After installing xp service pack 3 I get an error message on opening windows:  
"error: cannot open out bound object".  There is not internet service nor
netword connections either.  The Network Connections box is blank.  Anyone
got an idea??

This system, WinXP home SP2, failed to boot, didn't even get up to windows loading, unable to get
to safe mode IPL.  After a repair install which went fine the system will not install any of the 93
outstanding updates. I use custom & choose "Review and install other updates
If you ...

How do I configure a new installation of WinXP so that its file explorer will search for byte/char ASCII content in files with *.PAS, or other extensions of my choosing?
I have configured it in the past, but now cannot remember or find out how.
TIA, JohnH

Hi, my computer wouldnt start up, so i opened it to have a look, the took out
all the drives (optical, Hdd), the ram, any sound / video cards, and then
removed the fan on thr board, i took some pictures, and theres apprears to be
a part of the board that burnt:

Hi, I have installed Windows XP SP3 on all my client Windows XP workstations
through WSUS.  When a user locks his workstation using CTRL+ALT+DEL and tries
to unlock the workstation, their username is blank.  Before SP3 the username
was there and the user only had to type their ...

After installing WinXP on my new AMD Athlon dual core, the control panel
function Add/Remove software doesn't work.
It produces a small window named Parser Message that says 'Value creation
failed " at line 451'. No further explanation given, just OK, after which

i can not find my program and files in my c drive

I have a user who is getting kicked out of different programs. When I check
the Event Viewer, I see only two entries that might be suspect. One is as
follows:
Event Type:    Warning

Some how my Wordpad now speaks Chinese. When I open, save, print etc. the
little window that pops up either has the buttons in chinese characters or
the blue bar at the top of the window is in Chinese. How to fix please?

I just installed XP sp3 on a computer within our domain.  Now, ftp from a
command line does not work.  It connects, you can login, you can change
directories, you can rename and even delete files.  But, if you try ls, dir,
get, or send, those commands timeout.  After those ...

i can't install new program because the computer shows another install in
progress

Found some interesting behavior in Windows Search (Start => Search => All
files and folders => search for "A word or phrase in the file:"). This
applies to XP and maybe other Windows flavors.
Procedure:

Display rotation has stopped working.
Most likely it is CCC and .Net problem, but reinstalling both of them doesn’t
solve the problem.
Besides I have reinstalled windows too.

Can someone please tell me which registry hive contains file
association data? Thanks.

Prior to MS releasing SP3, I had all updates thru and or including SP2, for
Windows XP Home Edition, with the exception of IE7, OE7, MP11 and all of the
Malicious Tools - all of which I disabled and remain in the online "hidden
updates" folder.