I NEED to use backup wizard  on WINDOWS XP but I lost the CD/ROM disk that
sets up the backup ,what do I do?

I replaced a bad video card and wanted to reinstall Windows XP.  After
deleting the three partitions on my harddrive and making them one (partitions
not really practical or required with XP I realized) then formatting to NTFS
I could not get through the installation of Windows XP ...

I purchased two computers on e-bay, and one copy of  Windows xp home. I
installed it on both and then decided which computer to register it on which
I did. Now since it expired on the second computer I cannot boot up to
remove XP.  It keeps asking me to register and not allowing ...

I am wanting to change my parittion sizes as my toshiba laptop seems to have
hidden about 15gigs of space !! Apparently there is a saved image copy of my
hdd (says so during recovery installation) but i dont think it would be
15gigs.

After the initial installing of Windows XP home edition SP2, the computer
restarts and before windows loads I get this message:
IRQL NOT LESS OR EQUAL
*** STOP: 0x000000A (OxF8392FB0, 0x00000002, 0x00000000, 0x804D91D7)

I understand that you need to copy the SATA driver onto a floppy, from
the motherboard cd, and hit F6 when windows xp setup first begins to
load the SATA driver before windows xp.  The only problem is that the
driver file on the intel disk is 2.54 Mb, too big for a floppy.  Intel

I'm about to deploy a quantity of Windows XP laptops, with a set no. of users
on each, and what to know if there is any way of disabling the Language Bar
that appears on the Taskbar when the user first logs on?
I've been looking thru the Local Computer Policy and can't see a GPO ...

the comp boots up on its own - within an hour or two of shutdown. I was
advised - on a different forum - to disable "wake up on LAN" in BIOS.
However, I can only find the setting "PME event wake up" under "power
management setup" in my BIOS. The "wake up on LAN" setting does not ...

My pc: P4, 1.6G with OEM win Me. Gforce2 200MX 32M graphic card. SMC T1
1211Tx ethernet card. Retail XP Home upgrade disk.
Before the upgrade, I did fdisk, format hard drive and re-install Win me
with the OEM disk. I chose 'clean' install and NTFS file conversion. Set up

I just bought XP home edition because I keep running into problems with
2000pro that is currently installed onto my system because of a crash. I
bought the computer and it had XP Pro, however after the crash I found out
that it was most likely a illegal verson of the OS because ...

Hi, new to these forums...
looking for some info please.
I have a XP laptop that is stand alone. I have an administrator account
installed and also a default customised profile setup for all users who log

I do not want MSN Today opening everytime I startup my computer showing my
e-mail topics ,etc.  How do I prevent this.

If I uninstall windows XP Pro then install it on the same computer, will I
have to purchase another activation key?

I'm trying to re-installing my Win XP-Pro over the same Win-Pro and upon
installing the Install the CD, it indicates that the installed CD (Win
XP-Pro), version is older than the one I already have on my computer.  I have
installed several upgrades from Microsoft Download Center ...

During my ME to XP upgrade I got one error message.
Cannot copy digopt.ms_ from i386.
It was tryingto copy the file from:
c:\$WIN_NT$.~LS\i386