Ok, I've had Windows XP (home ed.) for a while now, and I know you are
supposed to reformatt hard-drive once in a while... well I go to restart
computer with XP disc in drive, but it still goes to my logg on screen with
no promt asking me to install XP.  

I have XP Home.  I've loaded XP Professional.  How do I get my laptop to boot
with XP Professional not XP Home?

there is  command  %systemdrive%\hotfixes.cmd in [GuiRunOnce] in WINNT.SIF.
There is hotfixes.cmd under $OEM$\$1.
It says At the installation   c:\hotfixes could not find
Thanks in advance.

I have some Dell desktops with a COA on them. And I can't find the original
reinstall CDs but when I use ones from my other dells it doesn't ask for a
Product ID. How can I change it to match the product ID that is on the COA.
And does it matter what version of XP I put on it. I ...

I work in a small office environment and have just come to need to reinstall
windows xp. I know the pc was running Windows XP pro and was purchased from
dell. I dont have the old cd (pre sp1) but i do have a new dell cd (Sp2).
Will the  product key work since they are both (OEM?) ...

My system boots up using the C drive.  I would prefer it boot up using the F
drive, whic his an older hard drive that I installed after buying the
computer. (I have both hard drives)  How can I make this change?
Thank you!

Is there anyway to stop Windows from nagging me.  I have a 3rd party
firewall but Windows keeps nagging me that I don't have a firewall.  Windows
also keeps tellin me I have unused or seldom used icons on my desktop.  How
can I tell Windows to leave me alone???

can i possibly tansfer the O/S installed in my pc from drive h: to drive c:
I don't know why my O/S went into drvie h:
I used a window xp pro with a two hard-drive disk.

Hello I would be grateful for your comments in identyfing programs I have
found running on my compter when I utilise the Task Manager. They are listed
as:
inetinfo.exe, iisrstas.exe, type32.exe

I have windows xp pro with service pack 2. I have 2 hard drives, one is a 250
gb max and the other is a 160 gb max. My motherboard BIOS recognizes both as
250 and 160. Windows recognizes both as 127 gb. What do I need to do so that
windows recognizes both as their true values?

Thanks for these forums Microsoft they've helped so much. Anyway my problem
is that I had XP SP2 on a older computer I was running a couple of programs
that would slow it doen to a standstill. So I decided to take the harddrive
out of the computer and put it into one that was ...

I am installing XP Pro, should I create a separate partition for Windows??
Thanks
Tim

I have a laptop that died on me. It came with XP Home, however I purchased XP
Professional Upgrade from OfficeMax and installed it. Now that the laptop is
dead, I was wondering if I can install XP Pro on my desktop? Would the
activation of XP Pro work since I can no longer run ...

I am building an XP machine using my Technet Plus software and after
installing tried to use Windows Update.
It didn't allow me because it couldn't validate my installation as I hadn't
activated XP.

I have 3 machines on a wireless network.
2 run with xp home edition.
The third was running xp pro but, for consistency, I attempted to install xp
home.