What is the best way to install XP and get all of the security updates
installed without putting a vulnerable system on the network?

If there are serveral people using the same computer, is there a way to
setup XP so that only certain local users have access to the internet while
others don't?

I recently installed XP Pro on new 160 gig drive.  During the installation
the program told me that it could not partition a drive this size, I think
the max was 120 gigs and that to free up the remaining 40 gigs I would have
to perform some additional procedure after the program ...

We have 12 HP XW4200 workstations and we are all equipped with XP pro
licences, and as we are in a tight schedule and we got too many stations to
maintain. We made a generic image of one unit, meaning we configure and
install XP pro + our own applications onto one workstation and ...

Hello, I have used Target Designer (XPe) to create a XPe image to the
companies requirements but I'm having problems implementing it. The
tablets the image is going on has one USB 2.0 port and two more when
docked. We've been using a USB CD drive to boot to the PE environment

Is this even possible?
I've got a machine with XP preinstalled, with everything (menus, context
menus, etc.) in Danish. Can I change that to English, or do I have to buy a
whole new OS?

I have a Toshiba laptop with Danish as the OS language - I cannot read enough
of it. Can I install an OEM version (with SP2) in English?

My friend has an older pc with ME. Now he would like to upgrade to XP Pro.
His installation was into the dutch language an I have bought the Windows XP
Professional "N" Upgrade (Dutch). But the Upgrade installation tells me on
start, that the upgrade can not be performed. Now I ...

Hi,
I have a few of MSO 2003 Pro programs as my desktop icons that work when I
click on them. I can not see the name MSO or its submenu on the
start\application and I have clicked on start\explorer to see if I see the

I have just upgraded my Windows ME computer of 2001 vintage by adding memory
and a second hard drive. The original computer has a Pentium III processor
running at 930 MHz, 128 MB of RAM, and a hard drive of 20 GB. I added a 256
MB RAM module to bring the total memory to 384 MB, ...

Can someone explain to me why I can run one VBS file and one HTA file
on my local computer (windows XP pro), but on another computer (Windows
PE) the HTA file fails. The HTA file just stops and I get no error
message, but the error is when I create the SQL connection object and

Based on a tip from friend a few months ago i split my hard drive into
many partitions before installing windowsXP to keep it clean. Here is
how i did it:
C:- Windows folder and the documents and setting folder (less my

I seldom use the Add/Remove Windows Components f unction of the Control
Panel, and when I do I always seem to have a problem. My latest encounter
involved installing (actually, re-installing) the Windows Fax component.
Somehow I ended up losing configuration settings for several ...

I started having some random crashes on a previously stable XP installation,
so I decided to do a clean install.  Now I have real problems.
I removed all extra hardware, 2nd video card, ATA expansion card, USB
devices, etc.  Leaves me with a SOYO motherboard, a AMD 2400 XP+, an ATI

still have the spyware/malware/something issue been almost 2 weeks !
i've had many many scans and logs examined and i'm getting to the point
where i'm wondering if a "clean install" of xp would fix this.
anyone well versed on the subject ?