I recently burnt a CD of Windows 2000 and planned to install it as a dual boot with XP Home Edition (compatability issues, needed 2000) but it couldn't copy...

Hi all, I would like to make space on a drive and I seem to remember reading that we could safely delete files of the type $NtUninstallKB123456 in windows....

i am trying to activate my windows xp computer. it crashed and we no longer have the product key but i cant figure out how to get my product key without the...

Hi All, I have an XP pro machine I use as a server (file store and IIS web server running cold fusion). It is in a workgroup called workgroup. One logical...

My wife was using a scanner and scanning program (XPSP3) to scan 35 mm slides into digital photos. Each time she started a session of scanning, the program...

Hi. I'm troubleshooting this problem for a family computer which has become very slow. I've gone through it and deleted a lot of programs which were running,...

There is a succession of 4 errors that suddenly started to show up on my Windows XP Update 3 computer yesterday. ...

I believe this may be just part of my pc problems, but I'm having problems gettting Windows Update to work correctly. One of the things I found was that the...

I am having significant problems with my notification area. I am aware of how to set the properties of this area. I believe my solution is to rebuild my...

Internet connection via broadband cable modem. As by my provider, internet connection speed need be 25/10 Mbit . But in a reality, I did several online...

I read that Vista and Windows 7 can be sped up faster by using Flash USB sticks/drives (have 256 MB to 1 GB sizes). Can this be done with an ...

I'd like to move the desktop icon, from the lower toolbar (left side) over to the right side, to conform with it's location in Win2000. I haven't been able to...

Received the dreaded message, "windows root\system32\hal.dll." I tried re-installing the microsoft xp operating system (selected both options, first...

Every day we get a zip file(s). For example: 20090811a.zip 20090811b.zip 20090812.zip I need to create the appropriate folders and extract the zip file(s)...

Hi there in the "My Computer" folder I can see a Network Drive on drive Z. this is no longer a supported drive and I am trying to remove it. I right click...

hp dv6000 BAD_POOL_CALLER so i put in a new hard drive and that fix it.

Hi there, Its been a while since I've done this. Can somebody please explain how I can map a drive and/or partition that I can see listed in the "My...

When I try to open some files saved on my cd or flah drive I get a message saying windows is unable to open the file. The files were created on my desktop...

I'm doing a clean reinstall of XP Pro which I've done before but my harddrive disks, which is the 1st thing to re-load, need to be replaced. I've forgotten...

what is normal partition size for windows XP that need to be installed on new notebook, HDD 320Gb?