I have lost the original due to damaged surface [beyond repair] in a fire.  Where can I get another XP Home Edition to replace the one that I had.  The original activation code is still in my possession and my computer will not boot up at all.  There is no doubt that I have to ...

When I type in "regedit" I get the following message...
"registry editing has been disabled by your
administrator".
I am the administrator on this computer. I've searched

I made a terrible mistake. My computer came with Windows
XP installed from Gateway. For some reason (I'll still
cursing myself) I put in the XP Home dick that came with
the computer and chosse to reinstall XP Home. I had one

any body know what 'ayarla.exe' and 'felrak.exe' are
doing in our 'program setups' key?

I have a dual-boot system with Win2000 and WinXP. When I
try  to boot the WinXP partition I get an error:
"/system32/hal.dll missing or corrupt please re-intall a
copy of the file"  I got the file & I re-installed it by

Each time I try to update my windows XP Professional,
during the installation, it just freezes, I try
downloading some of the updates from the Support websites
but some of the updates during the backing up files

After replacing processor, xp would not allow access to
internet. need to change xp to accept s/n of new processor?

In the last few days, my pc has been hanging on the
welcome screen for around 4 minutes. I have looked at
other forums who have suggested virus, spyware. trojans
etc, but this is not the case. My pc seems to run

I have a PC that is VERY slow starting, apps do not run or
they hang.  I tried the repair installation and after
everything was done, it came up the same way.  This time,
however, I waited and eventually, I got 45 7001 events

After logging in to XP, it takes 1 minute to get to the
desktop.  I tried a new account, it did the same.  What's
up?

Had trojan horse virus Downloader.Dyfica.AJ.  Then got
Trojan horse PSW.Bispy.A and PSW.Bispy.B.  Ran anti virus
and they are healing in the virus vault or listed as
healed "ok".  Also got Startup.CR virus and healed "ok".  

Recently I got a virus called Bloodhound. I was able to
get rid of it through Norton security. Now I get an error
message while logging on that I am missing a DLL. The DLL
cannot be found. It says I am missing "

I already backed up my computer, I am wondering how to format the hard drive and reinstall windowsXP.

 i wanted to know how i can get a recovery disk for
compaq windows xp.  because when i try to make a recovery
disk it says error:102.  please help me. thank you very
much...

I don't know if it went thur to you or not.. So I'll do
this all over..I have had this computer now for almost 2
years. I had it in the shop when it was still new. I still
thinkt that this is a new one.. But this is all that they