Threads Replies Last Post 18 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18   Netwrok cable extender Hi sbs 2003 network. We have a client pc which is just too far away. Is there a way to extend the length of the netwrok cable by using some sort of extender hardware? Would appreciate some recommendations. Thanks Regards ... 5 15.05.2007 13:47:22 Windows XP 64 Windows Installer Service Error I have Windows XP 64 SP2 on my PC. Approximately on month I have problem, when try to install something: Error 1719. The Windows Installer Service could not be accessed. I search Knowledge Base for this error and try to reinstall Windows Installer with redistributable packages, but they only for 32-bit versions of Windows. How can I reinstall Windows Installer on WinXP 64-bit, or s... 1 15.05.2007 11:35:01 XP Imaging Issues At work we order about 15 Dells at a time. They all come OEM with their own product keys, with XP already installed and activated on them. My time consuming problem at work is taking the time to join each one to a domain, installing all our programs, installing office, adobe acrobat reader, customizing the settings, shortcuts to network folders and I have to do this for 10-20 PCs at a crack... 3 15.05.2007 08:08:02 xp pro oem disk I am replacing a hard drive and need an original oem disk. is there a good spot to download one?... 7 15.05.2007 02:14:10 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... 4 14.05.2007 21:45:29 Duplicate folders Hello all, I'm tidying up my computer and would like to know what Local Service NT authority and Network service NT authirity are for. I know its to do with the internet but my problem is that i have two of each! I've just deleted two folders that represented my settings before reinstalling early last year and the dates of creation correspond in as much as one is 26 june [the date of... 1 14.05.2007 20:00:02 Inaccessible boot device w2k aborts loading halfway producing blue screen with white letters advising ***Stop Inaccessible boot device Win XP Home installed in another partition either send similar screen with the message Kernel Data inpage Error Or it loads and works but in a while throughs the blue screen "Dumping physical memory" Also booting sometimes hangs on Detecting IDE drives and does not proceed to ... 16 14.05.2007 17:43:46 Can't join domain unattended In my RIS setup for a particular machine, it's not joining the domain. setuperr.log states that an attempt to join the domain did occur, and failed. Everything else in the installation goes as planned. Here's my ristndrd.sif file. Can someone tell me why it's not working? ;SetupMgrTag [data] floppyless="1" msdosinitiated="1" OriSrc="\\%SERVERNAME%\RemInst\%INSTALLPATH%"... 8 14.05.2007 16:24:25 XP Boot Problems I have Windows XP Home and had problems with reloading after a major failure. This resulted in an abortive attempt to load and register and then eventually a further successful attempt. I am now faced with one configuration but 2 options in the boot.ini file. This does not self correct despite there only being one operating system loaded and I can find no way of removing the offending... 3 14.05.2007 14:55:06 Using BDD to Deploy XP, have questions Hi, I have a question, I currently have WDS installed and in the workbench I have two operating systems under Distribution share, Vista and XP however when I boot up the only choice I get is Vista on the install menu. What am I doing wrong? Thanks,... 1 14.05.2007 12:29:00 Best way to deploy Desktop--just OS or Full Image? Our organization is undergoing a consolidation, and, looking to standardize the deployment of a standard desktop to all computers (> 50 K). Most sites (35 +) use some kind of imaging product, usually Ghost Solution Suite, to produce an image that is then put on the computer by a variety of means, but, the similarity ends there. There are two schools of thought: 1) Deploy a full ima... 7 13.05.2007 20:15:00 Problem in accurately checking the license Hi I had to repair my win xp partition. Now after login in I am getting an error message 'A problem is preventing windows from accurately checking the license for this computer. Error code: 0x80090019'. What is the problem and how can I fix it? Thanks Regards ... 2 13.05.2007 18:23:05 WinPE 2.0 Network support - is there some trick? Hi, I'm playing around with WDS and WinPE 2.0. I'm having heaps of trouble getting network drivers to load. I've followed the instructions on making a custom image and have also used the peimg /inf method of adding drivers offline. I can see that the drivers are there in the image and that some of them (SCSI or RAID) are loading, but even if I manually try to load the driver after ... 