Was going to install XP sp2 but realized my 20 g HD wasnt roomy enough.
Cloned the 20 G to a 40 G. Using the 40 G Norton asked me to activate
Systemswork 2004. Did what they told me to do, typed in the key and kept
getting NO NO your limit has exceeded, thinking Im trying to ...

Thanks for your response on how to delete start menu
items.  But you told me to backup the registry and I am
sort of a beginner.  I did it once with someone here but
forgot. How do i do this.

Bought my first computer last Dec. - an HP Pavilion a300n -
XP Home.  Didn't know it was a pre-install! [duh]
I've had to do 3-4 System Recoveries and have Restore
Points set - as well as the discs hp has you make in the

Can someone tell me how to remove duplicate items or
items not necessary on the startup menu.  I am sure it is
a touch situation like the registry, so I do not want to
mess anything up. Please tell me anything I need to

Spent 3 hrs. trying to download the above subject to no
avail.   I found my sp2 setup log files.  Now what?  Used
the Sys Info tool to gather info about the configuration
of my computer.  Hopefully, it is on my desktop.  Please

I use an old ms-dos program for my biz. I loaded it on my
new computer. It came up but didn't like the win modem. I
tried playing with it but wouldn't fly. after a few
weeks, I put a u.s.r. modem in it. But when I went back

When I installed WinXP my pc had a master and a slave
harddrive.  It lettered the slave as c: and the master
(boot) hdd as f:.  I want to reverse this without having
to reinstall WinXP.  If I'd thought ahead I would've

I originally had my firewire hard drive partitioned to drive letters
D, E, F, and G on my WinXP Pro laptop. I used TweakUI to change the My
Documents folder from C to D because the external drive is much larger
than my system drive. I recently took my laptop away from home without

Whenever I try to run msconfig I am getting an error
message, that windows cannot find.  This is also true
when I trying to access help and support from the start
page.  Is there anything that I can do to correct this

My computer states that I have missing files from my SP1
{ie} usbscan.exe and others. How can I get these files
since update does not have SP1 anymore?

For no obvious reason I have just ended up having a device under the Network
folder of Device Manager called 'Microsoft Tun Miniport Adaptor #2'.
I have absolutely no clue whatsoever what I have done to cause this and I
have not installed anything at all apart from pulling in the ...

Hi, I think that this is nothing at all but ever since my
sister used my computer over the summer with AOL and all
sorts of other stuff, obviously several utilities were
downloaded and are now bein run.  I've cleaned out the

1. Downloaded SP-2
2. Had Admiistrator / Limited User problems upon boot.
Only the Administrator would boot up.
3. My problem is I now have lost Administrator function,

i am getting an error stop:  0000007f.i presume i have to
conduct a memory check.how do i do it.

I recently installed service pack 2 and now everytime i
reboot My Documents folder appears when windows loads up.
Is there a way of stopping this?