system  
Won't go beyond.  Can only boot from CD recovery but that
will wipe all data and data on PC is very, very important

Due to a corrupted file my PC ws no longer booting up.  
Tried using repair option with the XP install disk to no
effect.  Finally had to reload XP.  Install prompted me
to create new account names.  Now when the PC boots up I

My user account, along with all my files, folders etc.
seems to have disappeared. Where can I get this account
back???
Thanks,

The other night I received a message that there was an
update for McCafee firewall. I downloaded the update and
restarted my computer. It keeps coming up with a black
screen. I tried several restore points and the same

I have seen many people with the same problem, but no one
seems to have an answer!  Some say  that yahoo and google
are just having trouble right now?!  sigh..does anyone
know anything!?

I'm the only user in my windows XP platform. But it
doesn't let me access c:\document settings\all
users\document directory -- I can not even delete this
directory. I need access to this directory to install

I just got on my computer and went to 'My Documents' and
can no longer find file folders I created under My
Documents.  When I do a search, nothing turns up.  I'm
stressed because they contain months, and months of work.

I am locked out at boot up, I tried the ctrl-alt del twice and then hitting enter at the prompt for password. This does not work for my problem eventhough I never designated a password. Is there a way to overide or change the password prompt at startup?

My computer crashed and I'm trying to restart it using XP
Pro Recovery Console, BUT it asks me to type in the
Administrator Password and I can't remember if or what I
used.  Can I somehow get around this?  Keep in mind I

i have found a file on my computer that generates pop ups
on my computer.  when i try to end the process, it will
not allow me to end it b/c it is a "critical system
process".  is there a way i can bypass it, end the

My Windows XP Home Edition doesn't want to start up.  I
receive a "Value Creation Failed at Line 422" Error Code
0x80040507 and then the screen stalls and turns grey.  The
computer was bought through Dell 1yr. and a half ago and

My Windows XP Home Edition doesn't want to start up
completely.  All I get when rebooting is an error:  Value
Creation Failed on line 422  Error code 0x80040507.  The
computer was purchased from Dell about a year and a half

I installed a promise ultra 133 card in my dell 4600 running xp home when I
hooked up my cd rom drive to it is not recognized. Is there some kind of
bios setting that I have to do. The reason I am trying to use the promise
card so that I can separate my DVD burner from the cd rom ...

During a normal reboot to clear Ram, XP came to the
password entry and the keyboard was not being
recognized.  As I went through the differant testings,
including trying a system restore, I attempted a