I have installed AVG's Anti Rootkit program. I rebooted the computer and now
XP doesn't boot. The BIOS sees the hard disk drive. I can manually select the
hard drive to boot from but it simply shows a black blank screen. I don't
know what to do next. Can anyone suggest some ...

I recently upgraded from Win98 to WinXP Professional. During the upgrade, my
computer froze while XP was installing devices. After an hour I performed a
hard reset. When setup resumed, the computer froze again in the same spot. I
finally rebooted using a Win98 boot disk and ...

I'm having a difficult time getting Win2K Pro's setup routine to copy many
files which were decompressed during the slipstreaming process, when setup is
started using WinNt.Exe from an installation point on a local harddrive.
Any suggestions?  Is there an .ini file which is used ...

here is the thing.... I hear the laptop turn on but it wont load up the hard
drive. i have arlready tried installing a new hard drive for it and tried to
install windows xp again. i know it is not the battery because the laptop is
getting the juice. the fans turn off as soon as ...

I have downloaded and uninstalled SP3 3 times to confirm that it upsets the
internal clock setting it back to 1st Jan 1901 on startup. Any ideas
regarding a fix?

I am trying to upgrade to XP w/SP2 from 98SE, via boot of CD.  The XP Setup
doesn't recognize a previous Windows OS on my comp, so it asked me to insert
a CD of it. I did, that of my 98SE Install CD. It recognized it, then asked
me to say yes to the usual agreement stuff, then ...

when I try to install  it gives me a an installation support file C:\DOCUM
1\ADMINI 1\LOCALS 1\Temp\{e3D16DAD-1AEE-11D6-B82B-004033aa2c09}\isrt.dll  
could not be installed   Can oyu help with this?

Short Version: I need help accessing the All Users account of the Registry to
make a couple of changes to the screensaver parameters.  I need to to do this
on 40 PCs all of which have different SIDs for the All Users account.
1.  Can I change the All Users account SID to a ...

I have 2 computers.  One is a newer desktop that I built, and one is an
older laptop from dell.
I started to reformat/reinstall on my dell, only to realize I was using the
newer xp disc.  (both have xp, although the dell is xp sp1, and the newer one

Has anybody stumbled this before?
I want to deploy windows xp with sp3 integrated just on 10 pcs for testing
purposes, using Microsoft Deployment Workbench and WAIK.
My company bought licenses through Microsoft volume licensing. I have a

hi readers,
                  I have toshiba laptop 4mths old,  Came with a recovery
disk ,all the files are zipped . racking my brain ,whats left of it.
Contemplating making a disk ,with the forthcoming SP3, can i use the i386

Hi,
I am wondering how to alter the boot.ini in the sysprep.inf.  Here is our
situation:
A piece of software (Deepfreeze Enterprise) causes Windows to startup every

I suspect this is an unanswerable question, but ...
In regedit, with 'my computer' selected, when I export 'registration
files', I get a .reg file of about 80 Mb.  I don't know, but that seems
kind of large.  I have some (presumably) similar files from serveral

I have tried to upgrade Windows XP to SP2 but after rebooting get a message
that the file a5brzkk9.sys is missing. At this stage I cannot continue and
Windows XP will not boot. Every time a reboot is done it commences the
Windows XP setup which fails with the same file. Even ...

I recently tried to downgrade a dell inspiron 1525 notebook from vista to
XP. However, this pc has a new hard disk controller(ahci), whose drivers are
not included in the xp installation cd. I can get the driver for XP but the
only option that I get during setup is to install it ...