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if i have a regular copy of windows xp professional installed on my computer, and i want to buy a new copy and change the cd key, will an OEM cd-key work without reinstalling?

I am running windows XP and would like to reformat my computer but I have never done this before,how do you go about doing it?Any tips or help would be great!!! My system is older here is the specks. Microsoft windows XP Home edition service pack 1 AMD Athlon Xp …

this keep comming up and I dont know why is there a way to stop it. thanks

How do i edit my BIOS settings? Do i press DEL when my computer is starting up? Because when i dot hat theres BIOS SETTINGS UTILITY. I have to change my boot order to CD-ROM. THere is no "Boot Order" tab anywhere or CD-ROM. Theres boot settings priority, but i …

can anyone help, i am running ME i have put all my internet settings on to my laptop after downloading them from my desktop computer all the info is the same and i will only connect one comp at a time i have tried to get on the internet but …

Hello, I have recently received a portable word processor (dreamwriter 400) as a sort of castoff. It works, and I would like to use it, but I have no manual to guide me. I can figure out the processor itself, but it is supposed to be able to communicate with …

I long time ago when I used IE, I had the address bar toolbar on my taskbar. I found it very helpful for getting to pages quickly. Eventually, I got rid of it because even in 1280 x 1024, it took up too much of my taskbar space, and there …

Im having a problem with a computer that appears to randomly lock up at various times and there is no way to shut down the computer unless I turnoff the swith on the supply. I have replaced the RAM and ran diagnostic on the machine and it still freezes. Is …

I am runnning Windows XP Pro, with SP2 recently installed. Before I installed SP2, I could run DOS-based programs OK. Tell the system to run the program, and it would pop up the Command Prompt and run it. After I installed SP2, when I try to run most DOS-based programs, …

I am running windows XP and would like to do a system restore to try to fix a problem I am having with my computer,but when I go into Sytem Restore it will not let me choose anything but a date from January and I would like to go back …

[FONT=Verdana]Hi, I was just wondering when anybody knew when the new O.S. from Microsoft: [B]Microsoft Windows [I]Longhorn[/I][/B] would be coming out and any information that anyone should know about it? Ohh and could you add :o where you can download it for free or get it from someone that you …

My brother just built my Mom a new computer, and I am in charge of setting up the software for it, as my Mom wants to duel-boot 98SE and XP. XP and 98 are both installed at this point, and I'm trying to get the drivers working for 98. Unfortunatly, …

hi i am havin a problem wid my windows xp pro every time i do a format i have 2 put all of my drivers bk on and when i put my anti-virus on my com askes 2 restart then it goes mad it gets to the loading screen of …

HELP! REcently gone from dial up account with aol (9.0) to a broadband account with a different isp. I have kept aol on the machine as a backup for dial up. The problem is that when i receive an email with a hyperlink and click it, instead of opening up …

Hello, this is my first post so thanks for any help you can provide. At work, I had about 350 Contacts in Outlook 2003. A coworker tried to sync his blackberry with the contacts and instead of taking them from the computer, he did the opposite, he managed to take …

Ok, slipstreamed xp pro installation with sp2, Clean Install, inspects hardware config, asks me to press F6 if i want to install SCSI or RAID Drivers. then to press F2 for ASR, and then nothing, the screen hangs, cd and hard drives go idle and after a short while the …

I have an 80gb hard drive which I wish to partition. On one partition I would like to install Windows 98, mostly in order to play older games. One the larger partition, I would like to install XP, for anything else I need to do. I understand that Windows 98 …

I use msn for my internet provider. I at one time was able to erase the address line by going into control panel and clearing the history. This no longer works!! Im not sure if its MSN or my computer that is the problem. I am unable to get any …

hi i am havin a problem installing windows xp on my computer and i get to the setup is starting wwindos with a blue background and then it freezes and does not do ne thing ne help email male me pls (bravo206@hotmail.com or reply)

Hi folks, A while back you helped me with spyware, so now I am hoping you can help again. I am attempting to load some new software but when i do it comes up file error "cannot find shell.dll" I did a search and it is in there. I also …

In any Office 97 application if you go to exit after you have made file changes a pop-up says "Do you want to save the changes" followed by three buttons: "Yes" "No" "Cancel". Since installing SP4 on windows 2000 my three buttons say "Cancel" "Yes" "OK" but the functionality of …

Ok here is my problem: Yesterday I rebooted my computer, it began to start back up. Then after showing the XP loading page the screen went black for about 5 seconds. If flashed blue for no more then a second and then began to restart again. I left it on …

Does anybody know what services are safe to disable or set to manual? Also, what recommendations to use as far as turning off themes, using a screen saver, power setting options, i want to get the best optimization possible. Thanks in advance

i want to send information via networking to my two computers but whenever i try to setup the wizard this comes up : The wizard detected that this computer belongs to a domain. Therefore, you cannot use this wizard to set up a network

Hi everyone, I'm a newbie with this problem on my Toshiba laptop. It will not boot past this error message, see thread title, and I do not want to re-format the drive and lose my data. Is there anything that i can do?? Thanks for any help. Kingali. :rolleyes:

How do I change the settings to automatically have programs install to drive d instead of drive c?

