hai
from your scrap i can understand that after formating you installed windows home edition but the way of installation way of installing was not proper so just use this installation for some...

hai
normally most of the computer shows the problem of not detecting upgraded ram at the time of installing this is due to not inserting the new ram into the slot peoperlly so ou had also the same...

ya i also agry with u r remarks but i want to say that if all the capability of xp is fine then why it is not possible to register online,and if a xp orginal cd is one time installed and registered...

i accept u r idea but there is no need to untick previous ,other than that u can do reinstallation by a new version of windows media player -8,9,11,so it replaces all old files of mediaplayer,so that...

the problem in windows media player is commen,i think some error had occeared,dut u can solve this problem with out uninstalling media player by installing a new mediaplayer version so that new files...

hai
i think u r laptop installed with win98,is not proper working because some files from system 32 is lost thats why u r not able to boot in to os,so frm my openinon u should upgrade u r laptop...