I am running Windows XP and would like to have a show desk top button on my
start menu bar.  Can anyone tell me how to get that???? HELLLP PLEASE

I am having a problem logging onto a workstation with a mandatory roaming
profile.  All of our workstations currently use Windows 2000, but we are
integrating into XP.  I just finished setting up the box to specs, but
during testing I found that I cannot login with a roaming ...

I upgraded a friend's computer from an original install of WIndows 98 to
Windows XP SP2 and now no audio will play.  I've checked all likely culprits
and been through the troubleshooting tree without success.  
I'm a longtime developer with experience primarily on UNIX systems and ...

The drive path that the wizard asks for in its query box does not exist on
my laptop.  How do I change the drive designation?

I'm trying to remove XP Pro SP2  from the Add/Remove Programs and Close to
the end of the uninstall it gives an Access Denied Error Message.
Googling the error seems to only come up with issues referring to Install...
Any Suggestions?

I work for a company that rolls out several PCs every week.  We often
get new models (Different HALs) so Ghosting is not always an option.
We work with local profiles. So what I end up doing is installing a
fresh copy of WinXP, configuring a test profile that meets company

I am set up as the Administrator, I set up a "Family" account with a
password, and also activated the "Guest" account.  But am unable to log on to
either of the other accounts and receiving a message stating basically that
the profile cannot be loaded, and to check to see if am ...

I am both using Xp and win 98 and often have to switch. Xp is on an NTFS
partition, while 98 is on FAT 32. I was told it's too late to install a
partition manager after I already have my NTFS installed, but I still hope I
can find a partition manager which can be safely installed ...

I started with windows XP home edition and then upgraded to windows XP
professional.  However, I am having issues with my computer and I would like
to go back to windows home edition.  How do I go about accomplishing this
task?  I still have my original home edition CD.

New MB, processor, etc.  New SATA drive.  Want to move all of the files etc
from old computer (hard drive).
Old C: drive will not boot without requiring a phone registration.  (I am
working off of the old D: drive now,which I installed windows on from my OEM

I replaced some RAM into my computer and now I can't
start my computer. I get an error stating that a file is
missing or corrupt and it gives:
\windows\systesm32\config

I have WinXP Prof.
I set taskbar  wider  than a default width. When I restart my system,
WindowsXP sets the width of the taskbar to the default value.
How to change it so even after restart  system uses my custom width for

I currently have a Win2k and XP dual boot.  I want to install linux (this
main machine is the only setup I have with the required P4 for linux) as a
separate boot on this machine, but first, if it wouldn't cause too much
problem, I'd like to 'unisntall' the Win2k operating system ...

I am using RIS to deploy Windows XP Pro SP2 and all is working fine except
when the system attempts to reboot after the text-mode portion of setup. At
this point the screen goes dark but the system never turns off or otherwise
restarts...it simply looks like the power saving ...

I am trying to set up my home pc to handle different people how ever with
the new look of xp I am having problems setting up local user group so that
I can assign permissions easily.
The default groups either allow way to much or not enough access.