I bought a new larger hard drive and rather than cloning the old one
over to the new one, I'd prefer to do a new clean install (it's been 3
years since I installed XP).
I have all my ducks in a row (install CD, key from case, software to re-

I have a Compaq presario laptop and the option hibernate/suspend option is
disable. What can I do?

Could some one please tell me if the (OEM) copy of XP Home Edition has a
limit on the amount of times it can be Re-Installed & Re-Activated.
The reason is:
1. The first time I installed and Activated XP was not a pleasant

Trying to install 3 nascar type games on XP SP3.
Press install, nothing happens,......anyone seen this?
Task manager shows install initiates wowexec and freezes.

Is there a wait/sleep equilivant command for the command prompt?  I know
there is wscript.sleep for vbs files.
I'm running a batch file and want to it pause a few seconds between commands.
Haven't found much from microsoft.  There is the waitfor command but it

After repairing windows xp installation some of my programs won't run. Get
this error
Licensing for this product has stopped working
You cannot use this product at this time. You must repair the problem by

I have a document in Works that I cannot open in Office 97.  I have
downloaded converters but it still will not open.  I cannot understand why MS
would make a product (Word) that cannot open other MSD products!!!
Any ideas on how/what I need to do to open this Works doc?

Does anyone have any tools to find any broken links for a web site? I am
managing content for company's web site, so I can access all files and
directories, and need any tools to help me find any broken links, so I don't
need to manually check on every page.

In Windows xp sp3, from a command prompt, I type:
chkdsk d: /v/r
d is an internal hard drive, NTFS, used for backups, and it's brand
new.  I get the same error message every single time:

   I have been working on my brothers laptop for the past couple of days
just giving it a general cleanup.  Whilst doing this i noticed that the only
firewall he was using was Windows.
My ISP supplied me with a firewall so i use this.  I was just wondering if

We have received calls on 10 systems starting last Thursday that we believe
relate to XP SP3:
1. All systems had Auto Update turned on and we think all had IE 7
2. The symptoms include Start bar minimized, cant see anything in Local

Hi people ,
I have a whole heap of the $NtUninstallKBxxxxxx$ packages/directories in my
Windows folders from all of the updates that I have done and some of them
are up to  2 years old.

This would also fix the issue for those planning on updating to SP3 as
well. Apply this before you install SP3.
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=953356
- Thee Chicago Wolf

hi there i know it might not be the right forum to post such question but i
really need some help and quick :S i have a squid proxy installed on a red
hat server and i also have dansguardian software (blocks certain sites). now
to the problem...i cannot access a particular site ...

I worte a program on an English XP platform with Visual Studio C++ and MFC.  
And the program runs perfectly fine in the English XP platform.  But when I
run the program on a Chinese platform, some of the texts become too long or
too high for some labels and some other controls.