Iv been trying to upgrade to XP Professional and during the installation the
set up asks for a file "viaide.sys" what is this file and whats it suppost to
do .......and what im i suppost to do from here on ?
Help ! Please !

We're on the verge of replacing 50 leased computers with new systems. The
new systems will probably have XP Professional and Office 2003 Professional
(OEM) pre-installed. But I also need to deploy about 20 additional
applications (including AutoCad) to each box.

Hi,
I was going to start to prepare to install service pak 2 & was reading info
on what to do before installing, I read the area that tells how to install
the backup utility for windows XP home edition, it says to install Windows XP

My tyan S2875 motherboard is the latest in a seires of upgrades to my
desktop, with 2 opteron 248 prosessors @ 2.2ghz , 4gb bufferd/ecc ram and a
All in wonder 2006 ed 256mb agp video card . I started w/windows 98se
upgraded to xp home with my last board/prosessor upgrade and ...

I have a PC with nforce2 motherboard (ABIT NF7-S2G), Volari V3 display card,
IDE hds and cdrooms. I am trying to install Windows XP Pro on this PC. The
screen just shows the a message on the top of the screen "System is detecting
your hardware configuration..." then screen turns ...

I have a network composed of two XP Homes in a peer to peer setup. I want to share the root of C: on both machines so they are visible to the other. From attempts to date this does not seem possible.
Is this inhibited in the Home version?
Thanks,
gary

What alternatives are there to Symantec Ghost for deploying a Windows XP
desktop, with a number of pre-installed applications, via the LAN?
One of my responsibilities is to maintain a computer lab with 29 systems,
and in the past we have used Symantec Ghost to re-image a system ...

i receive a gift LG Laptop with XP Home Edition SP2, i want to upgrade it
with Windows XP Professional SP2. Please advice what i need to do ??

Anyone have a clue on how to do this? It seems it should be simple, but I'm
at a loss! Need da help!
Due to an attempt to overwrite a bad hardware driver that prevented normal
boot up, I tried to reinstall WindowsXP. The bad driver is preventing setup

When I try and install any game Command & Conquer, whatever, I get an error
signature that says error signature AppName:game.exe  AppVer:1.0.0.1
ModName:Game.exe. Also whenever I restart my computer the Win32 file
automatically opens up and I see all the files. I just close it ...

Hi Dear
Hope you are doing fine.
I have a problem was wondering if you can assist me.
Here is the Scenario.

I ran into an issue installing our
sysprep-with-mini-setup-made-on-an-Intel-box load set on an AMD box.
The solution was to change a reg key value.  Which worked.  
So did just deleting the reg key value -- which is what we had to do

Doing an install for a site that's a bit bigger than the ones I normally
tackle, and decided that a corporate (Open) licence would be the sensible way
to go. At the moment the only licensing requirement is XP Pro, as they're
retaining the the rest of their infrastructure.  

When trying to reinstall windows xp, I receive the following error:  
winnt32.exe - application error. The application failed to initialize
proper(0xc0000006)
Ever since I completed some microsoft upgrades last weekend my machine locks

have had to do a clean install of XP and lost "office".  Have tried to
re-install.  Says it is installed - although I can see  applications I cannot
start them.   What have I forgotten ?  How do I kick start these programmes ?
any help appreciated