Hi, I have been trying to reinstall winxp but I cannot get it to able to
sort it out. I have set the first boot device to CD-ROM but when I press
space key WinXP opens up the usual way. I have been trying this on & off
all day & it's doing my head in.

I have a emachine t1840 pc, xpsp2, the problem that I am having is occuring
whilst in Windows Live Messenger and either iming or chatting.  The problem
is that for example today, whilst in conversation was checking hotmail
account and the computer made a brief noise like a short ...

I am trying to open up cmd prompt and it keeps saying in use by another
program, is there any way i can fix this?

Whenever I use apps like Movie maker, etc. It usually closes on me and gives
the 'sorry for the inconvenience, but -program name here- is experiencing
problems and needs to close' and it prompts u to send an error report. Well I
checked the technical report, and the main file ...

sky broadband will not load on start up it keeps scanning for a connection
sky say it is the settings on my computer and nothing to do with them
the connection is with a usb port

May be the wrong place to ask..but...
I have "Save my e-mail address and Password" ticked in Hotmail...but doesn't
seem to
wish to save Password...more accurately..it saves it for a short

I have a system alert that came with spyware. I removed the spyware but I can't remove the system alert. Its on the add/remove list but when I click remove nothing happens. Please help me!!

Does anybody have any idea why I can have two identical machines, both
loaded XP Pro SP2.  When I go to Start>Run>Control Userpasswords2, to
setup AUTO LOGIN, One PC allows me to uncheck the "Users must
enter.... blah blah blah..."  box, but the other does not have the

Can't change desktop icons  for website links (for example the link to yahoo
mail); the icons are the standard webpage icons. I was able to use other
icons until recently. Now I have a group of boring and indistinguishable
icons for my web links. The only new program was an upgrade ...

ok...so heres the story i was downloading a bunch of stuff like last year but
then now i didn't need it....so i want 2 the conrtol panel and went 2
change/remove programs....and i stared deleting stuff and i don't know if i
got delete crazy or something but i think i deleted ...

I'm trying to install an updated version of CA Firewall, but I'm getting a
message telling me I don't have sufficient privileges to install software.
It suggests logging in as an Administrator, but I already am.  Does anyone
have a suggestion?  I'm running XP Home.

A friend has a Pavillion 310N that he purchased with Windows XP Home Edition
installed and no operating system cd.  Of course he did not create the system
restore CD's.  The hard drive has crashed and no information is recoverable.  
I have the Cetificate of Authenticiy on the ...

My 250G harddisk seems missing many files (eg. some files can be opened when
i type the correct path and file name, but i cannot see the file in
explorer......)
I run CHKDSK /r and it run before entering login page....It seems hold on

I desperatelly need help.  
I am running WinXP SP2 on a P4 machine with 1Gb RAM.  The motherboard is the
D845GERG2 from Intel.  
Every time I boot up the machine it recognises the Audio facility which is

I bought a Microsoft keyboard that came with the Microsoft Wireless
Transceiver for Bluetooth. On one computer it installed immediately as the
drivers came with WIndows. However, on the other computer, the drivers could
not be found. I looked in System Information under Software