I am running WinXP SP2 and have to use USB devices but the software I am
using (Progress 9) maps to COM ports or LPT ports.  I have searched the
internet to find something that will allow me to creat a virtual port mapped
to a usb device.  Can anyone help?

I had to upgrade BIOS so I ended up in "Load BIOS defaults".
That nice operation disabled nVidia RAID setup on ASUS mobo - I didn't
notice that. After that change XP started ok, however discovered 2 HDDs,
installed drivers for them and now I see two HDD's rather than one.

I'm not very Techy...but here goes...
On restart my computer went to a DOS screen with a "Windows could not start
because the following file is missing or corrupt: windows/system32/..." error
message

I wanted to upgrade from Windows 2000 Pro to XP Home for my home computer, so
I purchased a copy from Best Buy, but when I tried to install it, it would
not install because it said that it would not install because I had Windows
2000 Pro.  

When I go to "Add/remove Windows Components" appears the following message
error when "Completing configuratin of Distributed Transaction Cooedinator".
What can I do to solve this?
"Sub-component Distributed Transaction Coordinator raised an exception while

Error  MICROSOFT VISUAL C++   abnormal program termination.
Sometimes it crashes when I am closing an Explorer window.  I always get the
same error

Hi readers,
                   are you all busy downloading XP SP3, I have already done
this yesterday and installed it on one computer,
everything went smoothly it took about an hour to complete the job. It has

I have a computer that had XP-Prof loaded on - probably pirated. I
wanted to get rid of it so I purchased a legal copy of XP-Home Ed. and
loaded the system - everything went well, I deleted the old Windows
directory and the new XP runs fine.

Just downloaded the SP3 ISO from MSDN.  Seems to be the released version,
except...the FAQ.HTM refers to SP2, not SP3?
Something wrong?

need help asap. Installed winxp on my son's pc. everything was working
fine-had internet and email through a network with linksys router and dsl
modem. then installed service pack 1 and lost my network connection.  It
shows the connection and other computers on the network but ...

I just installed 1 more GB of RAM into my Dell 8300. Now I have 2GBs of
DDR-400 in my PC. No I think it's DDR-3200 or a combination. Anyways, I've
been told now to speed up my CPU to take full advantage of the upgrade. I'm
in BIOS right now on my 8300, I'm using the HP 503n now, ...

i was wondering if there is some universal registry/policy setting that can
be set on an xp client so that all patches that are installed on the system
install with the /nobackup switch, without having to specify nobackup for
each individual patch.

I had a virus attack and my hard disk was corrupted. I insetrted a windows 98
CD(as I had problem finding XP) and deleted C: partition.Now When I try
installing Win XP, in the startup sceen for installing it just shows
processing information file and the computer stops ...

I would like to reinstall my XP Pro on a VMware virtual machine so I
can do some testing without risk of damaging my computer. I assume this
is legal under the license since I am installing XP on the same
physical machine, however, I am concerned that I will have a problem

I am trying to rebuild my computer due to too may issues to list.  So
everything is ready to go, execpt I can't get XP to complete the
installation.  It keeps cycling over and over after the "first" stage of the
install.  It reboots, then goes back to the "first" stage of the ...