My computer is a Gateway model # MFATXPNT MDW 500S, 5 years old, but still
powerful (or was, anyway).
My Windows XP Home crashed (error message "C:\$MFT is corrupt and
unreadable), which started immediately after "The Geek Squad" at Best Buy

My laptop drive has many bad block so it will not boot up.  I installed a new
hard drive with XP and connected the old drive via USB adapter.  I can see
the old drive fine.
How can I transfer user files / profiles easily WITHOUT using FAST since I

I am thinking about purchasing a new computer with VISTA installed and an
option to downgrade to Windows XP Pro.
Has anyone had actual experience doing this?  If so, are there any problems
to be anticipated?  Is it something a novice can do, or does the downgrade

Has anyone slipstreamed the .Net Framework 1.1
and 2 switchless installers from here?
http://www.ryanvm.net/msfn/
If you have, does 1.1 include the 1.1 install file, as well as SP1 and the

Under my c:\Windows directory I have a bootload of $NtUninstalxxxx
directories, some of which go back for several years. What are these
directories and what created them? I'm running low on disk space - is it
safe to delete them?

When I am typing - especially online forms like this one, the cursor will
just jump to another place and my characters/texts get inserted wherever it
jumped.
I am using Windows XP Pro on a Dell Latitude D820 Laptop.  I just started

I'm running IE7 on a Win XP Pro SP3 client machine. Running on a new 2008
domain. The XP machine has the 2008 GP client side extentions installed.
We normally set up IE to look at a proxy and override the proxy for only
sites needed as and when.  This is done by going into a GPO ...

I am trying to use a Group Policy to set all domain computers desktop
wallpaper to the company's logo.
Now I have managed to adjust the settings accordingly using the Group Policy
Editor in MMC. Problem is that even if I do a "gpudate /force" along with

When I look at "C:\Documents and Settings\User" in Windows Explorer on my
desktop PC I cannot see the "Local Settings" Sub-directory.
If I type the name in the address bar it appears OK.  I have selected "Show
Hidden Files and folders".  I have unticked "Hide protected operating ...

friends computer keeps getting error then locks up xp error code
ac-31000x84008503 ,please help

I have 20 Dell laptops with Win XP pro with SP2 and Office 2007.
My problem is that in the outlook when I try to create a new contact, I need
to enter area code, but I cannot its gray, I have this problem in 4 laptops.
Any idea?

I'm trying to figure out how to take snapshots of whatever is on my screen.
I am using windows XP Home edition.
Thanks,
Gordon

I purchased a Dell 8200 computer in 2003.
That computer was stolen from my house in October 2004, however I still have
the ORIGINAL XP home edition installation CD and the 25 digit license code.
Now it is 2008 and I recently built a home use computer that needs an OS.

Windows XP Prof on 3.5 year old Dell 9200 Inspiron. Have had a
progressively worsening issue of windows not opening new screens in
Explorer and from My Documents. System seems to be running fine, then
the problem starts, I reboot, it works fine for a while, and so the

The other day I went to a website and something show up saying that my IP
adress was being copied,I was wondering how important is this and if it is
what can I do to protect my computer about it.Any help will be really
helpfull.Thank you.