How can I authorize a user to create desktop shortcut and unauthorize a user to create files as Excel, Word.. files on the desktop. my tools : Windows XP Pro, Windows 2003 Server Active Directory...

i have a few computers that are currently running poorly. I want to reload these systems from scratch, but i also don't want to bother reactivating windows. are there system files some where that i...

Hi, I currently have xp media center, but I want to install a licensed version of xp pro. It will not accept my product key even though it is a valid key. I tried to install xp pro, as a test, from...

A while back I got a new hard disk and installed Windows XP on it, leaving Windows ME on my old disk. I have a boot.ini file on my old drive and get a multi-boot menu. Almost immediately I started...

Hi, I'm installing windows xp on a pc that has 2 hard drives configured in raid 0. When I'm in the begining of windows xp installation I press F6 to install a controller card where the hard drives...

I'd like to runa a batch file automatically the first time a user logs onto a machine. They will be logging onto a a domain at an XP Pro workstation as a domain user. It assigns a network drive as...

How do I setup and use IIS? I already installed it but cannot figure out how to configure and use the new version. Personal Web Server was a lot easier and more intuitive. -- DRK

The on-switch on my notebook died, and while the company fixed that, they also blew away the contents of my HD and gave me a new copy of XP Pro Tablet Edition. Well, I had imaged the old copy which...

Hi there, I have a laptop with a floppy drive but a faulty CD drive and want to install Windows XP on it. It is connected over a LAN to a computer with CD-drive. Can I install XP over the...

I upgraded XP Home last night to SP2 and since then haven't been able to access my camera and printer through their USB ports. I got the SP2 upgrade from my computer manufacturer on a CD which they...

Hi, I am trying to reinstall windows 98 with a harddisk that was from another pc.It already has win98 on it. It wont detect my usb mouse and it also wont boot from the cdrom although i have made...

I have a machine that has 2 partitions C and D. on C is the OS and in D I have some user's data. I need to image this computer with a RIS image but I need to be able to dump the image on the C drive...

hi, I can not right click from what i think is called the taskbar (at the bottom of the screen which shows the browser windows that are open) to do things like close a window Usually if I right...

I Have Tied To Do That But The Thing Is ,I Put Windows XP Disk Into A Compaq Computer And It Say To Enter A Product Key And It Won't Excet It The Product Key That This Computer Has Help Me "Carey...

Hello, Trying to do a Network Install of XP Pro. Just wanting to try it for the sake of doing it. Anyone find a document that will explain "Stp by Step" instructions... Any help is great... thanks...

Is it possible to configure Microsoft’s USTM to migrate Outlook Auto Archive settings? We’ve been successful in getting the Outlook Views, ODBC connections, Mapped Drives, and other misc....

Where does one find a definitive Unattend.txt and Sysprep.inf option list? I'm going nuts piecing together options listed here but not there on the MS site. Seems most all my info comes from Windows...

Attempting to upgrade from ME to XP Pro. After the 20 minutes or so of the setup process in ME, system reboots and gets to a low-res setup screen. It sits at this screen perhaps 5 seconds, then...

Has anyone else had problems with cookies in internet explorer not being presented during HTTPs sessions? If so do you know a way of fixing them? Any information regarding this would be...

Dear All Anyone has an idea on how to transport a XP PC to other similar PC but with the same image frm PC1? Example...from PC1 ...the image is distributed to other PC with similar...