Threads Replies Last Post 18 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18   Blue screen Sudden I often recieve this blue screen errors. Mainly when I start my pc it goes into the blue screen error. So I have to reset it once often twice before I can get XP SP2 to load. Sometimes it occurs when I have just started XP. The most recen time it went like that in XP it said, IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL I have ran the systemtool for the harddrive but it didn't got bettrer and also sfc ... 2 03.05.2007 22:18:04 vacating an embedded search provider just upgraded to windows xp. previously used system in the UK and the system is stuck with "internet explorer provided by BTopenworld" and often the searchs relate to UK web. I just did upgrade to Internet explorer 7 from microsoft downloads. The BT openworld thing is still there. How can i get this out of the system? I'm in the USA now. TG ainslie... 3 03.05.2007 20:00:43 Profile Issue I am having an issue. I have a user who has a laptop and now wants to join the company domain. Problem is he has tons of data ie. email....calendar appts and stuff on his laptop. I created a user account on the 200 server domain for him and joined his laptop to the domain. As expected he does not see any of his old data and emails ect. What is the best way to have him see his old stuff? ... 3 03.05.2007 16:33:01 Configure Windows XP desktop likes a terminal desktop I need to setup a computer (running Windows Xp Professional) that will be used by the general public. I want to limit most of the functionalities so that user could not change any configuration not even browsing Windows Explorer. The purpose of this computer is to allow the user to use this computer to browse our company website only. Nothing else should be enabled but the Internet E... 6 03.05.2007 16:32:28 Problems with boot up... I have the following messages appearing when I boot up. FireDaemon.EXE has encountered a problem and needs to close. Lsasse.EXE has encountered a problem and needs to close. Netint.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. Yet the system appears to work OK. When I look in the Task Manager, Lsasse.exe is still running, but FireDaemon.EXE closes, I don't see NetInit.exe. And th... 4 02.05.2007 15:52:52 Windows XP - Setting up a dial up connection I recently upgraded a home machine from Windows 2000 to Windows XP and attempted to set up a dial up connection using the wizard. In doing so I am allowed to choose the Connect to the Internet option followed by the Set up my connection manually option and then on the next field the Connect using a dial-up modem and Connect using a broadband connection that requires a user name and pass... 3 02.05.2007 14:27:01 sysprep on a oem pc I have to install 30 dell optiplex, all same type and software. I setup one, install all software I need and then use sysprep and ghost to clone this one to the other. The first problem is with an error explained with article 320279 ( a wrong value on register) that I've solved following the article. After this, when the pc start, a lot of services does not starts autmatically, ex server,... 3 02.05.2007 06:28:00 I'm trying to recall how XP assigns drive letters Let's say you have this, all on one physical drive: C partition - Formatted, primary, bootable, system volume, FAT The rest of the drive is unpartitioned. You boot the XP CD and format two NTFS partitions. I believe these would become two logical drives in an extended partition. If you install XP onto that first NTFS partition, I think it would call itself the "D" drive once you bo... 3 02.05.2007 06:19:01 I"m on an installation circle I'm trying to reinstall WinXP w/SP2 and, after I load the CD and start the Install, it keeps bringing me back to the screen where 'another copy of windows is intalled', even though I have chosen the format the drive option, it keeps coming back to the same 'another copy of windows is installed'... Now I know what a hampster feels like! How do I get past that screen and finally instal... 3 02.05.2007 04:35:15 FAT32 vs NTFS Hello all, I've just bought an external hard drive and I'm not sure if I should be reformatting it. I am a home user [XP] with NTFS but the new drive is FAT32. Can anyone help me out on this please.... 3 02.05.2007 03:34:35 Install XP w/o CD Rom Hello, My laptop (P3, 500Mhz) had an external CD ROM drive which I lost. I did the following to install XP: I moved the HD from this Laptop, inserted it to another Laptop, installed XP on it and then put it back. When I turned on the laptop it will not boot only gives choices between "Save Mode" etc. and whatever I chose it went back to that screen. How can I install XP without a CD ROM? ... 6 01.05.2007 23:34:31 Sysprep with WDS on XP With WDS we now use SYSPREP as the first step of preparing a native image of a Windows XP reference computer. Has SYSPREP been updated or is it the same version as was released with XP? Where do I find the latest version of SYSPREP? ... 