Whenever I try to uninstall my Windows XP I get the following message:
    Setup cannot uninstall Windows XP because the necessary registration
information is missing,
It is registered but I cannot connect to the internet or access many of my

went into start/run
cmd.exe
am trying to copy one large dir from one drive to another drive
put in

I have windows xp and my internet explorer likes to freeze up and either will
not close or is really slow to close.  I have cleaned out the cookies and such

After over 60 hrs of Windows Updates on a slow dial-up, I am desperate to
reset my Broadband connection, but the Network and Internet Connections page
does not show the internet connections icon, well, the titling; and Set up or
change your internet connection does not respond.  ...

XP . Sporadically, inbox messages that I see one day are not there the next
day.  They usually reappear in a couple of days.  Usually this occurs when I
see the first few lines of the mail, but have not actually opened it.  Can
anyone supply a reason and a fix?

Windows XP Home: Suddenly can't open Start or any of the programs on the
Desktop either by clicking or right-clicking. Only the Properties box
pops-up briefly.
Fortunately the Norton AntiVirus icon in the System Tray works. Full system

Hi to all,
There is one thing that is annoying me about my XP SR2 install.
When you install a fresh install, the CD/DVD Auto Play function works
as it should, but I have noticed that after time, nothing happens

I have inherited a desktop with the following specs:
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/dim2400/en/sm_en/specs.htm
I am now using a laptop with a 1GHz processor and 512MB ram, XP Pro.
Any thoughts on the idea of using this inherited machine for Photoshop?

I am thinking about buying True Image Program to back-up my hard drive(C
drive) that has XP on it..  Can I back-up the hard drive(C drive) and
reinstall it on a second hard drive(D drive) that is in my computer.  I just
have programs on D. I want to take out the C drive and use ...

I have a system it has been working OK with several USB devices such
as flash drives. I've bought a SD card reader and connected, it's
recognized successfully but it generated lots of event id: 17 and 168
error logs in "event viewer". I couldn't mean because i was copying

I am running WinXP Home Ed.
I have a Samsung SyncMaster 793s monitor.
The latest drivers are installed.
There is a double dark bar effect on the lefthand side of the screen and

In the past few days my computer has developed a problem where when I'm
listening to a podcast or something, the balance may start ok, but after
awhile it will drift to the left. Then sometimes after a while the
balance will bounce back and forth, but mainly it just stays over on ...

I just finished loading a bunch of the auto-updates for windows and now am
unable to get any of the user profiles to log in properly.  All that happens
after I enter the password is a long loading period before the background for
that user shows up.  Nothing else loads, no ...

XP SP2 on a Toshiba Tablet.  Nothing added in 4+ yrs (just all software
updates) but have increasing blue screen issue.  
After quite a bit of researching, I have gone through all the possible - and
known - causes of this stop error, which now occurs within 8-10 minutes of

A few months ago I got some good advice on how to change my default email
from outlook to outlook express, in order to make outlook express open when
there was a mail link on Mozilla. Now, alas, my OE has developed problems
(perhaps because it was too full) and I'm changing back ...