Firstly I installed windows xp professional myself, but skipped through the
user info. Anyway appartently that gave me an administrator account which
was only visible whne no other accounst where installed.
A few months ago I wanted a second account reason being that I wanted to be

Probably a dumb question, but...how do I network my new
computer running XP with my old one (HP Pavilion) running
98? I want to retrieve files from the old onto the new

"a runtime error has  occurred do you wish to debug line 169 error
permission denied"
Does anyone know why this happens. I did a google search and came up
with the suggestion to uninstall MS Office.

small problem.
I am running XP Pro which has developed a problem and I could not boot.
Anyway I reinstalled onto a spare partition and now have 2 windows installed
(1 OK, 1 corrupt). I had a password on my user account on the old

i have a couple of problems on my computer.  it does not
shutdown but rather restarts spontaneously.  it seems to
do this on cue when i try to start my aol program.  it
also has given me several errors

I'm running 2002 PRO and would like to use the 3DMaze screen saver. How can
I do this? I can't find it on XP PRO CD, nor can I find it doing a
file/folder search of the root drive or in the 386 file.
Any help will be appreciated,

Seasons greetings...........
Running XP Pro on a p4 system with Supermicro P4spa+ board I can't work out
why the warning "device failure occoured but windows recovered, please
re-boot" appears every time the pc goes into standby?

is it okay to delete the files in the windows temp folder?

I'm new to xp and I'm having a problem with My Documents. Whenever I open a document in word I get a dialogue box that says, "C:\ (document name) is being used by (my name). Do you want to make a copy?" I don't think the problem has anything to do with word 97. I think it has ...

I get a message saying I am low on virtual memory, after
which my new XP locks up.

I just spent hours with on-line tech support so that I
could upgrade from Me to Xp.  I could not get my backed up
data to convert to XP because the format was wrong.  
MSbackup extension is .qic which is not supported by Xp.  

Using windows xp home edition i cant sign in as administrator, in the sign in window there is no such person, where can i find it, it showa up if i have a major crash but other than that it dosent exsist

I have an Acer Travelmate 290 laptop that came with all the cds etc
I have noticed that the drive is fat32, but would like it NTFS
I have tried using the supplied Acer setup disks that have XP Pro on them
and done a clean install. but it wont let me format the drive as NTFS and

After installing a CD-RW I keep getting a message from Windows that I have
files ready to be written to CD.  How do I turn that annoying pop-up message
off?
TIA