How do I assign a drive letter to a folder?
I have an application which I need to run on both a desktop and laptop
machine.
On the desktop machine (Win2K) the app is installed in its own folder (call

Does Windows XP maintain a software installation log?
Typical support call:
Customer: Your product (expletive deleted :-). It doesn't work.
Support: Was it working previously?

I have just put my new HDD in my machine to use as a master. I have installed
windows xp pro but it only shows as 137GB instead of 250GB.
When I right click on my computer and click manage then click disk
management there is 104GB un-allocated. If I right click that and click new

Your help would be greatly appreciated. On switching on the pc, an error
message pops up during boot up which states that a locally stored profile
cannot be accessed because either my security settings do not allow it or a
registry file may be corrupt. XP opens ok, but all ...

Windows XP Pro, SP2 running inside MS Virtual PC 2004. (Not that the latter
should make any difference - theoretically.)
I am no longer able to install MSI's on this box. The MSI will launch,
Preparing to Install... and then I receive the following dialog box:

Any help with this is appreciated.
I have a couple of machines running XP Pro SP2.
I went in and set a custom page size of 1024MB.  However, a couple of
machines show the size as 768 currently allocated.

When I right-click on the desktop and choose Properties, the window closes
after 10 seconds.  Also happens with various Control Panel apps, and
right-click/My Computer/Properties as well.  Any help in fixing this would be
greatly appreciated, I can't un-install anything, change ...

When I boot up xphome sp2 on AMD athelon spoolsv.exe is running sucking up
100 CPU usage.  when I open task manager to end process it comes back.  How
can I stop this??  Naturally, the computer is running extremely slow and is
unusable.

Please redirect me if I'm not on the good group.
I'm using an HD formated with a dynamique partition.
It works ok on winxp pro, but not on the home version.
So I was wondering if there was a way to make it work on both system.

Is there a way to delete or remove specific entries from the event viewer logs?  There was one program that was misbehaving and now
there's tens of thousands of entries because of it.  I would like to purge all of those but keep everything else.
I tried WinZapper but it does ...

Help!
Using Norton Ghost, I copied the contents of one drive to my new, larger
one. The new copy drive boots but as I said, I log in, and it will say
"LOADING PERSONAL SETTINGS", then "SAVING YOUR SETTINGS" and

I am having trouble writing files to a cd. In the staging area, I have a
number of files waiting to be written to a cd. But when I go to write them,
an error message comes up. It says something like "cannot delete such and
such, it is open or is being used by another person. ...

XP Home on Toshiba a70 Satellite laptop.
I lost the sound on my Toshiba.  I think it happened after I installed MS
Office sounds.exe.  All the drivers are there, volumes are up, devices
enabled etc.  The only thing is when I go to Control Panel/Sounds and Audio

My wife and I have been getting the blue screen with KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR
(see below) error message when I perform virus scan, install Windows updates,
moving/copying files using Windows Explorer or sometime when we are simply
browsing the web on our laptop. I checked ...

Not sure if I'm dealing with an issue specific to application, or Windows,
but I'll start with Windows. I just downloaded and installed Trilian instant
messaging application, and though it works perfectly fine in my
(administrator) user account, it does not appear in start menu ...