i recently re-installed Xp Pro on my sister's Dell PIV machine.  its has
worked fine for 3 weeks, but now she tells me she's can't get the machine
into windows.  it keeps going saying windows wasn't shut down properly and
offers 5 choices for re-boot ( safe mode, safe mode w/prompt, ...

My company is in the process of changing all of our computers, which are IBM
pc's. However, we had to do a registry Hack, to allow the remote installation
and updates of the antivirus.  We would like to configure one of the Pc's
with all the necessary software and to activate the ...

I am trying to build a new desktop image based on WinXP SP2, and am
following our normal process of copying the entire I386 folder from
the CD's we recieve from our EA agreement to the C:\ drive on the box
I am trying to build the image for.  However, the XCOPY keeps failing

I am trying to install windows xp pro through a Netware share using
the unattend.txt answer file with no luck.  Here is the issue...
I have created the unattend.txt file and placed it in the i386 folder
located in f:\install\winxp.  The i386 folder was created by copying

I decompressed a .SY_ file.  Now I have a .SYS file. I modified it. How do I
make the modified .SYS file a SY_ file after I modified it.
Thank You,
Matt

We want to redeploy some XP Pro systems but first want to fully wipe the hard
drive to remove all traces of confidential information.    The systems didn't
come with recovery CDs or OEM XP CDs.     The systems do have a hard disk
recovery (F11 for IBM, for example) option, but ...

Unlike other setup disks I have encountered, the one with this computer
doesn't offer the options like formatting and choosing the partition for
installing.  I was wondering if there is a keystroke that will initialize
these options. When I boot from the disk it goes rignt to ...

I have just purchased a new computer and have transfered the hard drive from
my old machine to it.
When I start up I get the infamous blue screen.
The stop message is 0x0000007b(0xf7911640,0xc0000034,0x0000000,0x0000000)

When trying to wipe out my existing Dell OEM XP Home Edition SP2
installation, followed by staging Dell OEM XP Professional from scratch, I
keep getting the following error message at the beginning of Windows Setup
(trying to boot from CD): "Setup did not find any hard disk ...

How do I set my XP so that I'm logged in as soon as I turn on my PC (without
having to go throught the login screen). I am the only user account on this
PC.
It was like that before I uninstalled some printer software

Hi, I have reinstalled windows xp pro, but I cant seem to find my old files
on my computer, it shows that are 5GB of stuff but i cant seem to find
them.....
Thanks

I know I am using the wrong terminology but I was wondering can you
slipstream a serial number into a Windows XP install cd like you can do with
a service pack?
Thanks for your help

I'm looking for sysprep settings for XP SP2 - specifically in relation to the
firewall.  We want to test turning this off in our image since we have a very
strong firewall for desktops.  I've searched through several KB articles but
haven't found the specific setting yet.

I'm creating a master image for deployment using sysprep, and have run into
a problem... I've had setup manager create an answer file called sysprep.inf
and it seems to take all the settings EXCEPT the installation key... (which
is a pain, because I have to go track down the CD and ...

I'm getting the message, "Do not turn off or unplug your computer; it will
turn off automatically....Installing update 1 of 1."
My computer has displayed that message for more than eight hours. I assume
the update has stalled. How do I recover? I'm using XP Pro.