I'm have Window's XP Home Edition and sent my computer away to a friend who
offered to fix my computer.When i got my computer back,he'd changed it to
Proffesional Edition.My friend has since died and i've been trying to
download Service Pack 2 but it fails to download saying it ...

I know the standard way of copying the default profile is by using the Copy
profile option in the System control panel, in the Advanced tab, and this is
how I usally create them... But what happens if you just take a profile you
want to be the default profile, and just rename it to ...

I have to deploy about 10 new XP PC's. These PC's are from Dell, and already
came installed with the basic OS. Though I did have to complete the Welcome
process or Mini Setup...Not sure what it's called.....
Then, I configured 1 PC for network use and isntalled the necessary apps. ...

I had to re-format my hard drive, so I used the Files and Settings Transfer
Wizard to save all the settings info and documents from my hard drive to a
USB drive.  However, when I go to restore the files and settings it tells me:
"The location that you specified does not contain ...

I had received a trial version of Windows Server 2003 and before I finifhed
installing it, I found out that in order to get back XP, I would have to
uninstall everything and then reload it again (and I didn't want to do that)
so I stopped the install of Windows Server. Now, when ...

Please help me!  I bought a new Seagate Momentus hard drive for my
laptop (100gb, 7200 rpm) and cannot complete the windows installation
for Media Center Edition 2005.  The installation runs fine until it
comes to the section where you are prompted to check your TimeZone.

I'd like to see a single, chronological listing of all the updates that have
been released for XP, in the following format if possible. Can anybody tell
me if there exists such a thing or similar? It is so frustrating to keep
clicking from KB article to KB article rather than ...

Hi everyone (especially XP developers),
I just wanted to make a general comment about the fact that windows setup
should give a user a possibility to chose the medium for the external SCSI /
SATA drivers. After pressing F6, you are provided with no options but to

I looked through the posts on replacing an XP CD and they all point to
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=326246 .  If you go there they send you to
the general Contact/Support page and there it tells you that you have to pay
$35.00 just to call to get the info (that may be that ...

Hi all! I'm slowly rolling out SP2 to about 80 boxes (with very few problems
I'm happy to say) but I've got an annoyance that I can't find referenced
anywhere I've looked.
The IE popup manager settings (specifically, the sites being allowed to

Due to worsening performance issues relating to software that didn't
uninstall correctly (long story), I decided to do a complete system restore
on my laptop (i.e. format the hard drive and return the computer to the
factory state).  I didn't want to do a complete backup using ...

Due to worsening performance issues relating to software that didn't
uninstall correctly (long story), I decided to do a complete system restore
on my laptop (i.e. format the hard drive and return the computer to the
factory state).  I didn't want to do a complete backup using ...

Due to worsening performance issues relating to software that didn't
uninstall correctly (long story), I decided to do a complete system restore
on my laptop (i.e. format the hard drive and return the computer to the
factory state).  I didn't want to do a complete backup using ...

Due to worsening performance issues relating to software that didn't
uninstall correctly (long story), I decided to do a complete system restore
on my laptop (i.e. format the hard drive and return the computer to the
factory state).  I didn't want to do a complete backup using ...

Due to worsening performance issues relating to software that didn't
uninstall correctly (long story), I decided to do a complete system restore
on my laptop (i.e. format the hard drive and return the computer to the
factory state).  I didn't want to do a complete backup using ...