Please help.  I need to perform a clean install of Windows XP. I have the
original XP operating system disk. However, when I try and use it to
reinstall, I get a window popping up that tells me that I cannot continue
because my "existing XP is newer than the one I am trying to ...

This may already be out here but I can’t find it.
I have several users on our domain that want to share a computer that has a
scanner hooked up to it.  They want to be able to long in with their Domain
account so they have access to all there data and shared drives and such yet

I got a new computer and would like to uninstall XP from the old one and
install it on the new one.  If I uninstalled it from the old one, would
Microsoft know it was uninstalled and then accept the registration on the new
one?  Or once installed on one computer, that's it for ...

I have an older retail copy of WinXP professional on a machine I've now
scrapped. and I'm going to install it on a new machine I purchased. I also
have a newer retail XP professional with SP2 already part of the installation
on another machine.

I did a system recovery to clean the computer. And it did
just fine. I went through all the little questions and
the it started but instead of the desktop all i got was a
black screen and a mouse curser. After 20 minutes I

After reformatting drive and installing Windows XP sp2
Installing application cd produces error 'detected a problem with your
current video driver'
I have gone to Dell's web site and downloaded all video drivers needed. What

I have got winpe, ghost 2003 and 9 and an external usb hard disk.
I wish to use these to go on customers' pcs and backup their systems.
Is there any working way to achieve this? Please provide me some info
if you have got any.

Several systems which have been converted from Windows 2000 to Windows XP
Pro - Service Pack 1 are filling the application log with errors.   The
combination of errors are Event ID 1085 and Event ID 1202.
The 1085 errors look like this:

Hi. Has anyone figured out a way of renaming multiple pc's in an active
directory domain? I have approximately 400 machines in different OU's that
need to conform to the new naming convention we are implementing. I have
found some scripts on how to rename a computer name and some ...

sHave tried to research the following, but  no avail.
During a zero touch insallation, before the WIM image is downloaded, the
user state can be saved locally on the same machine. If there is an error
while writing the new image, can the User State data be recovered. If so, how?

Hi, we have a working Windows 2003 environment with RIS to deploy Windows XP
client with. Our problem is that some remote sites only have 10 Mbit LAN
speed. Every client takes about 2,5 houres (when you do one at a time).
Is it possible to configure RIS so a client uses a local ...

I have an Acer Travelmate 340 which does not have a floppy or cd drive.  I
was not able to boot the machine until I installed some ram.  It know boots
up, however I cannot get into bios. The computer starts up and gets to the
lassword prompt.  It then has window that states it ...

My laptop DVD/CDWR stopped working. Now water spilled on the laptop and the
system hangs on boot. I want to re-install xp but I still need the old data
on the laptop. How do I re-install/repair XP without CDROM drive? Urgent help
needed!!!!

now I reinstalled WindowsXP and do not remember how to set the mouse to
single-click on a folder name to open it to edit it.
I have the mouse set for single-click but that only highlights the folder
name.  I still have to right-click and select rename.  Before, I some how had

I am trying to creat an image of XP SP2 to deploy in the company...I have a
volume license...I am trying to get sysprep to automate the process so user
does not get prompted for the license...Unable to get it to work