Hi, I tried to make a boot disk cd for winxp sp2 with Nero express 6. I dont have a floppy disk anyway when the disk boots to dr-dos A: and I cant get to anything on the cd. So I have a slipstreamed win xp cd but it wont boot. How would I do a fresh Install or fix the cd. TIA \P

Wooh boy you guys are going to have fun with this one. O_o Okay, here is the layout. WinXP Pro, Primary Master HD is a Western Digital 40gig. Attempting to install as a seconday drive a Segate 20gig. On installation of the Secondary drive, no major problems seem to appear. No matter what...

I want to change my motherboard and cpu and keep my old case and peripherals....Any advice about re-activation of my OS and my MS Office I want to keep everything else the same and the same HardDrive. My IP address will be the same? Thanks JGM -- "Oh Lord, may I be directed what to do and what to...

I want to buy and install Windows XP (upgrade version). I would like to do a "Clean Install" completely replacing my existing Windows 98. Because my present hard drive is only 8GB I plan on buying a new 80GB HD (or larger) for XP and use the 8GB HD for miscellaneous. Questions. What verification...

I am the main user on my PC which I built. I need to edit a CFG file which is in the hidden folder APPLICATIONS DATA (a folder within Documents and settings) So I use the usual method to unhide hidden folders, by going to TOOLS/Folder Options/View, and clicking the radio button for "show hidden...

will this run most games and software or shall i stick with home edition? i dont like the idea of home edition running a virtual cpu with hyper threading! -- Live long and prosper

I was just wondering, I have an ASUS P5K Deluxe with wifi MOBO. It is capable of 8 gigs of ram, so i installed 4 - 2 gb sticks of matching ram and it is recognized in the BIOS but not by the computer as it shows only 3.25 GB of ram. Does that mean that my computer is only using 3.25 or is it...

I currently have Win XPpro on my machine. I would like to install and dual boot Win 98SE on the same machine. Anyone have any ideas how to do this easily??, all my googling seems to point to starting with Win 98SE and adding Win XP Pro. My system is: Asus P4P800 Deluxe 2.8 Prescott 1GB Crucial Pro...

Puts the desktop picture up, but loads no icons and won't connect to network. Boots into safe mode just fine. Still have the original retail XP disk when I built the box. Took it to a computer store, they didn't ask about the disk, but their advice was too old get a new box. They tried a...

Hi Folks, New build Abit IP-35 Pro, SATA HDD, SATA DVD Burner, Intel DC Proc, yada yada- I am totally stumped by this one, I did a fresh, clean install on a factory new 500 GB WD SATA HDD, bios set for cd-rom first boot device. Install went fine, SATA detected HDD as IDE by the mb, did not need...

How is this version? New computer with version 8 and it runs 'shakey'. I had the same version on an old computer and it was solid. So I don't know if I shoud look at the new computer or the version 9 upgrade as the new computer is geared towards speed and games. Like it handles Falcon 4.0 as if...

AMD Athlon II X3 MSI 980 mobo DDR3 memory can't imagine other peripherals would matter, but will have a sata hd, dvd burner, pci modem and old pci soundblaster if I can make it work. Have both XP and Win 7 disks. Most of my programs are 5+ years old, and made for XP. Still partial to XP after...

Using Windows XP SP3. I have two Internet connections, DSL and through a wireless Hotspot. In Network Connections, Bridge Connections seems to put both connections into one. But the throughput seems to be no greater than the faster connection. Should Bridge Connections make both Internet...

I've been lurking here and following the posts with interest. I've never built my own pc. My present one is a hybrid, Intel 2.2gighz with WinXPpro, an OEM version that came with the machine, installed. (but I have the cd) My pc isn't TOO far out of date (I don't think) but I wouldn't mind having a...

I just formatted the 'C' drive in my daughter's old Packard Bell hand-me-down and when I try to install Win'98 SE, I keep getting the following error towards the end of the installation process (after "starting windows for the first time")* I used the same Startup disk that came with the Windows...

I have the opertunity to buy 11 Win-95 comps left over from an auction . Are they worth anything at all ? Am planning on fixing them up , and donating them to the needy in my area . tim

My partner has a old HP PC, that was originally sold with Win7. It is unfit for latest version of Win10. In another forum, it was suggested to stay with 1703 version if you had it. Microsoft downloads only vomits forth the latest version for punters. If one searches for ISO of older builds, you get...

For a while Windows update failed because it detected Avira, apparently not being on the whitelist for Spectre-Meltdown protection. Now had uninstalled Avira years ago. There were no Avira subdirectories anywhere. Now Avira released a registry cleaner tool to remove the crap it left behind on its...

One of the computers in our office is having trouble, and I was hoping I could get some advice. It's a Dual-processor Pentium III built in 2001. The problem is that it locks up consistently about 2-3 minutes after loading Windows 2000. By "locks up," I mean that the screen freezes, the keyboard...

How can I get password to get into Win2000 on my old work PC? I dont know admin password for Win2000 laptop and now my personnel password doesnt work any longer either. I DO NOT have any Win2000 CDs to create a boot disk. I did my best Google to find a solution and found a admin password...