HELP I was trying to reformat a laptop in work by freshly
installing windows XP Pro over the top of the existing XP
Pro installation(the factory restore discs were missing).
Fairly early into the process I realised this was a very

I realize that the activation process collects some system
information so that a drive cannot be taken from one
system and installed on another.
What about creating a bootable drive on a second drive for

I received a computer from a friend with a virus in an
unbootable state. This was an HP computer and things
started going down hill fast.
My decision was to reinstall a copy of XP-Pro. (My

XP home edition stoped booting normally. I was advised to
generate 6 boot diskettes by knowledege bvase article
310994. I changed the bott device to floppy drive then try
to boot from these disks to no avail. It weither fails

I AM TRYING TO CHANGE MY COMPUTER FROM WINDOWS 2000 TO
WINDOWS XP.WHEN I TRY TO INSTALL WINDOWS XP SETUP KEEPS
TELLING ME I AM MISSING THE C:\BOOT.INI FILE AND WILL NOT
CONTINUE WITHOUT IT.CAN ANYONE HELP ME OUT WITH THIS?THANKS

Trying to install a legal copy of FrontPage 2000 on a Win XP Pro/ Office XP
laptop.  When I click setup I get the following error:
The Windows Installer Service could not be accessed.  This can occur if you
are running Windows in safe mode, of the Windows Installer is not correctly

Just got a Toshiba Satellite 5200 laptop with XP Home - I
did the update to XP Pro and after the first Windows
update (SP1 express) the computer came back up but neither
my USB Mouse nor my touchpad "Toshiba cpad" would

Folks:
I want to lock down a PC for the "user" group of users;
such as remove IE access (and from the desktop), and other
settings available via the local group policy object. When

I'm having trouble with the task manager.  When I bring it
up, it only shows processes.  The tabs across the top are
gone and there is no right-click menu.  Any thoughts or
suggestions on how I might restore it?

Is there a way to specify what screensaver is used when a system is just
sitting at the login screen waiting for a user to log in?
thanks, Dave

I recently built a computer and would like to take
Windows XP off my old one and put it on the new one. When
I do this and then try to activate it I get a message
saying that the product key has already been activated

I've installed a printer as Administrator, but it's not
available for any other users that log on the the
computer. What gives? I really don't want to have to
install the printer for each 500+ users on the domain!

Last week I had to re-install Windows XP and I did not
wan to remove any information. During the installation it
asked me the directory name. By default it showed
C:\WINDOWS. WINDOWS was already corrupt. I made it into

I have just load XP Pro on my new PC.  The boot gets to
the "Loading your Personal Settings" and then reboots.
I try to boot in safe mode, but it still reboots.
Any clues?

I need to reload XP and I know there is a file on my hard
drive that will reload this xp home addition without
having a disc. I just don't know how to find it and then
access it. Please help.