On my XP home, SP2, machine, the only administrator user account was
accitently deleted. Now it only has a user with limited permissions. With
this account I have no internet access. How do I restore the deleted
administrator account or create a new administrator account?

I recently installed SATA drive but now my PCI IDE card is not showing
drive attached. BIOS says things are fine but System will not boot unless I
unplug cable from Promise card. Any known  incompatibility issues?
Thanks.

in the registry setting HKLM\CurrentConrtolSet\Control\Session
Manager\Memory Management you can adjust the second level cache memory (L2
cache) with the value SecondLevelDataCache.
Now, I'm running a dual Xeon 3.2GHz 533FSB processor system with, each

My motherboard recently failed. I replaced it. The version of XP that I was
using came preloaded with the computer I purchased. Microsoft no longer
recognizes that copy of Wndows as authentic. How do I get around this, or do
I have to purchase another copy?  

 When I tried System Restore I get the message that Microsoft is very sorry
and wants to phone home. Anyone have a fix handy>
JB

Hi.  Over the past 6 months, my laptop has become incredibly slow.  I have
found out about the MSCONFIG utility and find that when I disable most of the
services and startup items, it runs much quicker.  Questions are:
- what is the downside of disabling?  If I launch an ...

It is possible to modify the blue color from the taskbar to another color,
but
without changing the visual styles neither the desk color?. Also, in those
alone visual styles you can select 3 colors, blue, silver and green.

How do I repair my "open with" dialog and "open with" sub-menu? I still have
the "open with" command in the context menu but, a) there is no sub-menu
offered and, b) when i click "open with", instead of the dialog box I get
this error:

I currently have a dual boot system (separate drives) - Me on drive C: (FAT32
20GB) and XP on drive D: (NTFS 60GB).
Is it possible to reconfigure to the following without reinstalling XP?
Remove the FAT32 20GB drive

I'm having the following problem with windows xp home sp2:
I dont have any rights on the pc while im an administrator with
administrator rights.
I created another user with administrator rights and this user also doesnt

Hey Folks. I may already be headed in the right direction but I wanted to
make sure I had any specific steps necessary to do this properly before I
tried to do this tomorrow on my own. I have dsl/cable router at home that I
plug 2 pc's into the ethernet ports for internet access. ...

Musicmatch caused a hidden window to constantly reappear upon shutdown. Then
sent instructions to uninstall and then reinstall. I don't think I need this
program; it came with my Dell machine and I've used it once or twice out of
curiosity.

For some reason I am unable to get into safe mode. When I depress F2 safe
mode is nowhere to be seen and the same is true for F8. Is there another way
I can get into safe mode?

I formated my Compaq laptop HD. My only working CD is external. I
loaded XP from the external CD to the hard drive. But drivers are not
loaded for modem, etc. Compacq has a 4 disk set of Systenm Recovery,
but it does not recognize the external CD drive. Says Drive Q not

Right now, I am on an Acer Aspire 3003, less than a year old.
When I received my computer, drive C was partitioned into two drives, C and D.
I want to remove partition D(already erased) and make partition C expand to
the full disk. After deleting Partition D, It just left an empty ...