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Anyone know if it's possible to recover deleted System Restore Points? Are these things just un-flagged like other deleted files or are they permanently lost? If they are recoverable, what are they called? Cheers :-)

The machine is an IBM Netvista running XP Home, about 4 years old. Up until a week ago it was running fine. Now, it'll only boot OK into Safe Mode. In regular mode it freezes right after the splash screen shows. The blue color in the progress bar begins to scroll then it locks up. I've...

A customer's hard drive has (XPHome-SP2) has developed boot problems, and now sits with a black screen and a blinking cursor. Windows WILL run with aid of a boot floppy, (made with an excellent little prog called FIXNTLDR.EXE from this site: h**p://tinyempire.com/notes/ntldrismissing.htm)...

Anyone know a good method of purging an XP pc of a user, like when a machine is sold and the new user wants all traces of the old user removed? I thought I had a reasonably good method, which was to create a new user account, remove the default files from it's folder in Documents and Settings...

I've worded that title badly. I don't mean 'How do I create a new user with admin privileges?' That's a fairly straightforward task in XP via User Accounts in Control Panel. What I'm referring to is another, more powerful 'Administrator account' - the type that's only seen in Safe Mode, on an...

At shutdown, when the screen should be showing logow.sys, or 'Windows is now shutting down', the display becomes garbled, ie it turns into a mass of small, vertical blue and white stripes. If I substitute the logos.sys, ' It's safe to shutdown etc', by renaming it from logos to logow, the...

I entered the original post several days back. The replies from Alt255 have been so helpful that I'm pasting the entire thread here in case the information might assist someone else, or perhaps prompt further comment. porty, New Zealand...

I'm running Norton AntiVirus 2001 on a W98 2nd Ed. 466 PC. While I was on the net just now, I got a message telling me: "Your Boot Record, which contains critical Startup information, has changed........" It gave me the following 3 options: 1.The change to my boot record is ok...