After a customer did a repair install of XP Home to fix a startup issue (that's all I know about what happened) when Windows starts the mouse cursor shows up but explorer doesn't load. Basically ...

Not sure where to start. So much has gone wrong. Will try to simplify.<BR><BR>Originally I just wanted to upgrade the mobo/CPU. Plan was to run XP Repair afterwards to sort out the Windows ...

Windows XP: If your Windows XP installation is acting up, sometimes a fix is as simple as tweaking a registry key. Rather than muck about in your registry looking for it, use XP Quick Fix Plus to ...

The Windows XP installation CD-ROM includes recovery options on it. When booting from the CD-ROM you can access the recovery console to repair corrupted boot files and scan the hard drive for any ...

The Windows Vista and Windows 7 DVDs come with System Recovery Options, a comprehensive set of recovery tools used to restore the operating system. While Windows XP SP3 CD doesn't offer the same ...

Remember that Stealth Update I talked about a couple of weeks ago? The one that Microsoft sent down the pipes to XP and Vista users and installed it irrespective of whether the user had given consent ...

BOSTON (Reuters) - Microsoft is helping the estimated hundreds of millions of customers still running Windows XP, which it stopped supporting earlier this month, by providing an emergency update to ...

To repair manually, start by booting from the XP installation disk. Choose the Recovery Console from the Welcome to Setup screen. Create a temporary directory and copy the files named system, software ...

Despite the fix, Hall again stressed XP users must update. "Just because this update is out now doesn’t mean you should stop thinking about getting off Windows XP and moving to a newer version of ...