There are occasions in which XP boot up with a black screen saying that your HAL.DLL is missing or corrupted, and you are unable to get into Windows due to this reason. To resolve this issue, you need a good HAL.dll file, which is available in “i386″ folder of Windows XP installation disc.

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After installing Windows XP Service Pack 2, “Your computer might be at risk” message which appears in the system tray occasionally can be quite annoying. It is a red shield with a cross sign icon indicating that some security features are disabled on your PC.
To disable it, go to Control Panel > Security Center. Click [...]

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Today one of my colleagues experienced an issue when installing SQL Server 2005 Express Edition on her PC. It simply spends hours on “Setting File Security…” screen. After googling around, finally found this solution:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=910070
It appears that if you work in domain, the installation will do some verification on the domain user. A workaround is to: [...]

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