I have a friend's laptop that will not boot.  Appears to be hardware related
In any case, I want to make a copy of as much of his disk as possible (all of it would be nice)
Loaded friend's disk into a Modular Bay on my laptop.  Performed a chkdsk on the drive and it appears to be ...

I can no longer access the run box from the Start box.
Right click on Start>Properties>Customize>Advanced shows
NO run box to check!! Did something eat my Run Box?
Running msconfig and other commands from the c:\ Command

   Can I clean out my prefetch file and if so what happens?

Have downloaded but am unable to install XP Service Pack
1.  I get the error message "Service Pack 1 Setup could
not verify the integrity of the file Update.inf. Make
sure the Cryptographic service is running on this

I found that I am missing a program "MSCOREE.dll is
missing on my pc.  How do I get this program back and what
exactly is the primary function for this program?  Please
can someone help me with this.

When editing permission entries in safe mode i have found that there are
several accounts listed in the security dialogue boxes that vary but do not
refer to any account on the computer. for instance, the list may say;
steve

I'm getting this error when I try to install certain programs:
THE APPLICATION OR DLL C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\RICHED32.DLL IS NOT A VALID WINDOWS IMAGE. PLEASE CHECK AGAINST YOUR INSTALLATION DISKETTE
Any suggestions
Thanx

I would like to know if there is a freeware programme,
similar to scandisk. I have windows XP home version, and
there seems to be no programme to scan and repair faults.
Can anyone help.

hi guys,i need to format my xp windows and install a
fresh new one how can this be done?

When reinstalling XP home over XP home with SP1, the error
message "the procedure entry point GetIUMS could not be
located in the dynamic link library MSDART.DLL"
I understand that XP overwrites the msdart32 file,

In my computer  "Windows XP - Home Edition" is installed.
The "Used Space" of my local disk (C) shows 21 GB.
When I checked the total of all the programs I have in the local disk (C),
I found that the used place of the programs is 7 GB only.

I keep getting an error when I try to use sfc. I tells me
that I need windows 2000 pro cd 2. The problem is that we
have xp home. I guess I need to tell you how we got to
this point.We went out and bought the upgraded version of

so I have 3 computers I just recently upgraded to XP pro
from 98 SE, one of them an upgrade, the others clean
installs.
now within a day of the upgrade, my users are reporting

my computer is slow and i have like 96%free space and its a 1 gig ram(512ddr) and at first it was quick and now i keep getting pop ups and its like slowed down alot,i defraged,disk clean up, and a virus check and nothing works....can you help me(maybe i need to format, but how do ...

Looking to save disk drive space...can the service packs and security updates be removed from the Add/Remove Programs list AFTER they have updated Windows XP??