4 13.05.2007 06:17:28 high speed internet i'm on DSL through centurytel. got my router hooked up on my computer and everything's working well. how do i hook up a second computer for my girlfriend in another room? thought it should be simple, but can't seem to get it up and running. -- alan horton... 3 12.05.2007 17:58:00 Windows XP Home -- Files and Buffer settings When I try to install Quicken on my PC, I get a msg saying I need to change the config.sys files so Files=50 and Buffers=10. I can't seem to get to the config.sys file to edit it. How do I change the File and Buffer settingings in Windows XP Home edition? Thanks for any help. -- Joe Nav... 2 12.05.2007 15:07:49 Installing Windows XP Home Full Version I had f-disked my hard drive. I have flashed the BIOS and done everything I can think of, but can not get xp to install. Sometimes it starts to load drivers, sometimes it want to format, but every time I put the disk in, it will stop before it even gets to where it want the serial number. Never the same place. I am running ME right now, so does anyone have any idea on how to install ... 6 12.05.2007 03:50:19 need to stop unwanted driver re-install from appearing on reboot I forgot to remove the driver for a BENQ LCD before removing form XP. Worse, I plugging in a Viewsonic monitor in its place before installing the right driver. Despite the correct driver has been installed for the Viewsonic LCD, every time after starting up the XP and login, the wrong unsigned driver install will be attempted and I have to abort the install This is pain I need hel... 2 12.05.2007 03:47:49 Section Name for $$rename.txt I've got a number of software packages that have long file names that need to be converted to 8.3-format for a RIS image. I've written a script that writes a $$rename.txt file in each folder of a given package and renames the files that need renaming. My question is how to format the [Section_Name] part of $$rename.txt as a relative path pointing only to the current directory. All the e... 2 11.05.2007 21:51:19 MUI, Sysprep, letting user choose on first-time run Hi, I've made an English XP SP2 image, installed the MUI(with French) and then ran Sysprep. I was wondering if there is any way to prompt the user during the first-time run of XP on whether they would like English or French XP. Maybe something I can add to [RunOnce], the INF file or the cmdlines.txt file? Thanks. Vince ... 2 11.05.2007 21:41:36 Found New Hardware Wizard during Unattended Installation I'm setting up a RIS image for a Dell Latitude D505. Everything's going well, but there's one bit that's bugging me. During GUI setup mode, at 34 minutes remaining, the Found New Hardware Wizard appears, trying to install the monitor driver (not the display adapter driver). The Latitude D505 simply uses the default Plug-and-Play driver in Windows. If left alone, the wizard will remain f... 2 11.05.2007 19:42:40 Vibration problem with hd? Hi all, I have a friend with an XP machine in a truck. When he goes over bumpy roads the computer crashes. Can XP be installed on say a usb silicon based hd that will not be suseptable to the bumpy roads? Any other ideas? thanks, charles...... ... 7 11.05.2007 15:43:22 how to stop unwanted driver install from apearing on reboot I forgot to remove the drive for a BENQ LCD before removing form XP. Worse, I plugging in a Viewsonic monitor in its place before installing the right drive. Despite the correct driver has been installed for the Viewsonic LCD, every time after starting up the XP and login, the wrong unsigned driver install will be attempted and I have to abort the install This is pain I need h... 3 11.05.2007 15:33:14 Language Toolbar How can a permanently turn off the language toolbar? When I do it from the task bar XP keeps turning it back on every I logon. It's getting to be quite annoying that XP doesn't retain that setting. ... 4 11.05.2007 15:24:37 Sysprep: Dell Latitude D620 High Definition Audio Driver problem. I was wondering if anyone else encountered problems with Sigmatel's audio driver in the D620 laptops. After the laptop is reimaged all drivers load fine except one that shows up as "Unknown PCI Device" with the following Hardware Id: PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_27D8&SUBSYS_01C21028&REV_01 which is an Intel driver. If I try to update the driver Windows doesn't recognize the .inf file I have as valid... 5 11.05.2007 14:27:02 Files and settings transfer wizard i ran the fst wizard and collected my files, saved the 3 files 2img0001&2 and staus to a thumb drive. fdisked my computer installed xppro now when i run the wizard it tells me that there are no files to restore. yet the three files are on the drive. whats wrong?... 4 11.05.2007 08:50:01 18 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18