After a reinstallion of windows XP home edition. I keep
getting a software activation promt after every boot up.
I have activated numerous time with success, but the
problem does'nt stop. Also tried reinstalling XP again,

I don't have any hair left to pull out, so I'm here for answers!
I'm trying to install XP Pro, retail version, onto a set of new
hardware.  This is the original release of Pro.  My hardware is a 2.8
P4 HT 800 FSB, the motherboard an Intel 865PERL, and the video card an

Is it possible to set up applications so that they ALWAYS
run in the context of administrator? We are a school, and
must run some programs that require administrative rights
on machines, but we don't want to give students full

Help, I'm having a major headache trying to install XP
home on my new PC.  Boot from CD works fine, I boot from
the hard drive to continue set-up and the insert the CD
and everything's fine for a few minutes.  I usually get to

I have a compaq machine running with Windows 200o Pro. I
just decided to upgrade to Windows XP Pro. I chose the
upgrade ability and started the installation. All is well
to the point were Windows is actually being installed.

Can any one help me please
I have a 3 drive setup on my PC running windows XP
i would like to have the smallest drive as C:
The 2nd to hold all my Pic`s and movies along with programs

i am a new user. dont know much
cookies has been deleted by somebody
how do i get it back?

I have a HP Pavilion 521n.  It came with XP installed.  It
crashed last week and when I found my XP disk I have been
unable to install it.  I downloaded the setup disks and
once it gets to disk 2 I get the following error message

Okay,
To put this rather bluntly, how the *&%! do I set up multiple monitors.  I
know, I know, it should be fairly simple.  The computer I am working on has
a built in video card on the motherboard - no place to disable it. Okay, so

I have read a lot of the excellent tips on clean installing XP by booting
from the XP CD.  I have also read a lot about properly formatting a NTFS
drive to have 4K Clusters for best performance.  If I boot from the XP CD,
remove my current FAT32 partition and install a new partition ...

How do we go about setting up CLASSIC look to all users?  I know how to do
this PER user but I need to disable CLassic Look for EVERY user
-Karl

I installed windows xp on master hard drive
Installed  Dos on slave
Installed Boot Magic
Booted to Dos onF:

I recently re-installed XP Home so did the updates from
Windows Update, including one for the modem. The modem
worked fine on previous installation. Modem says it is
installed on COM 3, but in Device Manager, there is no

I would like to know how to restart my computer using
command prompt from Windows XP.

 When i try to start windows xp on my computer the
following message appears:
   Windows could not start because the following file is
missing or corrupt - /WINDOWS/SYSTEM/vgaoem.fon - you can