I'm running into quite a few customers (Comcast customers...
cable-modem users who have no choice but to choose Comcast
as their ISP) who have either 'accidentally' or 'purposefully' upgraded
to Win-XP's SP2 and it's new security and firewall enhancements.

I installed sp2 after which windows wouldn't start. I
called ms support and after 2+ hours got off the phone to
do a windows repair option. Well went pretty well but now
the "windows is starting up" screen takes a minute or

I had to reload windows xp and now i get an error
companion.exe msvcr71.dll

Something went bad with my Windows 2000 Keyboard
driver.  I can not type once windows 2000 pro boots.
So I tried to upgrade to Windows XP.  But the
Windows XP setup from the CD does not find my

I'm running xp home edition and computer crashed had
error of system file/s missing so I when and reinstalled
win-xp and set up ask me to rename new win install file
now I have two windows files how do I remove second win

I have a Compaq R3120US that came with XP Home.  I already own the XP Pro
upgrade and would like to install it on the laptop.  Compaq says I can't do
it because the drivers they provide are for XP Home only.  Sounds like a
bunch of bunk to me.  I think they just want me to buy from ...

I have had a computer with xp pro on it for years--It died
so I swapped the HD into another computer given to me.  The
computer now asks me for a product key and says it is
expired and must buy a new license!  Its my hard drive and

 I've been trying to install autoCAD. It says that I have to have a .NET
Framework. I also read on their website that if I have the service pak 2
installed with WinXP Pro it sould work. It still doesn't. Did I misunderstand
what I read? is the .NET Framework a different download ...

i have typed in my prodyct key # like 40 times and it
keeps telling me that my # is invalid.  all i want to do
is open powerpoint and word so i can do my homework can
anyone help me???

What keys do I need to push to get into my bios screen as
the system reboots.  I tried F2 and the screen never came
on.

How do you install multiple versions of Windows XP to more than 1 hard
drive on the same PC?  The most I can get is 3 installations of Win XP
on my Primary hard rive, and none on my secondary hard drive.  I want
3 instances of Windows XP on each hard drive, and all 6 WinXP

Hi there! I'm hoping somebody can assist me in navigating the Microsoft
Upgrade Minefield.
I'm looking to upgrade ten Win98 machines to WinXP, but I don't want to fall
foul of licencing regulations. All of the 98 machines run a correctly

I have WinXP Home, SP2.  I'm trying to upgrade to Pro.  
When I insert the Pro CD, I get the error message "The
version of Windows on your computer is newer than the one
on the CD".

I installed XP last night to my computer and I have 2 hard drives (c:\ and
d:\).  Apparently it installed things to my d:\ drive and it is much, much
smaller.  My d:\ drive is 2.50 gigs and my c:\ drive is 10 gigs.  Now the d:\
drive is almost full and I'm being asked to delete ...

How do I reg.??? I just put xp pro on 3 days ago, and the
Icon for registering my version is not there anymore.  
How do I get it reg. so that I can get the updates?????