What are of the Pros and Cons of using Microsoft vs. LanDesk

I know theres a way to create a diskette that boots and uses your
distribution share. How do you create one ?
At the end of the questions in setupmgr.exe it didn't ask me to create a
boot disk. Is this because no disk drive is installed ? Will it prompt me to

PC with XP pro has recently had XP re-installed.  The old user acct was for
Paul then after re-install acct Ringo was created. Problem is email & links
to software and, I think, the old User registry is in Paul. I am looking for
solution to restart Paul & eliminate Ringo & both  ...

i hava a laptop pre instaled with xp pro 2600.2180
now i updated it with sp2 and what happens is ... when starting a message
appear telling i have 5 days to activate my windows, i say yes to activate ,
and a box appears saying xp already activated but if i reboot does it all

I can not open Help and Support from the Start Button. I have Windows XP
Home Edition

I just finished updating a school lab image to XPsp2 and have a couple of
questions about the default user and Windows Media Player 10.
I've always used the local administrator profile as my default user, so it's
configured the way I want it to be, and then I copy it over to the ...

Whenever I "Right-click" a file while in a folder window, I get this message:  
The instruction at 0x04b5415b referenced memory at 0x00000000.  the memory
could not be "written".
I can choose Ok or cancel (Ok is best, Cancel freezes), and Win explorer

I am getting a Gateway 3.2mhz HT with WinXP Pro w/SR2, it
has room for expansion so I'm thinking I would take 2 of
the 3 HD's from my existing system (going to sell) and
install into this so to keep my apps intact.  Problem is,

I posted earlier about installing SP2, then loading the updates but them
hanging instead of installing. I checked all the drivers (no, it wasnt them)
and I left the machine overnight last night to see if I was being hasty, but
whaddya know 16 hours later and the update still ...

I upgraded my XP Home eMachines laptop to XP Professional (retail) and ran
into a couple of errors.
First, setup could not locate (and wanted the driver disk) for 'VIAAGP1.SYS'
on VIA AGP FIlter Driver Disk.  I checked out the eMachines site, the

I had trouble installing Windows on pc so after several attempts I loaded it
into a windows2 folder. That didn't work either.Finally I got it to run from
the windows folder. Now when it boots it asks me if I want to boot from one
of two Windows XP installations. How do I get it ...

When trying to do an in-place upgrade of Win XP, I get a fatal error message.
The setup log says "Error: Setup had problems registering the following OLE
control DLL:  c:\windows\system32\initpki.dll"  I tried reinstalling several
times with the same resuls.  Any help?

I just did up an install of Windows XP volume license with SP2 slipstreamed
in on two of our computers.  The oddest error is occuring, after using an
application for awhile (e.g. an hour or two) it quit's handling the ' and ?
characters correctly, and instead puts in ? and ? (as ...

My system has two hard drives.
The first has a Win XP Pro OS on the front of the drive, the letter C:
is assigned to this installation.
The second hard drive has another installation of Win XP Pro on the

I usually don't post to these groups, because I can usually find
the answer I am looking for by doing a group search. I do have a
question, that I was unable to find the answer for in previous posts.
I have 3 computers, 2 Desktops (both built by myself) and a Dell