have just upgraded xp on my pc. i have 2 hd, i 6gdand other 80gb, had to
partition because my windows98 was an upgrade over windows95. so i have
several seperate drives!!.
xp is on drive c which is only 2gb - can i move it to one of the larger ones?

I have a PC with 2 hard disks, one with Windows XP SP2 (Primary) and another
with Linux "Caixa Mágica 8.1" - Portuguese Version - (Slave).
When I installed Linux I disconnect the disk with Windows because I don't
wanted that Linux change the primary disk.

I would like to configure my domain PCs to always leave the NIC on.  Windows
XP turns the NIC off after a while to save power.  I occasionally need to
access PCs after hours for maintenance, I find that people who left early and
not used the computer, the NIC shuts itself off ...

My computer will not start it just keeps restarting, or if it does start it
will bring up random error messages. I have already tried to boot to last
known good configuration that did not work. I have tried to boot from CD
(after making the cd main boot) and it just passes cd and ...

I am having a huge prob with the number of tasks... and its slowing down my
pc loads, never was this slow.  How can I stop the tasks from starting up
from boot, and also what I need to keep it at the best it can.   I think
there are progs on there that also use my network that ...

   I just made a shortcut to my network (NT Server) Outlook directory in
my local (XP Pro) doc/settings...When I open Outlook it creates an "Outlook"
directory even though there already exists a shortcut with the same name.
Why does Outlook do this, and how can I have two entries ...

I want to create a file explorer that opens in My Computer.
I can set a specific drive in to start in but how do I specify "My
Computer"?

Hi, I just installed windows XP pro and I don't seem to have a desktop or
taskbar! I have no idea why this happened and how it can be fixed. Can anyone
help?

I have been unable to get my XP2 stations to allow the
\\server\admin$ and the \\server\C$ to work on remote
sites after enabling the Firewall.  The weird part is I
can get the local stations on our subnet to work but not

I am looking for instructions on how to remove an item from the taskbar if
you are not using the program. I don't want to completely remove the program
from my computer, just the shortcut. I'm brand new to Windows XP, formerly
using Windows 98.

Does anyone know how to disable the security centre in SP2 using
unattend.txt? I don't seem to be able to find much on Microsofts
website.
Cheers,

I've got several partitions (local, not network shares) mounted
inside folders. "C:\D&S\myusername\My Documents" is drive J:\
(FAT32), "C:\D&S\All Users\Documents" is drive H:\ (NTFS), etc.
(This is on XP Pro, SP2.)

How can I achieve the following:
Have a number of printers (accessible via network) and need to make them
available to quite a number of (users on) client systems.
How can I have these definitions (mappings and possible specific printer

I am having trouble with setting an XP SP2 box to join a domain.  There are 4
WinXP sp2 boxes that are joined to a domain called ABC (Win2K server).  When
I try to join a 5th box I get an error saying the domain can’t be found.  
Things I have tried:

Dear NG,
I have been asked to look into tools and best practices for configuring sets
of PCs.  Is this the best NG to ask questions about the rapid deployment of
standard Microsoft operating systems and custom applications?  Our problem