I just built my first computer, and it was pretty hastle free (lets just
forget about mounting the Motherboard and the Hard Drive for the sake of
positive thinking) until it came to actually getting it to run.
It will Boot up, go through all the checks, then will tell me the ...

Hi pros!
Im looking for a guide to change the path for doucments and settings. How
can I do this after I've installed xp.

OK, I just bought a Dell.  My old system is an HP.  I have Retail Windows XP
Home OS.
So, what happens when I just install my current boot drive into the Dell in
place of the Dell Drive?  Why won't Windows go ahead and boot, find all  new

After installing SP2, the computer has developed a lag or a temporary freeze
which lasts a second or two every now and then! The mouse freezes, text
freezes while inputtng text and even multimedia files seem to stall
inbetween. I first thought it is a ram problem, but doubling to ...

My disk fried a couple weeks ago. Could have done it my self but since I had
to buy the disk and the support place is down the street let them do
it..Make them responsible....They are not open yet so. here is the problem.
New disk. New OS since they couldn't recover my old one... ...

1.)  I can't find any drivers for Microsoft's own Wireless Optical Desktop
Pro that are compatible with X64.
2.)  I can't find any drives for Linksys wireless network cards.
3.)  X64 won't let me load the drivers for my 19" monitor that allow it to

I've got a PC with Windows XP Home Edition, Version 2002, SP1 (GERMAN
version). I have to install Visual C++ Express beta 2 on that PC, and it says
that SP2 is required.
Since I don't have an Internet access on that PC I'm looking for:

In windows XP Pro,
I know that if you select the welcome screen (for logon) to be active you
get an extra tab on the task manager that is the shutdown tab. This tab has
sutdown, restart, log off and several other nice options on it. If you do not

Everytime i shutdown the computer, the windows is also shut down together. It
needs time to start up the windows once the computer open again. Can i shut
down the computer but indeed not shut down the windows. If i open the
computer again, it will start immediate in windows?

I am not sure if this is the newsgroup, but here we go.
How does a GUID look like?
I was trying to create a computer account for the domain server for a HP
notebook.  I could not find the computer GUID on the case, BIOS acceptable

Device drivers:  Have received conflicting advice about whether or not I need
to install the computer's drivers after reinstalling WinXP Home SP2.  What
are your comments please?  If I do need to, should I use updated drivers or
the current drivers, which are working fine?

I am working in a 2003 SBS environment and deploy all machines using RIS.
The machines are usually generic and the latest one has an ASUS K8S-MX
motherboard with an integrated SiS190-based NIC.
I have acquired the most recent drivers, v1.04 (2005-06-09), from ASUS and

Hello Friends,
I want to know what is the use of SYSPREP utility.
All the manuals/documentation/technet tell us that u need run sysprep before
creating a image. It prepares system for installation.

Anybody knows how to get this system to install???
Was running xp pro before, turned it off and it would not restart, tried
everything, even re-installing xp pro, with no luck. reformatted the drive
and tried a new installation, and I get this message that says ntldr is

Hi. I used Casper XP at the beginning of '05 to make a copy of two
drives onto a large backup drive. I did not use the latter for any
other use. I set up the cloning process to update periodically
thereafter. Like an idiot, I did not check to see if I could boot from