I recently suffered from a virus, and my only option was to format my hard
drive.
Just to be safe though, I wiped my hard drive first.
When I went to re-install Windows XP though, it would freeze at the screen

Have a Acer Aspire E500 pre-loaded with a french language version of XP SP2.
Discovered on this forum that the only way to change language is to install
an english version of XP, so purchased one from UK.
Am required to do a full "clean" install as it will not overwrite a

Here is the scenario, Compaq 5360 machine with a seagate 10 gig drive, SIS
530 video, ESS sound, 128 meg of ram, fresh Win98SE install.
Eerything go pretty much standard during the upgrade process, when I get to
the

My c: drive pooped out.  I want to re-install XP Home Edition.  I can boot
with my original, store-bought XP CD, but when I get to the Repair or Install
option, I pick Install and get "Setup could not read the CD you insterted, or
the CD is not a valid Windows CD".  Any ideas?

Um, this is a horribly newbie-ish maneuver, I'm sure....
I recently purchased a laptop and was told by the manufacturer to run
fdisk and do a clean install of xp pro because there are issues with
upgrading form Home Edition to Pro.

I'm trying to upgrade from Windows Home Edition to Windows XP Pro on a
new (refurbished) Fujitsu N6010 notebook computer with 512Mb RAM,
Mobile Intel Pentium 4 3.2GHz processor, 60 GB Toshiba MK602GAS hard
drive drive, DVD/CD-RW w generic driver.

Hi, I have been trying to upgrade my friends Windows ME to XP home using the
upgrade version of XP Home. When I ran the system compatibility test, it
comes up with a blocking issue "Bad System Configuration" and tells me
Q311446 about the Sircam virus. So I checked his machine, ...

I have set up my screensaver to come on, and disabled any prompts for a
password.
Preview works fine, but the screensave won't automatically come on.

I have two harddrives:
40GB - primary master (win2000)
160GB - primary slave (win2003)
I formatted 40GB and installed there windows XP although doing that I

I put this question on the "help & support" section, but was unable to get a
usable resolution.
I replaced the motherboard in my system and it wouldn't boot.
I ran the windows istallation disk and it installed another OS.

I've never screwed with booting Windows from more than one disk or
partition, before, but I was under the impression that C: would be
pointed to whatever partition had the running system.
Now I'm playing with a system that has two disks. They show up as C

I have occasion when I adjust the gamma setting (red only) to the maximum
and lower the brightness somewhat on my laptop PC- call it
low-light/night-vision mode. When I'm through using the PC in this
configuration I just go back to color management and select the defaults,

For ease of use for the family, I would like to have the initial log on
screen for Win XP Pro to emulate that of XP home.  With the pictures and
names next to them rather than having to type in the name each time.   Is
this possible?

I am having a new computer built.  I want to install my present copy of XP
Home on the new computer using the same disk and product key that I used on
the original.  Will I be able to register XP on this new computer?  Will I
have any problems with Microsoft?

Specify mail server name
This mail server should also allow non-authenticated clients to connect.
I don't know what to enter here. I use hotmail.com
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