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Ken, just stick the CD in the drive and restart your machine. On startup it should detect the CD and come up with the install options where you should be able to select the clean install. If you choose NTFS file system, it will have to reformat your hard drive as WIN98 in FAT32. (I would...

Kurt, Not sure what is causing this, but a workaround I found is a useful little tool to save your desktop icon positions. It's at: http://www.pcnineoneone.com/tweaks/layout.zip Unzip the file and double click the "layout.reg" file to install the registry keys then right click on...

Totally agree with the advice here. You can never have too much RAM! I recently switched from 98 to XP Pro and it was really struggling. That was with a 533MHz procesor and 128MB RAM. Microsoft claims that the minimum supported RAM requirement is 64MB, but in reality, this would be almost...

Hi there, I had this problem when upgrading from 128MB memory to 640. (adding two 256MB sticks) I added the 2 256MB sticks and got this on bootup. The problem was solved by swapping the sticks so that the largest one (256MB) was in DIMM1, 256 in DIMM2 and the 128 in DIMM3. I.e. In descending...

I had this problem and it was due to incorrect driver versions. In mine, it turned out to be the wrong driver for a logitech cordless keyboard that was doing it! Make sure that all your drivers are the latest versions, for XP. Hope this helps, Chris Bigamy is having one wife too many...

In my experience, the indexing service is responsible for this on my machine. Try turning it off and see if things improve. Good luck, Chris Bigamy is having one wife too many. Marraige is the same. -Oscar Wilde

Hi there, I had this problem when I installed drivers for my logitech keyboard and mouse. I was using the CD that came with them that was meant for Win 95/98 and not XP. Though this may not be your problem, I would recommend checking that all your drivers are XP compatible etc. If you're not...