I recently purchased a computer with WindowsXP Home from
an individual. How can I get his name and other info off
of it, and install my name?

Recall with WinNT4:
BIOS cannot access anything beyond the first 7.87GB of the hard disk. If any
critical boot data, such as the files NTLDR, NTDETECT or BOOT.INI, get moved
to a point more than 7.87GB from the start of the hard disk, your computer

Hi.  I just tried to uprgrade to XP today from 98.  I got
an error that said a file could not be found.  That file
was named sprb0402.dll.  I don't know how to fix this.  
Any help would be appreciated.  Thank you.

I have a machine running XP that says it has 224 MB of
memory.  The memory chip says it is DDR256M233 (I assume
PC2100) memory.  What is going on?
Thanks for your help.

I was wondering if anyone know how to run a program as the
shell in windows xp.  In windows 98 one could replace
shell= with whatever.exe.  Then change it in the command
prompt as necessary.  I know it can be changed under the

I have a Dell Latitude Model C610 using XP Pro. When I
right click the desktop to show display properties the
Desktop Tab is missing. Is there a fix for this ?

I get this message when I try to install Windows XP
Professional on my system.  I formatted the C: drive, so
it was a clean installation.  Here is the error message I
get when I click on my name at the login screen:

I want to automate the xp pro installation. I can't have
the boot sequence from CDROM to A drive. My BIOS is like
that. MY BIOS does have options for other boot sequences
but not from CDROM to A.

I have error which restarts the PC every day which says
"Remote Procedure Call was terminated unexpectedly"

HELP!  If this is not the correct newsgroup for this post
I applogize.  I have a compaq preario notebook that had
win me installed and it would continually boot to safe
mode.  I decided to upgrade to win2k pro but I get to the

Have 20G HD used as follows:
10G: C:, FAT32,  W98SE
10G: no drive letter, i.e., "no-man's land", empty.
Want to install XP Home (upgrade version)  in the empty portion of drive,

Help!  I'm new to xp.  I have a 2000 server network.  I'm
able to get the XP pro box on the domain but don't know
how to set it so all the domain users can log on to this
box with admin rights to the pc.  Any suggestions?

I have a Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop, upon which I dropped a
large heavy object (not on purpose).  Now when I start the
computer it flashes "NTDETECT failure" briefly, then
restarts, and repeats.

Is there a way to upgrade from Windows 98 to Windows XP
Pro using a full version Windows XP CD.  I do not have a
Windows XP Upgrade CD.  I do not want to loose any data or
programs that are installed.  I know that some of the

Would appreciate a solution for my above mentioned problem. I have just
bought a 3.0 FSB800 PC with 1Ghz of ram at 400 speed, therefore I thought my
system would fly.
Unfortunatley on simple things like accessing the properties dialog from the