We are unfortunately in a situation where we need to keep the D-partition
intact on a large number of laptops when deploying WinXP.
For these installations we use RIS on a Win2K3 server with a "flat-image"
solution.

I'm trying to build a WinPE bootable from the OPK, but when I run MkImg.cmd
it complains that bldini (a program its trying to run doesn't exist).
Does anyone know where these files are supposed to be?

I am working on a computer that someone installed Mozilla Firefox on.  After
things didn't work correctly such as clicking on hyperlinks listed in
Outlook emails and getting a locate browser error, the novice tweaking began
and now things are really screwed up.  I am looking for a ...

Recently setup a test bed Server 2003 Small Business Edition on a box and XP
Professional clients. When logging onto the network through XP it takes 5-10
minutes. This seems like an eternity to sit and wait for the "Loading Your
Personal Settings" window to disappear. Is there a ...

Is Norton ghost  the software of choice for rolling out the Windows XP
machines?  I have recently had some problems when trying to clone machines
with differing hardware.  I have been using sysprep 2 which gives me a
failure error before completing.  "Sysprep has been unable to ...

We have gotten some new Compaq NX9600 laptops which have a RealTek NIC in
them.  I am attempting to get them to work with RIS.  I have followed the
usual procedure for adding the drivers, but I still get the old "operating
system image you selected does not contain the necessary ...

The Computer Freezes in the "Installing Devices" Section
During a Windows XP Upgrade
Keywords: XP install Frozen / Freeze / Freezes / Stops /
Halts / Halted / Locks / Locked / Hung / Hangs

I have a compaq presario laptop.  It has a wild configuration set up by
someone else.  Both windows xp home and windows xp pro were installed to the
same partition.  Is this an acceptable configuration or is this downright
garbage and should be reinstalled with one os per ...

We now have an application that needs to be uninstalled from every machine on
the network. And, unfortunately, we do not have SMS.
We have hundreds of machines all spread out and cant bear the thought of
visiting each one. Does anyone know of a good method for automating this?

Fresh installation of Windows XP integrated with SP2 fails with this
message:
A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage
to your computer.

Our senario is; we have about 500 machines in various computer labs the vast
majority of these 400+ were purchased with XP preinstalled by the OEM.  As we
aquired these machines we would reformat them and put windows 2000 on them.  
We would now like to *upgrade* them to windows ...

I have great new, faster hardware. Can I just transplant my hard disk into
the new computer and keep the existing OS and user apps?

I'm trying to modify the default INF files for the USMT and it is working
wonderfully, except for one problem, I am adding a DELFILES command in the
Copy This State tag right before it copies the default file extensions, but
it is not excluding them, any ideas,, here is the INF ...

Is there a way to copy Group Policy settings from one computer to another so
you don't have to set them each time? These computers are not in a Domain.
Thanks in advance

Changing laptops for kid returning to college - new laptop comes with XP Home
SP2 preloaded- decommissioned laptop has XP Pro.  Need Pro.  How can I
'upgrade" to Pro using the old XP Pro disk (retail version - pre SP2).  
Getting a notification that I am trying to load an older ...