I was asked by a friend to upgrade a computer they received in Italy. It was
loaded with Win 2K Italian Version. I purchased an XP Pro upgrade package,
but after further review, I'm afraid this upgrade may not work. I don't want
to open the package and  be out the money I paid ...

In Network Connections, the LAN displays "connected", but when trying to get
internet access, it shows "page cannot be displayed". This notebook works
fine with a cable modem, but I can't get the 'DSL/ethernet connection to gain
internet access. Thanks for the help

I recently built my first computer and installed XP Pro onto my primary hard
drive.  When everything was all well and good, I found I could not see my 2nd
hard drive, though the computer knew it was there.  After many foolish
attempts to rectify the situation, I realized the hard ...

I bought some memory for a friend who has a Gigabyte GA6wmm7 motherboard.
She only has 64mb of ram . I bought Viking 256MB PC100 168pin 8 chip SDRAM
Memory Module .
In her pc it wont even boot, the pc tries  and beeps but the monitor wont

Windows started to shut down out of no where on me. Now when it boots it will
give a quick message stating the partition is messed up. I have tried my
system recovery disks that were issued with my compaq laptop, and it says
that it can't delete the partitions. I load knoppix ...

I have tried installing xp pro and everything appears fine until it gets to
the screen "initialising drivers" 35 minutes remaining.  The green box stops
moving and everything appears to jam.
help

I have 150 HP workstations that shipped with WIndwos XP OEM.  The customer
downgraded the license to Windwos 2000.  They are now ready to deploy XP
company wide.
Q: Can I take an image of one of the machines using a program like Ghost,

My comp crashed yesterday, so I reinstalled windows xp. When it was finished,
I logged on and the display was 640*420 with only 4 colors... I tried to fix
it, but neither will go up. I ran windows updates and tried the trouble
shooter none worked. How do I fix this?

I am having problems with my XP installation, and I'm planning to resolve it
with a complete reinstall.
I'd like to avoid spending hours updating my old XP Home installation with
three years worth of updates and service packs.

I had Adobe Acrobat running under XP SP1 and then went to SP2 and am
now unable to create a PDF.  I was getting a memory error 0x0045c9e5,
but now it just hangs.    I have done everything that Adobe suggested,
except an OS reinstall.

I'm having problems with a quick formatted logical drive created with
WXP-SP1's disk management, when I try to do an unattended install of WXP-SP2
into that logical drive using WINNT.  If I use third party partioning
software, quick format says it won't work and requires me do a ...

I created an unattended.txt file using the deployment wizard for Windows XP.  
I then renamed the file to winnt.sif and put it in the \i386 folder on a CD I
burned.  
In the file I have the lines:

I am trying to deploy Win XP SP2 using SUS.Is it possible to automatically
disable the firewall of XP SP2 while it is deployed to machines using SUS.
Thanks&Regard
Salim C A

I have deployed 3 new XP Pro machines on a W2K network and they all
hang up for about 2 minutes at "applying personal settings".
I am using our ISP's DNS servers and statically assigned IP addresses
on the workstations (that's the way I inherited this network) and it

I have a question on the initial setup of creating sysprep image as I'm
getting ready for my first run at it.
In MS KB302577 it says to setup a workstation with OS and all applications
etc. that you want on it.  In doing so, can my source computer already be