I have a Gateway 500c (desktop P4 1.8 G with 1G RAM) that I bought in 2002.  
I just reinstalled everything about 3 weeks ago to speed thing up a bit.   It
is going slow like it did before I did the reinstall and now it won't boot
up. It goes through a normal boot but before it ...

When I try to install windows xp service pack 2 it freezes at checking
product key. It doesnt come up with an error it just freezes????

About 2 days ago, all the user accounts on our computer started asking for
passwords, which were never set.  Actually, 1 user had a password, but it was
not recognized.  I restarted the computer, and heard a beep, then got an
error message about being unable to log on to the ...

recently whenever I try to access a webpage from a shortcut on my desktop I
get a message saying that windows cannot find the file of say MSN maps or
whatever I am trying to access.  However before I have time to click the OK
it has on it the correct website page appears.  This ...

Using Word 2003 with all latest updates...
I am creating an Index for a 30 page document, I and wish to do it with a
concurrence file.  The help is clear, and it works fine for main entries
(I.e. Mars) and sub entries (I.e.Planets:Mars); however, using the

I have an Asus A7N8X - E Deluxe Mobo, which has SATA onboard.
I am thinking of upgrading the whole lot soonish in the future. In the
meantime (And so as not to waste money) I wondered if I purchased a
Western Digital WD5000AAKS 500GB SATA II 7200RPM 16MB Cache  would it be

I have partitioned my drive into two sections. One very large section
and another much smaller one.
The smallest partition is 3x [three times] the size of the OS and
every currently on the drive. In other words, the smaller partition is

I just did a reinstall of XP Pro after a year. Now when I go to my favorites
I have to refresh the pages to get it to update to the latest view, Is there
a setting I need to fix?
I.E 7.0

When opening Windows Explorer the default behaviour is to display two panes
with the left pane displaying 'System Tasks' etc on a blue background.
I almost never want this view so have to click the 'Folders' icon to display
the folders tree in the left pane.

I have 4 compaq deskpro PC's that came with XP Pro.  There are stickers on
the computers with the XP CD keys.
I want to take those keys and convert them to product ID's to replace the
current one on the registry.

I have an XP Pro system that won't boot into Normal mode after downloading
Tuesday's updates.  Sometimes it stops recognizing the keyboard and mouse
first and then it hangs.  Other times I get to put in the username and
password and it hangs at "Loading settings".  Other times I ...

A fresh XP SP2 install on a Gateway E3600 P4 desktop ended up with laptop
power settings instead of desktop settings and the machine is randomly
powering down a couple times a day. Hibernate and suspend are disabled and
the BIOS settings appear good. Any ideas?

Can anyone help me figure out how to save a backup job in Windows XP
built-in backup utility with the overwrite file option enabled?
It seems to always default back to append.
Thanks

Is there a way to use the Print Screen key to print to your default
printer just by pressing it once rather than having to paste in a document?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Correction. It is Windows Installer in a loop not Windows Explorer.
"MineolaJohn" wrote:
WINDOWS INSTALLER is constantly in a loop I can't get rid of. It keeps trying