How to create a bootable CD from installed copy of XP Pro.
Thanks

I have windows xp home sp3 and i have this error message coming on my screen:
PLEASE REPAIR HAL.DLL FILE BY USING RECOVERY CONSOLE.
For me to fix it. Do i have to enter the recovery cosole, then type in
expand d:\i386\hal.dl_    c:\windows\system32\hal.dll, press Y if to

Currently my user accounts have no passwords. Is it possible to set a
password for temporary use and then later return to having no password? Long
term, I want to be able to turn the computer on and walk away; my concern is
that setting a password for a temporary period will mean ...

Since few months, I don't get the "balloon tips" that says "new
updates ready
to install, press here for..." (see Screenshot #1).
Now I get only the offer to install windows updates when I'm tuning

The STRETCH, CENTER, TILE commands are ignored when setting up a Desktop
Picture
The system stretches the pictures regardless if CENTER is chosen.
This feature has worked well for over 2 years.

I observ that many of the users are complaining that system is slow, When i
checked in services  wmiprvse.exe is taking around 50% of the CPU usage.
Please provide the solution to resolve the issue.
Thanks in Advance.

I am getting the svchost.exe error-- Applications error on windows XP SP3

Hi and many thanks,
Using windows xp, recently I can't seem to open my emails in my hotmail
inbox. I click as usual and nothing opens, in bottom left corner of window
"script error" appears.  Can sign in and open fine on friends pc, they using

when I first got my PC I could set my background image by right clicking any
of my picture files and simply press set as desktop background...some time
ago that function just stopped working does anyone know how to fix this
function?

I could swear that I read somewhere last year that Micro$haft had
extended the end-date for the System-Builder version of XP-pro to June
2009.
But everything I can find on-line right now says it was Jan 31/2009.

Don't know the history because it's not my pc. The in-laws computer will not
load it's audio device because it can't start the service. Likewise, I can't
re-install Diskeeper because it can't start the service. Event Loggiging,
which in theory can't be stopped, is still set to ...

Hi again.  Here is my newest issue.  First off, running on Windows XP Home,
SP3.  Out of nowhere, my clock is now keeping time too fast.  I noticed it
this morning and manually changed it back to the right time but here I am
again with it running about 45 minutes fast.  I don't ...

When the computer starts it goes straight away to the setup page, I cant go
to the windows, what caused this problem ?
thanks

HOla, solo deciros que mi experiencia al comprar mi cartucho dsi, ha sido buena, recibi el pedido al dia siguiente de haberlo hecho por la web, y gracias a que esta gente me ayudaron telefonicamente, pude echar andar el cartucho dsi. No tenia ni idea, ahora que lo se, es ...

My system: Dell Inspiron 640m, WinXP SP3.
I noticed that many files in \windows\system32 directory became "unsigned"
while
they ought to be "signed" (I checked this on another machine runnnig the