i reinstalled my windows and lost the code to be able to
access word and other works because if someone could help
me that would be great

i am installing full version windows xp and did the files
and settings transfer both ways.  however, none of the
windows programs, office, frontpage,etc transfer and
require a complete new install with activation.

My motherboard died so I upgraded my system with a new motherboard. I
had been using Win2000 pro with a win98  dual boot (this is not a full
dual boot because I only had the MSDOS part of win98 setup) before the
crash. I bought XP upgrade because I wanted to upgrade the install on

Doing a fresh install of Win XP Prof.  I get as far as the
screen where it tells me 39 mins left to install and the
various features of XP scroll.  After some time I get a
fatal error message

Can anyone point me to a MS technical article on how to
disable the POSIX subsystem under Windows XP Professional
SP1.
Thanks!

Can anybody help me i have a boot up problem. When i boot
up i get a windows xp logo and then i get a error message
like this that come on blue screen.
Stop C0000218 Registry file faliure

Currently have normal PC HP Brand  512 Mem large hardrive.
Running XP Professional...
Having troulble adding a second scanner HP 7400...
I have 6100 HP All in one, not sure why I,m using a usb

when ever i try to install windows xp(i have windows 98 se)
i get the message fatal error,SETUP CANNOT COPY D:\I386
\MFC42.DLL TO C:WINDOWS\SETUP\MFC42.DLL.help me pls on
what to do,im a computer newbie and i really like to have

Does anyone know if it possible to emulate how NT behaved when Start |
shutdown was selected (on an ACPI compliant system). Basically, it would go
to a screen saying it was safe to power down, but provide a button to
restart the PC. The closest I have come is to turn off ACPI in the ...

My father-in-law recently obtained the W32.Swen.A@mm
virus that brought his Windows XP Home PC to its knees.  
Over the phone, I guided him through the removal
instructions as posted on the Symantec web site.  

Has anyone had any luck with creating custom versions of Windows PE.  I am
trying to make this work with loading the correct drivers for my NIC cards.
I have been following the directions in the help file. Now when I burn the
custom CD and try to boot up from it PE starts to boot ...

Can someone help me in removing some of the items my
computer uses during Start-Up??
1. I've tried msconfig, start up, un check the boxes, BUT
the items come right back up when I restart the computer.

I'm trying to install XP Pro on a newly formatted HD with
the 6 XP setup disks downloaded from the Microsoft site.
On the third disk I keep getting a error code "4" when
the system trys to download the "setupdd.sys" file. How

I had WIN XP on my pc that recently underwant a mother
board failure...i have another pc running win 98...My
question is... can i move my harddrive with win XP on to
my machine with win 98 on it..and use the win XP as a

I have an internet sharing router with a built-in DHCP
server. Normally my other PCs can connect to the internet
easily when I set automatic IP and default gateway.
However I have one XP PC that gives an error of failure