I'm a computer professional working on a friend's PC. Windows XP Pro is
acting weird enough that I decided to do a repair install. (Fortunately,
I took an image of the HDD before I even started so I can afford to try
drastic things.) I have done repair installs many times before ...

I recently upgraded a Dell L700xi PC from Win Me to XP. I ran the hardware
compatibility advisor which said there were no problems. I ran it off of a
Win XP home upgrade w/ SP2 CD. I updated the bios to the latest version.
Everything was fine except the video was 640 X 480 and 4 ...

using When a friend installed a new hard drive for me (Compter #2), he
installed his copy of XP. Since I own a legit copy of XP, I want to
install/register my legit copy.
1st Question -- I have another legit XP on another computer (Computer #1).

Ater installing SP2 for XP Home Edition I get the message:
Windows cannot start because the following file is missing or corrupt:
\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM
then a suggestion to use the Windows Setup CDROM and slect 'r' for repair.

I find this option in System Properties | Advanced | Performance | Visual
Effects. I can see no "effect" when I uncheck it.
What is its relationship to Tools | Folder Options | Show Common Tasks?

I am finding a solution to upgrade Windows 2000 Pro to Windows XP Pro
without formatting the hard disk,without any data loss and without setting
loss. Is it possible?Please advise.Thank first.
Thank you,

Is there a way to do a clean install from a windows XP upgrade CD?
Janice

I need to install XP-pro on a computer with a Hard drived larger than 137GB
The original XP installation disc does not allow this, since large disk
support is apperently not included before SP1
I have heard that it is possible to merge the original installation files

Everytime i install it the screen resolution is 640x480 and color quality is
4 bit. i am also not able to change this. plz help me fix it

I just reinstalled XP and now when I drag something to another location and
release the left mouse button it does not release.  How can I stop this?
Thanks
Mel

I need to reinstall XP Home. My CD is XP Home 2002. The version on the PC is
patched up to SP2. When I run install from the CD it gives this message:
"Setup cannot continue because the version of Windows on your computer is
newer than the version on the CD. " I tried to uninstall ...

Is it possible in anyway to up/downgrade a XP Home edition with preinstalled
SP2 to a XP Pro with SP1 preinstalled?
Is there a fix for this or a way to get around it?
Thank you,

We ran FASTwiz on the old pc which was Windows 2000, we then ran it on the
new Windows XP pc to restore the settings and user folders.  When the user
logged in, they created a new profile on the pc that was called  
"username.ourdomain".  The user had no access to their profile ...

My windows cd is scratced so that installation can read only about 30% of the
files. Before I try reapiring the physical cd I'd like to know if whether I
create a new cd e.g. by using slipstreaming. Thanks!

okay so i have multiple copies of xp home and pro,  and on the computer i am
currently building i have been running into a major problem, every time i
install xp home edition sp2 it goes through the whole instalation process
smoothly, and then with the final reboot it hangs on ...