I downloaded XP SP3.  Now my computer will not start;it is stuck at the XP
splash screen.  If I remove the firewire cable from the external drive and
connect using USB instead, my computer starts and the external drives works
properly. Iconnect using a USB 2.0/FireWire PCI Card. ...

I installed SP3 on my 32-bit Windows Professional laptop, but its had some
undesirable side effects I need some help correcting:
1) The Address toolbar is gone.  It's even missing from the list of
available toolbars.  I find this a very useful tool.  How can I recover this

After completing the installation of XP SP3 and the necessary restarts I am
unable to install any new software that uses the Windows Installer. Also
tried re-registering per the KB and restarting to have it work properly but
no luck.

I have successfully installed SP3 on two computers running XP Home and
with such confidence I offered to install it for my granddaughter on her
XP computer. Unfortunately I got the error message "Stop: C000021a
{fatal system error} status of oxc 000012f (0x00000000 0x00000000)The ...

A silly but annoying problem has started with 3dpipes (sspipes.scr)
screensaver. It doesn't run properly.
If I try to run it, all that happens is the pipes appear for about 1 or 2
seconds and then the screen goes black and the pipes reappear etc, i.e. it

I see from the link here...
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/06/04/ballmer_you_can_buy_vista_and_down
grade_to_xp_for_free.html
...that MS will downgrade your copy of Vista to XP at no charge. What a
Deal!

I have scheduled to run Word 2007 in the morning.
However, how do I tell the Word 2007 to open a particular Word document when
it
starts up at that time?

Right to the issue at hand. I have a user who did a search on her hard
disk for pictures. She found over 9,500+ photos. Now when she
double-click on an image and views it in WP&FV that fine, but to now go
and print the image, she is seeing ALL those photos as for some reason,

I believe I have all the info I need to to a clean reinstall of Windows XP
Home Upgrade, but I have one remaining question.  My OEM OS on this machine
is Windows ME.  To do a clean format and reinstall should I boot up from my
Windows ME boot floppy or from the Windows XP Home ...

In my attempt to stop having to log in to my XP Home Edition Machine I
deleted all users except the administrator and left the user must enter a
user name and password to use this computer option selected. Now when the
computer boots up it goes to the welcome window/logon screen ...

I have Win XP Pro on physical disk c and Win Server 2003 on a
different physical disk. I reformatted the drive containing Windows
Server 2003 but the boot up menu containing "an earlier version of
Windows" and "Windows Server" still remains.  How do I get rid of this

KB905759
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=FBC31BDE-0BF5-490C-96A8
-071310D9464A&displaylang=en
Wont install on the other PC here, it says the files in
the package arent compatible.

We have the following situation:
   - Windows 2003 Domain
   - Windows XP SP2
When a Laptop is powered on in the firm, then the windows xp client shows

Where (and under which file ext) are MS Works Calendar files stored in XP Pro?
Thanks in advance...

after downloading our bank transactions to our money account on our PC, the
transactions do not show up on the register as they have in the past.  they
show up only as "items to review".  however, we cant access them for review.  
Any suggestions.