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Windows xp has a setting that will automatically shut the system off if it encounters a fatal error. if this is enabled and it is by default then this could be what is happening. From what I have seen most fatal errors seem to be caused by a video error.

If you can find out who makes the bios for the motherboard on your laptop their is usually a super password installed by the bios mfgr for instance the password for award bios in the past was "AWARDS" most bios's have build in super passwords that are built into the cmos chip itself

It should work most of the time however their are a few occasions in which it might not. As 2000 was a business based operating system some programs like games may or may not work due to driver incompatability

I know this may be a bit obvious but are you logged in as Administrator? On the xp machine due to the protections built into xp some programs must be installed only by someone having Admin level usage. If you are logged in as administrator then you can find out which program is causing the...

Do you have a printer shared on this network? I have seen thie kind of behavior with xp and Me and xp and 98 what seems to happen is that it trys to finish /connect to the printer before it reconnects to the network it requires a reg hack that makes xp not try and connect to the networked...

Try and see if you can boot into safe mode. If you can get into safe mode then what is happening is that windows is shutting the system off when it encounters a fatal error. This is "normal" behavior for windows xp unless you turn this feature off. You should be able to do this in...

What permissions are set for your user profile? Do you have a firewall installed? The combination of your user profile plus the level of security set in IE can cause this problem. If you look at your IE properties and compare theirs I will bet that their security level is set higher than yours.

In the bottom left han corner of the tour box there should be a place to check do not show this again just like in win 98

There are several causes for the lock-up that I have seen I would recommend looking at your antiviral program settings . What seem to occure is that the hard drive shuts down when the antiviral is running and it locks the system up. the other cause is that the network card is trying to...

Last time I saw "windoze" it was a change caused by a virus please update your virus protection and scan all files Ann