OEM licenses are only supposed to be sold with hardware - which is not a
problem for me. However, if I already possess OEM licenses, is there anything
to stop me from using them on existing computers? If I apply them to
exisiting computers which aren't brand new, are they valid?

Anyone know how I could create a boot disk in Linux to burn to cd with such
small niceties as fdisk, scandisk, and any other usefull wee tools?

I would like to be able to image my computers at work using symantec
ghost.  I have been doing this reasonably successfully for a few years.
The problem that I have come to now is that I am using computers with
different mass storage boot controllers.

I have several Windows 2000 workstations to manage.
Unfortunately, there is no domain controller.
To make life easier, I would like to allow the users (with no admin
rights) to install printers.

  I work for a public school system and have 2 labs ( 50 PCs)  running
Windows XP Pro.  These were ordered as individual licenses.  Because of this
I have been using Sysprep and Ghost to make an image of the PC.  I re-image
once a year to clean house and sometimes during the ...

heres the score a customer needs to keep all there info from a existing
Computer but all the existing info needs to be transferd to a new machine
wich has a bigger hard drive faster processer and from 32 mb ram to 1 gig of
ram the wont to also upgrade the OS as well to the most ...

a cowork keeps complaining that there machine keeps telling them that the
vritual memory is about all used up they have 256 mb ram 18 gig hard drive
and 6 gigs is free space on it not used what could be the problem in the
system?

Hello all, it's my first post, and after some minor poking about this seems
to be the pbest place to ask.
I've just recently bought an OEM copy of WinXP Pro at a local retailer [why
is everyone selling this right now?] and went home to try and install it on

I have a winxp sp2 runing on a pc, the problem started when i tried to setup
winxp pro with no saervice pack. Taking in mind that there are 2 partitions
all NTFS on the hard drive.
So, when installing winxp pro by using the bootable cd, an error came up

Ref an earlier post re problems accessing web sites via IE6, i suspect that
one of my pc's web browser has been hijacked via back web (followed by some
numbers I can't remember just now). How can it be removed/or how can i
delete ie6 and replace?

Where can I find the differences between XP Pro and XP Pro x64?
Would it be anywhere on MS website?
thanks,
charles....

Ok here is my situation...I am a HS teacher and the school district has
installed software so that when the computer is re-booted the C drive goes
back to its original configuration, files saved on C drive...everything.  I
am able to log on as administrator to create new limited ...

I am attempting to load XP onto a brand new system with a blank hard drive.  
After first dealing with the "NTLDR is missing problem", I now have
installation going, but it seems to be stuck (although the notes describing
all the enhancements keeps looping).  At first it got stuck ...

After an HD failure, I reinstalled XP Pro retail on an Asus P4GE-V mb.  The
owner's CD was "2002".  The BIOS accepted and autodetected the new 200GB boot
drive.  2002 would not format more than the non-extended LBA limit of 137G.
My own retail Pro CD (merged to SP2) would not ...

When I boot up my computer the initial black screen shows two that there are
two copies of Windows XP on my machine (ie. i can scroll down to the second
one and my computer boots up fine). Is it possible that there are actually
two copies of the operating system? I did install a ...