Okay, I'm getting very frustrated with this problem. My Dell laptop
crashed, and it said that the system file is corrupted and that I need
to insert the XP2 CD that came with the laptop. After booting with
that, it just hangs after "Setup is checking your hardware

How do I log in as Administrator. I set up my new PC a couple months ago. I
have user accounts for myself and each member of our family. It's worked fine
and I've loaded a variety of softwares. I just tried to load software from a
CD and it tells me that I don't have ...

I am looking for advice and best practices on upgrading a batch of Windows XP
clients to use Active Directory.  We have 300+ remote users (laptop and home
workers), who connect to the corporate LAN via an AT&T Global Network VPN
client.

A customer asked me to figure out why ris isn’t working and the problem is
called routed network. My question to the real guru’s is the following:
There is a network with multiple vlan’s those vlans are securely connected
via an firewall. On those firewall the following ports are ...

could you tell me how to place the DESKTOP icon on the bottom left status bar?
Thank you
Aamir

I had a 6gb notebook disk start to go bad, symptom was
"/windows/system32/config/system" could not load. OK, I had a recent image I
had made when it was working, so I put the laptop disk on an adapter and
into a firewire box connected to my desktop and ran Acronis True Image 8 as ...

I  would like burn from an .ISO image file a bootable DVD with Xp pro itself
or with Nero express 6.
without extracting the bootable iso image file. is it possible?
I don't have much disk space left and that is why I don't want to use

I had a IT person come and set up my new Dell Laptop Precision.  Set-up went
well.  For some reason, I overlooked purchasing Office with my order, and
had to go out and buy Office Profesional Edition 2003 and had it installed.
My files were all transferred from my old machine, ...

Folks:  In the last couple of months, I've had problems with
certain PCs in for repair, where *known* drivers won't install
or they install but don't work.  Case in point, is a Dell
Inspiron 6000 laptop, which needed an OS refresh, weeks after I

Hi, I have been working on my company’s desktop image using Microsoft’s BDD
program.  When I make my WinPE Lab Cd it works well with 3com and Intel Nic
PCs, but when I use the disk on a PC with a Broadcom NIC the PC fails to
connect to the host server.  I added the 3 Broadcom nic ...

I purchased a second-hand computer which has Windows Xp Pro with Sp2
installed.
I went to update and that the cd key is invalid.
I have a retail version of Windows Xp Pro with Sp1. I followed the guide on

Im trying to install xp pro on a new computer and it keeps coming up with a
blue screen with error message 'irql not less or equal'. What could be the
problem?

Currently i'm running Win 98 SE on a HP Pavillion 8660c. I would like to
upgrade to XP Home Edition. If the upgrade version askes for a Win 98 CD,
will the recovery cd provided by HP work? Also, if the install fails and i
want to return to Win 98, will my recovery cd work? ...

I'm going to be installing a new hard drive.  My present one isn't
partitioned.  What is the reason for partitioning a hard drive?  Since my old
drive wasn't partitioned and it worked with no problems, what would the
benefits be for partitioning the new one?

Hi, I have got a Fujitsu-Siemens laptop. The laptop comes with XP SP-1 CD.
Everything was fine after updating to sp2, until one day the laptop was
attacked by spyware as well as virus.  I thought the simplest thing is to
reformat hard drive and reinstall windows xp.  Yet, several ...