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The laptop came preloaded with XP Home. I purchased XP Pro separately, so it isn't OEM. It was a retail upgrade version. Now my question here is: is there a way to uninstall an upgrade of PRO and go back to Home. I have been trying and I have found no way. Thanks

Hello Everyone. I have windows XP installed in my Dell laptop. It came with Windows XP home by default and I bought XP Pro to upgrade it. Now that I have put together a new computer, I would like to uninstall (if that is possible) the PRO upgrade from one computer and install it on my new box...

Hello everybody. I hope some of you can help me with this problem: I recently made a major upgrade to our home computer (this included a Motherboard update). Previously, the computer had Windows ME installed. I decided to install Windows 2000 in a different partition and have a dual boot...

Hello everybody. I hope some of you can help me with this problem: I recently made a major upgrade to our home computer (this included a Motherboard update). Previously, the computer had Windows ME installed. I decided to install Windows 2000 in a different partition and have a dual boot...

Now, here is another question. Is it worth switching to XP just to get the benefit of HT? am I going to see a performance leap? what about Linux? is it a good "HT Performer"? Ok, that was 4 questions.... :) Thanks

Hello Everybody. I recently put together a Pentium 4 box. I put a 3.0 Prescott in it (with Hyper Threading). What I did not realize was that by default, the BIOS in my motherboard disables Hyper Threading. So I installed Windows 2000 with the hyper threading disabled. Now, when I try to enable...

I went ahead and installed the aftermarket cooler. I did not install the stock hsf. It has been running for about 2 weeks now. Do you think the new thermal compound wil help? How much? thanks

Hello everybody. THis is my first time posting here. I just put a computer together (pentium 4 3.0 Mhz Prescott) and I decided to buy a new heatsink to replace the Intel hsf that comes with the processor. The one I chose was the Cooler Master Aero 4 (lite). I did not replace the thermal compound...