I don't know the password of windowsxp that some one
install before me ,How do I do for to know the password
if I don't new install? Can I change the password? If I
can't change the password,How I solve the problem so that

Quick Launch icons will not show after boot up. Once I
right click on Task Bar and go to properties and check
the Quick Launch, apply, icons then appear on Task Bar,
but once I go to shut down and/or reboot the Quick Launch

I just installed a new Western digiital hard drive. Using
their utlity, i formatted the new drive. it locks up all
the time. I noted that the drive is formatted "NTFS"?
instead of fat 32, while my slave drive  is formatted in

Control of System Restore function has been disabled by "Group Policy".
How do regain control?

can any help in safely removing windows 98 on my machine
that runs XP under a dual boot?
can it be as described in this help page
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-

I would like to limit the usage of CPU to the amount X percent for a
speciffied application. (that means that when there are no other
applications running, the specified application would use no more than X
percent of CPU power). Is is possible? If yes, than how can I do it.

I'm having an issue with the "Open"/"Open All
Users", "Explore"/"Explore All Users" context menu
options (right click menu) for shortcut folders (such
as "Accessories") under the "All Programs" list on

I cannot access default XP theme in display properties any
more, only win' Classic. Any syuggestions on how to get it
back would be appreciated

On my Win XP Pro system I see an Event Log entry that points to
TelnetServer, the entry reads:
WSAGetLastError() returned error: An address incompatible with the
requested protocol was used.

Is there a known problem in XP pro with IE6...When I
launch IE6, half of the time, the page cannot be
displayed. The other half, it's ok.
What can this be?

I have a fairly new used 40GB HD that I took out of my
old PC and put in my new Windows XP PC.  How to i convert
the FAT32 on my old HD to NTFS?  What will happen to all
my data if i convert it?

All programs started by double click are opened in
Microsoft Word 2003. If I do right click on any file i
see ,that the default action for it - Edit. How this
problem can be solved?

Hi  everyone,
I wanted to know what I have to do if I have to replace a motherboard and
CPU, but wanted to keep the hard drive which has my operating system. Would
my operating system go crazy if i had added a new components.  I have

I would like to move the user profiles from c:\Documents and Settings to
other directory/drive (let's say e:\profiles). Is there some safe and "user
friendly" way of doing this. So far I've been doing it by manually editing
the registry but this doesn't seem to safe for me. :-/

I have evidence to suggest that the file notepad.exe is not protected by
Windows File Protection (WFP) in the system32 directory on Windows XP.  If
you move notepad.exe out of the system32 directory into a temporary
directory, WFP does not restore it from dllcache.  It is protected ...