Hi  -  I've been digging all over the web to get a good backup solution
for my planned migration from 98SE to XP and I think this is a viable
backup strategy- does this work?
environment:  NTFS,  XP Home.

Hi - There have been some opinions posted that if I'm moving from
WIN98SE to XP, I should do a clean install.  Like motherhood, this is
hard to argue against.  But my WIN98SE machine is well-maintained (i
installed all SW myself, I keep it clean of unneeded or rogue apps, I

When I start windows xp home edition everything loads
correct until I get to the welcome screen.  The user name
icons don't show up anymore so I can't get to my
desktop.  Everything else on the welcome screen shows up

Can anyone help.  I use computer for digital photographs.  Until recently I
used to write the photos from my pictures using file and folder tasks
directing to the CD or by right clicking oon the folder.  the CD wizard used
to appear.

In the ongoing saga that is my computer....
Changed from Windows 2000 to Windows XP, and it wouldn't recognize my modem.
Downloaded the driver from Dell's website and still nothing.  I decided to
start fresh last night, and I reinstalled XP (the modem is still not there),

I installed microsoft words about 2 months ago and it was
working fine ..until TODAY...I had DSL installed and it
hasn't worked since...I can not open it or power point or
excell It's giving me an error message that reads  "THIS

I have no expertise in computers. Is there any possible way to view Microsoft
Word documents with WordPerfect? or is Word Pad the only way?

There are some icons in the Systems Tray that are of not much use, but am
unable to remove them. I do not see them in Startup. There are two such
Icons :
1. "Local area connection - a network cable is unplugged."

Several weeks ago, I upgraded my son's WinME to XP Pro (and later added SP2).
All seems to be working fine.  As a result of an MBSA warning, I converted his FAT32 drive to NTFS.  Now I know that once I've made the conversion, I can't go back.  I also know that WinME won't work on ...

Does anyone know if Windows XP Professional affects the
signal to a cable modem.  I recently installed Windows XP
porfessional and I previously had windows Millenium.  
Since installing windows XP, my cable modem signal fails

I installed Windows XP and installed all
programs/software while in the original "Administrator"
account (and would like to install future programs in
that account).

I am having a problem installing Windows XP on a 'slave'
hard drive. I am upgrading my computer and bringing in a
'slave' hard drive from another computer. The Windows XP
setup is stalling on the Windows Executive file install. Do

I keep getting this message when I try to open anything on my computer
"rundll32.exe the specified path does not exist" I have tried to reload
windows xp but I get the same error message. I was told to do a mini format
in dos but I dont know how to.

Everytime I put a data cd (jpegs) in,  XP autoloads all the pictures.
A box comes up saying autoplay and it seems to load every picture. Can
this be stopped.
Also I notice that I can now eject the CD and sometimes dirctcd box

I have a pentium 3/ 450mhz windows98 second edition With
Windows XP pro installed over it. I have a 13 gig
harddrive and a fairly new digital camera. Recently, I
deleted over 1gig in photos from my harddrive, I emptied