It only applies to his particular PC model and manufacturer. If I do the same thing on another HP, I will another result entirely. Please start a thread of your own and clearly state your problem,...

As far as I know you're screwed. But you can go buy a real copy of the OS. You might want to check the seller or HP support.

:cheesy: Aww...shucks! It weren't nothin'...glad to help..

Hopefully you have your XP installation disk. Put it in the cd drive and hopefully the machine will be able to boot to the CD, no drivers are required to do this. If not, you may have to change your...

Create a new user for yourself on the computer and copy the things from your current user profile to the new one. Do this manually from the folder under the Documents and Settings folder with your...

The two addresses are not really the same. I can't remember the specifics to tell you off the top of my head, but they are resolved differently. So maybe it has not propogated fully. If I ping both...

Cozzy,

You're making this way too hard on yourself. XP IS a simple install. You will never get anywhere fooling around trying to keep what you have and fix it. It's way too far gone for that. When...

Also, if you want to be safe, you can Right Click on My Computer and select Properties the on the Advanced tab select Startup and Recovery and change the setting for Display list of Operating...