I had a lot of Virus in my system, hence i decided to create a recovery disc and re-install the OS, I chose to burn the recovery disc in a DVD.In the middle of the wizard, there was an error message RECORDING DISC FAILURE(Error code 20). When i enquired about this in the HP online chat support, that guy said that the recovery partition has been corrupted, hence take ur Notebook to the nearest HP support centre. My Notebook is no longer covered under warranty. I decided to do a clean installation of XP using my own XP bootable disc(Which is working with other Notebooks). Now the recovery partition has been deleted but, the OS is not getting installed. When i press Enter an error msg states that “Windows cannot find any hard disk, kindly install it and continue with the OS installation”, but i have another DELL OEM Vista disc and i can install it successfully.I can understand that this comp. can accept only OEM DISC, now i need either a HP OEM Win XP Disc or some other alternative. Pls.!

I am trying to find out how to disable xp’s nasty habbit of stealing photographs from my pictures and similar folders, and inserting them into the desktop background files. Once in the backgrond file they seem impossible to remove. Very anoying and a virtually useless feature………….Ron G.

Neither my moues or USB ports work when I try to load XP pro on this computer, running fedora core 7 fine even works with the boot CD, just not with windows Intel chipset E7501 with a 82801CA southbridge Tyan s2723 motherboard w/ dual xenon 2.4 processor please help

Is it possible to restrict users from installing programs, copying/editing/deleting MS office files & what are the different kinds of restrictions possible in XP without the requirement for installing external third party softwares.
Also when I set security restrictions for certain folders or files & do not keep user rights, can the user gain ownership over the drive through any method??

i am now currently running windows xp home edition and i want a domain network in my home and i was wondering how i would be able to upgrade to windows xp professional for free?

Here is very simple thing which i think “Windows” is not allowed (For common Sense it should be allowed)
The description is as under:
I have a Laptop (WINDOWS XP SP2) with LAN connection with my server (having IP 192.168.0.1) AND i also have wifi hardware working properly (I am able to allow File & Printer Sharing)
I have second Laptop (WINDOWS XP) with wifi hardware (File sharing working properly).
I have configured both PC for P2P wifi connection. First Laptop is host and second is client.

Now i want second computer to use internet through wifi from First computer. When I go to First computer (ICS Host) and try to activate internet sharing for “Wireless Connection” There is error message “ICS cannot be enabled due to IP conflict. Host must have IP address of 192.168.0.1″. Now my server has IP address of 192.168.0.1. How can i allow my first computer to use that IP address (That is ridiculous!)
And i am on office network (I cann’t change server IP)

RESIDENT EVIL

Developed by Capcom Co., Ltd
Published By Virgin Interactive Entertainment (Europe) Ltd.

Machine Specification

Minimum
With 3D card
3D CardWith 4MB
CPUPentium 90
RAM16 Megabytes
SoundDirectX 3a compatible drivers required
VideoDirectX 3a compatible drivers required
ControlDirect Input compatible Keyboard

Recommended
With 3D card
3D CardWith 4MB
CPUPentium 133
RAM32 Megabytes
SoundDirectX 3a compatible drivers required
VideoDirectX 3a compatible drivers required
ControlDirect Input compatible Keyboard

Operating System: Windows’95 Only

when i command msconfig from run. msconfig just splash and go out. what i can do for this problems? i am using winxp-sp2.

I read somewhere that one should partition the drive and when Win XP is installed, and “happy” on a particular drive (or partition), one should copy that to a CD so that one can easily re-install Win XP and get it back to perfect shape, when it inevitably gets cranky.

I have replaced all the above and finally bought another copy of xp pro, installed it and my machine boots up but when I get to log in screen it shutsdown and reboots. Heres what I did. I put mobo G card and chip together, left just one stick of ram (1gb) in the slot, and started up machine with xp pro boot up disk in cd drive. Installed xp fine. Installed drivers for graphics card ok, went to add disc from isp, almost fully installed then system restarted by itself. It hasn’t fully installed the isp disc. Went to install a game from disc, 7/8ths of the way through it restarted again, got game icon on desktop but nothing in add/remove programmes. Now every time I switch on pc it lasts until the log in screen then restarts. Any suggestions from you wonderful folk out there about what could be causing this? Erm and can I have any explanations in laypersons terms, I do have some knowledge of pc’s but this is quite limited, obviously!!!
Thanks for all the answers, the problem was a combination of a dodgy ram stick and the heatsink paste.