Long story short - my hard drive was out of space so installed a larger one
and reinstalled XP pro - and all updates and SP2, etc (it was a terrible
fight). Finally got everything working but whenever I pop-in one of those
mini usb drives (Sandisk) the install wizard screen pops ...

Just wondered if you had any ideas on this one.  I have 2 x nursery schools
that are 2 separate buildings, but are only the width of a road apart, ie
they are separated by a single road.
We are looking to install ADSL at both sites and rather than email files

Help!
All of a sudden I can no longer login to my Admin account.
I get an error message to the effect that account have been locked out
due to 3 unsuccessful attempts.

I am running sp2 on Windows Media Center 2002.  My Movie Maker exe file gives
me version 01 of the program (dated 8/10/04).  I can't find a download and
I'm told it should have updated with SP2 or subsequently as SP2 updated.  
Can anybody tell me a way to update my Movie Maker ...

Hey guys,
I am having a serious problem here with a few users, which is fall out
from a project that was just recently completed.  Over the past week,
we were in the process of doing a domain migration.  We had taken the

I'm running Windows XP Professional (SP2) and am having trouble with a
wireless mouse.
All of the help topics I look at refer me to my 'Bluetooth Device' icon in
Control Panel, but I dont actually have a Bluetooth Device icon!  Anybody

I found that it was taking 5-6 minutes for WinXP(SP2) to boot-up, much
longer than ever before.  Then, I found that I could reduce that time to
about 2 mintes, by removing almost all files from my desktop.
I was never a good "housekeeper," never kept the desktop tidy on any PC, so ...

have an acer aspire1700 running xp...im a newbie but i think i might
have a virus.....my laptop got realy slow and i couldnt shut it
down...so i had to turn off by holding power button down...now when i
turn it on the aspire screen comes up then windows xp comes up for a

WinXP  recently has started showing  filenames and folders in reverse order
in dialogue boxes for saving or opening and when opening a folder.
This is very irritating and wastes a lot of time. In order to counteract
this every time I have to :

I'm using filebox extender, and it is putting too much stuff in the
list of recent folders. The author told me his doesn't do that, and to
see if there is a parameter in WindowsXP that will let me stop if from
adding folders to the menu each time I start an application.

Hi everyone. Ive been having some issues with the windows firewall,
and had to disable it. I do run sygate pro 5.5. After disabling the
windows firewall I am getting the classic spam through windows
messenger service. I have set up sygate to block ports 135, 137, 138,

Need some help
These few days whenever i log into my account, the whole window hang after
about 1 mins.
I go into my window task manager the first thing i log into my account and

Compaq Presario laptop
Windows XP Home Ed. 2002 - Service Pack 2
Something has stopped my ability to connect to Google.  No problem
connecting to Yahoo, AltaVista, All the Web, Netscape, or MSN.  Mine is an

HOW do I copy or move my (ide) XP Home (all MS updated) boot partition, to a
SATA hd ?
I've got Ghost 9, can I do it with that ?
ATM I have xp home sp2 on PATA hd on ide0.  There are two SATA 150 ports on

I'm using  Windows Xp with public computer at school, some students delete
some desktop icons, how can I prevent them from deleting these icons