David Trimboli wrote: Well, I managed to figure this out. When you make a boot image from Windows Vista media, the image file actually contains two images. The second image is the one you're...

I haven't confirmed this as fact, just going on my experience, but if he uses the key on the sticker and not the one the original Dell install media uses, it is very likely he'll lose the Dell...

Neiman wrote: programs on startup or else it may be a failure of an old virus. Please check that you get suitable permissions in C:\DOCUME~1\Bob\LOCALS~1\Temp\.

How old is the laptop? You will have to have it serviced again. John Steve wrote: John, I have a better one...had issue with compaq 2700 heat sink for chip had to be resoldered. After lapto...

When xp asks to activate,activate with the "by phone" method,this way you enter youre "product key",it says too many activations,etc,phone the registration number,888 571 2048.Microsoft gives you a...

Anthony, happy to be of service. Glad you got things going. Best of luck. Andrew. "Anthony Travis" <AnthonyTravis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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Thanks all, i thought this would be ok just wanted some re-assurance, and the technet article helps :) "Dave R." wrote:

Mine is running slower, much slower, but when I posted to another group, the consensus was not toward SP3, but toward issues between it and my antivirus program. Will update you as I have sucess, or...

Specifically, you cannot do a repair install on NTFS when booted from DOS. But, that should be possible when booted from Win/BartPE. HST, my experience with manufacturer's recovery disks/partitions...

Here is a link to the other thread,...

You can't have a universal image HAL wise with Windows XP. My trick is to manually replace the HAL and rebuild the image. It's not recommended nor supported, but it does the trick. What I do is pick...

.. Go to the Start Menu and the Run box. .. Type in the following: control userpasswords2 .. now click OK .. In the new Windows that appears select the account you wish to make the primary...

You're welcome. John wjr wrote:

Further to Ed's reply on my motherboard I can press F12 on boot which produces a menu which allows me to choose which drive to start from. This means I do not have to switch things around in the...

Because the board is from a third party manufacturer who do themselves fully support XP on the platform then you should be OK. The BOIS may be slightly non-standard as far as ASUS is concerned but...

Nero used to let you copy disks, just bring up a copyright message but continue anyway. As alternative if you have another system to work on you could do copy the files on the cd to your hard disk...

Yeah, that's the first thing I check because it got me one time also. The XP images are online. Removing and adding the boot image from Vista didn't work, then I remove and add the Windows 2008 boot...

Hmmm....I chatted with a very friendly and helpful MS support rep last night and confirmed that yes, the license can be transfered to the new machine, and yes, the SP1 key will work with the SP2...

When I try to build a PC from the original XP CD image created when setting up RIS/WDS a number of files fail to copy as the textmode screen reports files either corrupt or missing. In view of this...