We're creating an XP image for RIS installation.
I'm looking for files, folders that are unnecessary in a corporate
environment that can be deleted from the image so I can slim down the
size of the RIS image.

Put my Gateway Operating System disk for WIN XP Home Edition in the drive to
see if I could do any repair and msg reads "the version on my computer is
newer than the disk"! So how does that happen--with all the WIN updates? If I
uninstall SP2 can I then use the original disk that ...

Is there a way to detect what hardware profile has been loaded when you start
up your system.  I'd like to do some scripting to launch different programs
based on whether my system is Docked or Undocked.  Note, I already know how
to affect what hardware gets started up on various ...

One anoying problem. When we deploy the Oracle client 9.2 the installation
needs the user temp variable to be set to C:\Temp. Is there any way to set
this variable using GPOs in our 2003 AD?

Just recently I switched to WinPe over RIS instead of using cd's. It works
great, but I'm not able to add driver support in the RIS stage for every nic
we use in our
company. The ones that don't work are the nVidia (nForce4) onboard nics.

I have completed imaging 79 or 80 WinXP machines using RIS with little
problems.  However, I'm now on my last one and I'm receiving the following
stop error after the Client Installation Wizard Runs:
Stop 0X000000BB

I use my HP desktop (MS-XP) as the server left on and hard wired to HP pSC
950 Printer.  My HP laptop works with the Linksys router for internet, but
now doesn't work to print from the laptop.  It did previously with some help
from HP but they won't help now.  Any suggestions?

Is it possible to install XP Pro and Windows 2000 Pro the same time and on
the same hard drive by splitting hard drive?
If yes, can someone please tell me how to do this so I wont screw up my puter.
I just want to know if this is possible?

I have a Gateway 710X with 2 gig ram, 250gig hard drive, NVidia Geforce
FX5950 video card with 256 Ram and am trying to upgrade to Windows XP Pro.  I
have  wipe the hard drive clean with a utility from Gateway and have try to
Install XP Pro.  The system seems to install fine with ...

I have a brand bew Dell SC1420 Server and want to run Windows XP Pro on it
for a Server. The system will not recognize the operating system as a
protential Server operating system and will not let me load the OS. Can
anyone suggest way aroung this. This is a Small Home Office and ...

I have been trying unsuccessfuly to create and RIS deployment using this
NIC.
The error is during the text phase stating that setup cannot continue
because it doesnt have the correct drivers.

I have a problem with installing an other version of windows XP other than
the version provided by the company from where I bought my machine. Windows
XP doesnt automatically detect my SATA hard disk.
They told me that the next version of windows Vista wont have this problem.

guyz i've a win2k server running as a domain, with around a 100 pcs XP PRO
network, now if i want to install any application i've to do it on all ther
computers, is there any way it can be done at domain only and the users run
the word or ne applicaiton i install from domain only ...

The company I work for has a bunch of computers with XP pro on them, but it
doesn't have a volume license - only a OEM license that comes with each
machine.
Currently, we have images that were originally created from the OEM's image

I am configuring closed systems with highly restricted access.
Part of the certification is to establish that all of the passwords expire.
Here is the situation:
On a non-networked Windows XP SP2 workstation.