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You need to first identify what key you need to enter the bios ( or setup utility).
(IBM is F1, dell and other brands of laptops are different)

To navigate the setup utility - no mouse is...

Check the regional settings in the control panale ( language ) change to English US, or look in incredimail for country or regional settings

Also check your location settings and time zone in...

Not legit.
You cannot purchase windows XP for that price anywhere - legitimately.
Also, it may be XP home edition, with a cracked serial number.
You'll never pass the windows legit checks.

Try this
http://www.jdoqocy.com/click-2416861-10403378

Cmos is a chip technology
Bios is a chip for controlling the components of a computer
Try wikipedia

Update your motherboard bios and look for updated power management drivers from windows updates

Windows 2000 has a boot manager
A file called boot.ini is what you need to change

Right click my computer
Properties
Advanced
Startup
Edit the booot.ini

ftp is not very popular these days.
Look at online file storage sites like Box.net - Free Online File Storage, Internet File Sharing, Content Management, Access Documents & Files Anywhere, Backup...

Chexck your power management drives, sounds like the computer doesn't have the right drives, or look for windows 98 shut down patches.

T60 has built in recovery partition. Unless you deleted it.
Use the blue IBM Access button on bootup to restore to factory.
T60 comes with XP SP2.
I have recovery disks (cd's for T60) if you need...

Both will work, you can't disable the laptop primary keyboard.
Unless you physically go into device manager and disable the device, but it will effect the external keyboard as well.

You can only get the data off the old hard drive, you shouldn't import the registry and other settings. It won't work.

You can buy an external USB to 2.5" IDE case and converter cable from eBay,...

You missed plugging something else in.
Look for the inverter, which plugs into the lcd backlight with 2 wires and a white plastic connector.

Only thing you can do is run the laptop hot so the fan will engage.
Or take it out and put a 1.5 volt aa battery to it ansd see if the fan will spin.

Check for spyware and adware.
virus scan running, or some applications are running in the background.

Device manager, disable and uninstall them, reboot

Lcd backlight or the inverter has blown.
Either can be replaced.
I've doen about 50 of them. Backlights are harder, but the part is only $20.

Go into laptop bios, enable the pointer.
Look on the laptop for something like synaptics and either re-enable it, or reinstall it.

Yes, power on the laptop, press the FN + F keys that switch between internal lcd, external lcd and both.
Depends on the laptop. Some maybe:

FN + F7 or F5
Each time you press it toggles between...

Check for a updated video driver from the manufacturer.
Check for updates to power management and power control from the manufacturer.
Possibly the lcd has some brightness and darkness controls...

The backlight is going. They are hard to replace, but not expensive.
You have 2 options:
1) replace the whole lcd (including the lcd screen itself) eBay has the parts
2) repair the backlight...

Press Shift + Numlock, or Function + Numlock to clear it

You might have to buy a LPT to usb converter cable from tigerdirect.com

Some older toshiba's had a hack that you could make using the printer port, you have to wire up a password reset dongle. You might find one on eBay.
I've personally used this technique before and it...

If the history has been cleaned, all you can do is check recycle bin that may still have those folders.

Try a different dnas (opendns.org)
Activex security can be lowered in the security settings of the browser.

Go to file\import export
Export cookies to desktop
Open the new cookies exported file and look for the information
I it.