I'm about to assemble a new computer and install Windows XP (OEM) to it
(deleting XP from my old computer).  Beforehand, I'd like to download
critical updates (hopefully mostly in cumulative form) and write them to a
CDR so I can install from there to the new computer, rather than ...

How to I Enable/activate the laptop's external monitor
option. Each laptop manufacturer have different methods
of activating the external monitor option.

I'm hoping I can get some additional info on Sysprep that
I'm not sure about.
- I've been told there's a limit to the number of times
you can run Sysprep on a pc.  Is this true?  Is so, what

If you use automatic updates, and set them to be
downloaded automatically and installed on a schedule, what
happens if the PC is off during the scheduled time? Does
the update happen at the next boot, or does it wait until

Tring to load xp (clean install) on pIII 500 ,384mb ram,
maxtor HD. Ever thing seems fine. Copies the setup files
onto hard drive from cd but when setup reboots to finish
setup from hard drive it will not boot. As soon as it

It appears to me that BUSlink has gone out of business (no
buslink.com site). I am looking for a driver that will
enable me to use my BUSlink type 1 USB hard drive with XP.
Does anyone out there have a driver that will work?

Bonjour
Pourriez-vous nous aider concernant la configuration de
notre système XP afin qu'il reconnaisse notre serveur SUS
pour les mises à jour Windows.

Hi Computer has just had everything re installed after a
major crash However , it does not recognise that its has
USB ports. No mention on device manager. Can anyone help.
Thanks

I have to run a script (batch file) on our corporate
laptops, that mount either a network share or a local
volume as the E:-drive, according to which hardware profile
the machine was booted in.

How do I copy a program window to a second monitor so
that both monitors show the same display?

Dear sir
I have windows xp professional  as operating system and
256mb of ram and problem I am facing is my drag and drop
does not work for destopicons or in word 2003

Conventional wisdom, please. Do we keep SMART monitoring
enabled in the machine BIOS with WINXP? OR is WINXP able
by some alchemy to poll the hardware or hardware driver
directly irrespective of SMART being enabled in the BIOS?

I have a 120GB Harddisk from Seagate and I have the
following partitions (using Partition Magic 7.0):
C: Win2000, NTFS, 5GB, Primary, Active
D: WinXp, NTFS, 25GB, Extended, Logical

I have a system running Windows XP Professional.  The
system now gives an error message when trying to run the
windows updater that the privelages won't allow the
activex controls to run.  I am running as the

I only have slow (dialup) net access at Home but have
fast (broadband cable)access at work ,
So I would prefer to download the XP Updates at work (to
Laptop) and then transfer these updates  to my home PC