I have tried opening my computer but it will not work. It lets me open it but once I get the the Windows XP loading page and after that the screen just goes black and it says something about it failed to initialize this programme click OK to terminate...so I cliked OK and the same thing came up again and I cliked OK again and the same thing just keeps appearing. I have done this so many times. And sometimes a different thing pops up and says you do not have enough virtual memory and stuff but I cannot go onto my desktop to delete things...

1) Insert your original Windows XP Professional CD into your optical drive
2) Boot your system from the CD
3) When you see the blue screen look for an option that lets you repair your existing operating system
4) Follow the instructions displayed on the screen very carefully and finally let the program repair your corrupted operating system files.

When you upgraded to Internet Explorer 9, it made a backup of Internet Explorer 8 and replaced it. If you are running windows xp you would have had the Beta release of IE 9, as the full blown release will not run on xp. It was designed only for Vista or Windows 7.

In order to get IE 8 back, you will need to go to Start > Control Panel and look for the option to Uninstall or Change Programs or the Icon for Programs and Features if in icon view. Once the list of programs loads, look for Internet Explorer 9 and then highlight it and click Uninstall at the top of the screen. It will remove the new version and replace it with your previous version. You will need to reboot the machine when it is finished.

Once back up and running you should have IE 8 back in place and fully functional.

first take backup your important files from my dcument c drive & desktop in other than c drive
now place XP CD into your CD Drive that is set to boot first in your Bios.
And reboot, When prompted (usually one of first things) press any key to boot from CD" do that....
once you get to the screen that loads press ENTER to "set up XP now"
Then press F8 for the user agreement
The next page will show your previous installs.
choose yours..
Select "Install a Fresh Copy of XP without repairing"
the next page will show some options with your drives and partitions listed below.
from there you want to select the partition with your current XP install,
Then smash "D" on your keyboard to delete the partition (this is where all data is lost on the drive)!
you will need to press Enter on the next page to confirm.
and another confirmation press L
next you will see your drive press C to create an new partition
next you can just hit Enter to create partition the full size of your drive. (suggested) or you can change the size and have multiple partitions.)
once you have created the partition press Enter to install
windows will tell you the drive is not formatted and will offer you
some choices... choose NTFS Quick or Slow ( I use slow on smaller drives and quick on the big ones.)

Hello,
Make sure if you have Adobe Flash player installed in your computer.Follow these steps below,

1.Click on START button on windows,select control panel.

2.Open Add/Remove programs (win xp) or Programs and Features (Win 7) and check if 'Adobe Flash
player' is listed in the window that opens.If not,then you need to install it to run you tube and other
videos and animations from Internet.

3.To do so,please follow the below link http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

4.Now click on the big yellow button that says 'Download Now',it will take you to download page and download will start automatically,click on save to desired location.

5.Once the download is complete,open the folder where you saved the file and run the file named
"install_flash_player.exe",the Adobe flash installer will open,simple follow the instructions on
screen to finish the installation successfully.

6.Once its complete open your internet browser and check if you tube videos work,if you still have
trouble,let me know with more details and I will try to help further.Hope it helped.

If you have an Antivirus program on your computer, try getting it to scan and quarantine the virus first. If that doesn't work, and you're running XP or higher windows, restore your computer to an earlier date than the problem started occurring. I've had success with this method. Go to "Help and Support" and go to "Backup and Restore", then "Restore". Pick a date and then let the machine run- sometimes it takes it a couple minutes to run, then it will tell you to turn off the computer and let it restart. Good luck, hope this helps.

You may have to re-nstall windows xp, but that's the last thing that you would want to do because it requires formatting your hard disk. Ummm it could be a virus, but i think that you should by some more ram. Ram is the memory in your computer that keeps everything on the screen. You can get ram at ebay or craigslist. If you are able to, go to start, control panel, performance and maintenance, then in the left hand side there is a tab the says "See Also", in that box there is a windows program called system restore, open it. Make sure that you let the computer take its time. Don't force it to handle many processes at once because that can lead to crashing. Now back to system restore. Make sure that "Restore my computer to an earlyer time is selected, then click next. Try to choose a date that you think was before the computer became sluggush. Once you've chosen click next. Follow the instructions on the screen, click next and you should be promted to restart, so restart. Once it restarts it should restore while booting up. And it should work again.

If you have a bootable xp disk handy set up the computer to boot from dvd-rom or cd-rom, put the disk in the drive and let it start setting up windows, Once on a blue page where you have a few options choose "R" for recovery console, it opens up a command prompt page. When in the command prompt page type: chkdsk c:/f and press enter, let it run. When finished restart hopfully its all back to working order.

<Change drive letter to the drive you use if it is other than c:>

You could also get another hard drive set as master and set the other as slave, load a copy of windows onto the c: drive and boot it up, all your files should now be on drive d: your original boot drive.

Let me know how you get on. thanks

you have to use xp os.because windows 98 is tatally back dated. thats why its not opening. or you can check it into another xp os. computer if it is open then your sure that windows 98 is not supporting, or if it is not open then your pendrive has some problem.

Try going to www.adobe.com and install the latest "Flash" update.
I trust you are on XP or Vista?
Some web sites will no longer work with Windows 98.
Also, make sure you computer is up to date. IE: Internet Explorer 7.

go into the control panel. click administrative tools. open computer management. click the tab called disk management. make sure the drive you want to format isnt the system drive. (it wont let you format while running) and format the drive from there. you can also choose the drive letter you want to format to. very useful if you are a neat person. (C: MAIN, D: documents, M: music, Z: dvd writer, V: virtual memory.........)