Where do I find the boot.ini file in Windows XP home and
professional edition

i got a this pc from a mate of mine it was running
windows2000pro on it i got a copy of winXP home when i
installed winXP on my pc its sill running win2000pro as
well. So im running two windows systems can some one tell

In Control Panel, ADD/REMOVE Programs is missing. How do
I reinstall?

Before I did a repair XP on my system, as I am not hooked
to the internet or any other computer, I had nothing for
my XP password. Now that I have completed the repair, XP
boots and asks for my Admin password. I don't put anything

....on IBM Thinkpad notebook.
I go past the product key entry step. Then it checks for
config and comes back with a incompatibility failure
on "Nortel Extranet Client". This VPN s/w was uninstalled

How can I obtain my activation Key if I Lost the hard
copy of it?

I have just replaced my old PII motherboard with an Asus
P4S800.
I am attempting to load WinXP Home to a newly formatted
harddrive.

Seems to be plentiful problems with the upgrade.  I am in
the same boat, but do not know what to do.  It would seem
there would be more proactive MS people trying to help,
but do not seem to have the answer.  I have changed HD's,

I started out with Windows XP, but decided I also wanted
to have W2K on my computer. So I partitioned my hard drive
and put W2K on my D drive.
But now, when I reboot, it won't let me boot into XP.

I just purchased a new motherboard and I put together a
computer I have a Hard drive that I formatted before
because I heard about the problems with XP being on the
hard drive when you make major hardware changes.  I have

Hi,
I've had XP for a year and it has been fine.  I have
Norton so I don't think I have a virus but the software is
corrupted.  I reinstalled XP but left the directories the

I want to install SP1a on a computer with no internet connection
what do I need to download in order to do this/  Is it possible?
Thanks
Boris

I bought xp pro about a month ago and installed it. I
just upgraded my computer and installed xp pro again, but
this time when I try to activate xp it says that my key
has been used too many times and I have to type in a

 I am trying to install Windows XP Professional and all
goes well until "Installing Devices" at 34 minutes
remaining, then it hangs.
 I waited 2.5 hours but it didn't continue.

How can I de-install an incomplete Windows XP Setup after
I tried to run the setup on a PC running on Windows 98