Environment: WinXP SP2
When I go to "Add or Remove Programs" I see the following unfamiliar
programs:
Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1

Which newsgroup would tell me about using DOS commands in a Vista command
window?  The one I haveare an incorrect DOS version.

My apologies if this has already been answered in the past or if I am in
the wrong group.
I am running XP Home Edition and recently I had to reinstall everything
because Windows became corrupted (the reason I don't really want to

Using Windows XP MCE on an HP Pavilion a1330n
I have been getting a popup error when doing various things such as reading
newsgroups, browsing the internet (using IE 7), restarting the computer, and
just about any other process.  It's pretty random.

PLEASE HELP

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