I installed the SP2 from an automatic update and after the reboot it wanted
to do it was busy doing stuff and got a blue screen of death. I had no option
other than to reboot. It never started again. It said it was canceling the
installation and reverting back to the previous ...

Computer won't remove MSN Explorer. Normally when the computer is built MSN
Messenger and MSN Explorer are removed before SP2 is applied. However, MSN
Explorer  was inadvertantly skipped and now trying to remove it. When you go
into Add Remove Windows

Just wondering about the following: I'll soon receive a laptop which
probably has XP Home Norwegian pre-installed.
Since I prefer English I was thinking about removing the Norwegian
install and installing XP Home English instead, using the same license

I created an image using the "Slipstreamed" CD version of WinXP with SP2 from
MS Select-CD then I ran the NEW Sysprep.exe 2.0 (extracted from the SAME CD
in Support\Tools\Deploy.cab.  I got an error saying that "the version of your
current OS is INCOMPATIBLE with the version of ...

HI,
I would like to know how to create an auto Outlook profile setup situation.
Is it a login script or what? Currently I have 87 users I have to setup local
Outlook profiles (using local profiles) and I will have one day to do this

I hope this is the right newsgroup for this topic...
I am new to WinPE and need some help:
Is there a way to deactivate the mouse driver support?
My DVD is a update dvd which run without any userintervention and the user

I have Win XP Pro SP2 and every patch update and all. I have been running WIN
XP on this HD since Oct 2001 so need less to say I want to put a nice fat
juicy hardrive in my pc as this one is too full. Now I have the age old fear
of losing everything (I know back up...  :O)

Brand new laptop arrived this morning with everything preinstalled. In
Windows XP setup, after clicking "Help me configure my internet," or
something to that effect, there is now a white tab that obscures most of the
setup screen.  There doesn't seem to be anything I can do to ...

How can the Documents and Settings folder be moved or set to another
drive?
I want it that way so that using a Recovery Tool like Acronis or Ghost
to restore or corrupted system does not destroy user settings and data.

How many time do you need to run sysprep? If you sysprep a dirve and install
the drive on a computer to test, everything works fine and now want to image
that drive over to the original drive in the same computer. Whould you need
to sysprep again?

I need to configure my firewall to restrict Internet access for
certain users.  However, they _should_ be allowed access to Windows
Update, so I want to enable outbound firewall openings only for the
required IP ports.

My C:\ drive is about to give up the ghost...it's a 10gb that came with the
pc (Dell), OS (XP Pro) installed. I bought several of these from a testing
company that went out of business. Essentially, they were used to take
measurements, etc. and communicate via network to server, etc ...

I have a script that can change the size of the pagefile, but it only works
on the default, %systemroot%\pagefile.sys.
We have our pagefile on another partition, and i need it to change that
pagefile size on that partition. Here is the script.

Are you able to copy the NTUser.dat file to different computers? Want to set
preferences / look ect once and use the NTUser.dat on the subsequent
computers. Can this be done?

My daughter got a laptop for Christmas.  We took it on vacation.  She is the
administrator on it and for got her password.  She attempted to sign on
numerous times and it froze up...then kept asking to reboot with four
options.  All tried, none letting her on.  We came home from ...