I used to have WinXP Pro with SP2, but a friend of mine did a new
installation (without formatting) on my pc. Is it possible to revert to
my old system, so it would be as it was before the new installation?

hi
i was recently advised by my service provider to go back to IE6 from IE7
hopefully to solve a problem with outlook exp.since doing this i am unable to
enter any information into I Explorer 7 other starting things have occured i

I seem to have a problem with permissions if files are moved.  If I
create a new folder.  Then files I saved from a e-mail direct into it
open fine.  But if I moved one from different folder which i an open/
read into it lacks the necessary authorities (I can't repalce, delete,

I created a new account on my computer for my wife and when i log in under
this new account a message pops up saying "Failed to update registry".  
everything seems to work properly but this annoying.  any suggestions?
Thanks in advance!

I cant get my software to install

I am dealing with a WMI error that completely prevents me from
installing SQL 2005 on my system.
Almost as soon as I start to install SQL 2005 on my Windows XP Pro
Version 2002 Service Pack 2 machine at work it pops up a dialog with

Why cant I post?

Last night i was on my sony Vaio desktop and my I.E froze up, I tied to close
it and it wouldn't close so I tried control, Alt, Delete... that didn't work
either so I manually shut the computer off. A couple of hours later I came
back upstairs to check my email and restarted the ...

Help please anyone.  I have windows xp and using a sony laptop, I think it's
crashing, and I went to add/remove programs to try to remove some of the
programs as it is way bogged down but when it populates the list of programs,
the change/remove option is not there????  I have ...

ANY HELP IS APPRECIATED.
i installed QuickBooks and when I attempt to open it I get an error message.
QuickBooks tells me it's a MS problem.  Anyone had the same problem?

consistenly get bsod in explorer (xp pro, sp2), when selecting right click
menu choice of "convert ot Adobe PDF."  no problem converting to pdf within
Adobe 8 professional.
Any ideas?

Is it possible in XP to lock the position of icons on the Desktop, so that
the preferred order is retained even after closing Windows and turning off
the computer?
Alan Jones

Last night I tried to boot up and kept being taken to the screen that says
Windows had a shut down problem, then it has a list of options to choose
from, normal boot, safe mode, etc.  I have tried all the options and all my
computer ever does is a constant reboot.  I finally was ...

I'm running XP Pro SP2 and I'm trying to share my printer on my home
network.  When I try to add the printer from another computer running
XP SP2 I'm asked to log in as:
Username:   <computer #1>\Guest  (this entry is greyed out - I have to

When I format a cell to display the number as a date, the format is correct
but changes the numbers?  Here is what it does:
I want to be able to type 51407 and have it displayed as 5/14/07, However it
displays 9/28/2040??