I was prompted today by the auto update tool to install the sp3 patch on my
IBM netvista pc running Xp - home edition ,, after installing my system
continues to reboot itself ..  Would appreciate any help !!! thanks

Hello everyone ... I'm curious to know which order should
be my first bootable device ? Floppy , cd-rom - hard
drive ... I have just finish reformating and windows is
up and running fine at the moment , just curious where i

I need to re-install Windows XP Pro to get a clean start again. I only have a
Windows XP upgrade CD-ROM so I had to first install Windows 98 SE. In order
to do so I had to convert my C: drive back to FAT32 (from NTSF). Now when I
format my C drive it only shows it as 8GB, whereas ...

I have tried to restore to earlier time, It goes through the process then
reboots and says my computer could not be restored and no changes have been
made.This computer is infected with something cause it closes IE, and has
lots of popups, yes it has popup software on.  I don't ...

I have a legal CD of Windows XP however I have lost the product key.  Since
I have already formatted the hard drive that it was installed on prior I
have no way to determine what the CD key was and can't re-install it.  What
can I do?

We did an upgrade from XP Home to XP Pro. No existing email messages show up
in Outlook. Can I get them back? How?
Thanks for any help

I decided to reinstall XP Pro to upgrade my existing XP Pro which wasn't
working properly. In the middle of the installation, I got the error
'unregmp2.exe cannot find entry point: Procedure entry point GETIUMS could
not be located in the link library MSDART.dll'. From there, the ...

Seems like over the years somewhere around 47,000 updates and
service packs have created backup files and entries in Add/Remove
programs for un-installing themselves.
The ability to uninstall such things is undeniably a good thing,

I have been having trouble upgrading to sp2 due to the fact that my copy of
windows xp is not licensed properly.  I originally bought windows xp the day
it came out, but I didn't like it.  I went back to windows 2000.  If I
registered that copy of Windows xp, is there a way to ...

I have been having trouble upgrading to sp2 due to the fact that my copy of
windows xp is not licensed properly.  I originally bought windows xp the day
it came out, but I didn't like it.  I went back to windows 2000.  If I
registered that copy of Windows xp, is there a way to ...

Are there bugs in Sysprep?
I am creating sysprep images of XP SP2 workstations and notice the
builds are not as I configured them after the machines come out of
Sysprep.

I'm having difficulty installing programs on my computer.  It displays the
following error:
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\AUTOEXEC.NT.  The system file is not suitable for
running MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows applications.  Choose 'Close' to

I have notebook with HDD, 2 partitions, NTFS, XP installed on first.
Installer files are on second partition.
How can I perform clean reinstall?
I can start installer from working XP, but in this case I can't delete

Is it possible to change the setup language of Windows XP Home Edition?  When
we purchased the computer it came with the English version and I would like
it to be in french instead... is it possible to switch without losing
everything and having to reinstall Windows from scratch?

I have a Gateway Select 950 pc with 256 MB RAM and 30 GB Hard Drive. Up until
a couple of days ago I had Windows XP Pro running perfectly on it. The drive
had been partitioned and XP was on C:\. My son seems to have told Windows
Update to go ahead and install SP2. Once he did ...