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 ...

I have XP-pro installed on my laptop with an OEM product key, however I do
not have the OEM XP disks. I want to reinstall XP as the laptop is severly
infected and slow. Please advise if I can borrow XP-Pro disks from a friend
and activate with the OEM key on the label.

When i install WIN XP pro it says my acpi.sys file is corrupted and then it
tells me to restart .....I'm currently using WIN 98 at want to upgrade to Win
XP Pro

Have Dell 8100, it has trojan horses NAV can not get off.
Kids put Kazaa on it and have had problems every since.  Kazaa is now off
and NAV has cleaned up some, as has Lavasoft Ad-ware.  It is still slow and
quirky,

When I try to install Windows XP SP1 on a brand new system it always hangs up
on the banner screen. I get through the setup screen and the system restarts
and I get the Windows XP banner screen with the scolling bar. The system
locks up and the bar stops moving after about 15 ...

In short I have used the Upgrade Advisor from Microsoft to confirm that my
system can be upgraded from ME to XP Pro.  There were some issues with my
chipset but the advisor says they are not 'upgrade killers.'  During the
upgrade process it notifies me that the following file ...

How can I put my third party printer drivers into the Windows
folder/subfolders so that Windows will reference these driver files as
well as the built in ones when it autodetects my printer? And that
Windows will give me the name of my printer in the dialog box that tells

After running the FAST wizard to migrate to a new system (both old and new
are running XP sp2) my Appearance setting changed to Windows Classic style
and Windows XP style is no longer available as an option.  The old computer
was using Windows XP style.

Does this exsist?

My computer crashed and when the technician fixed it it wiped out
everything.I was able to activate windows xp but my microsoft office suite is
no longer there .Is there anyway I can download it again?

Is installing Norton's WMI REALLY NECESSARY if you're simply
a home XP user and have Norton AV 2002 already installed?
We recieve the LIVE UPDATES fine already, so what's it major purpose?
Thx - Infnet

Did a non destructive system recovery. Now windows update does nothing. It
doesn't eve3n know that sp1 and 2 were lost in the recovery process. Can't
hit buttons at update. Urgent help needed.

I'm the only user on the machine, except the built in administrator account,
and the guest, which is disabled.
Thanks in advance...
shaun

I have a laptop that has one hard drive with Windows 2000 on it. I
recently obtained another hard drive and multi-bay adapter (making it
so I can install the 2nd hard drive into the cd rom drive slot). If
either one of the hard drives are missing, I can boot successfully to

I am building a new computer and plan to salvage some
parts from the old(disc drive and zip drive)
My old computer operates with ME.  Do I get the upgrade
version of XP or a brand new one.