I'm working on our church office Gateway pc, running WinXP.  Some OS files
have gotten corrupted, and I want to reinstall WinXP.  We have the bundled
software CD that came with the pc.
1.  Do I have to reformat the hard drive before reloading WinXP?  If so, how

My home computer has four users, the administrator(parent) account and my
three kids.  For some reason the kid accounts cannot access the internet
since using XP.  In fact, just upon logging in as one of them, they get the
error message that asks if you want to send the error to ...

I get this error message when I try to start XP. Thinking my hard drive had
gone belly up, I put in my spare HD with a Ghost copy on it. I get the same
error message, so I know the trouble isn't in my HD. I search the web and
found a web site, Tinyempire.com  that would format a ...

I am using Windows XP Home Addition (SP2).  When ever I hit the arrow key
several times in a row, the start menu appears.  This happens in any software
I am using at the time.  How can I stop this from happening?

I dont have movie maker and the MS website says it should be there after the
sp2 upgrade (which I did succesfully). Any idea how to get it alone, or can I
try to install sp2 again without messing things up? Not a complete newbie but
not a geek either, and trying to set this ...

I think my computer may be high jacked, because I cannot open Internet
Options under the Tools tab.  I get a message when I try to open that "This
operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer.
Please contact your system administrator".

I (or my kids) have accidentally reversed the ranking of commands in the
FILE menu for each Directory Folder in My Computer.
SEARCH... has now taken priority over OPEN in the ranking. So, when I
double-click a directory icon, the search function launches. I want my

When I try to watch or listen to material off the net the clip starts
and stops continuously every few seconds. How can this be remedied?

how do i update this driver
it is a ATI RADEON XPRESS 200 Series
i do not know if it is on cpu or somewhere else.
whe i was playing a game, it say the game might not run smootly unless you

I have a dsl setup in florida, and through it connect to BellSouth's
newsgroup and mail servers.   I set up outlook 2007,
and IE6's newsgroup reader, in florida on the
bellsouth acct. where it works perfectly.

We had several power disruptions last night, seemingly minor.  Very late
last night, I found neither of our pcs would go online (his 'n her pcs).
Prior to this, and for several years, both have worked fine.
I use DSL, and have a Linksys hub/router joining to two pcs together.   ...

I have Windows XP on my computer. Recently, I removed several programs by
using the Add/Remove programs feature in control Panel. They were all
removed sucessfully. Shortly after I had to restore my computer to an
earlier date. when I did, I found that the previously removed ...

System is XP Pro
When I click on any icon, file or command there's a delay of about 2 seconds
before there's a responce.
It happens on the desktop, in IE7, in Windows explorer and most offer apps.

How can I get my external hard drive to appear as the default in the Save
dialog box in Windows XP Home ver.2 ?

Laptop wirelessly connected to 3Com ADSL modem/router, desktop hard wired to
same.
Print server also connected to router.
After updating Zone Alarm laptop & desktop can't see each other and can't