I am an administrator for about 1200 Windows XP boxes on a university campus.
On about half of the machines, when a user inserts his usb key drive, the
drive is picked up by windows (the bubble appears, and it makes its little
found hardware noise), but the drive never shows up ...

I have a customer with a number of Dells with XP professional.  All of these
machines have their product key stickers on them.  The customer no longer has
any of his original media.  Most of these machines are in need of a clean
install due to spyware, virus, and general usage.

    How can I  list  the KBs installed on the system?
Thanks
Vipin

I've been exploring the use of sysprep to help me in deploying cloned
images of an instance of Windows 2003 Server, Standard Edition.
I am deploying this image onto different private LANs on very similar
hardware.  I want the IP addresses to be fixed in the cloned images.

I have a OEM windows XP pro installed on my computer, unfortunatly, this
computer was lost by the post office, all the product keys which attached on
the computer tower are gone and I just miss the chance to record them, can I
still install the system with my old disk on a new ...

I am newbie to work on automated deployments, I am not sure if this is the
correct form but actually looking for a guide to help me clear my doubts. One
is that i am not fully aware of WinPE Technology in it's native form. I heard
it's a replacement of DOS with a GUI, now if that ...

I recently upgraded my PC from a Celeron 1.2 Ghz processor with 128Mb of RAM
to an AMD XP 2900 with 512Mb of RAM. I kept the same hard drive in the
machine. As expected, Windows XP would not properly re-start with the new mb,
cpu and mem. I proceeded to re-install XP from the ...

Is there an MSI package to deploy the Dot Net framework across PCs using AD
GPOs?
I have to deploy the framework before I deploy a third party app in the same
way.

I just built a new computer with ASUS A7N8X-E deluxe motherboard - 1 GIG
Ultra DDR memory PC3200 400mhz - AMD XP3000 cpu and XFX GeForce 5500 video
card - Maxtor 160GB EIDE 7200/8MB/ATA-133 I'm trying to install OEM winXP
pro. At first I was getting blue screen errors I disabled ...

I accidently created a dual boot situation on my pc by installing W2K
Server from a bootable CD over top of XP. I didn't reformat the HD
during installation because the setup program wasn't recognizing all of
my 250 GB HD, and I didn't want to reformat it that way.

The mb on my wife's eMachines computer died.  The computer came with XP Home
preinstalled.  I installed a new mb, but the product activation is coming up
but choking.  This should be because the preinstalled license is only good
for the original hardware, but the new mb makes this ...

I have setup a RIS 2003 server.  Everything goes fine until the process
starts loading files and I come up with the following error:
File iastor.sys caused an unexpected error (21) at line 3540 in
d:\xpsprtm\base\boot\setup\setup.c.

I did everything that I was supposed to do.
I burned the .iso image to a cd and rebooted my computer to start the xp x64
setup.
about 81% of the way in the first set up files to be copied, I get an error