I have a Dell Dimension 5150 running Winxp Professional Service pack
2. When booting up I get an error message, entitled "program name.exe"
and a message, The application or DLL C:\windows\system32\***.dll is
not a valid windows image. Please check against your installation

I am facing a problem when i am trying to open my hard disk drives by going
through "My Computer". Olny C:/ Drive is opening and by clicking any of the
drive like D:/ OR E:/, a Command Prompt Window is Opening like a flash and
drives not being opened. Please Guide Me About It.

On my XP SP2, I have been having problem with my system where it would run
fine for a
while than seem to freeze.
I was able to find out that in the task manager sorted by CPU that

I am having trouble installing Java on my computer running XP.  When
installing I get a message that says "Java runtime environment cannot be
loaded". I tried installing in safe mode and get a message "the system
administrator has set policies to prevent this installation".  I am ...

Hello
I want to ask that what should be values exactly for HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,
When i opened Reistry Editor, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE shows (value not set)

tried to run misconfig but it pops up saying that it can't be found
How/why is this, please?

Hello can anyone helpme ?
when I access the internet and been on it for about 10 mins I recieve page
cannot be displayed I run a diagonsitc from the list the page provides and
recieves a message about winsock has encountered an error on this computer

My computer has so much junk on it that I decided to do a clean install
of my XP Home. It seemed sensible to buy a new HDD and so I bought a 160
GB Hitachi SATA 2. My present HDD runs on IDE but I have two SATA  1
connections on the Mainboard. The shop told me that I would have ...

This lap top has xp sp1. Trying to set the bios(as a non tech) I got into the
bios and got to hilite cd\dvd\cd-r -rw\dvd+rw drive.
I pressed the enter key but nothing happened -I thought I was supposed to
display the boot devices available so I could put ide-cd rom at the top. How ...

Got a call from a friend. While his son was at college he for got the
password to start windows under his user name. Is there a way to reset
the password or get windows up and running with out it, or a way to
change it?

I have just taken delivery of a new PC.
On all my other computers (past and present) I have a separate user
account (with full admin rights).
Apart from the (deactivated) guest account, the new PC currently only

I Just bought a older coumputer that came with a wiped hard drive. I
want to install Windows 95, or Windows 98, but I can't figure out how
to install it. It won't let me install it for it keeps taking it in
circles. Any suggestions?

I want to undo some changes made to my HP laptop. When I login as
administrator or normal user, I cannot see the start menu or taskbar.
As well, the system restore has been disabled by group policy, so I'm
assuming even if I got it re-enabled, it would do nothing. How do I

Windows XP Pro  Sp2
Just installed the new IE7 Pro 2.  Is that a full install to replace the
original IE7.5?  If so, is it necessary to keep all the previous innumerable
"KB" updates?

I have an xp home machine where suddenly the fonts are non readable garbage.
The DOS window comes up normal ,
but nothing in windows is readable even in safe mode.   What could this be??
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