I did a clean install of xp home for a gentleman, when he
went to activate the software it wouldn't activate.  I did
an upgrade install over the clean install with his cd and
attempted to activate it again.  this time it told me

Is there a way to save my current config (admin info, themes, config,
users, layout....) so i dont have to set it up 1 by 1 again after i do
a clean winxp install *format*

yesterday i was getting the log in and then automatically log out problem. I
went into the recovery console and copied userinit.exe. But when i restarted
i am not getting the message
Windows could not start because of the folloing file is missing or corrupt:

My sister has Windows XP Pro and after downloading and
running a clone finder program (found in PC World
Magazine) she gets an
LSASS.exe System Error Message

The 'security' applet in control panel (added in SP2) is
crying 'wolf' incorrectly.  Some ham-handed programmer
really blew it...seems they made the bad decision for the
'security manager' to ASSUME that the Windows Firewall

I have a laptop that has a built-in wireless. I also have a PCMCIA wireless
card and a wired 100BaseT Ethernet connection. I'd like to be able to
combine all 3 (OK, 2 will be fine as well) adapters and make them appear as
one network connection to Windows XP. The reason I think this ...

Client brought Dell notebook with reloaded XP Home
(original disks reloaded due to broken kernal).  Windows
Update page gives a greyed "Install Updates" and appears
to never check for updates.  NO ERROR is ever given.

Installed XP Upgrade,  after my computor operating system Windows ME quit
working,  now when I start the computor the Dell Bios screen come up and it
askes me to press the F1 or F3 key. I press F1 and it starts the Windows XP
operating sysytem. I checked all cables and connection ...

 Help! My computer is trapped in an endless loop of
trying and failing to (upgrade) reinstall Windows XP. In
the middle of Windows XP setup "installing devices" the
computer suddenly reboots and then continues trying to

I was told that an installation of another os and all the
applications in it are put in a 'file'.  But if I install
xp pr0 (I have a universal msdn license so can install up
to 10), office 2003, norton anti virus, msdn library

I have Windows XP Home with Service Pack 2 successfully
installed.  I've subsequently purchased the Upgrade to
Windows XP Professional.  When I check for compatibility
prior to installing the upgrade I get:

I ran a SP2 update on a machine last night (9/30) and
found it had hung and not finished this morning. I
started it at 8:00 PM an here's a section of svcpack.log
that looks odd...

How or where do you update the CD Key in XP?

got to reformat a couple of pcs but neither have floppy suport, how can i get
the dos prompt up out of windows?
thanks in advance

Hi, after installing sp2 the memory usage increased significantly, from
70-80MB free to 40MB free. The biggest hog seems to be IE. Does anybody know
if this is normal? If yes, is there a way to alleviate this?
P.S. MS should increase memory requirement of XP with SP2.