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Bcastner is right. Never run more than one firewall. I don't like any of these personal software firewalls, they cause more problems than there worth. I would go with a linksys router/firewall. They have one that does Stateful packet inspection which is the standard in firewall protection. It...

try a fix mbr in the recovery console. This has worked for me

You need to log on as administrator to reset the password for that account. If the administrator password was never change since you bought the machine it is probably blank. You will have to boot into safe mode to do this because you set the machine to not prompt for password. Go into computer...

Turns out the cause was from the HP 4470C scanjet. Apperently xp didn't like the driver. Disconnected it and all was good. Thanks for that KB article BCastner.

Thanks, I'll give that a try

I've loaded XP on a machine with a 266 pentium 2 and 64 megs of ram. It was a little slow but worked just fine. Some of the newer resource intensive apps might not like it as well as a lot of the new games out there. But if you just want to surf the net and send emails you'll be fine.

Recently upgraded from 98 to xp pro. Everything runs great except I can not browse through "my computer". When I open it I get the flash light searching. I let it go for 15 up to minutes and it still couldn't find anything. I was able to get into my c: drive and any mapped network drives through...

Ok, great. That will come in handy if it happens again. Thanks for all your help.

What will those registry edits do? I mispoke before, the update is 828028.

It was 823980. I'll try it this weekend locally myself. If it happens again I'll just uninstall again. I'll let you know what happens.

That's exactly what I did. I booted to safe mode and removed the last hot fix in the list. I got lucky and that was the update that caused the problem cause everything was fine after that. But, I'd really like to know what caused it. This was the latest update that made the headlines about a...

It was installed from windows update after windows update query's the machine. I would imagine after the machine is queried the right updates are displayed.

Windows XP pro is installed with and unlimited license that does not require activation. After installing the latest updates from windows updated for the security flaw announced on 2/11/04 I get the error message: 0x8007007f A problem is preventing windows from accurately checking the license...