"Cannot find C:\Windows\System32\System32.exe"
I'm getting this message when I start up. I tried to
follow the instructions on the microsoft website, but
when I bring up "run" and type in "regedit" the entire

I've had to do a system restore after all the text on my screen was replaced with "mumbo-jumbo" like little squares, triangles, question marks and oyher rubbish. Firstly, why does this happen quite regularly (maybe once every couple of weeks) and second, I have just changed ISP's ...

XP Pro, I click start, run, type in msconfig, no BOOT.INI, it was there
last week, gone now? Now I get General, SYSTEM.INI, WIN.INI, Services and
Startup, BOOT.INI has dissapeared, anybody have any ideas, would sure
appreciate some help, thank you!

I have Windows XP Home and Outlook Express v.6 installed on my machine.
Everything worked fine. A few days ago, I've installed McAfee SpamKiller and
now, when I boot my computer, I'm getting a MS Outlook message: <Either
there is no default mail client or the current mail client ...

i get "backupnotify.exe.application,the application failed to inialize properly (oxcoooo135)
"fatal execution engine (0x7927baca), and your "main.idx file is damaged". what can i do?

I am the administrator and only user of my computer.  I
recently asked how to bypass the welcome screen and
followed the directions by going in thru control panel.  
This is OK however I now receive a box popping up asking

Can anyone help me figure out how to have my computer
require a username and passwrod to sign on? I go to user
accounts, change the way users log on or off, then I
select the Welcome Screen because that is what I wouls

is add remove programs the only place to remove programs
as several times i have gone there to remove a program and
it was not there

I access the internet and mail from work and home.  Work is LAN, home is Dial-Up.  After last auto-update I lost all Dial-up connections, in everything.  Even the add a connection is grayed out for dial-up.  Only have the LAN connection at worek now.  Modem is enabled and tests ...

anyone tell me where i go to get a fullscreen immediate
display from any shortcut or address I click onto

Since I've upgraded to XP, nothing I plug into my USB
device works, including the portable USB drive, my hp
printer, or my palm pilot (hot sync not working).
I checked device manager and went through

today when i switched on my computer nothing happened
except a long beep . i read in a book that this could be
due to a loose sound card or ram chip .i checked these
items made sure they were secure and sure enough the

i bought XP 1 week ago and at least 5 times when i'm
surfing or something i go to my desktop and there's a
mysterious "~" file thrown on there on it's own. i right
clicked on it and selected properties sand it said the

I have this program on 6 floppys and am having trouble
loading it.  I am a new windows xp user. thanks
lynne

how can I get rid of the drop down window under the
address bar that shows web sites ive been to? I have
windows xp. thanks for any help.