My windows xp machine is starting to act weird on me. I wanna do a complete reinstall but I lost the littlebooklet which has the windows serial assigned to my cd. Is there a way of finding that serial before I delete everything? Maybe in some windows system folder or something? Or am I going to have to call technical support? I'm not too familiar with windows xp.

Another thing, I was trying to change my machines local ip addy and i remember in win2k you could do this from the command line. it was something like winipcfg...what's with xp? That didn't work. For some reason I lost my inet connection. I restarted my router, one of my machines rebooted the network config fine, but this xp box just kept popping some message saying I needed to reassign an ip to it. Meanwhile I have it on automatic. Well, it gave me some stupid wizard and in the middle of it , it failed.