In a fit of stupidity I installed novell client 4.83 (c483sp2e.exe)
on my xp-home system.  After realizing it was not what I needed
I uninstalled it using LocalAreaConnectionProperties-Uninstall.
The system then failed to boot and displayed "User Interface Failure

I just finally got to have a copy of Windows XP Pro for use here at work.
Problem is that the company got a full install version and not an upgrade
copy.
I'm running Windows 2000 Pro right now and of course the thing says it won't

I'm planning a clean install from a retail XP Home Upgrade
CD for my Win98 system with a PIII, 850 MHz processor, 384
MB of RAM and a Gainward GeForce2 Pro 450 64 MB video
card. I have a couple of questions about preparing for the

I'm trying to connect my scanner and it keeps saying that
it is unable to find the scanner.  When I troubleshoot,
it says to check system BIOS.  How do I do that?

If someone could help me please.  I upgrade from a 30 Gig
to a 80 Gig hardrive and loaded my XP and now my system
won't shut down completely.  It hangs at "windows is
shutting down".

I want to exchange a bigger hard drive for my C drive. But
can I ghost my FAT32 drive with XP OS to my 2nd NTFS drive?
Also, if copying the OS on a FAT 32 drive to an NTFS drive
will work will having two XP OS's on my computer hurt

I have a 2 year old computer with an athlon 1600+ on a ECS
MB. Have been running XP home for 18 months.
I was adding a USB 2.0 board made for a Soyo MB.Windows
XP asked for a Service Pack 1 update which I began

I am creating a distribution folder on a CD for an
unattended setup.  When it gets to the copying files to
the hard drive the process takes a long time.  Has anyone
had experience with this and have a possible solution?

I want to do a clean install using an XP upgrade CD.  The
machine originally came with 98 preloaded by Compaq, but I
want to wipe it all out.  Will this work, or do I need to
install the full XP product to do this?

my windows xp will only boot up if the cd is in i have
reinstalled and still no help.  it installs fine

Help,
When my Windows XT boot-up I continue to get the following
error:
"The system can not open Com2 port request by the

Would anyone know why this sample code does not work
properly under XP. It seems that the spaces in the path
name are not interpreted correctly.
I need to use the full path because I have two versions of

hi
i have a major probelm, i just brought , windows XP
professional and installed on my system, i system crashed
due electrical probelm, now when formated and installed a

Everytime I run sysprep I get a message that says "The
NTVDM CPU has encountered an illegal instruction.  
CS:0000 IP:0077 OP:f0 37 05 0c 02 Choose 'Close' to
terminate teh application.  

I successfully installed XP Home Version. I then installed
an evaluation version of XP Pro. Now that the eval period
is over, I get the dialog box: The evaluation period for
this copy of Windows has ended. Windows cannot start. To