Could someone give me some advise on what kinda CD-ROM drive or DVD-ROM
drive to buy. I want to have something just to play CDs and DVDs nothing
fancy .  It's a computer for a class I'm taking.  Also I think I know this
already but a DVD drive can play CDs right? I always stick ...

I bought the upgrade XP Pro CD to upgrade my installation of XP Home.  All
goes fine until the 32 minute mark when it just stays there.  I let it run
all night and it never budged.  At that point it is installing the network,
so I thought the network card might be hanging the ...

Just recently I installed Windows XP Professional. At least I believe I did.
The computer would do fine until it go to the "Please Wait" screen and then
it didn't do anything (after what I call substantial waiting). The Help and
Support still says Windows XP Home Edition, my the ...

Can an external floppy drive go in place of an internal floppy drive? I see
there is an USB cord attached to the external floppy and a big price
increase. I don't know.

If you don't know what kinda RAM your motherboard uses. Will  this work , if
it fits it's ok? My brother's Compaq ICS host in the living room uses SD-RAM.
Mine here in the room, Dell 8300, uses DIMM I think. Oh no that's the
connectors. No, I'm reading in my user's manuel to use ...

If I'm going to buy a CD/DVD ROM drive. I don't need to buy a CD/DVD Burner
as my primary drive to play CDs?  Or like a CD/DVD R/RW Media  drive? What
about just a plain CD/DVD ROM drive? Or which one should I go with for a
primary drive? I can spend up to 125 bucks or so. Just ...

Can DVD-ROM drives play regular cd-rom discs? I'm building a computer and I
already have a hard drive , power supply, tower case, motherboard and cpu
package(AMD), and I need something to play the CDs . I have to build a
computer or take one apart for this certification computer ...

I have an OEM version of xp service pack2, I  wanted to reload xp on my
laptop, once i did get it reloaded and started doing all the windows updates,
I got to looking at my hard drive space and noticed i only had 10 GB of space
on a 40GB drive....so I start looking around and all ...

When installing, all I get is 'setup is inspecting your computers hardware
configuration' white writing on a black screen then blank screen. No blue
screen of the windows setup program.
My bios sees the 160gb SATA no problem, but the windows setup program won't

I have built a machine that I am attempting to install a new OEM XP pro (sp2)
on that stalls at the "Starting Windows" blue screen.  I can load from the CD
using another computer and I can install 2000 on the PC in question.  When I
load from another machine that uses the same ...

Will transfering "My Documents" to its own partition cause any problems with
the OS or NTFS and is this procedure recommended by Microsoft? Why do "My
Documents and Settings" and "My Documents" appear so often in "Explore"?
Please recommend any reading material on these subjects. ...

nachdem ich erfolgreich mit PEBuilder ein lauffähiges Live-Windows auf CD
und auch auf USB-Stick gebracht habe, würde mich interessieren, ob sich
WinPE auch auf SD-Speicherkarten kopieren lässt, weil
a) ich meinen USB-Stick lieber für MP3s nutze

I had cause to use regedit for the first time in months today and saw that I
had nine sets other than the current control set.
What creates them and what are they used for?

Hi,
I have an HP Pavilion a815n desktop PC with Win XP Home.  Recently I noticed
that Sound Recorder and calculator are missing. I tried researching HP
website but without any luck on how to restore the missing things.  The only

I recently had to reformat my computer (it corrupted the NTFS.sys dll and
would not start windows).  The computer would not boot off of my (new)
Windows XP Pro Full installation CD, so I had to use my laptop's system disks
(which had XP Home).  Once the computer was reformated ...