Just bought Windows XP Pro from an internet seller. It was in unopened
box, with unopened plastic wrap inside with sticker (holographic,
looked just right) on it. Wife left wrapper inside box, husband burned
the box after we took CD out but before installing, and the wrapper

Your PC is probably infected with adware & spyware if:
    *You have downloaded music online
    *Your PC is running extremely slow
    *You are pestered by those horrible popup ads

Hello, I'm wondering if I can create a home LAN with a desktop (running XP
Home and connected to the Internet) and a laptop (running W2000), each with
an Ethernet card, and just a cable between them rather than using a hub. If
so, should the cable be a network one or a crossover ...

Can anyone please help, l have put the factory settings back on my desktop
and since then l cant get any updates, when l click on the update alerts it
says that "files required to use windows update are no longer registered or
installed on your computer to continue " it gives me ...

How can I get permission from the administrator to on programs?

I get message "Shell_NotifyIconFail". Can someone tell me what this
means?
johnho

I have norton anti-virus. Do I need spybot and zone alarm also? Thank you

My computer  (WinXP Pro SP2) has two separate drives (C and D driver).
During chckdsk, a "Found.000" folder was created on D-drive.
I deleted all recovered files (looks like a garbage) in the "Found.000"
folder.

I was told i should be using cd-rw to copy my documents files, not cd-r.  But
I am getting errors concerning "read only" files.   When I make changes to
the files, it refuses to let me back up.  I found a link to the following
from this board:

I run XP Professional Service Pack 2.  Every time I try to listen to music
CD's placing them into my d:drive which in my case is a DVD/CD-ROM drive,
MusicMatch as well as Windows Media Player do not recognize the disk.  Also,
when I tried to install security updates for MS Office ...

I came back from vacation to find a whole weeks worth of internet history
deleted.  Is there anyway I can access what was so urgently deleted in my
absence? I think there is a way, but I am not very computer savvy.
Thanks for your help!!!!

I am trying to copy a 5+GB file from my C: drive to an USB connected external
hard drive.  I have 14+GB free space on my C: drive and 160+GB free space on
my external HD.  I get prompted that there is not enough disk space and to
free up some disk space to perform my copy.  I can ...

I now have XP Pro on a large150Gb partition.  Is there an advantage, or is
it personal preference,  to puting XP and upgrades etc. on a small partition
and data, documents and apps. on the remainder of the partition?
Thank you,

when i run any dvd converter it only runs for about 5 10 min then every one
that i have tried freezes then i have to power down then restart this only
started about 6 months ago my main converter is avs and even thet are lost.
can any body help

I added a new user as an administrator in xp pro. I rebooted with both
users on. now I only user on computer is new one. I can see the
documents and folders from previous user under explore but dont know
how to reestablish user.