I'm not exactly new to Windows XP, but what's the difference between Windows
XP and the Windows XP upgrade?

In Windows 2000 and ME you were able to explore into your FAVORITES folder
and get thumbnails of the web sites.  I can no longer do this in Windows XP.  
Does anyone have a suggestion?  THumbnail view is an option, but no
thumbnails ever appear.

I got the service pack 2 update today and at some point tonight I also got a
requestion from my firewall to allow a program (export version) access to the
internet. It was a new never before request from a program LSA shell (aka
sass.exe). I denied access to this request. I ...

since installing sp2 when my computer boots up instead of the desktop page
coming on  the  MY DOCUMENTS PAGE comes on instead how can i stop this from
happening and have the desktop coming on as it should  any help with this
would be appreciated thank you

ok can someone help me. what im trying to do is get a song to play in the
background of my profile on a website. i have the html code but the code
requires the url of the song. how do i get the url of the song that i want.
i

after downloading ps2 my media center doesn't work right i can't get to my
music and always getting error messages when closing media center. Also
having problem with recording tv shows. I took it out and still am having
problems...now what?

I received the free disk for SP2 this morning, but having read the warnings
& recommendations on the sp2install website, then having read the warnings &
recommendations on the PC manufacturers (HP/Compaq) website (which requires
me to download several MB of driver updates first), ...

I bought a new DELL INSPIRON 8600 which has the WINDOWS XP OS loaded on it
with Service pack 2. I am trying to use the internet explorer to surf the
net. IT works fine except for checking hotmail and yahoo mails. I am not able
to check these 2 websites at all (mails). Even I ...

I have recently installed XP Pro, every time I start up I am asked to install
VIA bus master IDE drivers.  What are these and where can I find them, they
do not seem to be on any of my disks.
Regards

HI - I like to keep a copy of my windows folder on disk under a
different name.  It's a little recovery trick when things go bad.  I
boot to dos, rename the backup to be the windows folder, and then I can
usually boot windows.

From time to time, something called iPod Service shows up in my Task
Mgr. Checking further revealed a folder under Prog Files by the same
name that includes an .exe file called iPod Service.
I have never knowingly installed Apple's iPod-whatever, so why do I have

After log-in I look in task manager & see all kinds of  apps running. Where
do I go to stop  this stuff from loading at start-up?
Also,  how do I log on as administrator?
I try to get  HELP but  Explorer never loads the docs.

I have just loaded the new XP w/SP2, (on the same disk). My Search Companion
does not show any windows to input a search of any kind, just shows the dog!
Any ideas?
Fizbin

I think I got carried away removing files via Spybot S+D  ...
 Computer with xp pro won't boot after cleanup with spybot .. cleaned
lots of Green coloured files found by spybot.
..Now get message "  windows\ ...\ system  file is missing or

There are 2 separate administrator accounts on my machine. I have the
password for the first but not for the second. When I go to Documents and
Settings in explorer and click on the second user I get the following
message.