Running a Dell 4400, SP2 upgrade failed and I was forced to reload XP from
the Dell Disk.
When it was finished, it appeared all the files were wiped out.  I then
loaded SP2 which went fine.

I have XP Pro in which I have set a Password.
However , as the PC is not networked and is only used by myself at
home , some time ago I set it so that the PC always remembers my
Password on Bootup .

I am using Win 98SE, and am considering upgrading to XP.
I have 3 partitions currently:
C - Win98
D - all my programs

What does it mean to be a ".NET application ?  I'm sort of aware that
.NET is web-based services, authentication, and, I'm sure, lots of
other things. I associate it with MS's late, unlamented passport
system.

My XP pro system started playing up last week. I decided to see what
an upgrade install would to to rectify the problem, as the last time I
did a repair install it complained of missing drivers. However
half-way through installing device drivers the installation froze. So

After failing to cure my computer of spyware using various removal programs I
had to reformat and load XP pro from disc. When doing this I noticed that the
C drive was partitioned with smallest partyition being 200 Mb or so. I was
worried that this partition might have been ...

We've got a Windows 2003 Server running Remote Installation Services, and
trying to deploy Dell OptiPlex SX270 clients with Windows XP Service Pack 2.
We can deploy older OptiPlex models (those with network drivers built-into
Windows XP) with no problems.  And we were able to ...

Why is it that the product groups get to have all of the fun?  I see MVPs all
the time for XP and for Server and for IIS and for SQL, but where are the
MVPs for System Builders?  They tell me there cannot be an MVP group for a
"Program", only for products because there would not ...

After reformating the harddisc from scratch, I've added three partitons.
While I was partitionning (using the XP-CD), new versions of windows XP were
installed. So actually my PC has 3 parallel installed Versions of Windows XP:
my original version (personallized) and two neutral ...

When my son installed Windows XP home version our hard drive did not
partition and Windows ME and older files are still on the hard drive. I was
hoping to delete them because there is a virus in the old resrore files. How
can I fix this problem? Is there also a way to save the ...

After installing SP2, IE launches extremely slowly and does same in browsing
in moving from one request to another.  Oddly enough, the SBC DSL browser
(also based on IE) runs well enough.  System Idle Process is continually
around 98%.  Have run AVG anti-virus and SpySweeper ...

I have the original WinXP Pro disk but no product key.  I looked at the
properties of "My Computer" where I found an OEM number.  I formatted my
hard drive and during the installation of WinXP Pro I get the "Windows
Product

A quick question. I know almost everything about installing Windows both on
single-disk and on RAID-configuration. I am familiar with the "F6-procedure"
for installing RAID drivers on installation.
What I want to know is this. I have Windows installed on a single-disk

After 12 hours of messing about trying to get things set up (XP stop errored
after updating & wouldn't startup to desktop). I finally installed XP home on
mirrored RAID drives. Problem is that my system/boot drive/s is G: not C:.
How do I change it to C? (Without starting all over ...

I am trying to find out the following. A client of mine has a working
Windows XP computer with a bunch of software installed, but with the wrong
license. I suspect it may be an illegal volume license key. I want to
replace that by a legal XP copy which I already bought, but ...