I have a heavily corrupted installation of XP Pro on my laptop and need
probably to do a full reinstall.  It is on a C drive, I have some files I
need to transfer onto a D partition before reinstalling as I presume there
is no way I could burn them onto a CD ROM under any ...

I have been trying to download some zip files from flightsim.com.  When I
select the file to download it starts downloading to a temporary File.  Once
completed I cannot locate the files anywhere.  When I download other types of
files, I get a save in window where I can specify ...

On one of my XP Pro SP2 machines, right-clicking a folder in the Start Menu
and selecting any of the options "Open" "Open All Users" "Explore" "Explore
All Users" fails to do anything at all.  It should open/explore the
corresponding folder, e.g., c:\documents and settings\all ...

I copied a system folder from root to a temp folder:
'C:\Documents and Settings\Myname\Sendto\*.*' -> 'C:\Temp'
Now, I cannot delete 'C:\Temp\Myname\Sendto\*.*'
The folder 'C:\Temp\Myname\Sendto\*.*'  re-creates itself immediately post

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Hello.
I have a Windows XP Professional SP1 computer that cannot download
windows updates.

After installing and removing a few applications and peripherals, the
registry now has many entries left over from all those poorly implemented
installs/de-installs. This is inconvenient in many ways.
What's the official word on registry cleaners? Are they useful? Are they

what I have to allow in MS firewall on computer with WinXp Sp2 to use this
from "Run..." : \\computer\c$
and I can connect with RemoteDesktop when I used ip adress but when I used
computer name it dosnt work.

I have two XP Pro computers at home and need to move 5 users from one PC to
the next.  Is there any easy way?  When trying the file & settings transfer
wizard, it seems to only do one at a time and would prefer a mass move over
the home network at one time.  Thanks for any ...

I had a virus and followed the instructions to remove a registry entry. I
also removed a check from the startup tab. Now the system gets to a point and
will not start and it does not have a recovery. I have the system recovery
disks but would like to save some data before I blow ...

Does XP Pro have any accessible equivalent to the RunLevel of Unix/Linux?
I'd like to be able to log into safe mode without rebooting (Don't ask). I
suppose I could just shut down services manually, but if this could be
automated it would be a start. Ideas?

I've been trying for the past hours to delete two logical drives so as to
obtain some unallocated space that I could (in theory) transform into two new
and shinny primary drives, on which I wish to reinstall XP, one as my main
partition, the other to try out new programs.

I want to format the hard drive on an old computer, but I do not have all the
driver files on disk, which I will need to reinstall after formatting the
hard drive.  Can I save these drivers to a disk and if so what path do I use
to find them in "C" drive.  I am using Windows XP ...

I have everything set to "Never", have the "Enable Hibernate" box unchecked,
and yet within a couple of minutes after power up, this thing goes into
standby. It will even do it while I'm working on something. I have
uninstalled all updates prior to having this problem with no ...

Greetings!  I recently tried out Tweak UI for Win XP, having used it
with Win 95 and 98 in the past with good results.  I am a little
befuddled after trying it with Win XP because after changing a few
settings, now whenever I move the mouse over a listing on my Start