I recently reformatted my hard drive and restored my original Windows configuration using my laptop's recovery disks. Everything was working fine, until I installed MS Office. Now all of a sudden my...

is there a way to bypass creating a user during the windows xp setup routine? An administrator account is setup by default and it also makes you create at least 1 other user account. What if you are...

Hello I created an image of a PC, used SYSPREP to eliminate all the SIDs and defined a SYSPREP.INF file to automate the configuration of the PC after applying a new image. I just ask the user to...

I just set up a stripped array and i have questions about licenses. If i use an activation on the xp home disk to put a system on the array, will i be able to access the office on the original...

Hello, I got a question here about the user profile path setting. Any registered program uses the path C:\Documents and Settings\adrisa0\Application Data for storing their core data (sometimes even...

I have windows 92 ME edition.I bought XP home edition to upgrade.It has a corrupt file and will not install.The file is Setup\setupapi.dll.I called customer support and they sent me a second CD.I put...

I had Windows XP installed on a 32GB C partition on a 250GB disk. Then I wanted to move the OS to a 32GB partition on a 120GB disk instead. To clone the disk, I took the 2 disks (the 250 GB OS disk...

i recently just reformatted my computer and i tried to install windows prof on it and i got in to the basic start up then i pressed instal and said tehre was no evidence that i i have the right or...

I have a PC which is loaded with XP Home. This had been having problems and so I tried running sfc /scannow to make sure all my files were intact. After a while a window pops up asking me to insert...

During the setup process my computer tells me the following: setup cannot copy the file: driver.cab setup cannot copy the file: ringout.wav setup cannot copy the file: autochk.exe setup cannot copy...

Hi! I've got now 3 computers, but only a 2 ports KMV switch. The oldest computer (an XP pro like the others) acts only as webserver and fileserver and I would like to run it headless. But each time...

I recently partitioned, formatted my hardrive, and then re-installed windowsxp home edition. I have a Dell Demonsion 2350. I have two hard drives in this machine. After I re-installed xp, the...

Re Win XP 2005 Media Center edition ... Do you lose anything relative to Win XP Pro SP2 ? I know you gain a lot ... but do you lose anything ? In other words , is Media Center an enhanced version...

After I installed XP over Win 98, I now have to select at startup if I want to boot using Win XP or Microsoft Windows. It will default to Win XP after about 30 seconds. What must I do to have the...

I have an iso image of XP with service pack 2 and I want to add some chipset drivers SATA drivers and alike (from Intel) so that I can complete an install of the OS. I add the drivers per the Intel...

As a result of a fle being corrupted, I needed to upgrade to XP (Again). I was afrais that I would loose al my files. I had the installation program create a c:\windows2 directory, rather than...

I have made everything possible to get over this issue. Ran ccleaner with all options. Erased %tmp%, turned off the scripting option in tools. Ran ad-aware. Tryed with ie7 beta. But still I get sript...

built a new pc, and i'm trying to install windows full version xp on a new formated harddrive and everytime i type in DOS setup.exe on the disk drive it says it cannot install in DOS? where am i...

I have asked questions about how to add drivers (sata drivers in particular) while installing XP. Since my laptop does not have a floppy drive I have been advised to slipstream my iso image of XP to...

Gman rambled on in microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support: Enable or disable agp in the bios.