Threads Replies Last Post 18 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18   Question about, "Windows has finished installing new devices." I have a question about the following message Windows has finished installing new devices. The sofware that supports your device requires that you restart your computer. You must restart before the new settings will take affect. Is there somewhere I can go and see what windows thinks it needed to install? A log or something? I've looked in the event viewer and can find nothing. ... 4 15.05.2007 13:51:14 De-activation problem Please can anyone explain what happened here. I have a PC running Windows XP Home (full retail licence) which is now about 4 years old. I decided I wanted a higher performance PC so I built a new one. With the exception of a dial-up modem card all the component parts were brand new. I also bought a new Windows XP Home OEM licence. When I came to test the new machine I set it up with a... 5 21.05.2007 15:25:06 Reinstalling Generic OEM XP Home on new motherboard, activation ok I'm looking to upgrade my machine from an old Pentium 4 chipset to a relatively modern AMD AM2 board. I'm also upgrading to a PCIe video card. Aside from what was mentioned, everything else remains the same. I have a generic OEM (xxxxx-OEM-xxxxxxx-xxxxx) XP Home CD that was purchased from Newegg in summer of 2005. I've verified this is not one of those "SLP BIOS-Locked" versions of XP. ... 3 21.05.2007 14:41:20 large drives hi, i'm tired of searching existing threads about my problem here. can't find direct answers to it.. I have a Seagate (SATA) 160Gb and just curious of the size in it. It just recognizes a 149 Gb of space. About my OS, its Windows XP w/ SP2 year released: 2002. Just been searching for Winxdoes XP hotfixes in it and I can't find one. Is there any could explain further to this issue... 3 21.05.2007 11:02:46 Scanstate and loadstate. I cannot understand where the tools are, are they on the installation CD, need to be downloaded or in a working XP installation? ... 2 21.05.2007 10:42:03 Windows Installer aways rollsback!!!! Hi, Suddenly, Windows Installer will not install any programs. It gets to the very end and after it writes to the registry, it rolls back the install. It does this on everything I have tried (WinZip to large programs). It also sometimes says "the wizard was interupted". I cannot find any log files. I tried running a regisrty cleaner and when it booted up again windows installer i... 1 21.05.2007 03:41:03 Product registration I can't register Office 2007. WHen I try to type a zero, I get a window stating that "o" is not a valid number. How do I fix this?... 3 20.05.2007 20:14:01 setting up office on XP Professional? I have windows xp professional and have just re-installed windows xp, as i was havings problems with my computer. I have managed to re-install windows xp, but i do not know how to install the office functions. I have tried all the add/remove windows components etc. but i still cannot install microsoft office. I am correct in that xp professional include the office functions? as befor... 6 19.05.2007 18:29:04 Reinstalling Winxp-pro problems - NO VALID PARTITION??? Spent many hours trying to format a new Western Digital 320GB hard drive in son's PC and finally put it into my other PC to run Western Digital Tools to partition it for the full 320gb. Formatted it to NTFS in same step. Sure was a lot faster than using Windows. Copied to the new drive the WinXP setup files with SP2 slipstreamed into it. However after installing into my son's new comput... 4 19.05.2007 16:39:11 reinstall XP - old programs still work? It has come to the point where I may have to reinstall XP. If I do so, would the old installed programs still work (no need to reinstall them)? Or do I have to reinstall all the programs also?... 4 19.05.2007 16:14:29 Partition size limitation when new Winxp Install? Building a new system and have an unpartitioned 320gb hard drive with troubles installing winxp-pro. Used Bart's PE Builder to get a windows environment but error message comes up when running winnt32.exe that no valid partition is present even though it was there on the other computer which I used to do a full partition using NTFS. I am wondering if my slip streamed winxp+sp2 install di... 3 19.05.2007 12:51:53 New XP Home installation trouble I am fitting a new hard drive to a fully working computer. I want a fresh installation of XP Home on the new drive and then format the small existing drive. I have set up the new drive as master and tried to boot up using the Windows CD after changing the bios to suit. When I switch on all the memory and components are recognised on the start up screen. I then get the message that it wil... 2 19.05.2007 06:37:00 xp boot problems i'm using xp but when i start the pc it only goes as far as the xp loading screen.i've tried going into the bios settings and using the last known good configuration but it still won't boot up and i don't have any discs.if any one has any answers could they please help. thanks ... 