I installed WinXP upgrade over Win98. The upgrade belongs
to a non-profit that I was working for. Now, I am no
longer working for them and need to give up the licensed
copy I've been using. I am going to buy a new copy of

I have a recently new Dell Laptop with high end configuration. However, the
windows explorer takes a lot of time when I want to browse any folder -
intermittently it shows as it hangs for a while. It has been driving me
crazy recently. Any help in this regard is hightly appreciated.

I have several computers (WinXP Pro) and I am not sure
what product key I used on what computer.  I am trying to
indentify some unused WinXP so I can install them on a
new system.

I just replaced the motherboard, processor, and memory in  
my Windows XP PC with newer and faster components.  I am
keeping my hard drive.  Prior to the upgrade, XP ran
fine.  Now, after the BIOS runs and Windows tries to

I've had this message before, and we're pointed to 811493
But I have a new round of patched laptops that are continuing to exhibit
this,
Any tips on other KB patches that also modify the kernel?

I am using Ghost 2003 to try and setup a standard PC
configuration. I have Windows XP Pro and Office XP Loaded
on the original PC. I run Sysprep befor creating the
image. I can create the image to a network share without

I would like to know if there is any way I can take the
Win xp that I got with my new HP laptop and put it on my
desktop computer which now has Win 2000.  I tried
installing the Win xp disk, but I got a message saying

MY computer was running with an OS of 2000 and XP. Some
softwares are not compatible with 2000 so I immediately
installed windows 98. Then i try to install windows xp but
the setup closes. I try to boot it but it says no

I just upgraded to Windows XP
And tried to install my Frontpage 2000
But a error screen pops up that says
"Frontpage Install Error  Error 1993 The windows

When I try to install Win XP Home and/or Pro I receive BSoD.
The installation passes boot and file copy section and somewhere when is
under configuring section (It's not always on a same place) I got one of
those errors:

After many months of denial - I finally broke down and purchased Windows XP
(upgrade). I originally had Win98SE on my P3-800MHz computer and after
awhile my computer needed some good housecleaning and rather than just
wiping everything out and starting fresh with a new reinstall of ...

Is it possible to uninstall XP and replace it with ME in
the following scenario? My original operating system was
ME. An upgrade to XP failed such that I did a new install
of XP that works. XP is in a different folder "C:\WINXP"

As a joke, a "friend" of mine entered an obscene name as
the owner of my new computer when assisting me in the
initial setup a couple of days ago.  As a consequence, my
personal folder under Documents and Settings is named for

I recently decided to reformat my computer, upon
reinstalling Windows XP, it said that my Product
Number/ID was invalid, what is happening? This is same ID
i used to install it.

  I hope that someone can help with this. I'm stuck...
 I have a PC that says that my copy of Windows XP home
must be activated before you can log in. That is fine,
but when I click "yes" to activate windows now, the