Apologies for the long post but this needs the detail.....
CPU: Athlon XP 1.8Ghz
RAM: 512MB
Old mobo: Leadtek K7N415-DA

I just bought a brand new computer with Win XP home edition already
installed. Unfortunatly the HD is not partitioned and I really need
partitions. As a last resort I thought I'd scrub the HD and re-install XP and
add the partitions then.  However,  the totally crappy and useless ...

I'm setting up a new PC with a retail version of WinXP Home Upgrade.  I have
a full licensed version of Win98SE that I'm using as my upgrade ability.  I
get past the upgrade verification and always stall when the hard drive setup
is taking place.  I partitioned and formatted with ...

What is the utility of the Substitutes key under HKCU\Keyboard Layout?
If I only use one keyboard Layout (under Preload) can i delete the value in
Substitutes?
Thanks

Well the subject is kind of self explanatory...ummm all i did was take out a
dvd-rw disk while it was burning on nero and it messed up...kind of stupid i
kno. ive reinstalled windows...disconnected and reconnected the drive,
updated the firmware, disabled and reenabled, ...

Hello.  I bought a second-hand computer from a company, and user profile
information is still in place.  This is the information I have collected
from the 'users profiles' in 'system properties':
account unknown 4.21 MB

About once a year, I make a clean (reformat hard drive) reinstallation of
Windows XP Pro.
Unfortunately, I have then also to download again all the past windows
updates.

I had to re-set up my system this weekend with a clean XP install.  
Everything was fine until SP2 was updated.  Could be coincidental, but
starting after the SP2 update, my system starts up very slow.  I get a black
screen before the Windows XP slash with a gray striped progress ...

I read in a magazine that it is possible to make a copy of WinXP that
includes all the updates from SP2 so you can install all in one sitting; So
no installing XP and then installing SP2 after - just one install process.
The magazine included DOS scripts to copy the relevant ...

I buy computers off the shelf with windows XP pre installed from an OEM.  I
then send these computers out to our customers, which require localization
settings specifically time and date format, and the addition of foreign
languages.  It is this procedure that I would like to ...

Is it possible to migrate user profiles/data from one Windows XP Professional
machine to another utilizing USMT 2.6?  Some information I found on MS
TechNet lists source system requirements as being Win95, Win98, WinNT or
Win2000...no mention of Windows XP for the source system.

I just install three hard drive with xp sp 2.  I can see the hd when I look
at device manager, but only one shows up when I go to my computer.
Help?
JFAB

Hi, we are installing Winxp pro  campus license on a pc with the following
configuration:
-cpu p4 3,6 ghz
- mb intel 915psy

Is there a way of identifying a product key on an XP Pro install?  I have a
number of computers that were purchased new with an OEM copy of XP Pro.  The
product key sticker was never put on the computers.   Now, a hard drive is
failing on one of the machines, and needs to be ...

I have Windows XP Pro.
Recently, I formatted my hard drive.  While reinstalling Windows XP
Pro from the CD, during the formatting to NTFS process, I
inadvertently shut down the computer.  I never did that before.