We purchase our computers from HP and each computer has its own Windows
XP serial in the top of the PC.
However, when I image the computer of and computer for the second time,
it asks me to call to re-enter the serial or Microsoft.

I have a Acer Aspire 5000 (64 bit) $notebook with Win XP home on it. I tried
to install Win XP Professional. This is a academic license.
The installation completes but at the login screen I get the following error
"A problem is preventing windows from accurately checking the ...

Ive installed WinXPpro on my new HardDrive, everything looks fine instead in
some resolutions the names of Desktop Icons are a little blurry and not
normal And when I Drag different windows around its really slow and it fails
to respond quickly.

I have a second hard drive which I use for mainly storage. Is it possiple to
password protect this drive from prying eyes?

I recently bought a Maxtor OneTouch I external hard drive with Retrospect 6.0
backup. If I duplicate the contents of the C: drive (boot), and at some point
have problems with the OS, is it workable to simply copy the duplicate copy
of the C: drive onto the C: drive. Only WinXP ...

For Timothy Daniels
I ran into a problem that I can't figure out. I will brief you in what I
have done.
-I installed Casper XP on the OLD hard drive.

I recently had to install a new harddrive on my computer and therefore had to
reinstall my version of windows XP home edition. Once I had reinstalled it
when I went to activate windows it gave me a message saying that the
activation key that I had used had been used too many ...

While trying to install XP over ME i receive the error that the upgrade
language doesn't match the installation language. But both are english???? I
have tried all the various fixes I can find on the Microsoft self help
website to no avail.

I recently had my harddrive replaced and when I activated Windows XP Home
SP2, the activation went ok. After a week or so I started receiving warnings
that I had only 30 days to Activate. This message kept coming up until the 30
days were over and I called MS's activation line to ...

Have just re-installed XP Home edition following problems with internet
explorer and have noticed that scrolling with the mouse (Microsoft one) is a
lot slower than before.  Can anyone help please?

I am following the instructions for installing 3rd party NIC drivers
for RIS installation at:
246184 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/246184/EN-US/) How to Add
Third-Party OEM Network Adapters to RIS Installations

XP only boots with XP boot disc in drive
I've seen this on various forums, and I can't find an answer.
Background
1) System was working fine except for an unrelated problem about not being

Due to a BIOS bug, I got stuck at about the 39 minutes left mark when
over-installing XP Pro to correct some driver issues.  I'd get a message that
basically indicated that files being read by setup didn't have correct
signatures.

Fairly new to using XP so please bare with me.  I purchased a new home PC
that has XP Home, and set up individual logins for the whole family.  My acct
is the only one with Admin rights - which has been a great help in not having
to deal with spyware all the time!

Im reinstalling windows XP Pro and ive tried booting from the cd and from the
boot disks.  It starts the setup but when i press F6 and try to load my
drivers it stops flickers for a second then says this:
A problem has been detected to prevent damage to your computer.