Attempting to upgrade ME to XP Home,Upgrade advisor hangs
up with CPU usage at 100%. Any Ideas

I am curious to know if Win XP's CD-Burning feature has a
log file that records which files have been burned to a
CD.  This would be when you use Explorer to drag files to
the CD icon, yada yada yada...

Upgrading subject computer to XP Pro, I get a message that
tells me the setup cannot continue and gives a message
5A8FF58h. I have not been able to ascertain what this
means or how to fix it. HELP PLEASE !!

I just installed a new hard drive on a computer and used
the Maxtor formatting disk.  I now have the message NTLDR
is missing and I cant seem to get passed it to install
Windows XP.  Any suggestions

How  can I use simplified Chinese characters in Word.  
And why does Word not work when I use a Chinese input
software?  Grateful for any help.

I want to do a clean install fro my son's PC with XP pro academic Is ther any issue with reformattiing the HD and just putting in the 98 CD? I don't want ot upgrade the OS(98) that is on their, but I wasn't sure if the academic version had any issues, since it is the upgrade ...

I'm installing XP on a 700mhz Celeron as a clean
installation on a new harddrive. After it reboots, the XP
screen comes up and then about 5 seconds later it goes
black.  I let it sit for a long time without any

i need to deploy windows FROM windows xp/2000 professional.  I learnt
that this could be done from the server operating systems using RIS.
but to my pity professional os do not have any such services.
so, i think the only possible way is to simulate RIS, to put in other

Using Sysprep for XP, and I'm new to using this tool.
Ok, I must be missing something. Why is there not a prompt for new user
account
with the default settings of the image of XP pro I created.when I go

Has anyone had any experience moving a Windows XP hard
drive from one system to another?  Specifically I need to
upgrade a system and do not want to reinstall everything.  
I would prefer to move the hard drive from the slower

windows will not accept hp software- hp says that ms xp
is not stable

I tried reinstalling Windows XP Home (which was itself the OS I was running at the time), and it offered a patched/updated version of the install, so I accepted it. However the install crashed after the first reboot. I booted from CD and installed the unupgraded version to ...

After moving a Windows XP Home Edition installation to
different hardware, how do you get the old system
configuration "de-activated" in order to get the product
key activated for the new system hardware configuration?

I tried to install my old flatbed scanner on my new P.C.
Too late I realised that there is no driver for my
scanner for XP.
Now I have an irritating error message everytime I boot

After succesfully installing the XP Proffesional upgrade
I installed Norton Internet Security 2004. Norton
requested a reboot after it was done and my PC is dead in
the water since. It will try to start up but after