I have OEM WIn-XP on an older machine. I want to move all my programs to a
completely new PC.
I know MS won't let me use my OEM license on the new machine. No problem it
will go with the old PC when I sell it.

I have a computer that was affected by some system viruses.  Reinstalling
Windows XP home using the upgrade CD did not overwrite the infected files as
a post on another newsgroup stated it might.
I am at the point that I would love to just reformat the hard drive and

i move from one xp to the other (same machine actually - just have to format
it)
i export the settings on the original machine (eliminating few of the
locations - shared desktop and shared files, and file types) - the output

my current pc came with windows 98. when i decided to upgrade to xp i bought
a full cd of windows xp professional (service pack 1) from a local vendor.
the time has come to buy a new pc but i want to convert my current pc to
linux and install xp on the new machine.  (this is all ...

I have a new Compaq Presario V4000 laptop.  One of the things you can setup
is the mousepad under the keys.  One of your choices is to disable the
mousepad so that when you tap on the pad it won't register on the screen, you
would then have to use the two mouse buttons under the ...

How do I allow a Power user to install a home printer?
Is this possible without giving the user administrator rights?
This computer is not part of a domain.

I recently had Windows prompt me to re-activate. It's now saying that my key
has been used on too many computers. Unfortunately, my old computer had a
hardware problem, so I opted to buy a new computer. I re-installed my version
of Windows in this computer seeing as how my old ...

Windows XP won't start up, says unmountable_boot_volume  Please help with any
suggestions. Thank You in advance for your help.
SusanQQQ

I have configured my computer to use the application that followed the
wireless network card. I don't want windows to configure the card, so I
turned that off.
After I run sysprep and reboots, windows have taken over the control again.

I am using a rented laptop with Win XP Pro (w/ SP2) installed. I don't have a
Win XP Pro SP2 disc. I need to install IIS and it is asking me to load the
Win XP Pro SP2 disc, which, as I say, I don't have. What can I do to get IIS
installed?

I'm trying to do the recovery process on Windows XP Home.
The first Windows XP CD I found had XP Home SP2. the Windows Key on the
computer doesn't work.
So I found a Windows XP Home.  and tried booting from it, but the system

Can someone help me understand this?
I have a drive with a Primary Partition, and one extended partition - itself
containing 2 logical partitions.
So: a total of 3 partitions

Going from Win 98 to Win XP Home Edition upgrade on new Seagate 80GB drive.  
Meet all hdw config. requirements (I know this system will run XP as I
already had installed an OEM version (good for only 30 days) to ensure it
worked before purchasing the upgrade Win XP version - I

I have aquired a computer with access 97 installed and i would like to
remove it prior to installing the full Office 2003 suite. I'd really like to
remove it first so that i am certain of a clean install and don't keep
thinking of it evry time i have a problem with data access in ...

Hi all, I need a little help here.  I am a low level system admin, and
I just
got a huge promotion to the Sr. System Admin.  Along with the promotion
came