Okay, a few days ago I removed windows 98 from my system and put XP on. Now, everytime the computer is loaded it tells me so many days left for registration although when I click to register it says it is registered! What do I do?

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I have a Compaq computer and the restore disk has Windows98 OS. Well I bought WinXP full version home edition. Well I installed WinXP and everything went find. BUT when I boot my computer the big red COMPAQ logo is displayed and my computer asks me what OS I want to start ...

My copy of WIN2K Pro contained makebt32.exe and makeboot.exe, plus images of
the boot diskettes; all this allowed me to install Win2K to a cleaned up HD
drive rather than trying to upgrade my copy of NT4.  I need to begin using
XP Pro now, and need to know if the upgrade version of ...

I recently lost the hard disk on my notebook which had win'98 installed.  I
ordered a replacement disk with the XP-Pro image and went and purchased an
upgrade license to XP-Pro.  The 25 digit code is not accepted.  What could
be the problem?  Is it that the 25 digit ID is related to ...

If I install Windows XP Professional on each of 2 disk partitions,
will I get a start menu that says:
"Please select the operating system to start:
Microsoft Windows XP Professional Edition

when u turn your computer on and windows boots up well
theres this silly little recording andd i just want to
know how to change the start up sounds
thanks.beat master

Is it possible (and reasonable) to Install Windows XP over
Windows 98 SE with out loosing all the running programs?
I tried to upgrade one 98 machine and end up doing a
comeplete install of XP Pro and having to reinstall all

Someone suggested to me a dual boot set up with Windows XP Home on two seperate partitions, for the purpose of drag-n-drop full back-ups of boot drive. I don't think I will have any trouble setting this up, I would just like to know how Microsoft will respond to Registration and ...

Hi, I just got a new hard drive(my old hard drive died), i want to install windows 98 and windows xp(for dual booting), is there a site for detailed instructions as i am newbie into this...thanks in advance
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Hi,
I do not have internet access at home and the activation
step is an annoying nussance.  So anyway, what do I have
to do since I do not have internet access on that PC?

My workhorse PC does not have any
connection to the internet (no modem).
I use this for video and programming
only, and I currently run win2000

Installed WINXP Professional on three machines using an Open License.
Machines are not yet a member of the domain - simply a member of the
workgroup until we can bring them over to the client's site and join them to
the domain.  Everything was fine.  However, went to windowsupdate ...

Uninstalled xp, tried to reinstall XP, 98 and ME and after setup began, screen says boot sector write virus, and halts setup.  Norton did not clean, McAfee same, diasbled bios virus protect, still no change.  Help

Well today I finally got up the nerve and time to Upgrade
my system.  Removed all that the Compatability utility
complained about.  And once the "Preparing Installation"
step finished, my system rebooted and the Installation

I just did a sfc/scannow to check my system integrity after
uninstalling a program.  In my event viewer, I noticed the following:
The System Restore filter encountered the unexpected error '0xC0000056'
while processing the file 'oembios.bin.new' on the volume 'HarddiskVolume1'.