WinXP Home SP2
Hi
Since installing SP2, my home page on IE6 is MSN, but when I get google up
and make that my default home page in... tools/ Internet options/ General/

how do i clean up my registry on xp

Can anyone tell me how to change the "Registered To" on
the General Tab under Control Panel/System.  I bought a
Dell laptop for my son for college, but had it delivered
to a neighbor's house as we were away.  Dell kindly

I am working with a Compaq Presario laptop.  The laptop is fully
patched running XP Home with SP2.  The preloaded antivirus software
that came with the machine (Norton Antivirus) expired so I am
attempting to install Symantec Corporate AntiVirus (the school that I

Anyone who reply's to my posts in any MS newsgroup your posts will be
deleted by John Eddy. The new Big man on campus, he has been influenced by
the MS MVP's who hate me. There will be an article about it coming out soon
in the Seattle Times. It will only be deleted if you post ...

My EMachines T1440 was unplugged after locking up.  When plugged back in, the
PC failed to boot up.  It makes it to the screen which gives you the option
to boot up with last successful config, safe mode, etc.  None of these work.  
Restore disk that came with PC will reformat the ...

I just deleted a very important file from my server(win2000 server) through
networks neighbourhood, is there any way I can recover this file ? 'cos I
can't find this file from Recycle Bin.....
Thx

I go online with a user account as recommended and when I get virus updates
from McAfee they it says you must be an administrator of the account to
install the update. I have written them for help and they ignore me. I have
tried setting permissions and it didn't work. i have ...

When my windows box starts up the FLock and NumLock are both 'off'
Is there any way I can change this so they are both on?
David

I'm using XP Home. I'm having a problem getting rid of an Adware/Spy. It's
path is C:\windows\system32\sstqo.dll. It has buried itself in Explorer.exe
and Winlogon. exe. When I try to "kill" it, I get a BSOD and when I reboot,
there it is. I can't delete it because "it's in use". ...

Dell 4550, Win XP Home. It came with MS Word 2002.
Worked fine til few weeks ago. Now, when I log in, desktop appears,
and I get small window-
Windows Installer

I'm having a problem with Explorer sorting *non*-numeric filenames.
Explorer just plain ignores a '-' character (aka dash, hyphen, minus,
ASCII 0x2d) in filenames.  Here's an example:
cmd.exe 'dir'           Explorer

Hi, I went over to a lady's house yesterday and we tried to make some
shortcuts to the programs she uses the most and the file folders she
needs access to at all times. Well, we right clicked created the
shortcut, either sent it to the desktop or were going to drag it there.

I see a lot of talk about the Windows Registry and was wondering if
anyone could give me a simple explanation of what it is and what it
does?
Many thanks for any help!!

Recently my computer has stopped letting me do certain functions such as
using command prompt or task manager as it says it has been disabled by
administrator. the problem is im the administrator and dont know how i did
this or how to fix it. I am the only user, it is an advent ...