Due restoring the complete image from my old hd to a new one all the
partition data is wrong (there is more than one). Is there any program
who can create automatically partition sectors for the logical drives
and write them to harddisk ?

Does anyone know how I can change my keyboard layout to
the UK style as some keys are currenly out of place when
I type. I have tried the MS site but it just shows me the
layouts and does not tell me where I can change it or how.

I cloned a Windows XP Pro installation from a 6GB HD to a
20GB HD. Now running off the 20Gb HD disk management sees
the ntfs partition as 20GB, says the volume size is 20Gb
but capacity of C: drive is still being reported as 6Gb.

How does one rename the Administrator account?
Is it the same for Home and Pro?
thanks,
charles.....

My Windows password expires in ten days and I cannot
remember the "old" password.  How can I reset a new
password?

I have two computers at home both run win XP-Pro one
starts with the win-xp screen in about 30 seconds. The
other, once you turn it ion give a message of the memory
in the CPU (1Gig)then dose a system check on the maching

XP pro single user with all the updates
When I try to run the windows components wizard it runs something, then
says, "You have successfully completed the Windows Components Wizard"
then prompts, "To close, click finish" and when I do, that's it...

I recently ran Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and it reported that I
had 8 open shares. The instructions for disabling them indicate that I bring
up Computer Management and right click on the share and choose disable. All
I have is "refresh" and "help". It's the same thing ...

just in the last couple of days puter started asking for
password on boot up..how do i get rid of the screen when
booting up...
thanks

Dumb question but on the DHCP MMC where you have the address leases there is
a computer icon by each leased address.  Sometimes the Icon has what looks
like a pen across it, sometimes it don't.
What does it mean????

What is the source of the list of startup programs in the
Startup panel of MSCONFIG?  I am trying to get rid of all
vestiges of Gator adware, but the executable program still
shows up in the list, albeit disabled.  Is this list in

The Task Manager opens and then closes automatically
after 2 seconds when pressing ctl-alt-del.

Jeez, I'll go nuts here. It's just too complicated to have three
computers networked and accessing internet trough W-LAN/ADSL switch
(TELEWELL TW-EA2000 and D-Link AirPlus XtremeG+ pci network cards).
There's just so many problems I don't know where to start.

When I try to open the Add/Remove programs button, it
gave me this message.  I have found a topic about Value
creation failed " at line 410, and it does have a
solution, but the solution is for me to mess with some

I am looking for some ideas on nameing my workstations in my company.  This
is going to be a deployment of 600 workstation in one building.  Any
suggestions?