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I'm looking for an easy method to maintain and manage multiple home
networked computers.  There are 5 of us, each with their own laptop or
desktop.  There is also a 'file server' (NT 4.0SP6a) that is used for common

I am helping a friend upgrade 4 workstations at his office. The first one
went fine, but it was an XP Pro to XP Pro transfer. I wasn't so lucky with
the second. It's a Windows 98 to XP Pro transfer. I first tried making a
transfer floppy. It was created fine by the XP machine, ...

I installed XP PRo on my shuttle xpc fs50 computer and the audio driver on
the cd doesnt install. Can anyone find the driver. The driver installed with
windows 2000 was the Avance AC'97 Audio driver. Thanks

How do I apply the Kiosk Group Policy (From GP Common Scenarios) to a machine
not part of the domain? I am trying to build a XP pro machine that only runs
IE for public use.
Any suggestions?

Need to upgrade an XP Home with SP2 already installed, to Pro Edition.
Already have a physical Pro CD, so purchased Pro Upgrade key (using
additional key purchase option at MS website). Turns out the Pro CD is SP1
level (got upgrade error that computer version later than cd ...

I spent most of the day today trying to upgrade to XP. At last it was
complete. As it booted I was told to enter the users names. I then clicked on
my name and the following error message appeared:
userinit.exe - no disk

  I've just encountered a problem with Windows XP (service pack 2) and
Sysprep.  After loading a machine with XP, including IIS and XP SP2,  I then
run Sysprep v2.0 (latest available) to prepare for imaging.  After dumping
the Ghost image I reboot the machine to XP.  At this point ...

I want to re install windows xp home and factory settings but i dont have the
original disk where can i get a new one from? Am i able to download it off
the net?
Thanks

Last weekend I took possession of a new PC - mainly purchased in order
to upgrade to Windows XP (I've been using 98 for years). I've had a
few problems over the last week with various errors, culminating this
morning with a PC that simply wouldn't boot up at all.

Hallo everybody!
I have a network with SBS2000, Exchange and ISA.
When I installed on some PC clients XP SP2, I realized  
some problems on sending email: the emails remain in

Trying to build 1 OS image for our company. we have multiple machine types. I
am aware that if the machines have different HALS, then this will not work.
My question to you is this... is anyone getting this seniro to work  ?
When ever i ghost my syspreped image down to a new ...

The guy that set up my XP computer (a surprise from my wife, bless her
heart) spelled my name wrong on the user account name.  I changed it there,
but it creates a misspelled path name.  That's easily changed, as well, but I
wondered if there are any unseen repercussions from ...

My computer had XP home full version previously installed. At s/u recieved
the follow message> missing or corrupt: \windows\system32\config\system.
Tried to run the repair console with no luck. Since it was a new install, not
an upgrade I reformatted the HD and tried to reinstall ...

I have not been able to use the restart function since installing SP2.  If I
need to restart computer, I have to shut down computer, then do a manual
start.
I have consulted both Microsoft help and HP (computer HP A530n).  But

I have just installed Windows XP home and updated to SP1 .  I have
access to the files on the old hard drive that crashed and want to know
if there is a way to access the SP2 that was installed on it or should I
download fresh.  My reason  for using this  is because of my very ...