OK, I'm dumb. Had Windows ME on two-year-old machine with 30 Gig WD HD.
Attempted clean install of new Windows XP Home OEM. Using long version of
NTFS format hung at 65% complete every time. Short versions of FAT and NTFS
seemed to work, but Windows CD was unable to write ...

I have windows xp pro sp2, I get a popup error mesg
about every three to four days and it is always the same
mesg. It is a blue edged box the top right it has the
letters "RS" The error is:

I've succesfully installed SP2 on XP Home edition, on a laptop (Pico Oscar S
5600D)
But now, when I boot up into Windows I get abandoned in the Blue screen with
the "Windows is starting up . . ." message. At first the hard disk chunters

I have clients on an Active Directory Domain that can not install SP2.  None
of them can including myself.  I am the domain admin and I have tried
installing as the local admin, Me, and the domain admin account.
I get "You do not have permission to update Windows XP.  Please ...

Since I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere by MS on their site or here (new
here, so may have missed it), I thought I'd let you know that SP2 will not
install on some ASUS motherboards due to a BIOS conflict. The computer will
freeze at the Windows XP screen as it boots up.

My winxp sp2 stanby option was disabled (Stanby buttom dim) when i install
the system using self-customized unattended cd.
Tried with normal installation cd no problem.
Anybody have any idea how to fix this.

In Windows Explorer, when I make search or click on any folder in the right pane, Windows installer starts unexpectedly to install MS Office with FrontPage. The process is going on until an error message appears "Error 1311. Source file not found: D:\Office XP\Office1.cab. Verify ...

When right-click on My Computer and select Properties, there is a logo of
the manufacturer (like Dell or eMachines, etc.) on the General tab.
Can any company (ie. end-users) put their logos there ?  Or, do companies
need to enter some agreements with Microsoft first ?

I want to upgrade from XP Home w/SP2 to XP Professional.  
The copy of the XP Professional upgrade I have does NOT
have SP2 and probably doesn't have SP1.  My intent is to
reinstall the SPs after upgrading to XP Professional.  

I purchased Russian Windows XP Pro so I can complete the work on a project
developed for a Russian company. When it asks for the Product Key, I am faced
with a Product Key that has English characters and a keyboard that will only
produce Russian characters.

I'm trying to install Windows XP home edition w/sp2 onto a new hard drive.  
Download seemed to go through fine, but when I reboot I get an error message
saying... Windows could not start because the following file is missing or
corrupt:  <Windows root>\system32\hal.dll.      ...

Everytime I restart the computer I get a black screen
during the startup that asks if I want to go to Windows
Setup or to Start Windows.  It defaults to the Setup mode
and I have to manually change to Start Windows at each

I hope I am not bothering the wrong group.  But I really need some help.  I
am trying to install a 3rd party piece of S/W and each time I receive an that
says:           setup.msi returned an error 1612
I have worked with the 3rd party vendor until their clueless.

I want to set-up my system to have xp pro and  2003 server in a dual boot
set-up.  I've not done this before and wondered if someone could give me an
idea of how and where to start ?  I have full versions of both OS and xp pro
is currently installed.

I have a Dell Dimension 4400 which I am running into problems with
after trying to Re-Install Windows XP.  They entire system was slowing
down, We don't have much on there that couldn't be backed up to a CD,
So I decided to clear everything off and start with a Fresh Install.