I have just had to have a 'clean install' on my system and start a fresh
with Windows XP Home Edition Inc Service Pk 2 2002.Suddenly my sound dorsn't
appear to work at all. I beleive I have to re-install my sound? How do I do
that ?

1.  This an unattended network XP upgrade.
2.  Here's the "Unattended" section of my file:
[Unattended]
   UnattendMode=FullUnattended

I have XP Home installed on my computer.  I want to move this to my wife's
computer and install XP Pro on mine.  Can I uninstall my XP Home and
re-activate on her computer?

Does anyone know if RIS work with sysprep?
thanks
OM

I'm really not sure where to start with my problem. I usually turn on my pc
in the afternoon and let it run until i go to sleep at night. I did
everything (closed all programs etc) that i normally do and then shut down my
computer. The next day I started my comp up and at the ...

The default behavior of sysprep is to clear the SID and force a new one
to be genrerated, so it should be as easy as falling off a log for me
to keep unique SIDs on all of my clients.  However, I'm playing around
with the shutdown mode.  I usually use "shutdown".  After shutdown I

I have been unsuccessful in adding Mass Storage Devices to my RIPREP image. I
have an MSI K8N motherboard, and I’m trying to get the image to find my Hard
Drives which are Western Digital SATA drives setup using the onboard RAID
NVIDIA controller.

When I try to bring down a RIS image I've created I get the following error
message:  "Setup cannot set permissions for
\Device\Hardisk0\Partition2\35bcb\sp1"
When I choose "Skip File" the process goes a little further then I get this

I have just set up a computer with XP Home, and if you try to "switch user",
when you select the account to log into (while another account is logged on)
the account starts to log on and then dumps you back to the logon screen. No
error messages are displayed. If you log a user ...

I am wiping an older computer that currently has Windows XP Professional SP2
loaded onto it.  I, however, cannot find the Pro disk, but I do have a
Windows XP Home edition disk.  The question is, can I install Windows XP Home
edition and use the product key sticker that was on my ...

Is there a way to point OEMPNPDriversPath to a network share to install the
drivers from? I know windows add C:\ to the beginning of each specified
folder so I was wondering if there is a way to stop that from happening?
Thanks in advance

I am trying to PXE boot for an RIS installation.  It works fine on a VM, but
when I try on any of my other machines, I get an error stating;
"The operating system image you selected does not contain the necessary
drivers for your network adapter"

I am having problems getting drivers loaded using RIS (as many people in
this newsgroup seem to), related in an earlier post.
In many of the articles I find, it is required to restart the BINL service.
I dont have that service.  Is it specific to Win2000?  Is there an

Good Evening All,
I have an unattended CD that needs to be 100% fully automated and I require
some assistance with a particular issue, I need to have the volume XP is
being installed to create 3 partitions. Is there a way that I can create 3

Hi All,
I want to deploy windows xp in my network with the classic start menu and
the setting in System Properties/Advanced/Performance "adjust for best
performance" for all users. I want to try and avoid using the default user