ok last night i installed the windows service pack 3 update cuz my
computer was insisting on it.
I installed it, restarted it, then everytime i log on , and the
farthest ive gotten is a white box loading in the place of the start

When nholding down Alt,Ctrl, Delete keys I now see The Security Widow screen
with TASK BAR grayed out.
How do I restore the task manager accessability?

How do I eliminate "Log On" screen requiring my checking OK when booting up
Windows XP Pro?

Does anyone know how to remove this pop up spyware-Virus Remover 2008?
I've tried PC tools Anti virus program along with SPyBot & Ad Aware- No
luck. Please Help

Hi,
I have a HP Pavilion notepook PC that has Windows XP Media center installed
in it.
Recently i have noticed that while working on my PC the windows explorer

I have windows XP SP2, all was going well till couple a months ago, I
installed (sigh) Nero 9 (I had Nero 7 on my PC & was fine), it messed all
things up so I uninstalled it but the Autoplay menu was messed up with lots
of "error" along with "open with media player" etc...

I am giving an old computer to my MIL. I want to wipe it by reinstalling XP.
I have a Dell reinstall disk which I *think* goes with this computer.
Two questions:
If I reinstall and put MIL's name in for registration instead of mine, will

I recently was given an XP media edition computer to fix because of inherent
booting problems. When I went to do a repair with the setup disc, all it
showed me was a partion but no mention of an operating system. In addition,
recovery console won't let me in due to a password ...

Ok I'm not sure whether I'm posting to the right newgroups regarding this
problem so please forgive me if I'm not.
I need to gain access to a deceased person's profile in a "My Documents"
folder.

 Had a vile virus/trojan which required the attention of MalwareBytes anti
malware program. After much ado, userinit was deleted giving me the dreaded
"loading your settings - logging out - saving your settings - loading your
settings" loop. As my Acer only came with pre-loaded ...

Somehow xp split from the c: directory into c: and d: directories. C: seems
to contain the boot partition and D: the System partition both on the same
hard drive. Can't boot in any form, safe,etc. nor can I restore. Can boot the
Recovery console but can't effect the necessary ...

I am getting "atl.dll file not found"
I copied that file but I couldn't open it and fix it.
I need help for this.
Thanks

My dearly beloved daughter managed to enter a new access password for Wxp,
and promptly forgot the password.
The computer has XP SP2 (maybe 3), and I can't get in to the system to
change it.

Did a system recover and a back up folder was created (C:\My Backup) of all
files on my hard drive.  My question is can I reinstall any of them files
back to my computer if so where can I find instructions on how to reinstall
only want the ones that are no longer available to ...

I have a computer that was recently thrown offline because the wireless
internet router was set to a wpa password instead of a wep password. I assume
this is because my computer is ill-fit to cope with a wpa password, so I'm
trying to update it.