Hi. I'm using windows xp 2005 . The problem is , everytime I try to run a cd/vcd to watch a movie , I get an error message after about 2 minutes of starting - " There was an I/O device error " - . I have had my sound …

Hi, i resently attempted to put in a modem, and when i did the comp started uyp fine except when at windows it froze up. So i took out the modem and started the comp up, and now it wont go passed the spec screen( the screen after the very …

Please help!!! I cna not save what homepage I want to have in my IE options. It always defaults to about blank and some wierd toolbar. I have ran Macafee, and I am able to get on line...just got a strange feeling. HAs this ever happen to anyone or any …

I just purchased a new 160 gig hard drive. What is the best way to configure the hard drive. A friend of mine suggested the following: 20 gig - Drive C Windows operating system only 5 gig swapfile Remainder for files and applications I'm no expert, but here is my …

I am using a laptop t41 with xp. My mouse keeps drifting to the left side of the screen. This is a major annoyance. It appears to be happening randomly, but alot. Any help would be appreciated.

please help when i start the window it got this message "Please wait while Windows configures Microsoft Office XP Professional with FrontPage.." and then, "The feature you are trying to use is on a cd rom or other removeable disk that is no available and then ask yu insert the …

Hello folks. My problems began a few months ago when I got infected with spyware. Out of panic, I thought a quick fix might be to disable IE, so I wouldn't get bombarded with internet ads. I went into the IE folder and deleted a bunch of files. My spyware …

I can find only 5 programs in the Add/Remove list. But I have 50 or more applications installed. Is this becoz I have 2 administrator accounts in my PC. (Win XP)

hi i'd like to know what is the ebst progarm to keep the pc running in good shape,,a progarm that fix the registry for example,speed up pc,etc. actually i'm running diskeeper9.0 for defrag and is great,really great let me know please,thanks

Ive tried to burn a disk of mp3s thru Nero, it starts but then stops. It says a few things, "scsi command aborted", "drive not ready", "could not perform endtrack", and "invalid write state". Ive tried burning at diff speeds, that doesnt help. Im using a sony dvd+/- cd-rw and …

Hi! I'm trying to setup a shell script to startup a number of programs when I run it, but I've got some issues with variables that is causing it not to work... The bunch of lines at fault is this: if /I "%INST%" == "OID" ( set NAME=9iAS_INF set HOME=D:\oracle\%NAME% …

Something is completly wrong with my computer. I can only run internet exploer. Not a singal other application on my computer will run. example, ms paint, Notepad, Windows Messanger. Since i cant take a screenie as i have no applications working ill tell you. Every time i try to run …

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Ok, sometimes when I'm in windows explorer for whatever reason, this randomly happens: On the left side, under "My Computer", everything disappears, and is replaced by around 10 blank folders (see screenshot)... I'm using windows 98se... It happened on my really old computer (same OS though) too. Does anyone know …

I Cannot Do A Recovery On My Compaq Presario To Get On Windows The Computer Has No Floppy Drive And I Have The Recovery Cds But Am Getting Many Error Messages Such As Format User Partition I Tried To Get On The Partition Command But Donot Know What Partition To …

I got WinZip (from their site) and it came infected with an adware that I have not been able to get rid of no matter how much advice I follow. Therefore, when I got wind of this site, where one can download stuff to try it out, I decided to …

I have an issue with an old Highlights Puzzlemania kids game. When the game is started it automaticaly adjusts the system volume so that it's way too loud. The game was designed for Win 95/98 and works fine whether in compatibility mode or not. No other games on the pc …

I have read a few of the other posts regarding not being able to reply in their hotmail accounts after "the change" that happed around November-December...and I had that same problem: the problem was "blank"messages were being sent even though the "text box" had a message in it. That problem …

This is going to sound silly but i am really struggling to delete my internet history and search history. As others use my pc i do not want people to know what i have been searching for but it automatically comes on the drop down menu when the type a …

Ive always been used to a couple of folders under the documents and settings folder. Recently I went to just check it out and for some reason I have 9 different folders in it now. I only have one user account so I figured I should only have that folder …

I have a Dell Latitude Laptop using 2000 O/S and I forgot my password, how can I reset the password

I upgraded windows XP home ed to professional and want to uninstall it and return back to the regular home edition. I've tried by going to control panel and uninstalling the program, but it's not there. I've tried to restore the system with the disks that came with my notebook …

hi there, i recently started my computer and the scandisk started automatically, saying that one of my disk drives may have developed bad sectors. the scandisk would not finish running. it stopped, saying: a logical assertion has failed. Expression: Get_cStart (&de, dr) ==cSource Source: line 1732 of scan.c also, none …

is it possible to share a epson scanner over a network? it is a USB scanner. Both computers are running win 2000