I have a year old HP laptop that came with XP Pro SP1 pre-installed. I have
the original CD, and the sticker with the key on the bottom of the laptop. I
let my daughter use the laptop while in college, but without the installation
CD. Now that I have the laptop back, Belarc ...

I have a copy of XP x64 on a dvd from TechNet, When I try to install it on my
AMD 64 bit system it just skips the install and goes right to the 32bit
version I have on the system already. (No AUTORUN)
I have the DVD Rom set as the first boot device in the BIOS.

I currently have WIN ME on our home PC.  I start to upgrade it today.  During
the upgrade XP kept looping through the preparation process.  In an effort to
stop the looping I had it boot from the CD.
Now I am getting an error message that "Setup is unable to verify drive C:.

I just tried to use my existing WinXP hdd on a new motherboard, It begins to
boot then stalls after %systemroot%\system32\device\agp440. Don't want to
wipe disk, any hints?

We have purchased 39 new PCs from Dell. I am trying to figure out the best
way to get them set up. They all have windows XP and Office basic installed,
but I have other software I need to install on them as well.
So, rather than install each piece of software on each PC, I think it ...

I have a recent install of XP Home full Edition running on a PC that will be
replaced by a machine with XP Home OEM.   Rather than re-installing all the
apps and moving data, I want to simply replace the HD in the new machine with
the old machine's HD.

I have a computer with a bad harddrive.  It was a Windows 98 computer and I
purchased the XP upgrade about a year ago.  I could not load Windows, so I
purchased a new hard drive, made it the boot drive and installed an OEM XP I
had from my Dell Laptop since I cannot find my XP ...

My Compaq Laptop recently died.  I was running Windows XP Professional, but
it loaded off of the "Compaq Quick Restore" disks, not a separate Windows XP
disk.  These disks will not run on my new computer since they are specific to
my Compaq laptop.  I do have the XP "Certificate ...

hi i have tryed to make xp on the same hdd while my win me is still on it i
succesfully done it but i dont know how to boot win me again as now when i
just turn on my computer it boots into xp straight away pls help

I have 3 girls that share a XP Home system.
They each have their own logon that is password protected. (I know their
passwords)
What I'd like to do is know the time(s) each day they logon, how much time

I have to deploy 10-20 PCs per week with pretty much the same configuration.
The Computer names are different but, all else is exactly the same. (User and
Admin Account names, Profiles, logon scripts, et al).  The machines arrive
with the OS already installed (OEM version). What ...

When start outlook express, and the computer sends/recieves for the first
time, it asks me "please enter username and password for this server". the
username is there, and I have to type the password.
As long as I dont leave the program, I can send/recieve.

Not sure if this is the right newsgroup or not but I am attempting to install
XP home on a PC running Windows 98. The Win98 OS came pre-installed and I
can't find the original CD. The Windows XP is an Upgrade and each time I
start the install process I receive the following error ...

I am trying to use Windows 2003 active directory GPO's to control XP Pro
workstations.  What GPO setting removes the "Printers and Faxes" start menu
item from view?

I have used sysprep to create an image of 15 WinXP machines now serval times.
Every 6 months or so I create a new image as all of the computers are
identical and all need the same software installed.  This way I always have
my image up to date as I am constantly installing new ...