To make a long story short: got a virus, then tried to reinstall Win XP
(with SP2) but haven't been able to.
Now each time I turn on my PC, the Setup process resumes the installation
automatically.

USMT 2.6 appears to load all of the user hives at once. The problem occurs
when multiple profiles point to the same ntuser.dat file. The first profile
loads the file, the rest error out.
Module Error  Can't load registry file C:\Documents and

I am trying to reboot after running SYSPREP.
I get an error indicating that the instruction at 0x5F1A340B is trying to
read memory at 0x00000014 but is failing.
It occurs at the screen prompting for a computer name and administrator

I have a question that may seem odd.  I just need a short answer.
Basically we have a Voice-mail application that can run on Windows XP,
but concerns me because it may infringe on MS policies.  Realizing that
users access this box, I would think that it would require CALs and

We have a mixed network (1 x WinXP, 1 x Win 2K, 5 x Win98) where all users
connect to an Access 2000 database on one of the Win98 machines.
Knowledge Base article 209137 states the importance of matched versions of
Jet to avoid corruption (which we now have).

I recently purchased a HP zv6007us.  It came loaded with XP Home SP2.  I want
XP Pro but only have a full and an upgrade disk with SP1, so had to boot from
CD and do a clean install.  Long story short I get through the "DOS" portion
of setup just fine but at the "39 minutes left" ...

Our Windows build has reached the 3 execution Sysprep limit, and I am
urgently searching for workaround procedures that will allow me to make
a critical utility update (install application) and then complete the
Sysprep -reseal function on it. See

How do I restore the add and remove programs in the control panel, currently
I can see only 5 programs where as I have many more.

Thank you for any assistance.  If there are legacy postings with
information on this topic, please let me know what keywords to search on.
We currently use a very nice DOS bootable CD to connect to our file server
housing XP-based ghost images.  We have a nice menuing scheme ...

I am running a Windows XP SP2 on my desktop boxes. Is their a script with
which I can automate the installation of IIS and Indexing Services on these
XP Pro. Desktops.
I tried using the sysocmgr.exe utility but didn't had any luck. Looks like

I just got thru re immaging a dell PC with XP pro. After installation I
chekced device mgr and the onboard ethernet card,sound,video,and PCI
communications controller have ? marks next to them with no driver
installed.I installed the latest dell chipset driver but this did not ...

I have Pentium IV PC operating on a Win 98SE platform. I downloaded the
"Microsoft WinXP Upgrade Advisor". When I run it, it successfully gets
past the hardware. However, when testing system files, it hangs on "DVD
Movie Player" and freezes. I don't have a DVD Movie Player or a DVD

I did some searching around for this and found plenty of questions, but no
distinct answers.
I am looking at one station in particular, but this has happened with other
stations as well.

I'd like to upgrade my version of Windows to XP Pro.  I have purchased the
upgrade version but it has been suggested that since I currently have Windows
ME on the machine that I should reformat the drive and install the full
version of XP.  

When I want to do Disk Cleanup, one of the things it calculates is how much
would be saved by doing file compression.  I never want the file compression
done, but this calculation takes a lot of time.  How can I tell it I do not
want to hear about file compression?