I am selling my current WIN XP Home machine and I see the in the sysyem
properties section of the "My Computer" that my name is shown there with the
oem number assigned to my edition of WIN XP Home. Is there a way to change
this to the new owners name that buys my machine?

I just reinstalled xp home after getting a new hard drive. Num lock is set to
on in the bios but when windows boots up num lock turns off and I must
manually turn it on each time. It was always on before and I am wondering if
there is a setting in windows needs to be enabled for ...

I have the blue screen of death. I can't seem to get anywhere with it.
Even when I go into Safe Mode. It will come right back up with the
same error. This is part of the error:
A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent

I ran the upgrade for Windows Home XP Service Pack 3. After it tried to
restart it will not start in normal mode. I can only run in safe mode. If I
look in the windowsupdate.log I see an 'FATAL: Failed to get session from
datastore, error 0x80004002'. I also see messages that say ...

I have a Lenovo laptop running XP-Pro (SP2).
Sometime after the last updates (5/08) a 2nd drive letter (I:)
associated with my hard drive suddenly appeared. I claims to have the
same free/used/total space as the regular C: drive. I haven't been

My computer's internal CD-ROM drive cannot read any CDs. However, most CDs
work fine in a USB CD-ROM drive. I have tried multiple methods to fix this,
such as deleting the registry and doing a clean boot, but none of them worked.
The malfunctioning drive is an HL-DT-ST CD-RW ...

Is there a sure way to set your computer to use installed memory before
using the page file on the hard drive in XP?
Thank you,
David

I suddenly lost my virus program...Nod32....and couldn't get it to startup
again. Removed it completely and installed Avast as a trial and now I get
"not w32 compatable" message and if I try and open any part of it via
explorer it just freezes and will not turn off via the ...

I got an EeePC about 2 weeks ago. It's running WinXP Home SP2 and has a 4GB
SSD (it's a subnotebook). I upgraded the RAM from 512 to 2GB. Everything was
perfect until Thursday when I inadvertently downloaded a theme file from
Appleblossomart.com (AVOID LIKE THE PLAGUE) that had ...

When we put a CD-R in it shows a little disc with an hour glass on the
desktop. When we click on the drive it says, "please insert disc" as if there
is not one in there already. I really need to get these to work so I can back
up files and save files on a disc. Could someone ...

First, I updated to SP3 last weekend.
I updated my nVidia GeForce 7300 drivers today, using the nVidia recommended
procedures (which I've used before); uninstall drivers in Add/Remove
Programs, run Driver Cleanup Pro (removes all nVidia files & Registry

I have read that o.x. is a cheap + vulnerable program. It came installed on
my pc -xp sp3.
Is it safe to use ?
Thanx

I try to do a Back up with One Live Care and I incerted a cd-r in the cd/dvd
writer driver.  Now I cancel the back up process because I've decide to use a
different program for back up.  Well I try back up again using the same disk
and it tell me that there is data in the Cd to ...

I have a blinking hour glass beside an arrow on my screen.  It appeared after
I ran SecireIT virus scan.  Can anyone tell me what I can do to get rid of
the blinking hour glass?  Thanks

RECENTLY PURCHASED A USED DELL INSPIRON LAPTOP RUNNING WIN XP PRO AND WHILST
IN YAHOO MESSENGER GOT A NOTE ASKING ME TO DOWNLOAD ADOBE FLASH PLAYER.
FOLLOWED THE LINK TO ADOBE AND DOWNLOADED BUT WHEN TRYING TO INSTALL GOT THE
MESSAGE '' INSTALL FAILED--ERROR 19166''.