Last night I had to do a repair install on my daughter's laptop (She had
tried to install the Sun Java Runtime while Automatic Updates was in the
middle of installing this month's critical hot-fixes), resulting in a
unbootable system.

I´ve bought a new computer recently but i´m having problems installing
windows Xp.
In the store I bought the computer i didn´t asked to install the windows
because i had already bought a windows xp cd some time ago.

I'm planning to upgrade my motherboard and cpu. All other components will
remain the same. Does anyone know if this will create any problems taking
Windows XP updates? Or do I have to call Microsoft?
Anyone ran into any problems before?

Starting from a W98 boot floppy, the installation starts to copy files but
then just stops and waits forever.
Starting from the downloaded XP boot floppies, the install comes up with an
error #7 saying it cannot copy the NTKRNLMP.EX_ file on disk #2 and exit is

Hi, My Windows98SE laptop just died the real death. I played with XP home
when it first came out, and I think that it will do what I would like it to.
I would like advice on how to configure it and whether or not I should use
XP Pro.

Problem began yesterday, ate supper came back upstairs and PC would not
awaken from standby. It has done this sporadically and I always have to press
restart. This time it hangs after the Windows Startup screen with the
traveling blue bar, after completing that, just as it looks ...

Purchased  XP Pro for my new Dell which is running XP Home. Do I have to
remove the Home version first?  If so, what happens to other files like
Excel, my video, audio, picture files, etc?  

I getting ready to throw a new motherboard into my PC. I'm going to start
fresh with a new installation of XP. I'm trying to cut every corner to make
this as painless as possible, and I've got a question about an idea I have:
I've noticed that all (or most) of the Windows Updates ...

I am currently running Windows 98. I have purchased Windows xp Pro and before
I loaded the upgrade I thought I would run the system test on the disk. It
came uo with the error code : 5A8FF5ch. Does anyone know what this might
mean. You can contact me at ...

Hi, I have just upgraded to XP Pro and noticed that all my e-mail and address
book has gone. Can I retrive them?
Thanks, Rick.

I cannot upgrade to Windows XP Professional (original without SP1).
I've built a New system with the following components which has WinMe
running just fine on it:
Athlon 64 3000+ (Socket 939)

If I install a Full OEM CD Version of Windows XP Professional on my computer,
what will happen to all of my existing programs ?
I currently have Windows 98.  There are also 5 - 10 other software programs
( EXCEL, WORD, PhotoShop, etc ).  All are on the C: drive.

I have a Toshiba Protege M200 tablet PC and I am trying to do a clean
install on it. My problem is that the M200 does not come with a CD/DV
drive. I have a CD/DVD drive attached via a USB cable but it is no
recognized as bootable (a known problem with the M200 with no fix)

Hey Ron.  Do your Deep Freeze boxes get group policy change info and
patches?  How does that work?

Anyone know the difference in rights between the Local Admin account and a
domain account being put in the local admin group.