I reinstalled XP.  I've got a Gateway Laptop.  Now each time I turn on my
laptop I get a black screen, and I'm given the choice of 2 XP's to start.
What do I do?
Bob

I have recently been informed by microsoft that i have a non-genuine
installation of Windows XP Pro. Since then i have bought a new OEM pack. Now
the problem i am having is that i want to make my copy legal without having
to re-install the whole lot and therefore lose all of my ...

I am trying to install my old palm on a new Dell with XP Home. The palm site
keeps referencing Com Ports. I can't find Com Ports on my devise manager.
What am I missing.

I have downloaded the boot program for Windows XP home edition.  When
extracting the program, and loading to floppies, it always stops at Disk 5
with 92% complete and says WRITE ERROR.  I have 38kb left on the floppy.  Is
the program too big for a floppy on disk 5?  I have tried ...

Were in the process of fine tuning our Ghost deployment process.
Currently we use Ghost82 from DVD to restore images.
Right now we need to boot the DVD and type ghost82 to start ghost then
select the right image to restore from.

I have gathered to me an old (before the sp's) copy of Windows XP and
the 6 boot discs needed to reformat my computer. I have used them
several times successfully and have been able to get the XP sp2
everytime, except the last time when I was helping a friend with their

I have gathered to me an old copy of Windows XPpro (before the sp's)
and the 6 boot discs needed for a reformat.  With success more times
than not, I know it all works.  I am able to do the Windows update and
retrieve the online sp2 updates everytime.

What should be entered as a user variable and/or system variable to move the
%USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Temp and %System Root%/Temp folders to Z:/Temp?
Z: is a extended partition on my boot drive used for temporary internet
files and cache files.

HELP HELP I desperately need some help here. Somehow, a new wireless network
connection got created on my laptop I use at home so that I can access the
internet from anywhere in my house via a Netgear router that's connected to
the main computer in my office. I need to know how ...

Same issue as C Witt, when I insert the original XP cd to try and run the
recovery, it will not run the cd-rom. I note from previous messages that my
system probably isn't set to boot from the CD, but how do I enter the
system's BIOS to change this?  When I boot the system, the ...

We are finally replacing all our 5 yr old Win 98 computers.
I would like to prevent any unauthorized software installs (games, file
sharing & assorted trash!) from happening on the new computers. Some of the
software we use requires that you be a member of the Administrators group ...

After having updated my processor and motherboad, I had to do a repair
install of WinXP in order to get it to start up. Some problems arose since I
only had a CD with SP1, while SP2 was installed previously on the computer.
With the help of this forum, I made slipstream and with ...

Not sure I'm in the right place, but here goes.
On a clean reinstall, WInXP decided I should have 3 users; All Users, David
(me), and Owner.  I am the sole user of this comp.  Any way I can at least
get rid of "Owner"  (Understand I'm stuck with All Users)

I would like to know if I can do the following...
2 users share the same PC (winXp pro), and there are 3 drives partitioned.
Is it possible for a user (limted access) to login to a default drive when
clicking their username at logon? (which means they can't see the others