Suddenly my desktop background will not show up..when you click in display
and on the desktop tab..all the backgrounds cannot be clicked and you cannot
scroll through them...I have done all that I know to do and still cannot
access these backgrounds. I also have webshots and ...

I recently installed a new hard drive.  My Windows is not working the way it
should be (seems to be starting in safe mode but doesnt indicate its starting
in safe mode).  I still have my old hard drive.  Does anyone know what files
or directories I can copy from my old hard drive ...

I can't schedule any tasks.  At first I got a message 0x80070005: Access is
Denied.  I read Microsoft article 904423 and learned of a hotfix for the
problem.  After installing the hotfix I get a new message. 0x80090016: Key
set  does not exist.  I can't find any help in the ...

Recently I upgraded to SP 2 and now windows won't boot properly, it gets so
far them I get the black screen with startup options?
Start up in Safe mode with networking works, the only way to boot normally
is to do a system restore that takes me back b4 SP2, any ideas?

A series of automatic upgrades turned up and I stupidly accepted some
functionality which I subsequently did not like.  I uninstalled an MSN On
Line comms package and then tried to restart.  Disaster ensued and I now
cannot get my system up and running again in anything but safe ...

I have recently upgraded from win2000 to home xp on a new gigabyte
motherboard ( GA-K8N Pro-SLI).
on boot up i get the first welcome screen which then reverts to the
start-up options screen. (like safe mode,safe with network, last known

I carelessly installed CD recording software (WinonCD) that is incompatible
with XP. Uninstalling it has left behind a driver (Cdralw2k.sys). Windows
disables the driver each time I switch on but now I find my DVD drive (AOPEN)
will not work whereas my CD drive (Plextor) does ...

  I have installed an application(Enfocus pitstop) licensed version. I
am going to format my system. But i dont have key for the above
mentioned application. Is there a way to retrive the key from registry
or some other source. OS is XPs2. Could anyone help me on this.

Does anyone know how to configure a XP PC to connect to a spectific DC when
logging on a multi-DC domain? Thanks.
Ian

What I am looking at doing is creating a batch or vb file to create a user
"backburner" as a power user, then installing a service which I already have
sorted and then telling that service that it should login as "backburner"
rather then local user. Then of cause start the ...

I have a user with a Japanese windows xp laptop.  A day or so ago, his
desktop totally disappeared... You can logon his other account, and
still see all his desktop items in the correct place, ie,
c:\docsandsettings\user\desktop\

Today when I tried to change my cable connection, I noticed my NETWORK
CONNECTIONS window was empty.
My DEVICE MANAGER window (from CONTROL PANEL | SYSTEM PROPERTIES | HARDWARE)
is also empty.

Somehow the registry got corrupted.  Myself or my kids messed with it.   It
all started with downloading ie7 beta3 without reading the fine print.
Then I could not uninstall it as it hung on the regisrty check before
completing.  Now I can't use my help center, things are crashing ...

Below is typical setting for an Win XP system. If I were to install a Windows
98 in
a second harddisk in the same PC, what is the additional changes needed in
Boot.ini in order to enable boot from XP and chooose whether to log in as

I have an HP Pavilion 510c with Intel Celeron/133mHz. It got some viruses I
could'nt get rid of (resulting in BSOD), so a friend to me to DBAN the hard
drive and start over with a clean install of XP. I didn't care for any back
up files, so I smoked the machine and got rolling. ...