My mother-in-law got a computer that has a boot leg version of XP Professional on it. Two questions: I have an unused license for XP Home, will this work...

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Is it possible to upgrade from XP Home to XP Pro. Thanks

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After I installed some windows non critical updates, I could not shutdown the computer or open task manager. I have WinXP Media Center SP3.I have a Sony...

I deleted numerous excess fonts the other night - they all reappeared, seemingly of their own volition. Any idea why? Gummo

Hi all, A computer of mine is currently stuck in safe mode. It does not start up normally anymore. An extra problem is that I cannot log in when the computer...

Dear Group, Please can you help? I'm trying to install a new hard drive into a Dell PC which has 2 hard drives, the primary is failing. Will xcopy clone...

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Can anyone possibly help me with this problem? At my place of work, we run Windows XP pro Sp3 as our baseline image on laptops and desktops. However for some...

I have a drive pulled from an older machine (the only drive in that machine), now in an enclosure with a power supply and connected to a laptop via a USB. I...

Windows XP Home IE 7 (and IE 6) I have a Windows XP Home computer that originally started with IE6. When I open up IE it will not display any pages (Page...

Update: Flawed AVG antivirus update cripples Windows XP...

Hello, I have several machines that are caching the proxy passwords somehow. I have cleared out all private and form data in IE, I have deleted all temp...

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System: Windows XP I currently have a batch file in my startup folder to launch the sheet. It is simply written as: "rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL...

I have Windows XP Pro configured to notify me of updates but don't download them unless I allow it. Now, it just advised me of a number of updates. So I...

Hi, I ran a back up today; it's 9.47GB. I tried to zip it and it says it's too large. I want to save it to a CD (or what is best?) Can you advise how to do...

I am unable to download updates. Sometimes I get a message like: 'The web detected a problem and cannot show the page you are trying to see' and then...

When I try to open Microsoft files (.pdf file open just fine) by double-clicking, the folder containing the file locks up and file does not open. This has...