I  am trying to upgrade the OS from Win 98SE to Win XP Pro on a Dell
Dimension XPST800r. However I do not have the original CD-Rom for Win 98.
What is worse, I don't have the original Office 2000 CD-Rom. (Moved houses
and the Lord only knows where the CDs and all the manuals ...

I recently bought a notebook and it comes with a OEM
version of XP. Naturally, the sales shop technician has
chosen the language option as English when he first start
the system. The questions:

I recently upgraded from 98SE -   I rarely ran a defrag under 98SE
because after I did, the system always seemed a little unstable for a
day or two. Nothing major, but an extra crash or two, occasionally had
to re-install an App.   Did they get it right for XP (Home, SP2)?   I s

Something keeps changing my IE homepage to ads.revenue websites that are
trying to sell me things like gambling, tours, etc.  I have changed it back
each time in the "options" menu, but it changes it right back.  How do I find
the .exe that is causing this and permanently delete ...

I bought a laptop w/ Win XP Pro already installed.  How do I increase the
number of partitions.  I understand that I'm supposed to do it through disk
management but I cannot locate it.

can anyone recomend a anti virus protection program as there is so many to
choose, Im not sure which one to choose. Are some better than others?

I have a file on my C Drive called "Internet Optimizer" with a round gray
logo with what looks like a hippo face in it. Can anyone tell me what this
is and do I need it? If I don't, how can I get rid of it.
I appreciate any help in this matter.

In Control Panel, under User Accounts, I view Mary Catherine Muccigrosso,
Computer Administrator, Password Protected and Guest, Guest Account is off.
In System Properties, under User Profiles, I view Dell\Administrator and
DELL\Mary Catherine.

I just got XP for the first time.  Someone else set it up for me before I got
the computer.  Their name is the default user.  I changed the user name to
mine when XP starts up, but there is still a folder that has the wrong name
on it.  It is the defualt name and gets inserted in ...

Hi, does anybody know how good is EasyCleaner to clean the Registry?
is it safe to use, or could it cause any trouble?
Thanks.

I am having a problem with my desktop icons on boot. They have to
redraw (reload) instead of coming from the cache immediately. The
cache DB is in Default \Application data Directory and it appears to
renew OK.

I recently posted a question about my "unresponsive mouse and keypad" and
received a reply from Denmarks - thank you - that it could be due to memory
overload.  This all started when I had a Trojan horse, which I quarantined
with Nortons.  Since I know I have plenty of memory, ...

Really do need some help in fixing this problem since installing sp2.
I'm still using office 2000. XP pro copyright claims to be 2000.
At first it was just when attempting to export some info from access to a plain
vanilla text file. It wanted to find something related to dao in ...

On a Macintosh you can find out the Date Created, Date Modified, and the
Version of a program by clicking on its icon and selecting About in the File
menu. Information is also available while running a program by selecting
About on the Apple menu. Is there a standard way to get ...

IVE BEEN TRYING TO SAVE MY DVD MOVIES ON MY COMPUTER BUT SOME HOW I CANT I
DONT KNOW IF IM DOING THIS RIGHT OR IF I JUST CANT DO IT . BUT I REMMEMBER ON
THE INTERNET I SAW SOME PROGRAMS OF SAVING DVD MOVIES ON YOUR COMPUTER BUT  
IGNORED IT BUT NOW THAT I WHANT TO I DONT KNOW HOW ...