Windows XP

Upgrade to a newer Motherboard
Hello, I have an older Pentium 4 motherboard that has been acting up and can only run with one memory module installed. I want to buy a newer more reliable motherboard but am wondering about swapping over the Hard Drive with Windows XP Pro w/ SP3 on it. I understand that the newer and different brand MB will ... 5 Aug 2010 08:03

installing updates. Never ends
when i did a restart, windows notified me it was installing updates and not to turn off the power as windows would restart itself. I keep getting a message the 2 of 3 updates installed. next says do not turn off computer.\\ well what do I do when the update never ends? TIA ... 2 Aug 2010 16:59

Idle process @ 90%, hard drive busy
Over the last day, my computer has started to behave strangely. The hard drive is constantly being accessed, as is the floppy drive and the Sytem Idle process shows 90% CPU useage. I thought it might be a Windows update, but usually there's an icon in the task bar to show this. Any idea as to what's going on? ... 6 Aug 2010 20:24

Memory Upgrade Woes
Not sure if this is the correct forum but I'm running XP Pro so I'll start here. I've run a HP Pavilion DV6000 with 2 x 512mb RAM chips for 4 years now. No problems whatsoever. I decided to upgrade my memory to 2 x 1gb RAM chips. They are the correct specification for the HP machine - I've checked! With the... 4 Aug 2010 09:14

Blue Screen of Death & Making Bootable CD
Hi, I'm staring at the Blue Screen of Death and realize my laptop did not ship with an XP Install Disk. My question is there an easy way to make a Bootable CD and if so how? I'm running XP Professional SP2. Many thanks in advance!!! ... 2 Aug 2010 01:42

Service patches
I cannot find a forum for Windows 7. Yet it was released towards the end of October last year. This in mind. A couple of concise queries as follows..... Whether anyone in this forum knows of a service patch or two for Windows 7. If whether a forum, does, or about to exist for Windows 7. Reason for my request ... 1 Aug 2010 15:56

Winxp-pro SATA / AHCI / cannot run Defrag chkdsk etc
Looks like may of gone 'too' far , pc is running using sata-2 hard drives (x2) , installed is the intel ICH10R driver . gigabyte m-board set to achi? / ide ... hard drives c-d/e-f , 1 sata dvd 1 ide dvd drive I now find that I cannot run any of the windows boot tools .. comes up with 'cann... 1 Aug 2010 11:36

How do I fix/remove the bootloader after accidently installing into second drive/partition?
Thanks Paul. That reminds me... I forgot to mention what I saw in multi-boot menus. It said "previous Windows" or "Windows 7". A funny thing is that even with specific Windows restored from Ghost image backups, I still see "Windows 7" mentioned even if Vista was restored. I cannot remember which is which sin... 1 Aug 2010 07:16

system tray-safely remove hardware icon
A minute ago, I reemove my usb device through " safely remove hardware' but now I am unable to see the icon in the system tray. When I plug in my handphone device, you can hear the sound that seems to indicate that it has detected a new hardware but it does not show the dialogue for the devuce. Also in 'my com... 1 Aug 2010 14:51

??WINDOWS 7 Discussion Groups
BoazBoaz wrote: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general Is for XP microsoft.public.windows.vista.general Is for Vista Which Group us is for 7 Multi-posted? Anyway - a Microsoft supported newsgroup for WIndows 7 does not/unlikely ever will exist for Windows 7. Microsoft has opted out of n... 1 Aug 2010 04:05