Windows XP Recovery will then prompt you to scan your computer, which will then find a variety of errors that it states it cannot fix until you purchase the program. When you use the so-called ...

In addition to the recovery tools available in Win2K, Windows XP includes yet another feature known as Automated System Recovery (ASR). If Safe Mode Option and Last Known Good aren’t sufficient to do ...

I was helping a friend with a dead XP Home SP2 machine today. The machine would get to the end of the initial XP logo screen, but die with a blue-screen complaining about a corrupted SOFTWARE registry ...

Odds are your computer came with a recovery disc, a CD with all the programs and drivers that were installed on your PC's hard drive when it was new. And odds are you have absolutely no idea where ...

Ensure you'll never accidentally get locked out of your PC: create a password recovery disk for Windows XP. XP is the most secure of all Windows versions. However, if you have one Administrative ...

THERE’S A CERTAIN magical quality to the operating system that comes with some PCs. It’s there, but it’s not there. For several years now we’ve been airing reader gripes about the shortcomings of the ...

Windows comes with a built-in repair environment called the Recovery Environment. Unfortunately, it is possible for the recovery environment to become inaccessible. The same tools can be accessed by ...

Can you have XP store the recovery files for the C drive to another partition or drive? I set my boot drive as 8 Gigs and it is already over half full. When I tried to reduce the page file I got a ...