Basic procedure, I used to know it but how do you control or set how Windows
Explorer looks when it opens?   I now  have XP and when it opens it defaults
to My Documents, I'd like to change it to My Computer.
Thanks in advance,

My HD is 5yrs already & today it failed to start windows. Repair didn't work,
so I decided to reformat the disk.
At the end of the format screen (after 100%), the next screen said something
like 'windows unable to format the disk, the disk maybe damaged'.

I am trying to move my folders in Outlook to my new computer. Can't find out
how to do it. Any suggestions ??

If I have windowxp installed on drive C:, and the drive starts to become
unreliable, can I copy the entire drive to a new drive, remove the old one
and boot from the new one?
This works with older OS like win98, but I'm not sure about XP. Do I have to

I've been running XP Professional for the last couple of years and updated
the software with SR2.  The original software was a copy which is no longer
recognized by the update site.
I recently purchased via EBay an OEM version of XP Professional with SR2 to

i have
pentim IV intel 2.0Gz processor
jetway pm9ms s478 mother board
maxtor 200GB 6y200m0 sata disk

I need to reformat my hard drive. I have the original version of windows zp
pro. Do I need to apply Windows XP SP1 before SP2?

I recently upgraded my armada 1750 from ME to XP PRO. All went well until XP
PRO desktop came on. Then got white screen covering most of display(except
25mm top and r/h side.Comp locked. I had to shut down with mains switch. Now
I have only Compaq splash and no 'C' drive ...

Hi,
When we buy sony laptop, They give Windows XP Home edition along with lot of
other softwares installed on it. Sony doesn't give any disks. All these sony
softwares are needed for easy compatibility sake between other sony products

Is there any way to download the sp2 patch as an exe file? I have 3 pcs that
need to be updated and a dial up connection. It would be a lot easier to
download the patch 1 time, instead of using windows update.

I used startup diskett to copy files that can allow windows to recognize
CDROM which command should I type to continue installing winxp from CDROM

I need to know if you are able to still use your systems copy of windows(oem)
after you have upgraded the motherboard or cpu.  Could I enter fixmbr or do a
system repair to get the system tot work?.
If not thats a tad on the silly side since mocrosoft expects you to buy a

Out of nowhere I turned computer on and got this message. It says press key
to Restart which does nothing. I reinstalled the entire XP operating system
and it appeared to be working until I restarted it and up pops this same
message again.

I have a sysprep image of XP Pro SP2 but whenever mini-setuup runs it always
asks me for my Product key  everything else works fine, just the VL key.
The key is properly entered into the answer file (I do a similar thing on a
Server syspreped image and it works fine).  No matter ...

Can someone tell me how to set the default mailclient by not using the gui?
What I need to do, is to create Mozilla Thunderbird as a selectable
mailclient, and then select Mozilla Thunderbird as the default client.
Can anyone tell me how to do it (through registry, some api or ...) ...