Freshly installed copy of XP, connecting to freshly installed Win2003 server domain. Shared printer setup on domain--group policy, to my knowledge, is setup correctly to allow printing to any...

I am not sure if this is the newsgroup, but here we go. How does a GUID look like? I was trying to create a computer account for the domain server for a HP notebook. I could not find the computer...

I have a problem with partitions in a machine imaged by RIS with a riprep image. I had a computer with 2 partitions C and D. On C was the OS and on D I had some data. The machine failed to boot and I...

Device drivers: Have received conflicting advice about whether or not I need to install the computer's drivers after reinstalling WinXP Home SP2. What are your comments please? If I do need to,...

I have been using RIS for about 2 years now and I have the RIS server set to assign the machine name using the username followed by the number. This was working fine until last week. Now when using...

Had exactly the same problem with this motherboard using a RIS image on a Windows 2000 SP4 server. Tried everything I could think of with the drivers including using different versions and some...

Hi All, I'm running Windows XP PRO SP2 on a Vaio laptop with 512 Mb. Most actions are fairly fast but a few are very slow: - in Windows Explorer I click My Computer. It takes 30 to 60 seconds...

Hello Friends, I want to know what is the use of SYSPREP utility. All the manuals/documentation/technet tell us that u need run sysprep before creating a image. It prepares system for...

Hi, I'm trying to turn a 7 machine peer-to-peer network running XP home into a server based network. I know I have to upgrade the XP to Pro, but is there a tutorial or instruction manual on how to...

Anybody knows how to get this system to install??? Was running xp pro before, turned it off and it would not restart, tried everything, even re-installing xp pro, with no luck. reformatted the...

Hi. I used Casper XP at the beginning of '05 to make a copy of two drives onto a large backup drive. I did not use the latter for any other use. I set up the cloning process to update...

I reinstalled XP. I've got a Gateway Laptop. Now each time I turn on my laptop I get a black screen, and I'm given the choice of 2 XP's to start. What do I do? Bob

I have recently been informed by microsoft that i have a non-genuine installation of Windows XP Pro. Since then i have bought a new OEM pack. Now the problem i am having is that i want to make my...

I am trying to install my old palm on a new Dell with XP Home. The palm site keeps referencing Com Ports. I can't find Com Ports on my devise manager. What am I missing.

I have downloaded the boot program for Windows XP home edition. When extracting the program, and loading to floppies, it always stops at Disk 5 with 92% complete and says WRITE ERROR. I have 38kb...

-- fcsjr My OS (WINxp) is in my primary HD. But I wish to have the OS in my secondary HD also. I have the disk (license). How do I do that? Can I just copy it? or do I have to load it from the...

Were in the process of fine tuning our Ghost deployment process. Currently we use Ghost82 from DVD to restore images. Right now we need to boot the DVD and type ghost82 to start ghost then select...

I have gathered to me an old (before the sp's) copy of Windows XP and the 6 boot discs needed to reformat my computer. I have used them several times successfully and have been able to get the XP...

I have gathered to me an old copy of Windows XPpro (before the sp's) and the 6 boot discs needed for a reformat. With success more times than not, I know it all works. I am able to do the Windows...