when my laptop was purchased it came with xp home edition pre-installed,
since then my little daughter had got her hands on the recovery discs and
broke them,even better than that when i went in to hospital for an operation,
my dads mate was looking at this laptop and he said to ...

CAN ANYONE TELL ME WHERE IS THE BEST PLACE TO GO TO DOWNLOAD MULTIMEDIA
DEVICES DRIVERS FOR SONY VAIO LAPTOP.  THANK YOU

I wanted to "clear" my old hard drive and start fresh.  I was previously
running XP Pro which I upgraded from XP Home.  Not having my XP Home disk, I
installed Win 2000 first, and then I thought I correctly did the upgrade,
which I expected to leave me with a newly reformatted ...

I've just had a heated discussion about my son wanting to have another OS on
my system. He's thrown some reasons why it's a good thing to have Linux set
up as a dual boot down my throat. I need some reasons why it's a bad idea.
I've tried going through the knowledge base, but i ...

I'm trying to install a new version of iTunes/Quicktime. The installation
fails because I have "insufficient access" to a key in the registry.
The key is:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Apple Computer, Inc.\Quicktime\Installed File

Suddenly my applications run slowly. Windows Task Manager shows the CPU
running 100% 100% of the time, even when no other user applications are
started.
Looking at Processes, I see MSKSvr.exe has the lion's share of CPU time and

Prior to swapping motherboards I saved all my files and settings to the E
drive (2 harddrives; 1 partitioned as C and D and the other as E and F.
Formatted C and reinstalled XP. Now when I go to run the files and settings
transfer wizard and point it to the file location it says ...

My sons have come over and used my computer, using MSN Messenger. One
of my friends also did the same thing. Now, since then, every time I log on,
my
user account tells me that I have X-number of unread e-mails. When I click

Can I load Windows 2003 server (trial) on my home PC which currently has XP
professional on it?   Will it simply show up as an option to select either XP
or Windows server when booting up?

this is going to take a bit to explain, but I really appreciate the help.  
I've made quite a mess of things.
I'm running xp pro w/ sp2.  I went a little crazy shopping on the day after
thanksgiving and I basically bought myself a new system.  a couple days ago I

         i have a windows xp home edition sp2, which i use at home on my
thinkpad. I am the administrator on this notebook pc. My account has is named
after my name & user account on control panel describles my account as
computer administrator & password protected. But i am ...

   On my old system which just got stolen, I had Explorer windows set up so
that they used the classic look with folders on the side and files on the
other side.  The folders in the left-hand pane that have little + signs next
to them could then be expanded to display any ...

I have a remote PC connected to a LAN by a wireless adapter. At times the
connection is lost and I have to do a manual repair of the connection on the
remote PC to get it back online. How I can write a .bat job that try to ping
the LAN router, if the ping fails then do a ipconfig ...

I tried to remove spyware the old fasioned way, by deleting files. When i
load msconfig and go to the win.ini tab theres nothing there, and my vaio
wont load windows, i get the loading windows xp screne then nothing, my
display is blank, but if i restart in safe mode, all is fine ...

I have a problem with Windows XP Shut Down after SP2 installation (it might
not be the cause). When I try to shut down the system it does not work. I get
the blue screen with the error 0x0000008E (0xC00000005, 0x8062A21D,
0xF9A90A50, 0x000000000).