Tell me to mind my own if you like ,do MVP's get any kind of payment for their services?

I just bought DELL Inspiron with Windows XP pre-installed. But I want to install Windows 2000 instead and get rid of Windows XP. Is it ok to do that? What will...

How do you restore an older version of the registry in Windows XP? I run Win98 on one of my computers and just had to restore an older version of the registry...

I have tried everything I can think of to get 3 WinXP Home Edition computers to see each other to share files. They can ping each other, they can access the...

Oem cd clarification requested I have read a post in the xp group that said the hardware requirement was dropped for all windows operating system including...

Earlier this year i bought a copy of xp home OEM to go with my new hand built pc. When i bought it (legally) the guy in the shop said its just XP only not in a...

I thought MS OS design has, how shall we say, "issues", but this takes the cake.... I had an old PC with XP, an Pentium MMX @233mhz and it barely ran, but it...

Stuck in a loop after down loading WGA, and cnnot log into the admin account as pc reboots automatically - any ideas on this problem? -- max

What is it that causes the pop-up from Microsoft that reads "This is not a genuine Windows product"? What should I do about it? -- John

I have a new computer that has Windows XP software loaded on it. The computer includes a floppy drive (A drive) and a read/write CD/DVD player in it. I also...

I want to keep XP on my computer, but would still like to run Vista. I have run the compatibility check and only my scanner won't work in Vista...

Just a little info. Be careful of today's Microsoft Updates on machines that are using Zone Alarm Free ( Version 7.0.462 ) after rebooting the Zone Alarm...

Is there any way to do this? I want to completely remove it.

I have a Dell Dimension 8200 running IE8 with XP, SP3 , Windows Firewall, Avira antivirus, Spybot (for updates only), Spywareblaster, ATF and Hive Cleanup and...

Hello all, I'm in the need for a filename that will be, in "windows explorer", sorted /after/ all the ones starting with letter symbols (for non-important,...

I got this computer in fall of /02 and have never formatted it, I was told by a technician that this was important, however she said I would loose everything...

Do you honestly expect folks to install at least FIVE different Anti-Spyware programs, keep them updated, monitor them and constantly tweak each one...

I have never had any problems with Windows Automatic up-dates before , but in the last month, the auto up-date process has suddenly started eating so much of...

This follows on from my post describing a boot up failure, as the subject heading of that is now misleading. The consistent state now is that my Athlon XP...

I have a Microsoft wireless keyboard 6000 v3.0 Starting about two weeks ago, it started consuming batteries at at a very high rate. Where previously a set of...