My friend did a reinstall of Windows XP Home (on top of
his previous installation) After that his keyboard
stopped responding. I tried removing it from the hardware
tree and scanning for changes, switching it out with a

I am trying to install SP1 on a computer with XP Pro. It
was upgraded from Windows98 to XP Home to XP Pro. The
issue is SP1 fails saying the registration code is
invalid. When you look in control panel under system it

When I log in and have my personal settings, I have a
scrolling margue screen saver.  As long as I'm logged in,
it remains, but when I log off, the xp screen saver comes
on.  How do I retain my settings even when logged off.

I have 10 windows XP computers. I load programs for the
users with the admin account. If the user is not logged
into the domain, they can run the program. If the user
logs into the domain, which they should, they cannot even

I bought a new and faster PC to replace my Windows 2000 PRO system.
The new system came with Windows XP home.
I installed Apache 2 and a Mail server and have it running well.
The Problem...

When I connect my Dell laptop that I upgraded from win98
to xppro, it prompts me to reactivate.  The docking
station has a memory card reader, a dvdrom drive, a
floppy drive and a usb printer and scanner, and a network

is there anybody out there yet that's figured out a way to bypass this activation
crap yet?  as shitty as microsoft is on security there has to be a backdoor
somewhere to getting around it.  not to mention the fact that this activation
is nothing more than a headache and pain in the ...

Alright, on our first computer, we tried to do a clean
installation on it using windows xp. It did not work for
some odd reason.  Well then i used my sisters old
computer as one to use for school and email and had to

I'm trying to do an unattended installation from a CD (so I can have
documents and settings on D:)
What I've got is:
- Asus P4P800 MB with 2.8G Pentium 4, 512MB

Multiboot, Dualboot website -  www.monphole.org

I'm trying to install XP onto a new computer.  The CD
spins up and starts to load, but when it starts to load
the kernel debugger DLL, it stops and gives the
message:  "Unable to load setupdd.sys.  Setup cannot

I recently installed PopUp Stopper by Pancicware and
AdAware by Lavasoft on my XP machine.  Installation was
doen while logged on as Administrator.  Programs work
fine for the administrator account, but are not present

When i want to upgrade from Win98 to winXP, setups says
you have "INTEL 82801DB/DBM SMBus Controller 24C3"
potential problem. How can I solve it? I already have
intel cipset software ver 4.0.22 installed in Win98. My

I have two screens and two video cards but can not
enable both to work at the same time

I had an error that forced to boot from the XP setup CD &
do a repair setup for XP (Professional).  At the same time
I installed another 128 MB or RAM to take the machine up
to 256 MB (this machine has been used for a year & a half