Threads Replies Last Post 25 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  20  21  22  23  24  25   Repair XP Pro retail version A few notes. 1. Problems too many to list. I'll try this before reformating computer. It worked on my old Win98se before I reformatted and upgraded to XP Pro. This is a home made computer, legal XP PRO SP2 retail version, stand alone, no network. 2. I'm going to do a repair of my XP Pro SP2 Retail version. In reading the warning #1 in link - http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepai... 6 12/30/2008 10:33:40 PM WinXP deployement on Dell computers ? Hello, How can I identify computers which have the same components? I want to create ghost to deploy Windows XP Pro SP3 on several computers. For example, I've many Dell Precision 360, but they come from different orders and manufacturing dates, thus they have not exactly the same components... and to apply the same ghost can give a bluescreen! On IBM computers, there is a Model numb... 2 12/30/2008 9:17:18 PM Access Rights Issue My fiance has a Macbook through work and is moving in. I have music and video files on my PC on both my hard drive and an old external hard drive (formatted NTFS). I am trying to consolidate all my videos and files to a new, larger and slimmer external hard drive (formatted FAT 32) so my fiance can access them on her Macbook. It was working fine and about 2 GBs were consolidated into t... 3 12/30/2008 8:55:28 PM Windows XP services - User Rights Hello, I'm wondering if I can set a specific service on Windows XP SP3 to allow the built in Users group to stop/start a specific service I have? Any information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Correy ... 1 12/30/2008 7:08:33 PM Windows xp problem Recently I did a spyware scan with a program I've used before, and accepted the "repairs" it made and deleted the files. Well, upon reboot, it didn't. Over and over it refused to reboot. Finally I got it up in safe mode and did a "restore". Since then the fonts at appear in applications such as Skype, and MS Access have changed. I cannot seem to get them back. What might have changed i... 4 12/30/2008 6:27:52 PM Vista - Booting off a stripped set (I'm unable to post in the Vista newsgroups! Anyone knows why? The site acts as if I'm not logged in (the sign in button is always present) and simply redirects me to the same page when I try to click the ask a question button. I'm crossposting to the group instead, I hope it works.) Hello, I'm trying to do something which isn't supported, but I'm trying to work around it: Moving Vista ... 5 12/30/2008 11:14:39 AM Use XP Pro Key to Install XP Home? I have a dell laptop that was purchased from my friend's workplace that had a sluggish, locked down, domain-based XP pro install on it. The computer did not come with any reinstall discs, but a friend suggested that I use his copy of XP Home SP2 (OEM, BTW) to do a fresh install and use the XP Pro Key from the sticker on the back of the laptop. So I tried it, and after formatting the C: dri... 2 12/30/2008 2:19:24 AM How to remove a keyboard erroneously during installation I have reinstalled Windows but let the US keyboard be installed by default during the installation process. This is annoying because (i) we use a Belgian keyboard (and the position of several keys are different from the US keyboard); (ii) when logging in with the Windows NT logging screen, the machine uses this US keyboard... which makes the mohin always a bit difficult... I have remo... 2 12/27/2008 4:25:26 PM Need XP Home OEM Replacement disk I have a customer that bought a PC from me that had XP Home pre-installed. Their OS needs to be re-installed, but they lost their OEM CD. Is there a Microsoft number I can call to get replacement CDs? Thank you.... 4 12/27/2008 7:40:17 AM OEM XP with no product key Hi, I have got a lap top that was bought from eBay with no product key and the firm it was bought from no longer exists. Is there any way that I can get the product key ? And is here any possiblity of getting a Windows XP OEM Disk for reinstillation ? Many thanks in advance, Aaron ... 17 12/27/2008 2:20:57 AM no audio I just installed xp again and did some downloads from Microsoft update and now have no sound. I did have Intel Audio Studio but now it says I need the Sonic Focus Drivers. I have no idea where to get them. ... 2 12/26/2008 9:28:37 PM HELP! Group Policy problems on a Win XP SP3 Machine Hi all... I'm trying to figure out why a "folder redirect" domain group policy is not working correctly on a new XP Pro w/ Service Pack 3 that was recently added to the domain. The wierd thing is that the My Documents and My Pictures Folder Redirects works fine... no problem there. However, the Desktop and Application Data redirects do not work (all four work on other XP Pro workstations... 1 12/25/2008 10:25:13 PM Windows no longer displays Computers in My Network Places I have one PC that will not connect to another XP Pro PC on the network BY NAME. I can connect to the other machine by IP address, but not by name. I have tried reconfiguring everything I can think of. