I recently rebuilt my sisters computer and got her xp
home edition confused with mine and now don't know which
cd belongs to wich system.  I think there is a way to
match up the key codes to the jackets but am not sure

Hi,
I am upgrading from 98SE to XP professional, can i just
pop in the XP CD rom then he will transfer my files
automatically or do i need to save my files on a burn cd

I want to clean everything off my hard drive, and
reinstall windows XP home.  However, I'm afraid that if I
do so, when I try to reload windows, I will not be able to
activate it.  

I gave an old computer (to me, anyways :)) to my mom that
is running XP Home Ed.  I want to change the registry
name information from my name to hers.  Does anyone know
where I am able to do that?

at very beginning it gives me the error message: (\i386
\win9xupg\w95upg.dll). I checked the Microsoft site and
it said to uninstall Roxio CD creator; but I don't have
it loaded. All i want to do is an upgrade. does anyone

I'm trying to help a person who is considering upgrading
to WinXP, but hasn't made up their mind.  They don't want
to spend the money if it doesn't do what they want.  
Anyway, since you can wait 30 days before activating,

I have lost the product key code for my XP

how in the world do i format my drive in win xp home sp1?
i cant even get to dos mode?? i installed xp on my really
old laptop and it runs even slower now, im wanting to go
back to win 98 sec ed, but i formated my drive before i

I have a partitioned drive. One drive has ME and the
other one has XP. Now I tried to connect my mp3 player
through the USB port and switched the system on. Somehow
the system gets stuck on the Intel Pentium 4 screen and

I want to upgrade from xp home to xp pro and want to know:
a) can this be done?
b) if so, would programs installed after the upgrade be
lost if I went back to xp home (ie similar to upgrading

What key to i hit to boot from the cd? I want to do a new
install of XP and i want it to deleat partition and make
a new one, but it won't let me since it says files are in
use on that drive, so i need to boot from the cd to

I get an error 1802 image file is invalid or corrupted
when i reload my operating system on my hp zt1175
notebook.  What do I have to do to fix this?

My computer died recently and I was running XP Pro on that
one.
I just bought a new system and I am running an OEM Win XP
Home. I want to upgrade to Pro but since it is a new

I am trying to upgrade a new client to an OEM Win XP Pro OEM Office XP Pro
environment.
4 Dell Dimension 2350
1 Dell Dimension 2300

I'm only a novice but since I upgraded to win XP i don't
know how to stop programmes starting up automatically
when logging on eg like messenger.  Can some one please
advise where to lookand how to stop.