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 ...

The operating system's built-in safety net can be a quick and easy way to recover from a PC problem, but it too can fail. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for Ziff ...