We are in the planning phase of migrating from W2K to WXP.  However, I was
curious if there was a spreadsheet that listed out the differences in the
GPO's between 2000 and XP.  We already went through the huge Excel
spreadsheet that lists all of the GPO's when we did our Win98 to ...

We recently got a new model of laptop in our company.  They are Dell
Latitude D610's.  We build Ghost images for each new model, and we have
a list of steps we follow for each image so they are consistant.  We've
followed the same steps for this image as we have all others.  The ...

I have a computer which has USB 1 ports on the motherboard. I have purchased
and installed a USB 2 card to use with an external USB drive. The USB 2
connections seem to work when copying small files. However when I try to do a
larger backup I get an error "Delayed Write Failed" ...

I have a machine that I replaced the motherboard on. The hard drive had
Windows 2000 Professional. When I start the computer in Win2K and attempt to
perform the upgrade to Win XP Pro I get the following error:
Windows XP Professional does not support upgrading from Windows 2000

I am installing XP HomeEd over another MS opersys.  Do I need to erase the
Hard Drive, or will the Hard Drive be erased as part of this process?  I was
hoping to avoid having to do that.

We have an Open license for our Windows XP.  I am constantly reinstalling
PC's with my SP1 CD.  I know there is a way to make a "slipstream" disk that
will update it to SP2, but is there a way to add my product key to the
install to avoid having to enter it each time?

I've got to put 3 computers together over the weekend-all using the same
hardware, software, etc.
They will be running XP Pro, Office 2000 & will also have acrobat reader & a
terminal emulator.

I have tried several times to get service pack 2 working on my XP
installation.  Each time I fight with it for several hours and, making no
progress and needing to use my computer again, uninstall the damn thing.  But
I'm to the point now where I need to install a new Visual ...

Hey All,
Im having some major problems with my drives....Firstly my CD/DVD Drive has
disappeared from Windows - and in the device manager i get the following
message...

I have the problem with sysprep mini setup making the local Admin profile the
default profile. The big problem is that since the admin account is local, I
lose my network printer setup. Any Ideas on how to correct this?

Hi,
I would like to thank you in advance, "Thank You". I need to know how to get
rid of the past items that are in the customize notification area. I right
click the start button, click on properties, task bar tab, customize button,

A Dell Laptop was given to me and it has an admin and hard drive password set
on boot up.  I do not know the password and I cannot locate the person who
gave it to me.  What is the best way to bypass this to fdisk the harddrive
and reinstall xp pro?

I have been using RIS for about 3 years now and have never had this problem:
I install my base image with all the applications that are needed.
I log in as a generic user (with admin rights) and configure my settings and
environment the way I want them to be presented.

I want to upgrade my computers board, processor and memory, but do not want
to reinstall windows, can i do this and not have problems?

I'm about to define the domain wide group policy settings for the windows
firewall on our Windows XP SP2 clients.
Now I want to define this at the domain level so that it will affect all
XP SP2 computers when they join the domain .. without having to be moved to a