Ive got a company fixing my emachines 5 year old PC Theyve replaced the
motherboard and tell me my copy of XP is 'illegal' and say I have to buy a
new licence. I know it came preinstalled and have a restore CD (though it
says microsoft works etc on the cover). Do I need to buy a ...

How do I check if my plug and play is running??

I am working on a enterprise migration and deployment.  
One design goal that I would like to accomplish is customizing the Help and
Support Center on the XP workstations that I will be deploying.  I read about
a Production Tool from MS.  However I cannot locate it.

I have a Compaq nx6325 notebook.  I wanted to add RAM to speed it up a little
and because I've read that adding RAM can prolong the life of your computer.  
I have a 40G hard drive and 512MB of RAM.
I bought a stick of RAM from a internet store that has a good reputation,

My computer keeps shutting down saying there is a serious error. Does anyone
know what this might be inidicating? Or how I fix it??
Server=watson.microsoft.com
UI LCID=1033

at work they have dual monitor. when I connect with rdp anything on the send
monitor I can not see.  What can I do?.
I also have  dual monitor setup albeit somewhat smaller
the one at work has 12x1600  as primary, 1280x 1024 as secondary

i help my friend reinstall his notebook PC ,it is Dell latitude. but when i
choice install at the windows install screen, then the blue screen is
showing. and told me
'*** STOP: 0x0000008E (0xC0000006,0x808A339D,0xFC040A10,0x00000000)'.

I have a number of XP disks aroung the house, two of which have Service Pack
2 included 2 don't and unfortunately I did not mark them before filing them
in my CD holder.  I'm upgrading my computers and will be wiping my drives to
do new installs.  Is there a way to verify which ...

   I have a rather unusual problem which I hope you might be able to offer
a suggestion on. I built a computer and have a problem I have not found
mentioned anywhere.
   On reboot, BIOS screens all run normally, then there is a 50/50 chance

I have a Compaq Presario notebook computer with Windows XP Home Edition. My
computer has been doing this periodically for the last couple of months, but
it's getting worse.  Sometimes when I click on one folder or document, every
single one in the current window opens! Also, my ...

When ever i take a print screen on my pc for some strange reason my wallpaper
always comes up beside it. Its incredibly annoying and each time i have to
send the print screen first to paint and then re-paste it into Word for use.
Does anyone know how to fix this problem?

I purchased and installed Windows XP Home onto my MacBook Pro in a separate
patition so that I could boot this HD as a Window OS with Bootcamp. It works
fine. I activated the code. No problems.
Then I booted the HD with the MacOS system and installed Parallels. This

Whenever I run the command sfc /scannow on a Windows XP Home or Professional
system, ( yes, just in case it's mentioned, I use the correct retail or OEM
XP/SP2 discs when prompted for them )  it corrupts, damages or replaces some
of the security hotfixes, for example, and ...

I have a new laptop with Windows XP Home edition. When the pointer rests on
an icon it activates automatically, without a click, after a short delay. I
do not want this feature. How can I disable iit?

There is no Run command on my start menu and I can't get a disk to run.