When I boot Windows XP and press F8, instead of safe mode, I get the
option to change boot up to the various floppy and hard disks. Any
suggestions. Thank you.

hi, erm, I recently decided to upgrade my pc.
I'm running windows 98 at the moment so i thought i could go for a copy of
windows xp. But i went into the local PC shop and they said that I would have
to check the compatibility between my system and windows xp (as my machine

please help not to good at this game driving me nuts
trying to get my lap top to go back to the settings i had
last sunday went into system recovery and accidently used
the wrong time but right day the recovery time enteried

I had a unknown user logged on my computer listed in the
system properties so I deleted it. Did I have someone
using my connection? It's just a dialup. Did I get rid of
it ? My internet surfing was getting slower.

i was using excel  and now i cant close it. i tried detect and repair . after doing it a dialogue box that comes out to restart my computer but then it wont because i cant exit excel. what to do?

My monitor doesn't show accuate colors. How can I correc this?

I tried installing MIRC 6.16 twice and it stalls at "extracting urls.ini"
Tried it on my 98 machine and had no problem.
Is there some setting in XP that can be causing this. The download file, a
self installing exec, is for XP or 98.

Ok folks - I pull up windows explorer and click on the Folder tab, and on the
left is nothing but a beige rectangle with an "x" (Close button) in the top
right corner. This isn't what it should be - theres no folder tree of the
drive, desktop etc.

error message that will not allow upgrade due to nvidia agp filter will not
compate.    i had pro in once but during reboot lost it

Is there a Netmeeting version for XP.  I'm very new to
this area and need all the help I can get.  I want to
tale to family in Americe!
Simon

On my laptop I run winXP pro.
Discovered in the task manager that many instances
of 'SVCHOST' are executing simultaneously and subsequently
figured out that it is the result of many services.

While searching through Windows Explorer, I found a file "My Recent
Documents". In it are 5 copies of each of the shortcuts to recent copies.Some
of them are 3 weeks old. How can I stop this from occurring? Can I make a
setting to limit the number of days they stay in file? What ...

Today (9/5/04) I installed XP Home Edition over ME.
I am stuck trying to determine: 1) Did my operating
programs (software) remain on the hard disk, 2) If so,
how do I find them, 3) How do I move them to the control

Help!
I need to set up some fancy 'Modem Initialisation
Strings' in XP Home.  I found how to do it in Windows
3.11 and 98, by modifiying and renaming .ini and .inf

Do I really have to have 3 copies of all folders in "My Documents" but in
different places? 1) Desktop-- 2)my name under Documents and settings-- 3) My
name under My Computer.
If not how may I get rid of 1 or more? I am the only user of this computer.