At our organization we have configured Automatic Updates to download all
updates and install them at 3am.  However, since many users (particularly
those with laptops) turn their computers off at night, when they start
working the next day they get the message that an update is about ...

Hi Friend,
     I have a WinXP Pro CD. Every time I take a cleaned
install, i found that there are a lot of hotfix on the
windowsupdate.com . I want my windows is in the latest

I am using XP Pro which I purchased and installed on a P3
machine.  I now have built a P4 and want to use the same
installation CD for the new PC -- I will not continue to
use XP on the old machine.  I do not understand how MS

Do I really need to use SYSPREP to deploy many WinXPs with all needed
applications and SMS installed on it? Or it is enough to remove one from
domain, delete specific drivers and clone it to all another?

Have received message from laptop (instead of booting)
that says that "ntoskrnl.exe" was missing or corrupted
and that I needed to reload it.
I have a HP laptop - Athlon 4 -XP Home - purchased in Nov

Using a cordless keyboard and cordless mouse on new
computer windows xp home already installed by builder.  
decided I needed xp pro for networking benefits and
purchased xp pro and keyboard will not function at

I have a Win XP Pro SP1 with all the hot fixes. I am
preparing to clone this computer. So, I run sysprep after
creating the image I attempt to restart the computer. At
this point I am welcomed with the following error:

I setup XP on a brand new computer. I decided to partition
the computer into 2 partitions but i always then have a
3rd partition that is about 8mb in size. When i ask XP
setup to delete the partition, it said that this partition

I don't know whether (and HOW) to uninstall my Windows ME.
Or, should I uninstall it before installing the full
version of XP?  
 I'm not even close to being a 'techie' I just want my

What up,
Can anyone please help? I can not boot up a xp pro
system it just keeps trying so I ran a repair and fixboot
it told me that I had a corrupt partition so I re

Dear Friends,
1) My system runs on Winxp Professional. I have a harddisk (80G) with 3
partitions, all formated as NTFS as follows:
C:20G

My Gateway computer came with Windows ME installed. Of
course the Windows ME operating system CD-ROM is not
a "seperate" disk, it's included as part of the "restore
system" CD's from Gateway.

A friend recently bought an OEM copy of Windows XP Home
Full .  He currently has a computer with Windows ME.  When
he attempted to perform a full install on the computer, the
installation stopped and said it could not continuue

I have an HP machine that HAD Win ME on it. I installed XP Home over it
some time ago. Now things are slowying down and I would like to get a
clean install.
I am sure that I will be asked to insert previous version of Windows

I have a Gateway Desktop that came pre-installed with
Windows XP Home Edition - things were fine until I
installed a spyware deletion program called Adaware which
I allowed (because of my own stupidity) to alter my