I am trying to find out if there is a way of appllying a policy to computers
which,  when a user logs onto to a machine, gives them a
profile that is for that machine only, and not for that user. e.g.. if a
student logs on to one classes computers they get a mandatory profile for

The following system error occurs on my PC after every
reboot,can you please tell me how to stop it.
Event Type:            Error
Event Source:            System Error

I need to replace the hard drive on an existing XP SP2 system with a larger
drive and I don't want to do a reinstall of everything. Can anyone recommend
the best software to make an exact copy from one drive to another so I can
just pull out the old drive and swap in then new one ...

I'm doing a clean install on my Dell. I purchased XP Professional and after I
formatted the C: drive I couldn't install with the rom so I used the floppy
disks provided through Microsoft website for making floppys to install
Windows XP Professional.

The option to burn a Wizard Disk (for use in my old computer) is greyed out
in my File and Settings Transfer Wizard window. Why would that be, and what
must I do to be given the option of burning a Wizard Disk?
(I'm using Windows XP Home edition on an Averatec 3200 series computer ...

I would appreciate any tips.  My father has a disability and often accidently
hits the right mouse button.  Apparently in Windows 98 he was able to
specifically disable the right button with out affecting the left button.  He
as upgraded to Windows XP but apparently the option to ...

This may sound rediculas, but I have a Dell Latitude D600 and am
running a legit copy of XP Pro SP1 and cannnot install XP SP2. I have
tried auto-update and windows update but it does not come up as a
possibile update to XP. Is it possible that my company has made my

I have Windows XP Home Edition and I want to reformat my computer (delete
everything and start over). The problem is, my Windows XP came preinstalled
with my Sony Vaio computer and therefore I don't have the Windows XP CD. If
anyone knows how I can reformat in my situation, ...

After motherboard failure (machine running XP pro [now inoperable due to new
hardware]) procured new system (XP home) and installed old drive in new
machine with a WD160SATA as the sytem drive. Migration wizard does not appear
to allow for the situation of both old and new OS and ...

We've locked down our PCs and limited the users rights.  We have a problem
with McAfee DAT file update information not being posted to the registry.
We've given the user full rights to the "C:\Program Files\Common
Files\Network Associates" folder.  However, when we obtain ...

I have configured the screen saver on my Windows XP Pro to start after 10
minutes. The machine is a member of a domain, but I don't think there is a
screen saver policy in effect. The problem is that recently the screen saver
does not start no matter how long my machine has been ...

when I go to login in under my admin user name it searches for a cd disk in
my drive and tells me there isn't a disk in it --- it doesn't matter what
kind of disk I put in , then it lets me login --- how can I get rid of this?

I have a small LAN with a number of users. One of the users is
attempting to process Financial information via the ScotiaBank web
site. The login is via https.
On one computer, no problem. On the other computer, clicking the

I downloaded article 309283 for getting more information about hal.dll and
restoring ghost images in different PCs, and I still cannot get clear one
thing:
I have a standard ghost image where a standard pre-PIV hal.dll file is

I want to slipstream a NIC driver to my XP CD.
I have added folders $OEM$\$1\Drivers\NIC to my CD i386 folder and put my
NIC driver in there.
In my A:\winnt.sif I have added the lines: pnpdriverspath=drivers\NIC