I recently tried installing Service Pack to on my Windows XP Pro system.  I
kept getting an error msg stating that my product key is invalid.  After
doing some research, I came to the conclusion that the software was pirated.  
Will I need to purchase and reinstall windows xp to ...

I have reinstalled XP Home on a 250 Gig drive i also have 2x300 Gig in a
stipped array biut they do not show in my computer. they are listed in Device
Manager under disc drives. They are listed correctly as a stripe.
How do i get them in Controll Panel

My machine has been hacked yet again despite all precautions to the
contrary, I have formatted and re-installed WinXP, with both Service Packs,
and cannot get it validated.
They tell me that the alloted number of validations for that key has been

I started with a clean, fresh install of Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Version 5.1.2600 55274-640-0436465-23648 with all options, Service Pack 2
Build 2600, Microsoft Office XP, communications and other various software,
with all windows internet updates on a Pentium II 550 ...

I have a PC with WinXP and a couple of Linux distros. My boot manager
is Lilo. Everything works just fine. Recently, I cloned my first hard
drive to my second hard drive. Then I had occasion to do do some
reconfiguration of Lilo and I noticed that the second hard drive WinXP

Working on a balky computer, had to install a new motherboard and memory. Of
course, Windows XP wants to be reactivated. Won't work over the network
(probably because the drivers for the new board aren't install yet), and
when you call the telephone number for activation, you get ...

new sp2 does not recognize my applications docs or desktop. can i remove tis
new installation? it's not in "add or remove software"
help

My campany has a Microsoft Windows XP VLK of ten licenses. When I installed
windows XP in vmware, I used a licenses. But I finded that all of the
liceses(ten licenses) are lost. I want to know who used the licenses. How can
I see the rigister infomation of the VLK?

A second new motherboard ECS PT800CE-A will not load with IDE WD hard drive.  
I get detecting then blue screen loading files.  It stops at loading windows
while in the text mode.  I've tried Windows 2000 Pro, Windows 2003 Server
with the same results.  The system does not come ...

The XP installation program aborts with error message 596FFCh while trying to
install XP Pro (with SP2) over ME. Machine should be capable of handling XP
(32 bit P3 processor , 256 RAM, and a 30 GB HDD).
Where can I find a discussion of this error message?

My genuine Intel processor is rated at 667 mhz. but in the  hardware
configuration  of Systems it is shown as 345mhz.  What is wrong, can I cure
this?  Any help or advi ce very much appreciated.

I bought a new computer from MDG  last week and initially had problems with
Windows starting - took it back and they reloaded windows.  Now I can't get
my new Lexmark printer connected to the computer (it was connected when I
took it back for repairs) - can anyone help me pls???  ...

Installing this softwares, http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/
does it mean that I need to have Visual Studio so this can work?

we are using "%systemroot%\explorer.exe /e,N:\" to open a window that shows
the whole content of "N:\" (mapped network drive).
Now we need to know, how to open an explorer.exe-window that shows only
selected files and folders, matching a filemask like "?-EDV*" (as it was

I have Microsoft XP operating system and Microsoft Office Professional
2003 on my computer.  After installing I created a new user account and gave
it administrative rights.  I then deleted the admin user that was
automatically set up during install.  Now I am having problems ...