Not sure exactly what is happening but how about putting that site in your trusted zone (assuming you trust it) and seeing if things work OK that...
Are you dealing with an OEM machine and some sort of 'special' CDs they furnish to do a system install?
If you have two physical drives but only see one, you have RAID-0 or Mirroring. If things are split into more than one partition, the...
Yup. If it asked for the CD then it found damaged or missing files that need replacing. Note that the My Computer icon is only a way to run...
Might be simpler to change permissions for your problem user rather than limit all three users and since you run XP-pro, it isn't that difficult....
Click on the Start button, on Run, key insfc /scannowand click OK.
Hmmmm. If chkdks ran against the system drive then it sees a valid OS load on there. That should be a good sign. Can you start up in safe...
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Since you don't sound like you are too far into the process of setting the machine up again, a suggestion. Format NTFS, load XP, load SP2....
Mudd - on the off chance that your virtual memory isn't being handled correctly (unlikely but possible), how about changing things around....
"..make a (4?) floppy start up set.. " Yup. 4 floppy set it is. brad r - if you do need the floppy set to start the install, you can make...
This sounds like the sort of thing that Microsoft Support is good at fixing. It is also the sort of thing where you should have a couple of free...
Is your pagefile large enough?
Looks like you are gonna have to get someone to send you some text faxes to find out.
Please post a reply this time rather than editing your original post. Makes things easier to follow. What problem did you have that the AOL...
Did I understand correctly that you were able to run chkdsk /r on your C: drive? (suggestion in post #2 and your response in post #3)
Normally if there is only one user account and it isn't passworded, the PC just starts using that account. If you mean that the PC just goes to...
Microsoft - Windows Media Player FAQ says you cannot remove it from 2K SP4, XP Sp1 and later, or 2K3. But if you remove access to it, that should...
A normal logon or when using 'fast user switching'? Only the first time you log on with a new account and all is normal thereafter? Any...
Make sure you are logging on to your PC with username & NON-BLANK password. Add your account (exact same name & pwd) to the remote machine &...
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