I recently was the recipient of some pretty nasty malware. The symptoms
include some erroneous software showing up in the add/remove programs as well
as my "Shutdown" button under the start menu disappearing. I am also unable
to access the task manager as the malware changed the ...

I decided after upgrading to Windows Vista Beta 2, that I would like to
reinstall Windows XP and get rid of Vista. When I put a disk in to install XP
it saids Vista is not compatiable with the file as it is a earilier version
of Windows. It also states in the details that I would ...

I am planning to replace a HDD that has XP installed.  I would like to
disable XP on this drive.  Install XP on the new HDD  and then retrieve the
data from the old drive.  Is there a way to turn off XP so that the new drive
is the only OS on the machine?

I've been trying to use ADS 1.1, installed on a W2k3 Enterprise, to capture a
OEM partition from a Dell Poweredge 2850 server.
I can capture other partitions from the same server (System and Data), but I
can't capture the OEM partition.

One day I just turned on my pc and it says that system32/hal.dll (which I
know is Hardware Abstraction Layer) has been removed or corrupted. I borrowed
a windows install CD from a friend, but coulden't understand how to use it so
I used the other computer (this one) to go to ...

I recently reinstalled Windows XP on my desktop. In the installiation i
chose to remove the partition that the old copy was on and reinstall a fresh
version to a clean hard drive. the hard drive is clear and windows is
reinstalled however when it boots it asks which windows i ...

If this is not clear I will explain here.
How do you build a multi PC master hard drive that can boot and install any
of the drivers it needs automatically if the drive is moved from one PC to
another?

I have an image based on Compaq nc2400 ACPIAPIC_UP [ACPI Uniprocessor PC] and
as expected, my Compaq nc6000 which is a ACPIPIC_UP [Advanced Configuration
and Power Interface (ACPI) PC] is rejecting it with a nasty white line at the
bottom of the screen.

Recently, I purchased an OEM XP Pro. I thought it would automatically
upgrade my W2K. Is there any way that I can force it to upgrade?
Thanks ...
Steve D

After one successful installation of SP2 I have had a problem on the second
machine.  Installation went through the backup registry and restore point
process and then errored out with the following message:
"Unable to read from or write to the data base"

My keyboard and mouse doesn’t work when I install Windows XP. However if I
try to boot with a star up disk with Windows 98 both the keyboard and mouse
work great and if I try to boot with WinXP again then the keyboard and the
mouse doesn’t work.

Hello, how can I install only usb 2.0 and larger disk access
from SP 2? I don't need the rest, and in fact it interferes
with the installation I need.
If I knew which files those were, could I not extract and

I have tried to use WinINet to do HTTP download in Windows PE and it
works. But for HTTPS download, it fails. The error message is:
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error -2146893051 (0x80090305, SEC_E_SECPKG_NOT_FOUND) (The requested

A friend of mine just bought a new Lenovo (IBM) Thinkpad Z60m notebook
computer. He has asked me to help him install a dual boot system with WinXP
and Win98.
The problem is that the computer comes with XP pre-installed and uses a

I have a small network with a single Windows 2003 domain controller.
Windows XP client workstations.  I have one user using the DOS version of
autocad.  I'm creating a machine with DOS and the MS network client.
I'm able to obtain an IP address from the DHCP server on the Windows ...