I am baselining XP SP2 for a production deployment.
In the initial Enterprise Build we did not permit Windows Automatic Update
to install and disabled it with policy to boot.  The service does not appear
on pre SP2 machines.  With SP2 installed the service is present and running.  ...

I have just bought a brand new computer and am having
trouble with the apostrophe/quotation mark key. When I
press it (in any program) it does not show up on the
screen until I press the another key, then they both

I believe I had a virus in the boot sectorof my 120 G HD running XP Pro, and
it stopped booting one day, after installing nortons antivirus 2003 (I assume
errors were detected in the boot sector), I tried Fixboot disk,fixMBR,
replacing NTLDR, NTDETECT.COM, and BOOT.INI. etc and ...

I'm building some stand-alone (not networked) WinXP Pro/SP2 boxes and I'd
like to set them up so that user-specific files (local user profile stuff, My
Documents, temp files, etc.) are not located on the same disk partition that
holds the system files - i.e., the boot loader and ...

I know u have to press F6 when windows install loads up and asks
"press f6 if u want to install 3rd party raid or scsi controllers" or
something like that.
But when i press f6, nothing happens. I tried it on another keyboard, but it

How do I stop one of the Internet Explorer programs opening at start-up?

My employer uses XP Professional SP2 and we had a problem the other day with
a PC that got corrupted.
I tried to re-install XP but booting from the Setup Boot Disks (SP2) that I
downloaded from Microsoft and it no longer gave me the option to do a repair

Hi, I am trying to load XP with SP2 onto my sone emachine T2341. I get the
message "The following value in the .sif file used by setup is corrupt or
missing, AND, value 0 on the line in section [sourcediskfiles] with key
"sp2.cab."

I'm trying to calibrate my Logitec Wingman, but when I click the calibrate
button  I get a Rundll32 error. How can I FIX THIS?
Dave Fisher

If I create a user account and do not create a password for it, is there a
default password?
When I try to connect to my home XP Home machine (from my home network) it
gives me a login box. I can put in the user name, but I do not have a

Recently I had to delete windows after a spyware or virus, we think? When
trying to install it again on the same computer, the program halts when it
begins to install networking components. Could this be that my ethernet is no
longer working and how do I check it?  I am not sure ...

My scheduled tasks won't run with exit code 0 x 0 given as results.  How do I
correct?

i am trying to clear up a friend's system.  you know the drill, clear out
the viruses, get all 25 + updates, scan disk and defrag.  they are running
windows me but when it starts up it tries to continue an xp home install.  
how can i get rid of that?  when the system first boots ...

I followed all the recommendations prior to upgrading to SP2 on my XP Home
edition. I also did the security update for IE/OE  Now I am having problems
with posting from some websites. I am having Error HTTP 500 Internal Server  
showing up. I reinstalled the Java 2 from Sun. That ...

For some reasons, I failed to remove the installed program using Add/Remove
Programs applet.  Is there any other way to remove the program completely?
Thanks,
Ray