I've been using sysprep to create our company image and I thought I had
everything working, but them we came across some problems with certain types
of software app starting.  I've found the reg I need to change.  I have to
change the users to have full control.  This was setup ...

If I switch to Admininistrator from Default User and open explorer I get a
pop-up dialog
Validation failed for
VSINIT.DLL ...(several files)

I am using Windows XP Professional.  I am sharing a few directories on my
computer, so others can access it's data on a small network. When "Windows
Firewall" is turned on, nobody can access the computer shares. If I turn it
off, everything works well. Is there a way to have some ...

Is there a way to set the default values for viewing the file lists in a
folder when opening files in windows based programs so that the default is
the details setting (shows date modified etc)? I am sick of just seeing the
file list and do not know how to change it.

Hi there. I hope you can help. The PC is at the computer shop, and they
haven't been able to restore from Windows! Ok I'll start at the beginning.
PC environment: XP Home SP2 with latest patches. Intel P4 3.0GHz, internal
Maxtor 240GB ATA drive, internal NEC DVD-RW drive, Matrox ...

I'm sure I'll get chastised for this but, I don't know why my system
automatically boots to the administrator's settings.  Can someone tell me how
to get it to go to the user list instead?
Thanks

Is it possible to configure Microsoft’s USTM to migrate Outlook Auto Archive
settings?
We’ve been successful in getting the Outlook Views, ODBC connections, Mapped
Drives, and other misc. Windows settings transferred over via USMT. However,

I am getting an IIS error 1053. IIS is started, but www and ftp are on
starting. If I try to restart it I get a 1053 error.  I also can not open the
IIS shortcut.  I try to do a net start and get the service is started.  I can
not get to my localhost via a browser.  I have Apache ...

Hello, I use the Windows Backup program often to perform incremental backup
of my (big) "My documents" folder.
I do this everytime some of the contets are changed or added, the backup
file is at its own harddisc.

I am trying to setup RIS to work with a 3rd Party DHCP Server (Novell, don't
ask) and I cannot get it to work.
I know if I have DHCP running on a different server than the RIS I have to
set DHCP options to point the PXE-Boot to the RIS Server.

After I sys-prep my systems the users names I use for login in during the
install stays.
So when the end user get the box and boots for the first time, after they
walk thru setup and regestration their first log in screen shows "OEM Setup"

I am moving into a new laptop that has XP Pro SP2 on it. My old laptop
(also XP-Pro SP2) is still available and it contains zillions of
stuff...
Most of the interesting things are now moved by copying the

I am using ghost to deploy standard images across several offices with
diferent product keys and diferent hardware.
I have in the past used landesk and a facility within landesk to inject
files to a disk image, including a diferent sysprep.inf file between the

to all,
last night i got my hands on xp pro and went through the process of
upgrading my laptop from xp home. i need it for the iis and related tools so
that i can fully se .NET. Any, at the begining of the install, i got the blue

As part of installing a new Windows XP Pro on another disk drive, in
preparation for removing the old 13 GB C-drive from the computer, I had
a step where it would have been very convenient to un-mark the old C
drive as  "Active".