A young friend of mine has a XP Professional computer.  The copy of XP
installed is shown by WGA to be illegal.  I persuaded him to buy a genuine
copy. How should he go about installing the genuine version without losing
his data or re-installing his applications? Does he have ...

A young friend of mine has a XP Professional computer.  The copy of XP
installed is shown by WGA to be illegal.  I persuaded him to buy a genuine
copy. How should he go about installing the genuine version without losing
his data or re-installing his applications? Does he have ...

i do not know what happened to my computer access.  for 2 years i have been
able to log on w/o a admin password and suddenly my laptop is requesting one.
averatec and microsoft can not help w/o a fee, and i do not want to use my
recovery disk and lose all my info.  can any one ...

I use XP Pro on a Dell laptop and have been having trouble creating a user
that can log on.  I do use the computer with my work network and also have a
similar problem with that domain.  I can log in ok as admin on my local
network (my laptop) and create a user just fine.  But ...

Hello;
I'm running Windows XP. I recently did a full system scan with Webroot
SpySweeper and it found: Trojan-Downloader-Conhook. That's all it said. Can
anyone help to get rid of it?

Hello all.
I've noticed that my Scheduled Tasks (not sure about the english
translation) never run. The log file for Scheduled Tasks says that "Empty
passwords are not allowed", but i havent set up any password for my user

-- hi all, can someone please tell me how 2 enable my administrator my XP
runs well its just some programs like system restore & disk keeper wont allow
me asess tells me 2 switch 2 administrator but my administrator is disabled,
could someone tell me how 2 sort this,...SKYLOG ...

I would like to use command-line to reboot computer and go to safe mode
without pressing F8. Is that possible to use "shutdown" command to
complete it?
Thanks for your response.

I have a failing WIN-XP Home hard drive that no longer boots.  There are data
files on the drive that may be recovered by booting up to another drive, but
all I can get as a response is "access Denied" when I try to view them, and
copying the folder elsewhere is not permitted ...

I ran this program to check for keylogging files.
It thought perhaps this file was one -
c:\windows\system32\config\software.LOG
I am unable to view or delete or copy this file.

Does Windows XP Home or Professional have a built-in Email Encryption utility?
Thanks for any help.
Ted

I have done some research on automatically logging off Windows XP
machines after a period of inactivity, but have found nothing
enlightening that will work in my situation.  I have a Windows Server
2003 AD domain, & I have multiple PC's (potentially all on the domain)

I've set up four accounts on XP: Mine (as the admin), wife's, son's,
daughter's.
I can reach all web sites on my account and my wife's, but not on son's or
daughters. Specifically, pollypocket.com and disney.com just open to a blank

CRISIS !!!  I have completed a full/clean reinstall of WinXP Pro, but now I
can no longer access my (encrypted) "My Documents".  (I forgot that I had
activated "Make this Folder Private" on the system's second hard drive.)  I
understand why this condition now exists - I just need ...

I have a laptop and desktop computer running Windows XP SP2. Both are in a
Windows 2000 Server AD Domain. Everything was working fine until about two
weeks ago when I noticed that the desktop computer had it's Windows Firewall
Disabled, Security Center restricted (grayed out), ...