Need some help

Have you tried loading the xp cd again? You could try to reinstall XP with the disc

If you see the window XP logo its background is black, am I right? I'm stating this because a different procedure is required for a blue screen with just text on it. the later is much severe, if its the first case, chances are there's still hope with your cross-stitch program. If you can comfortably fallow the steps below then go ahead else let somebody do it for you. 1. Boot up 2. wait till memory test finished and drive detected 3. press [F8] to enter boot menu - this is quite fast, so if you see the win logo it mean you are late in pressing [F8], go back to step 1 and start all over again. 4. in the menu select "Last know good configuration" see attached image. If still it did not boot have a qualified tech guy to look into it. Good luck.

there is a screen you can get to that has the safe option on it, there is also an option to boot to known good configuration. I would try either save mode, or last known good configuration. if those don't work then you might have to go and reformat and reinstall windows xp. Then be careful what sites your friends access on your computer. also create a guest account for that computer with no download access or anything else. they can use webmail or online games but down allow anything to be downloaded or saved to the computer hard drive for that guest account.

Hey, I don't really know how to help, I am truly sorry. Hopefully someone else will be able to answer your question better than I have done, in a really good way so you can actually benefit from it. Make sure you have a good day, Happy Lotting!!

hmmmm i think your computer is bombed... infected by a rootkit or a trojan from the internet. do you have any anti-virus installed on your computer? what OS did you use? you said you have a MAC and PC... Which computer does not load? (i guess its the PC ^_^) I think you should reformat your PC and install anti-virus after a fresh windows Install....

hi,friend, why don't you use parallels or vmware fusion which is the virtual machine of Mac OS ? needn't restart to install another OS XP and just install XP in Mac OS by parallels or others.your friend could login in virtual machine to play poker. Enjoy mylot!

You can start in safe mode and give it a try then later i think you can fix this issue. Ya you are right we cannot deny friends from operating the pc for such a reason. Just start in safe mode and give it a try hope so this will help you out.