I format my computer a lot and have recently upgraded to xp. i was wondering
if i ghost an image of my pc the way i like it with office 2003, visual
studio etc installed, and windows activate would i have have to reactivate
the software evry time i deploy the ghost image. It will ...

when i try to deploy windows xp home edition it says: your currnent
installation of windows is not a supported upgrade path.

i am running windows XP Pro sp1 on my family's computer, and when i install
sp2 from either windows update or a cd (without problems), my computer's
monitor kind of  switches itself off. the screen goes black just before the
login screen loads up (the monitor light instead of ...

Dear Forum Members,
We have valid VLK license for XP, and at one of the remote site, a new
engineer created a ghost image using OEM key and deployed it on 50 machines.
Now those machine have gone into production and they have started asking for

For those interested in dual booting from different or twin identical OS I
have happened on the following neat way of doing it:
1 Two disks master and slave, about same size. In my case SATA 74 GB
Westinghouse Raptor

I have formatted and re-installed winXP home edition and cannot re-register
with microsoft to activate windows.  any suggestions?

Where can I find one.  I want to generate a registry entry based on either a
env var %ProgramFiles% or by reading the path to an exe from the registry.
So far my attempts to find decent INF documentation have failed.
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How would I put the XP setup boot file with the CD?  I have a Setup CD that
has no boot file.  I also has 6 floppy disk with file that boot to the Setup
Screen.  Is there any way I can put these file onto my Setup CD to make it
bootable?

I have been using RIS 2003 on Server 2003 without SP1 to deploy XPSP2 images
for DELL Optiplex GX 280's for 2 months with no issues and its been working
fine until we put SP1 on our 3 Domain Controllers running Server 2003.
We are using PXE Boot from the DELL Optiplex GX 280 and ...

I wish to hide the installation files, and make an option that is visible
during boot, that gives me the oportunity to reinstall the operating system.
The installation files should be hidden of course, and it should be possible
to place device drivers that will be prompted too.

After upgrading to W2k3 sp1, XP sp2 pc's built via RIS fail to join the the
domain even though the workstation account are being created by RIS during
the built process. Prior to the upgrade over 300 pc's had been deployed via
RIS and this issue is occuring on multiple servers. ...

Dear Group,
I am new to this group. So "Hi" to all first.
I have a question. I have XP Professional on which,I have developed GUI
Application using Win 32 API's in MS Visual Studio. I want to execute

I received a message that 'physical dump complete'.  I have no idea what this
means.  I am unable to use my USB drive due to this problem.  I read to
update my driver card or something like that, but I have no clue on how to do
that.  I am not exactly computer savvy, so I have no ...

I have an original oem disk for my compaq computer however it is time to
replace the hard disk as it is failing and i could do with a larger drive.
My problem is the computer is a few years old now and during the time i have
had it the sticker with the key i need to reinstall has ...

i have a laptop with a floppy and en external usb cdrom. the cdrom isnt being
recognized by the win xp setup. ive also tried some of the modded win 98
bootdisks with usb cd rom support but they all say there is no usb cd rom
installed. the laptop came to me formatted otherwise i ...