I am working on a friends computer, trying to upgrade windows ME to XP. During the first reboot of the XP install the system freezes. Now everytime I boot it up it asks if I want to continue the XP ...

I've got a file, specifically a 3.96 gig uncompressed AVI file, that refuses to delete. Even immediatly after a reboot, explorer will tell me that the file is in use 'by some program or application', ...