i ecently bought windows xp professional. i tried
installing it over 2000 professional, however it just
won't run. i have a partition on my hard drive and tried
it on the other half, and it worked just fine, but i

I have just set a laptop with XP and have an Admin
account. When I want to add other user's and attempt to
do this through the 'User Accounts' tool in control
panel. Nothing happens - it doesn't open.

I was trying to fix a connection problem with my IE where
it won't connect no matter what I do even though my overall
internet connection was still intact.  I saw a patch in the
IE area saying it fixes a proxy server problem between lan

I use message rules to filter out the spam I recieve in my mail,  it sends
all the junk to my deleted folder which I then check for any mistakes it or
I may have made.
I have recently reached a point were I am happy with it's performance and

Do  have to buy a second copy of xp pro for a second home computer or can I install the copy I already have?

I just upgraded from Windows ME to XP and am now unable
to access files/folders from a disk. If I insert a CD
disk that I had previously saved pictures and other work
on with ME, with XP it now says the CD is blank. ???

i have a atx power supply in my pc when i had 98in it it
shutdown no prob but now i have xp in it it wont shutdown
i have to turn it off with the button. can any one help
please    steve

I don't know what i did but the arrow where you hide icons
that are not used has gone and i can't get it back
I have hide inactive icons check and apply
Hope someone can help meget it back

I have XP Pro. My system is shutting down 5-10 minutes
after I connect to the internet (dial-up) with this
message: Shutdown initiated by NT: Authority\System Remote
Procedure Call Service terminated unexpectedly. Shutdown

While installing the below device the get therror,,hence could not able to retive or map the device. help
TS128MJFLASHA USB DEVICE
one of the filter driver installed in this driver is invalid

I have a dual boot system with 1 boot on C: and 1 on D: drive.  each drive
is locked out from the other so if for instance the D: boot wants to copy a
file to the C: drive --  not allowed.   C: cant copy to D: either.  ( I do
this so each boot can be independent and not affect the ...

Two error messages on every start-up have me baffeled;
WJView Error - Error: java.lang. No Class Def found error.
Internet Connection Wizard - Unable to process Internet
Sign-up file.

Can someone tell me how to get the address into outlook express that are on
the new web based screen.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/newsgroups/reader.mspx?so=1&pg=2&d
g=microsoft.public.security&lang=en&cr=US
I don't know how to find it in newsgroups while using ...

I want to do a complete backup to CD using my E drive.  The backup function in Windows XP Home only offers backup to floppy in the A drive.  Can anyone tell me how to do a backup to CD?  You can e-mail if you prefer. Thanks

First off I was having problems with losing my connection
to the internet, and displaying "page cannot be located";
once I shutdown and started back up I could access
everything till I went to idle modethen I would get "page