My system has a virus and is basically trashed.  I want
to reformat my drive and reinstall XP but am unable to
find anything explaining how.  The usual DOS commands
don't seem to work. ( I am new to working on an XP

We just recently picked up a computer from a local Rent
to Own facility, one that had been used before.  The
people that had it before us apparently were going to
install the Windows XP twice on the computer.  However,

I'm trying to upgrade from Windows Me to Windows Xp home
edition. I receive a blocking issue message: "You cannot
upgrade this Windows installation to Windows XP, because
you have more than one operating system installed on your

I needed to clean my Windows XP installation so I used
the Files And Settings Transfer Wizard to move my "old
settings" to a folder on my computer. Then I copied the
folder out on a CD and installed XP again from scratch

Time to upgrade my computer and I would like to use XP
PRo. Am I allowed an upgrade path to XP Pro if I am a
licensed user of OEM Windows NT 4.0.
I would hate to pay for the software and find out later

I have been trying to reinstall XP Home (because the IE
SP1 Knowledgebase told me this is what I must do), but I
keep getting a "blue screen" on ctoss2k.sys, which is a
Soundblaster Audigy driver (this is during the hardware

If I upgrade from XP HOME to XP PRO will I have to re-install all my
programs (like Office etc) and will I lose my saved documents ?

After going through the initial setup/partition/format
process, the computer reboots and goes back into setup
instead of installation.
This is driving me absolutely nuts.  I know a lot, and I

Every time I start my computer, it attempts to dial an
Internet connection. How can I stop this from happening
automatically? I have a Sony Viao with Windows XP. Thank
you!

I am trying to upgrade to XP Pro on to my Toshiba 1905-
S277. It has (had?) XP home on it now. But I have been
attempting to upgrade to Pro so I can log on to various
networks at work and home.

When I try to do a repair to windows it ask for an administrators password
I do not think I use one
so I leave it blank and push enter
It then goes to C:/windows prompt

I had an incidence where my ntoskrnl.exe was corrupted and
Microsoft support advised me to reinstall the operating
system. Upon doing so all my other programs were no longer
seen by the OS, i.e. no longer under my Start/Programs,

want to reinstall xp (without having to reformat my hard
drive). when i try to reinstall (boot from CD) i get the
message "INF file txtsetup.sif is corrupt or missing,
status 14. Setup cannot continue."

I bought the OEM version as I have more than one
computer.  On my main machine I have the upgrade version
of XP.  On this machine I have the OEM version.  I get
some errors locating some dll files while installing from

I recently installed XP(replacing 98)and the
CeQuadrat "Just Burn" program that came with the computer
(Compaq Presario 7895) will not recognize the CD burner.
Any ideas? The CD player plays fine, but it won't