I CAN NO LONGER OPEN THE "HELP AND SUPPORT" PROGRAM THAT IS PART OF MY COMPUTER.WHEN I SELECT IT AND PUSH ENTER THE HOURGLASS POPS UP AND I CAN HEAR THE COMPUTER SHUFFELING FOR A COUPLE SECONDS THAN NOTHING.RIGHT BACK WHERE I WAS.WHEN I TRY USE THE "F" KEY NOTHING HAPPENS. NONE OF THE "F" KEYS WORK FOR THERE FUNCTION INCLUDING "F-8".I HAVE THE MULTIMEDIA PS/2 KEYBOARD WHICH INCLUDED 5 FUNCTION BUTTONS, ONE OF WHICH IS " ? INFO" . I CAN HEAR THE COMPUTER FOR A SECOND BUT NOTHING HAPPENS. THE OTHER BUTTONS WORK JUST FINE.THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR A WHILE NOW BUT I DIDN'T REALLY CARE TILL I WENT TO LOOK IF THERE WAS INFO ON ANOTHER PROBLEM WITH ACTIVATION ERROR. CAN ANYONE HELP?1 person got this answerI do too

Hello POZO23 Try reinstalling “Help and Support” http://windowsxp.mvps.org/rebuildhelp.htm

first off i want to thank you for trying. as soon as i read insert cd i figured i was still going to have problem. i was given this computer as a gift off the shelf at best buy. it came preloaded with all kinds of stuff. it is a hp pavillion preloaded with xp media center 2005.i don't even know how to use the media center portion properly.it came loaded with microsoft office,word,works, all that microsoft stuff. stuff i don't need or use.i really only use it to read the internet and play on a couple of gamesites. i no longer have the microsoft programs even though there still on my programs menu.i try to open and it says a file is missing in error form. anyway i was unable to get past pchealth.inf portion. i did find the folder i386 just for kicks and it was empty. i also found the windows pchealth/helpctr/binaries file loaded up with all kinds of pc.health stuff but i have no idea what they are or do.i did open up the misconfig.exe file which open but i knew i wouldn't know what to do there and not to fool around.since the computer is working fine for my needs i will just let it go,unless you think it's effecting something critical.i had and access violation error on one of the gamesites after a download and i went to the help section to see if it could tell me anything,thats when i found out it wouldn't open. i don't think the access error is one my side. thanks again,sorry for the rambling.

It is up to you. If you can live with the problem just leave it then

what else can i do without the disk?

You could borrow a disk from a friend.Make sure it is the same version of XP as yours, Media Center.For your particular repair, I think an XP Pro disk would do as well