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 ...

Here's the deal. I have a dual-boot scenairo here. Win2k and WinXP. (share comp with my mom) ofcourse I kill win2k a lot quicker than my mom can kill XP. So I wanna keep a recovery console handy ...

Following on from last week's guide to troubleshooting Windows XP problems using the System Configuration facility we will look at what to do if XP refuses to boot after a major crash. XP Home and Pro ...

This includes tasks such as repairing a broken partition table, cloning a failing drive to a new disk before the old one dies completely, or simply changing a corrupted file that is preventing the ...