winxp pro sp2
is their any way to have the "welcome logon screen" of windows xp instead of
the ctrl-alt-del on a machine that is member of a domain ?
thanks

I need to disable standby on all the workstations in my network.  all XP Pro
sp1 machines.  I'm trying to find out where this info is held in the
registry, it seems that it should be under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control
Panel\PowerCfg  If I just try to change the CurrentPowerPolicy key ...

I have been trying to sort out "My documents" and related shell folders
with two hard drives each with three partitions.
After reading all the web posts I to have a better understanding of the
way XP Prof makes and uses the shell folders.

I recently formatted  my sons harddrive which had XP on it previously.When I
try to reinstall I get a message that certain files cannot be copied.I have
tried this over and over again with the same results.I have done  everything
that the knowledge base says even flashed the bios.I ...

Can someone help me.  The number pad on my keyboard is not working for the
numbers, the hot keys as in pg dn/pg up ets are working just the numbers are
not, whn I press numlock the computer beeps (a deep tone) and when I take the
numlock off it beeps again (a high pitched tone).  ...

When I try to save an Excel file to my 3 1/2" floppy A drive, I receive a
message that the 'A:\\' folder is not accessible.  Any solutions?

This probably in the wrong group but I'll post it anyhow.
This is really driving me crazy: Two questions..
1) What is the real purpose of Standard view over Extended view?
2) Is there a way I can set the default to stay in Standard view?

Running dual boot Win 98 XP SP2 - reg corruption required reinstall of XP.
Boot screen now shows XP Prof Twice, and Windows.  Boot loader config
contains "XP fastdetect and XP fastdetect /NoExcute=OptIn". I would like to
get rid of one the "XP Prof" on boot up.  Thanks.

Can someone tell me what could be causing my HP NX5000 Laptop to reboot for
no apparent reason?
It happens when the user is in MS Word, ver 2003, he/she will be typing and
then get a fatal eror message... when they click ok it reboots.  Below is a

I have built and placed our first (corporate) XP workstation, and everything
was easy enough to find and figure out differences from Win2K, but I cannot
figure out how to prevent all users from being automatically logged off after
@ 12 minutes of inactivity. We use this ...

I've come across the following weird behaviour:
I have two Windows XP Pro machines. Both are joined to the
same domain, both have the same security settings (via Sec
Conf & Analysis) and GPOs. Both have the setting "Network

I have installed a FreeBSD (Unix) boot manager in WinXP in order to boot
Unix in a partition on my second hard drive.
I now want to get rid of the boot manager. Does anybody know how to do this?
I know there is a KB article about how to get rid of the LILO (Linux) boot

Dear sir,
I am recieveing this error msg everytime when I shutdown my system.
rundll32.exe Needs to be closed.
How to correct it?

after restarting my computer has come up with the message
cannot open file c:\windows\system32\config\system file
is missing or corrupt. all remedies refer to a windows
setup disk but i have no windows software other than

While trying to fix other issues, I have accidently installed 2 copies of Win
XP Home edition. How can I get rid of the extra one?  I don't want to
re-format the drive, just get rid of the uneeded second version of WinXP.
Thanks in advance,