i just did some major upgrades to my computer, including switching to a
dual processor Tyan Tiger 230 motherboard.  however, XP (Professional) does
not seem to recognize the 2nd processor at all.  i've tried to force a
harware abstraction layer during installation (according to ...

Can anyone recommend a simple method to set XP up as a server machine?

since sp2 for windows xp pro I can't use tftp. how do I get that feature back

Hi.  I had a problem a couple of months ago where my WinXp Pro Sp2 system
would hang on shutdown.  I seemingly traced it to a problem with my Microtek
scanner and the WIA service.  Disabling the service caused the Os to
shutdown fine again.  Later I found I had stisvc errors in ...

I recently installed a new hard drive, and installed
windows xp.  After installation, i tried to install a
printer and when i pluged it in nothing happened.  When i
looked under systems, there are no usb drivers

The DST checkbox seems to be missing from my Time Zone tab. On the Date &
Time tab, the time zone shows as U.S. Mountain Standard Time. I recently
upgraded from XP-Home (SP2) to XP-Pro (SP2). This issue did not exist in my
Home version. Any ideas on how I go about "fixing" ...

Kids have messed up desktop settings and now I try to reset the system locks
after hiting the apply button and i have to switch off and restart

I downloaded Cisco Systems VPN onto my computer so I can log into my work
email.  The problem I am having is that when I open VPN from my husband's
user account, I can log in no problem.  When I switch users to my account and
try to open the same VPN application, it doesn't give ...

I've Windows XP Professional SP2 installed. Lately I've installed .NET
Framework 1.1 and immediately  my Welcome screen has changed to a kind of
split screen with my name, and color icon  on the right side.
Naturally now I have to press on the user name in order to continue with

In XP when a new window is created in inactive mode, it is shown in taskbar
with a blinking orange color, how can I change that color?
Is good to blink , but I want a different color

I got a computer for free but the whole thing is in Japanese! How do I change
it to English? it is running XP Pro.

    I recently installed Windows XP on a brand-new computer that I built.
Specs are as follows:
AMD Sempron 3100+
ASUS K8S-MX Motherboard

Hello all.  I posted this in the XP.basics group and then found this group,
which seems to be the more appropriate firum. I apologize for the two
basically identical posts.
My first desktop PC running XP Pro came with XP Pro preinstalled and

Users "My recent documents" -folder have hundreds of files in them.
It works correctly from the Windows, it shows only 15 last one used. But
the directory in their profile contains links to all the files, not just
the last 15..

I'm using WinXP (Home) on my System.
To keep my System clean (which I need for office) i've mirrored the
primary XP-Partition (let's call id hd0.0 for convenience) to another
partition on the same drive (for gaming and testing - hd0.1).