Dual boot system with ME on C: and XP Pro on D: C: was Primary partition and D: Extended partition I ran Partition Magic to reduce C: by 2 GB and all went fine until system rebooted. Black screen...

After successfully installing SP2 from CD, some existing applications do not start. Error messages stating that "xxx.exe cannot be found" or" file could not be opened'. In some cases, after...

After successfully installing SP2 from CD, some existing applications do not start. Error messages stating that "xxx.exe cannot be found" or "file could not be opened'. In some cases, after...

Dual boot system with ME on C: and XP Pro on D: C: was Primary partition and D: Extended partition I ran Partition Magic to reduce C: by 2 GB and all went fine until system rebooted. Black screen...

on xp/ntfs, by mistake, on hard drive first partition is d:, instead of c: . xp is installed on that d:\ disk management tool allows "drive letter change". is it safe just to change d: -> c: and...

Hi, My windows XP with SP 2 was attacked by the spyware mscornet.exe. I removed the virus (the exe along with some *.tmp from system32 folder) by logging into the safe mode. But since then,...

Hi: When I sysprep a machine, very often it gives me a message that the grace period won't be reset, how do I reset the grace period to 30 days? Is this possible? Thank you Mario

Hi, As I know that Win XP provide USB2.0 standard drivers . I also know that it also provide card reader and smart card standard drivers . In my company we develop a chip includes card reader module...

Hi all, I am trying to create a script (BAT File) to automate some processes. I want to run chkdsk c: /R off course I am always asked to answer Y to run on next boot. How can I get around this as I...

I recently suffered from a virus, and my only option was to format my hard drive. Just to be safe though, I wiped my hard drive first. When I went to re-install Windows XP though, it would freeze...

Have a Acer Aspire E500 pre-loaded with a french language version of XP SP2. Discovered on this forum that the only way to change language is to install an english version of XP, so purchased one...

Here is the scenario, Compaq 5360 machine with a seagate 10 gig drive, SIS 530 video, ESS sound, 128 meg of ram, fresh Win98SE install. Eerything go pretty much standard during the upgrade process,...

Hi, As I know that Win XP provide USB2.0 standard drivers . I also know that it also provide card reader and smart card standard drivers . In my company we develop a chip includes card reader module...

My c: drive pooped out. I want to re-install XP Home Edition. I can boot with my original, store-bought XP CD, but when I get to the Repair or Install option, I pick Install and get "Setup could...

Um, this is a horribly newbie-ish maneuver, I'm sure.... I recently purchased a laptop and was told by the manufacturer to run fdisk and do a clean install of xp pro because there are issues...

I'm trying to upgrade from Windows Home Edition to Windows XP Pro on a new (refurbished) Fujitsu N6010 notebook computer with 512Mb RAM, Mobile Intel Pentium 4 3.2GHz processor, 60 GB Toshiba...

Hi, I have been trying to upgrade my friends Windows ME to XP home using the upgrade version of XP Home. When I ran the system compatibility test, it comes up with a blocking issue "Bad System...

I have set up my screensaver to come on, and disabled any prompts for a password. Preview works fine, but the screensave won't automatically come on.

Dear all, I have a PC that had Windows 2000 on it and purchased a WindowsXP Profession upgrade disk. The first error, whilst the initial install, was :- C:\winnt\System32\Pinnacle\DC2000\slaunch.exe...

Hello, I have two harddrives: 40GB - primary master (win2000) 160GB - primary slave (win2003) I formatted 40GB and installed there windows XP although doing that I lost my boot loader. I wanted to...