I have a user with an XP notebook that I have to setup on our network, but
the issue is that this notebook is setup to access a different LAN and
domain. How can I setup this notebook without changing any of the other
network settings? I have to assign it new IP address, domain, ...

I had some problems with Win XP after the upgrade to SP2 (Networkcards did
not show up anymore in the Device Manager and anywhere else) and could not
fix it. So I decided it's time now do do a reinstall.
After installing XP and isntall the SP2 I struggeled around with a lot of

Good Evening:
I was recently required to reinstall XP on a computer that originally ran
Me.  Unfortunately, we could not immediately locate our "fully legal and
legit" retail version license and elected to utilize another of our

I want to make the following setting on a manager's notebook computer of my
company:
He wants to use his notebook at home and at office. When he uses it at
office, he's in a W2K domain and at home not.

some of the drives i map from my server show as the designated letter, ie
H:, M: others like K: dont.
i've never seen this behavior so dont know how to fix it.  i have always had
them show up on my 'my computer' listing or explorer list.

HI. Can anyone help me?
At some point while messing around with my services configuration, I
<accidentally> deleted locator.exe...
I think that this is essential for RPC and networking.

What is this Hive means when I'm in the registry (regedit)?
And why is it alwase grayed when I click on the file menu?

Hi, I am thinking about a complete reinstall of XP to get over some
performance issues. What happens with activation when you reinstall from
scratch?
Tony

Has any one seen this?
Isass.exe_System Error
Security Accounts Manager Initialization has failed because of the following
error:

Any guesses would be much appreciated.
I have a computer that has no problem receiving email with or without
attachments.  It will send email without attachments and only one line
of text.  But times-out when sending email WITH attachments or with

Have been having some problems.  I reformated my machine and to clear them
up, but no luck.  I am running windows xp home.  When I am on the internet or
even just working off line, when I use the scroll bar at the right of the
screen, as the bar goes down, the screen is kind of ...

hello all, i have a vpr matrix 200a5 laptop. it has multimedia keys
that seem to work fine in most media players, except that the
play/pause button always launches the windows media player even if the
other players still respond to the button. i am totally comfortable

I recently went from W2K to XP pro and noticed that I had used half of my
20GB hdd. I did install programs but very little user files. I do not dual
boot and can not remember if I did a clean install or upgrade. How can I
tell if W2K is still on my machine, set it up to dual boot or ...

Sorry for the huge cross-post, but I wasn't sure of the best forum to ask
this.  So I picked 'em all! :)
Anyway, I have a USB flash drive that I carry between my home PC and 2 or 3
PCs at work.  Whenever I plug in the drive, it is always to use a specific

After installing XP on my C drive, it somehow became an extended partition.
Yesterday I installed Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition to my D drive
with 10 GB on it and formatted it NTFS. In the process it wiped out
everything on my C drive but didn't bother my E drive with 18 ...