3 19.05.2007 06:32:00 any cluster size but default at installation? I want to reinstall XP right now on the same disk I've been using, but I don't want a 4K cluster size when I reformat. I don't see any way to get a smaller size outside of Windows. Can anyone help? Thanks a lot. ... 2 19.05.2007 06:25:01 Reinstalling Winxp-pro problems Bought a new unformatted western digital 320gb hd but having time consuming problems getting winxp-pro installed on it. My winxp-pro cd is not bootable since it is a corporate version. So I ran wd's lifeguard utility cd to format drive. Then I could not find a bootable xp floppy with cd support so I used my win98me bootable floppy. I have done this in the past many times but with smaller... 2 19.05.2007 00:03:21 ris and windows media player 11 I am having trouble getting the Windows Media Player icon to stay where I put it after I create an image of a box. I have the box setup just as I want it with the Windows Media Player icon in the Accessories/Entertainment folder. (to me that just makes sense that it is there) After I run riprep.exe to get my image of the box and then deploy the image to a new box, then when a new user... 1 18.05.2007 20:50:58 Windows Deployment Services Capture Wizard, Image capture in WDS Hi I have added a Vista Image from the WDS into the BDD 2007. I have created a PE capture which runs OK from WDS. I have created an XP system under Virtual PC 2007 and Sysprep'ed and boot from the PE Capture image by using Lite Touch (I pressed f12) and I processes to the point where it ask where to store the Image. But I cannot send it anywhere at the "Image Capture Destination" screen ... 2 18.05.2007 09:23:22 'Script' Explorer Details view for 'Default User' profile... Hi Trying to get the 'Default User' profile set, so that new users on PC's get the Details View, etc. We have a build process that uses the Administrator account through AutoAdminLogin and a procedure that can successfully copy the profile to the Default User. The issue is finding the correct settings...! (and not including spurious ones!) We have been trying the registry settings co... 2 18.05.2007 09:18:50 Clone to Virtual PC problem Hi, I've used Ghost to make an image of an XP machine. I've cloned this image to a Virtual PC using MS Virtual PC 2007. When the Virtual PC starts up, I get a blue screen, too fast to read what's on it, before it reboots. It then gives me options to restart into safe mode, etc, but they all have the same result, a blue screen and reboot. I've booted the virtual pc from an xp cd and ru... 3 18.05.2007 07:07:29 Problem Installing IIS on slipstreamed XP SP2 Hi, How can I install IIS on a system that was built with an image slipstreamed with SP2? When I try, it asks me for files from SP2. If I extract all the files from the SP to a folder and point it there, the IIS install errors. Point it to the SP exe, it errors. Point it to a CD with the SP on it, error. If necessary, I'l copy all the files over from another install if that'll work, but... 2 17.05.2007 11:02:28 Recovery Console Without DVD, CD or Floppy... My Windows partition contains many errors which need sorting, however i no longer have the setup CD that came with the pc nor does my pc have a floppy disk drive. I cant access windows due to the corrupted partition however i can access the linux partition i have set up. Is there anyway i can either fix the problem from inside linux or download copy of the recovery colsole, burn to a cdrom ... 2 16.05.2007 21:00:33 Learning useful windows xp tips Want to learn uninstalling hidden windows components, repairing registry database, tune up your operating system... http://windowsxpsp2pro.blogspot.com/ ... 1 16.05.2007 11:57:07 Windows Installer 3.1 I can not install any software on my PC because the Windows Installer is corrupted. The PC is running Windows XP Pro SP2 with all the latest updates and patches. Here are the messages from the Windows Installer. The Windows Installer Service could not be accessed. This can occur if you are running Windows in safe mode. or if the Windows Installer is not correctly installed. Contact you... 3 16.05.2007 03:08:45 USB suddenly died, system started to freeze a lot I have Acer Travelmate 4052 laptop with Centrino 1.6 Ghz processor, I took Hardisk from my PC to copy some data to my laptop and for that I bought a 3.5 inch casing which came along with an adaptor. It went well for a hour and copied some data but after that a message popup saying POWER SURGE ON USB HUB and pulled the usb connector and connector to the other remaing two ports alternatively bu... 1 15.05.2007 23:10:22 Outlook express dictionary problem Hi Since I have reinstalled win xp, in outlook express I only have french dictiory under Options->Spelling. The drop down does not have any other options. How can I get English UK option? Thanks Regards ... 5 15.05.2007 21:27:24 18 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18