2 01.05.2007 23:16:40 Office system deployment / Zero Touch Installation / Business Desktop Hello everybody, I have to do a deployment of Windows XP and Office 2003. In an "Office system deployment / Zero Touch Installation / Business Desktop Deployment" deployment process: How the SysprepInfMapping scenario in ZTI customsettings with OSD can include AutoLogon/AutoLogonCount properties? Cheeeeers tks ... 1 01.05.2007 11:15:00 Cannot install raid drivers via F6 Following a major virus infection, (I downloaded something I shouldn't have), I have been trying to put XP on a machine that ran my home network with Server 2003. I get the following error when trying to load the raid drivers on pressing F6: File txtsetup.oem caused an unexpected error (1024) at line 1747 in d:\xpsprtm\base\boot\setup\oemdisk.c. I get the same error message when I... 3 30.04.2007 23:49:03 Moving the start menu folders My laptop is telling me it is on the way out, so I have transferred to a PC. Having made sure the start menu is exactly how I like it, I would like to save myself some work. I would like to simply copy the folders across with the start menu entries in. However, the laptop has a German OS, the PC an English one. So the installation folder is "Programme" on the laptop and "Program files" o... 9 30.04.2007 13:40:05 Boot to NIC Card? I have never seen a complete document on how to install XP [or any other O/S]. I would like to keep a volume copy of the XP media on a network drive and ideally, perform the installation remotely. In addition, I would like to be able to have the machine joined to the domain. Guidance sought.... 4 30.04.2007 13:06:01 creating a new partition with XP pro for another operating system Hi Everyone, Can I use the computer administration tools that, come with XP pro, to create a new partition on my only HD . I wanted to install another operating system on the hard drive I would create. I know that there is 3rd party software that will partition a HD, but I wanted to inquire about ways a novice can safely partition and manag... 2 30.04.2007 07:20:13 Lost CD!!!! My computer crashed and my xp pro cd is destroyed. I have my product key still. Is there any way to get a copy of xp pro or am I S.O.L.?... 2 29.04.2007 22:11:36 Application Data folder Hi, I want to know if we can move the whole Application Data folder from the Documents & Settings\%User Profile% to some network drive. The reason I want to do this is to make my users' profiles light enough so that roaming profiles among workstations is easy. Everyone of these users has a home drive mapped to their profile and that's where I want to move the Application Data folder!!... 3 28.04.2007 19:02:20 Is there a way to use a desktop with a laptop's screen? Hi all, I have a new Dell computer but with no monitor. I also have a laptop. Is there a way to use the Dell computer with the laptop's screen? Thanks a lot ... 8 28.04.2007 18:06:14 can't uninstall SP2 I installed SP2 on my XP Pro. After the process, the machine was so slow it was unusable. I could not even access normal commands without waiting for ages. I decided to uninstall SP2 in safe mode. Something is corrupt because I can't access Add/Remove programs without getting a beep and nothing. So I run the spuninst file from it's folder. When it finishes running the preliminary process... 5 28.04.2007 05:00:02 Reinstall Pain-Soothing Needed Hello, Recently my PC started losing power randomly and then would no longer come on. A friend came over and diagnosed it as a fried power supply, processor and motherboard. After he installed all the new parts we were unable to get the PC to load up my XP desktop, He made several changes in BIOS, but no luck. So we decided to upe the XP disk to "repair" the problem. That did not... 4 28.04.2007 03:56:02 Trouble with the install I have an OEM version of XP home with SP2. I am using a 300gb sata drive, but have no problems using the F6 button to install the sata drivers. My problems coms at 58% into the install. It won't install ks.sys, and goes downhill from there. every other file from then on won't copy. any suggestions?... 3 28.04.2007 03:34:01 trying to run a my app on another computer I've just built a "hello world" app in DEBUG MODE that runs fine on my development computer. On my test computer, I have a problem. I've looked at the dependencies with Depend.exe and found that I was missing msvcr80d.dll so I found a copy of it in .....\WinSxS\.... the appropriate dir that had both the dll and the manifest and copied them along with the exe to my target machine. ... 2 27.04.2007 18:52:49 XP SP2 image with BDD I'm attempting to deploy WSD/WAIK and BDD2007. Unfortunately, Vista is not in our immediate future so I need to continue deploying XP. I have successfully captured and deployed a basic XP image using the standard LTI processes supplied with BDD 2007. The standard process wipes the disk, deploys an new OS and apps, then captures the image all in one continuous stream. 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