To make a long story short, my computer can not find XP. It just shows
Windows 98 and goes to IBM's recovery process which hasn't fixed the problem.
(I stupidly tried to shut down while AVG was scanning and wouldn't cancel, so
I think the file it was looking at got corrupted and ...

My colleague left me his computer before he went for holiday.
He asked me for sorting the computer out whilst he is there.
The computer was infected by lots of viruses/trojans. I managed
to get rid of them. But the start and shutting of the system was

Microsoft thinks my copy of Windows  XP Home is a pirated version.  It came
installed new on my laptop, purchased from Dell in 2003.  Can'f find a way to
get to Microsoft to re-verify my product code.   Cannot believe that Dell
would install a pirated version, so must be a ...

Ok lets see, I'm installing a hard drive (120 maxtor) and I only have an XP
upgrade cd, win98se keeps putting a partion of 8m so I can't install win98se
to installe mt upgrade cd, I keep trying the "Fdisk" and I delete the partion
and set up the full 120 gig to mian partion and set ...

When my father died, we gave his PC to my daughter. The Documents and Setting
folder has a subfolder named for him, i.e., documents and settings\grandpa\*.
We want to rename it all references to him to our daughter, i.e., documents
and settings\grandaughter\*.

This is a general question to see if others would do an upgrade from 2000 to
XP or would do a fresh install.  I have read that the upgrade is a lot better
than what it used to be with previous version of Windows.  I have always been
of the opinion that it is better to do a fresh ...

 Currently running SP1 with all the patches and all is running fine.  When
I try to upgrade to SP2, the system continually restarts due to a 'device not
functioning'.  Taking out the restart on system failure option only leads to
a blue (crash) screen.  Several attempts later, I ...

I want to use Sysprep to make a ghost of our production PC.
We have a custom driver for our NIC.  This driver is not signed.
In the factory mode, this driver is installed and working.
After the image as been sealed, the defaut Windows signed driver is

At the moment I have an 80 gig Hard Drive , split into 2 partitions.
C=60gig - partition 1 - currently running 'xp pro'
D=20gig - partition 2 - with the winME setup folders on it.
I have Windows XP Pro installed, on C, ( i repartitioned my 80 gig hard

I have XP Home Edition, and the restore disks won't start up.
CD-ROM is first priority in BIOS.
The restore disks only work with emachines, which is what I have, but I
upgraded the D:\ to a DVD-ROM when the original CD drive broke, would this

I tried to do a repair installation of XP Professional SP2. During the
installation, I got a message saying that the file viaagp1.sys was
needed from the Via Filter disk. The only disk I have that says Via on
it is the one that came with my Asus motherboard. The file is not on

during XP's regular interactive setup routine you are forced to create a
local user account (other than the local administrator).
1) is there a way to avoid having to create it in the first place during
interactive setup?

My previous motherboard died, I couldn't get the same board or type so I
upgraded from Athlon XP to P4.  I tried to do an in-place upgrade but it does
not finish.
Setup runs until it tries to save the configuration and gets this error:

After I upgraded my XP home to pro, a login screen request a password to get
to the desktop. I do not need a password to secure my pc and currently
<enter> to by pass the login. How do I by-pass login?

I am trying to help a friend with a clean reinstall of Windows XP "SP1a" (The
Windows disk that came with the computer) on a Dell Dimension 8400.  I’ve run
the BIOS setup routine so the computer boots first from the CD drive.  When
the computer boots with the Windows disk in the ...