I downloaded and installed SP3 about a week ago,
and have noticed only one peculiarity so far.
Power Options......my screen saver times in and
functions, but sometimes, even with nothing of

I have an unopened XP Pro Upgrade package I got long ago for a project but
never used.
Is there some way I can take a new over-the-counter desktop with Vista, and
convert it to XP Pro using this disc?  (Or laptop for that matter.)

Is there a special command I can use in the command line to start hibernation?

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After updaing my PC's with the SP3 I am consistently getting the red shield
telling me to turn on my automated updates.  This is true as well with
Onecare making the same statement.  The SP3 also has deleted my restore
history making it now impossible to restore to a certain ...

After upgrading to SP3 on my genuine XP Prof my Belkin card reader F5U249
would not load any folders.  I reloaded the driver which is not MS certified
and the folders appeared for a few seconds then disappeared.
Is this anything to do with SP3?

Hi, after I turn on my windows xp home pc, and it starts to load up, that
"Found New Hardware MTP device" box keeps popping up on the lower right
notification area in the task bar. I "x" it out and it comes back right
away. Its on top of ALL windows so its always showing. I rigth ...

Hi, I can't  find the original post, so I thought I better repost this..  I
believe I found out what hardware was causing the problem!  I didn't have
errors for some time, and then a few days ago, My computer booted on it's
own and when I came back to windows, I found my D drive ...

I'm running XP Pro, SP2.
I recently did two things.
First, I took a 250 GByte FAT external harddrive, backed it contents up to
another drive and reformatted it as NTFS, then restored the contents.

I have been having the configuration utility message come up on my screen
everytime I boot the computer.  I've tried starting in normal mode after
being requested to do so because it states that I am in selective/diaognostic
mode but that doesn't do anything, it keeps coming up ...

I've read several posts regarding the drive designation C: or F:. My
problem involves these drive designations but in the reverse.
My drive C: has a problem. I added another drive and it is F:. I want
to move everything off drive C: and put it on drive F:. When I tried

I want to use WinZip to send a big file to a friend with a really slow
connection (also no download manager), and i'm splitting the file into
smaller chunks with extensions zip, z01, z02 etc. I'm pretty sure the
"Compressed archive" function that comes with Windows XP won't let ...

Can someone tell me where screen shots are stored? I needed to get a screen
shot of an error report in order to get help from tech support for some
software that i am using. They would like for me to email it to them. Plz help

I thought it was a part of Windows XP but I cannot find it.
Where is it?
Jack

Has anyone seen the XP sign-on page start displaying that of previous
Windows?  Instead of having two icons (2-user accounts) on the first screen
after booting, I now have a Windows dialog window where I have to type
(rather than clicking my name) my account name; I then click OK ...