I am getting ready to deploy a clean install with XP Pro on about 85 clients
and I have no help here. Now I see that I can use sysprep if all my machines
are the same but their not the HD sizes vary, Memory varies, Processor
speeds also vary.

I have tried several attempts to download from MS, but after the download,
the install errors out by saying this can only be installed on Office XP.  I
used to be able to use Japanese IME with Windows 98, but when I went to XP
for the Home, I appear to be out of luck.  I have ...

My new computer has MS XP Prof SP2 and I am having difficulty installing a
couple of key pieces of software I need to install.  For instance I tried to
install the SAP front end SAPGui and also MS Office Prof 2003.  But had
significant problems installing both.  I am actually ...

Because of all sorts of problems I formatted my C Drive. Then started
to reinstallWindows XP. Everything went fine until it came to 'install
Network ' at 32 minutes left and that is as far as it got.
I reformatted again and re tried and stopped at the same stage.

I have urgent need to re-install/repair win XP on my laptop. The system hangs
on booting. The DVD/CDWR is bad. How do I repair the OS without fresh
install. I cannot afford to loose my applications.

RIS 2003 won't work with NTLMv2!!
Why won't RIS 2003 work with NTLMv2 on Domain Controllers?
We are a Child Domain within an Active Directory Forest, we've got 1 Windows
2003 DC, and 2 Windows 2000 SP4 DCs in our Child Domain.  All DCs are

I recently joined a firm and decided to do a complete system restore on the
computer I will be using.
It is an HP Pavilion with XP.
What I want to do is create some partitions, but the HP System recovery cd

I took a working system, upgraded the MB, installed the
drivers from the Manufacturer disk.  Now, when I boot up
I get about 13 New Hardware Found dialog boxes.  Most of
them are ?Unknown, but 3 of them are USB 2.0.  I went to

For some reason my favorites only work out of All Users.  
I have found the registry key:
HKEY_CU\SW\MS\WIN\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders
and have changed it back to my only other account on the

I ran into a problem yesterday, when my colleague's PC stopped detecting the
mouse and keyboard. At first, the mouse was not detected. I learned this
after checking the device manager. After another reboot, after unplugging
and replugging the mouse, the keyboard stopped working. ...

Setup was unable to copy SPTIP.DL_ and ir41_32.ax during installation.  I
retried then continued.  All seems okay so after a little research at this
discussion group, I cleaned the cd disk and was able to exand SPTIP.DL_ and
rename it to SPTIP.DLL in c:\Windows\system32

XP Home SP2's Sysprep behaviour overwrites the contents of Default User with
that of the Owner account.  Apparently, if there's no Owner account, it will
overwrite it with the contents of Administrator (default behaviour on XP
Pro).

Will someone call me up and tell me how to do this with a cable modem and
wireless router.
-Melissa Cayer

I run a Dell Dimension 4400 desktop with WinXP Home SP2.  My 20GB hard
drive has crashed twice in the last month and gives multiple errors in
the Dell Diagnostic Test.  I intend to buy and install a second hard
drive (probably 120GB) and want to use it as my primary drive with

New computer my brother built for me.  was working fine for several days.  
bought a new monitor.  still fine. hooked up to the web. fine.  downloaded
norton. fine.  downloaded aol.  fine.   checked microsoft update and was
prompted to download SP1.  soon there after computer just ...