Microsoft is greedy. They think you bought XP after the last day it is supposed to be sold.

This kind of software registration demand should be illegal. It is too easily abused.

The BIOS battery might have died. It's rechargeable, but sometimes they totally give out. Then the computer forgets what hardware it has.

Several possibilities:

- Is your count including the subfolders, or just the files actually in the folder you are looking at? Use the properties selection of a right click on a folder to see the...

What burner software are you using? Windows can't do it by itself.

This sounds to me like the hard disk has a bad low level format, and while parts of it are working, the area with the Windows kernel is damaged to the point where the kernel will not load.

It...

You could have a hard drive your BIOS can't recognixe, or can't be set for.

This sounds like the baddie program altered the registry to run itself.

There might be other solutions, but a reinstall of Windows should fix it.

Quick time got too greedy again. It grabbed a file type it can't play. I won't even let it on my system because it is so grabby.

Open Quick Time and set it so it does not make itself the default...

It's possible you broke a trace on the circuit board.