I am always getting popups on my screen.  How do I avoid
them?

I have struck a bit of a problem.  An unsolicitored
program has been changing my internet explorer home page
and adding websites to my favourites.  I have tried
deleting theseurl links and also resetting my home page.  

I would like to give my son full adminstrator rights so
he can learn and play around in XP, but on the other hand
i would like to reduce the risk to min. that other users
loose everything. The multi-user functionality is not the

I'm building a computer, not buying a pre-made one.  The
bios on the computer recognizes my western-digital 80MB
hard drive.  When the XP Pro setup finally gets to the
part where it is going to start the install (after

I have been trying to fix a friend's computer (vitus,
most likely).  I've had to use the recovery console a
number of times and each time I just hit enter when it
asked for the administrator password.  Now all of a

I have 128MB of RAM, which I guess is also
called "physical memory". According to my computer's log,
I only have 10.36MB of "available physical memory". I'm
guessing that this is why my programs are running so

set up my pc but can not hear any type of sound through
speakers or modem

My PC failed and is past repair. I have therefore bought
a new one with no operating system, and want to install
XP using the CD from the previous PC. As it is an OEM CD,
I seem to be prevented from activating on the new PC. How

My computer's hard drive was corrupted by a virus and I
used the Microsoft Windows XP startup disks (downloaded
from site) to reformat my hard drive.  Now, it wont read
my XP disk and run setup to install Windows XP Pro.  It

I bought a new pc windows xp professional, but when I
come to set up the product key I put in says its not the
right one, how do I sort this out.

hi friends, how can I do a startup disk on my laptop that
does not have diskette to be able to turn on my desktop
which says it does not find the hard drive.
Help me urgently friends, I need to work urgently

I have xp pro on and I want to install xp home but when I
popped in my home cd and tried to install it it has an
error almost right when I start the installation.
Something about "your current installaion is not an

My dad's electricity went out, PC shut down.  When he
tried to reboot, it cycles through the "start windows
normally", or in "safe mode" etc.  
It won't boot Windows.  Any Ideas on how to fix it?

I just purchased a Dell Inspiron 8600 notebook with XP
Home on it. I have a full version of XP Professional I got
as a gift but haven't used. Here are my questions:
-- Besides security issues (which don't really concern me

I am having a problem running Windows Explorer.  I have a
P4 with 1.5GB memory.  I have reloaded XP twice now
without ant success.  I can't find any information in the
Microsoft database.  Can anyone tell me where to look in