I'm running XP Pro SP2 and am using to docking stations with different
peripherals on each dock station. Hardware profiles are pretty key to bounce
between home and office setups.
I turned my laptop on today and my home hardware profile is gone from the

I recently added an internal  Western Digital 500 GB SATA2 Drive  into a
fairly new computer(less than two months old Phenom 9600) I used the included
software to attempt to format and partition the drive into 4 sections. I
wanted to makle this my primary drive so I could take ...

Apologies in advance if I've selected the wrong subgroup...
After three unsuccessful attempts to install XP SP3 via Windows Update, I am
once again restored back to SP2 and posting to this group. I am receiving the
same error each time, it freezes up on the Windows XP welcome ...

I have windows xp installed.  I get an error message:
Self-registration Error
The following files did not self-register or unregister:
1. C:\windows\system32\flash.ocx

When I run the system restore and choose a restore point, the system starts
the restore;  and then after the reboot, I get the message that the restore
did not complete, no changes were made.
How can I resolve this?  Any help is greatly appreciated

Does anyone have good personal experience of a free registry cleaner that
they would be prepared to recommend?
I have a laptop that I have upgraded to XP recently with a clean install,
but there are still worrying legacies in the registry of the original user.

I installed some Microsoft updates recently and had the computer just the way
I wanted. After I shut off so the updates could install and then turned it
back on, once it came up, everything had changed. I could no longer go to the
classic view (even though I selected the option), ...

I have XP sp2 and outlook Express, 6 after a simple resize of photos wants me
to add profiles and path to Mail in exchange wizard pop up box.
I do not have Office or Outlook.
OE6 is my mailhandler for OE5 and IE6;;I have checked; I can receive and

Help
I removed a virus from a client system and when I rebooted it now
bluescreens and tells me that basemhap32 is missing.  I tried to run windows
setup from the cd to repair the installation but it will not run.  It get

Hi, All!
When you insert CD-disk to drive Windows XP open new Explorer window but
then display "insert drive". So I must once more eject tray. How make that
disk readed at once?

hi there, xp pro with sp3 deployed for plenty of days, it run so smooth
until yesterday, i can't remember what other action triggered it, all in
a sudden "my documents" icon gone from desktop, i tried display
properties > desktop items to make sure "my documents" checkbox is

Yeah...well my computer crashes randomly,the Generic
Host Process for Win32 services is the culprit and usually happenes when i
disconnect from the network...wirless, Lan or a USB 3g service provider.
The RPC is down obviously...i know that prety much every windows service

I have some private information that I wanted to lock down in case
someone else needs access to my machine.  So put users that I wanted to
lock out into a group called 'Ordinary Users.'  I then restricted their
rights to allow no access at all.  I made no changes to my rights or ...

I've been having off and on problems lately so I've been doing some cleanup
& backup in case this thing crashes.
My latest is that when I click on the icon to "safely remove the hardware"
quite often get a msg that something else is running and it can't shut own

Can Hkey be found in XP CD R?