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I have W7 and XP Pro running in a dual boot environment. I now want to remove XP, but I don't want to remove or reformat the partition containing XP. (It also contains lots of files and programs not duplicated in the W7 partition.) Is there a way to do that?

I recently re-installed XP Pro SP2 after reformatting the disk on an old Dell desktop. Expecting to spend several hours downloading updates, I initiated windows update. It scans for updates OK, but won't open the next window. I get the error message 0x80190194. I did an error code lookup...

For some reason, my security update software doesn't always recognize that a .NET Framework update has already been installed. This results in constant notifications that "an update is ready to install". The only way I can get it to stop is to turn off the automatic update feature. How can I...

I have two computers running XP on a home network. For a couple of years, I've used Acronis 10 on each machine to backup their disks to an external drive. No problems until a couple of months ago. Then, Acronis on one machine started hanging up after selecting the drive to be copied, when...

I have a wired LAN with two computers and a router. I've been sharing two printers, an internet connection and an external USB hard drive. For months, everything worked fine. Suddenly, I can't get access to the hard drive except by the computer it is connected to. Moving the drive physically...

How can I re-establish my Vista bootloader after installing XP home? The Vista recovery disk that came with the computer does not contain the repair software, and the available programs such as VistaBootPro don't seem to work for one reason or another.

I'm trying to install XP Home on a new HP Athlon 64X2, in a dual-boot configuration with the Vista OS that came with it. Got the disk partitioned and XP installed fine, but XP driver won't work with the integrated nvidia nForce 430 network controller. Does anyone know where I can find an...

I have an older computer with a J-Bond Motherboard and an AMP 233Mhz K-6 processor. I just replaced the hard drive with a 20G drive, the smallest I could get. The processor only recognizes 8G of the available space. Is there any way I can partition the disk to trick it into recognizing it as...

I'm trying to install w98 second ed on an old computer with a new hard disk. I have the W98 system disk and CD. Tne CD-ROM seems to work fine from the boot disk, but I can't run "setup". It tells me I have used an improper command or file name. I can run "Dir" on the CD, and it tells me that...

Is there any way to inhibit loading of application programs until after ME has completely loaded itself? Many programs, particularly those which try to access the internet or write to disk, seem to interfere with ME's loading, and lock up the computer. Cntrl/Alt/Del won't work, and power off is...