I've got some files encrypted using xp pro on an old hard drive.  I
got some new sata drives and i'd like to transfer everything over.  I
have my 'old' c: (boot) drive backed up with acronis.  I am
reinstalling xp, and then will use acronis to get my old xp install

Windows 9x had this registry trick. Is there one for XP?
Appearently the following  doesn't work for XP.
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Network]

IE fails to load with a message from the C+ library that iexplore.exe has
ended in an unusual way. I have followed in instrctions on the Microsoft
Knowledgebase and downloaded a new copy of SR2 and installed it. This makes
no difference. Fortunately other browsers work fine ...

I have windows 98 OEM on my computer that came from gateway.  I am wondering
I would be able to use Windows XP Home Upgrade to install windows on my
computer?
Thanks,

I'm creating a sysprepped XP SP2 image to deploy to about a dozen identical
machines on which Windows Welcome will run on first startup.  In testing,
everything works fine with one odd exception; the music that normally plays
during Windows Welcome isn't there!  The sounds made ...

I had a problem on the "wife's computer" from a worm/virus/trojan or
whatever that prohibited the printer from working. The on screen advice was
to install the XP disk.  It took me a few days to find the disk.  I backed
up all of the data files.  This morning I installed the disk ...

I have a dual boot laptop, running WIN2000 and XP.
Everything worked fine untill i cloned my HD (went from 20GB to 40GB)
Now, whenever i start win2000 i get the following error:
"file is corrupt  or is missing: WINNT/appPatch/drvmain.sdb"

I have just upgraded WinXP Home to WinXP Pro in order to install all the
features of VB Basic.  I now need to get IIS, Frontpage extensions, and
TCP/IP installed. The install program cannot find simptcp.dll and accserv.mib
either on my computer or on any XP disk I have. The ...

I have seen installs of XP that do not require activation.
Most of the versions with which I have experience are
the oem's.  They all seem to require activation so I am
currious, which ones do not need to execute that

I have updated to SP2 and everyday I get at least one blue screen.  In Event
Viewer Log I get a different error message every time, not consistantly the
same error message so it appears to be erroenous.  I know about the SP2
Prescot issue and have updated the latest Bio for my ...

I have win2003 RIS server building winXP clients.
One of the install images I have is for a Dell SX280.
This uses Intel 82915G express display adapter.
I have had a successfull build using the Dell supplied drivers, but a recent

Sorry that i'm not very net savvy but i tried to download two music programs
and one of them said i couldn't open it because of an error 26 (which i don't
know what that is) and the other program wont install because it says that it
isnt a valid Win32 application . . . what can i ...

Anyone point me in the direction of how to script an unattended install of
the client for M$ networks?
I have 1500 workstations (2K and XP) that will soon need it, and don't
really want to manually install on each machine.

As a beta tester of Microsoft Products, I was given a complimentary copy of
Windows XP.
I have since needed to reinstall Windows XP on the same computer.  I have
already formatted the hard drive, so I can no longer give you the product ID,

When trying to instal XP Pro I get this message:
The file “………..” was not copied correctly
The file Setup placed on your hard drive is not  a valid XP system image…….
1) Switched out Hard Drive with a backup