Sooner or later, every XP user faces the moment when he or she needs to access a system in a low-level maintenance mode to fix some kind of problem with the operating system itself. Perhaps the system ...

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 ...

You should be able to run cacls.exe for command line control of ACLs on the system. However, the Recovery Console is normally prevented from having full access to the system by a default policy. You ...