Hi all!   I had installed Windows XP Profesional in my PC and I used to work
normally during almost 4 years, I had never done an update to my windows
until now, however, yesterday I updated my Windows with the Service Pack 2
and the first time it restarted itself, the PC now ...

I had XP Home pre-installed on my Dell home PC.  I have just acquired a
laptop and was wondering if anyone knows whether I can/should instal the same
version from the discs supplied at the time of my PC purchase?  Or do I have
to purchase again?

I am running Windows XP SP2.
After a reinstallation I have got the problem, that I can not install
Windows updates.
When I go to Windows Update on the Internet, it finds and downloads about 80

I've reloaded XP Pro onto my PC's hard-drive to upgrade and improve it.  
However, when setting it up I was asked if I wanted to save the old files.  I
did  save the old files which contained pictures of my children and many
files and links that I need and want.  Once set up I ...

Can a disk be partitioned after there is data on it?

How can I access the old hd to retrieve pasword protected files of mine after
booting from the new hd which also has the same version of xp. My motherboard
crashed so I upgraded from the athlon xp 2000 processor to a new mb and the
AMD 6000+ x2 3gig processor but the new mb would ...

I was updateing our Gateway computer that is several years old.  Windows XP
is installed on the computer and it was working well enough.  After the
update, the computer reboots and I get to the desktop screen however I cannot
access anything.  There are no icons, start menu, ...

Have been asked by a friend to re-install XP onto a new HDD (of course he had
no media). The PC he has came with a COA label on it that appears authentic,
it says the following sans the license key:
-Windows XP Professional 1-2 CPU

My wife had a cleanup on her desktop and removed a lot of icons for app's she
doesnt use(antispy and system maintainance utilities),but when I logged on to
my a/c I found most of the icons missing from my desktop too.So, how is it
that a limited a/c user can affect an ...

I get this error message:  "An error occurred copying file xptht29D.jpg to
C:\$WIN_NT$~LS\I386\xptht29D.jp_"  
I clicked on ignore to try and install without that file, but continued to
get the error message with the number changing from 29D through 33D before I

I have a customer who had a machine in is office with XP home Edition.
Because he had several other computers in the network and the home version
can't handle more that 5 users sessions, he bought XP professional (retail)
We follow the upgrade option, in order to avoid to format ...

I will soon be upgrading from ME to XP (fresh install). As I understand it,
if I purchase the upgrade version of XP, the installer will ask for the
original OS disk to verify I'm upgrading from an eligible operating system.
However, the only disk I have is a ME Upgrade disk ...

i have a toshiba l25-s119 laptop computer. when i started my computer it got
to the black screen with the windows xp logo with the loading bar underneath
it. it stays at that screen for a couple minutes and then shuts down and
restarts. my computer will start in safe mode but ...

The organization I work for acquired a number of computers from another
organization w/Win2K Pro already installed.  Unfortunately, no Win2K intall
disc was included.  I am now attempting to install Win XP Pro on these
computers using Dell install discs (all computers involved ...

The HD in my laptop (Compaq Presario 2500) recently died. The computer is
still in perfectly good working order, but I have to replace the HD. The
problem is that my OEM System Restore discs were lost during Hurricane
Katrina (I lived in New Orleans and didn't manage to get out ...