I want to reformat a hard drive with XP Home installed. When I boot into Safe
Mode with Command Prompt, enter format c: & the drive label, I get the
following error message:
"Format cannot run because the volume is in use by another process."

Help on this command

totally newbie
how can i watch xvid on windows media player (xp)
thanks
jeff

Is it possible to explore your computer drives (as in right click the start
menu, explore)  and click on an image file with details and see the thumbnail
of that picture.  I need to have both the explore part open, and details
active, yet would like to see the image as well.  

Could some kind soul out there tell me how to clear all the rubbish out
of the "Open With" dialog box.(not the context menu) It's still got
programs in there that I got rid of long ago. I've tried the registry
and searched the web for tips, couldn't find one...

I just upgraded from W2000 pro to XP Pro on a spare backup hard drive just
to take it for a test drive.  The XP Pro upgrade worked fine with one
exception.   I get a message on the Norton Ghost Tray Icon saying Licence
will expire on October 28 2005.  My main work HD with W2K is ...

Celeron 690Mhz HDD =900 Mb 23% free XP Pro SP2
After defragmentation  there is one large red block.  Why do files remain
fragmented?

I have all of a sudden started to get a popup message on the taskbar
that "Network cable is unplugged", and thus unable to use internet.
This message appears repeatedly, i.e., pops up, disappears momentarily,
and again pops up, and this goes on. My PC (Windows XP Pro) is

EVERY TIME I TRY TO ACCESS THE CONTROL PANEL OR WIN EXPLORER, EITHER THEY
APPEAR AND THEN DISAPPEAR OR DON'T APPEAR AT ALL.  ANY SUGGESTIONS?

i had to reinstall win xp over a perivous winxp installation. Now I have
two admin accounts. One admin is from the perivous installation of win xp
and the other is from the reinstallation of win xp. i am unable to access
my old admins files.

I have all of a sudden started to get a popup message on the taskbar
that "Network cable is unplugged", and thus unable to use internet.
This message appears repeatedly, i.e., pops up, disappears momentarily,
and again pops up, and this goes on. My PC (Windows XP Pro) is

I recently upgraded to XP Professional from Windows 98. XP backed up all
the folders and kept them but did not back up any of the files that were
in them.  I lost a large number of pictures.  Is there any way to
recover them or are they gone forever?

how can i erase/format a cd-rw in windows XPpro

Operating system XP pro sp2, how to make a bootable disk. thanks

My "out of the box" laptop running XPPro has no difficulty in displaying
Japanese characters in websites such as Babelfish, et al. Unfortunately this
is not the case with my similarly equipped desktop. What do I need to add
and to where, to achieve the same functionality?