GOOGLING around, I can see instructions for manually removing specific
software.
Has anyone seen a generic description of the steps required (and how to
perform each) to remove software? Let's not use the Add/Remove wizard.

Running XP Pro SP2.
My boot drive failed, so I just replaced it and ->thought I'd be able
to  use NTBACKUP to "restore" the system from the fresh full backups
I'd been religiously making.

Whenever i press Ctrl + Alt + Del; the Windows Task Manager appears, however
without a title bar and a menu bar.... Where is the problem??
Keyboard shortucts to menus don't work, and therfore  i can't even switch
tabs in the task manager.

Hi, I've got this odd and annoying problem with some of my shortcut key
commands, they've suddenly stopped working. I can no longer use the CTRL+C,
the CTRL+V and, which annoys me the most, the CTRL+F command.
I am only aware of these at the moment, but would be grateful if ...

c:\Documents and Settings\Username is not accessible
My harddisk died and I plug it into another pc to access it.
All files can be copied except the files which originally put in the
c:\Documents and Settings\Username

I had to do a hard-reboot. Now, everytime I start WindowsXP, CHKDSK
runs on one of my drives.  Everything comes out ok, but how do I
prevent this?
- xavier

I have been using XP FOR OVER 4 YEARS BUT TODAY WHEN I TRY TO RUN MY PC I AM
ASKED FOR USERNAME AND PASSWORD.
I HAVE TRIED USING F8 WHEN REBOOTING AND TRIED TO REVERT TO LAST
CONFIGURATION BUT I STILL GET BACK TO PAGE REQUESTING USERNAME AND PASSWORD.

After installing update 910437, all 2K office products become unstable and
crash after opening two or three documents.
Tried installing SP3-thought that might help-- but it said it couldn't find
the expected product.

Im running windows Xp Home  i have sound on my pc but it is very low and I
have checked to make sure that there is nothing muted and that all my
connections are correct my multimedia controller is not installed will this
be the cause and if it is where i can get it from or any ...

dag,
ikzelf gebruik Trillian v3.1 via een hotmail.com account om te chatten
met een MSN client ook via hotmail. Tot dusver werkt alles prima.
Nu wilde ik audio chat proberen maar dit lukte echter niet; de andere

Allo folks, have a bit of a weird one.  My users have Outlook 2000 on
their XP SP2 machines, and as of a couple days ago some but not all of
them started having the same issue.  This makes me suspect a windows
update, as most of them are set to automatically install.

I could use some help on this when I click Ctrl-Alt-Delete it shows that I
have 41 processes running and I dont even know what half of them are and I
dont know what ones I need and what ones are just leaching off my PC but my
computer has been running real slow and every one I ...

I'm having some serious issues with my WinXP installation.  To fix them, I
figured I'd do a repair install.  After I insert my XP disk and reboot, when
it gets to the dialogue where it asks which partition I want to install XP
to, it's showing my hard drives but not correctly.  ...

(oops...posted this in the windowsxp.general group by accident...)
Err...I have a problem that will sound really stupid ^^;  I turned on
my computer the other day and my desktop wallpaper was replaced with a
little note stating that I had spyware on my computer and that I should

"All Programs" button on task bar does not open when clicked.  How do I fix?  
Prior to this happening, I did the following:
In ADD/REMOVE Programs, I uninstalled Encyclopedia Britanica and Smart Draw
programs.