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.... 7 12/23/2008 9:52:05 PM Have Original Windows XP Pro CD but No Serial. I've recently custom built my own computer and have my XP installation CD. The one thing I forgot to do was remove the serila sticker from my old case before stripping the system and binning the rest. Now I have an original XP pro CD with no serial - is there any way of finding out what the serial is from the actual CD itself?? Any help is greatly appreciated - as I don't see why I sho... 9 12/23/2008 4:40:44 PM Pre installation windows xp Hallo, i'm new to this group, i made my searches but no results come. Is it possible to create a "general purpose" windows xp installation, with no cd key, no specialized driver and some general use software pre installed, so that i can create an image with partimage or similar tools and stream it each time a different computer needs reinstallation? I need to speedup the installation ... 4 12/23/2008 2:44:40 PM Windows XP SP3 OEM disk from Newegg I'm building a system for the first time. I have purchased a Windows XP SP3 OEM disk from Newegg. I haven't opened the envelope yet but it does come with a COA. I've heard that it does not have a product key. How do I use this disk to install the OS on the system.?... 3 12/21/2008 8:17:09 PM Deploy a sysprep'ed image so that "Found New Hardware" wi Hi, I work at a University and help look after creating and deploying images in student ICT labs. We have windows XP installed on roughly 600 machines. This particular problem applies to about 90 of those machines for which a unique ICT image has been created with norton ghost. As a part of an introductory programming course, the students use a lego tower usb device (robolab 2.9). ... 3 12/21/2008 10:37:00 AM Which Fonts are installed by Selecting "Install files for East Asian languages" (in XP)? I want my program to check for the fonts come with "Install files for East Asian languages" first. So, I can display Chinese characters. If that's not the case then use Arial. My questions: 1) Which Fonts are installed by Selecting "Install files for East Asian languages" (in XP)? 2) Which Arial font (file name) is installed by XP default? Thanks in advance Phuoc -- ---- ... 1 12/20/2008 11:19:32 AM How to create a Windows XP system image I am new to using virtual machine and want to run VirtualBox on my workstation. It requires a Windows XP system image. How do I create an image of my workstation?... 3 12/19/2008 9:34:05 PM Default profile When I copied the user profile that was setup and configured for our environment it changed the name of the "My Documents" to "mp_hicks's documents" the same to the sub folder of "My Music" and "My Pictures". I am unable to change this and every user that log's in gets "mp_hicks's documents". Where do I change this to get it back to what it should be?... 2 12/19/2008 2:54:52 PM OxOOOOOO7B Error after XP Pro install on SATA HD Hi all, I have a problem with installing XP Pro on my computer. I got a fresh WD SATA HD (WD3200AAKS), hooked it up to the SATA1_SB port on the motherboard (Gigabyte GA-K8NS Pro) and installed XP from CD. Installation works perfect (without providing drives on floppy via the F6 option) but when it is finished and it reboots, XP gives me the following "blue screen" message: "A problem... 7 12/19/2008 9:12:04 AM Help me do sysprep the right way! Over the last year or so I have been cloning a small number of drives (maybe 1 a month) from a master setup drive and then using a third-party tool to change the Windows XP Pro product key for each client system. I use a hardware cloning device and have been updating the master drive with new drivers and software as I went. Occasionally I would be prompted to re-activate due to new har... 1 12/18/2008 7:40:00 PM Stuck in safe mode trying to re-install XP Hi, I am trying to reinstall XP from dell after my system crashed. The laptop is stuck in safe mode ans sytem setup keeps giving the error mesage "setup cannnot work in safe mode". I cannot reboot an bypass set-up. Can I reboot into MS DOS to reconfig into normal boot mode?... 7 12/17/2008 8:57:56 PM Hard disk swaping question I have two identical computers coming from the same maker(HP), same model number, same configuration(one hard disk) but obviously not the same serial number or network mac address. They are installed with Windows XP SP2 with the corporate licence and are part of the same domain. I would like to swap the hard disks between the 2 computers. Is this possible? I heard of sysprep but do not under... 2 12/17/2008 7:41:15 PM How to create an XP image with C and D drive with D Containg Docum All, I am deploying an image for a client using MDT 2008. I captured the C: drive with IMAGEX and the D drive doing an append to the image I captured for C: My question is how do I put the D drive back? This would not be as big a deal but this is the location of the Documents and Settings folder. Is there a Task Sequence entry that will just load D:? I have tried several d... 2 12/17/2008 12:38:51 PM 25 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  20  21  22  23  24  25