I have recently bought a new shiny computer and have put it all together,
bios reports everything fine and then I pop my windows xp sp2 oem swedish
install cd.
It formats the harddrive, runs everything as expected, then gets to the last

I need to have WindowsXP sp2 installed on my machine.  A while ago I had
attempted it, and it was unable to start up and had to restore from my
installation CD.  I am afraid to repeat that.  I don't know what I did
wrong, and am looking for guidance in trying this again.  Are there ...

I recently purchased a 40GB replacement hard drive (336989-001) for a Compaq
Presario 17XL260 notebook from www.impactcomputers.com, but I am having
trouble installing Windows XP onto it.  The laptop has no DVD drive, no CD
drive, no Ethernet NIC.  All that it has is a 1.44MB ...

I recently reformatted my computer and this message came up when I tried to
activate.
"According to our records, the number of times you can activate Windows with
this product key has been exceeded..."  Msg #: 45092

Is it safe to move i386 to another disk? If it must be placed under the  
system32 folder is it possible to move it to D:, for example, then mount  
it in system32?
What about ServicePackFiles?

when I unzip a file, in its properties has a botton called unblock: "This
file comes from another computer and may be blocked to help to protect this
computer"
Anyone knows about this feature?

Is there a way to stop windows messenger from beeing installed on a xp
computer, in a unattend file.
Like in..
[Components]

I re-formated and installed win xp prof. THEN I installed SP1 Update with NO
problem.  After restarting and defraging, I tried to install SP2 from
Microsoft CD and get SETUP ERROR C:\windows|$NtServicePackUninstall$\ not
enough storage for backup.

I have a business requirement to migrate the data in the Recycle Bin. I
cannot seem to find a way to include the Recycle Bin in the migration in
any way. I can do it by means other than USMT, but we would like to keep
all data migration controlled by the Microsoft User State ...

Can I run my DOS application on computers with Windows  XP using the NTFS
file system?
My DOS application was written in Clipper.  For the past several years I've
been running this application on a 5 computer network using Windows 98 on all

I was wondering what i would have to do if i wanted to let a windows install
itself(without user intervention)
Probably make my own inf file or something but a guide would be great.
Thx

Hi, I recently installed XP home on an AMD Athlon 64, and everytime I shut
the computer down, it wants me to re-activate Windows- stating there was a
hardware change. alll the device's drivers are loaded and working fine (no
problems in device manager), so far I have activated it ...

I'm trying to install FTP services on a XP Pro system.  Everything works OK
as long as the firewall on the server is disabled.  If the firewall is
enabled, then the client will either time-out a request, or respond with an
insufficient rights message.

How do I reset windows 30 days grace period before I sysprep the machine?
I usually get the message that the grace period will not be reset.
Thank you
Mario

Can i possibly tranfer my O/S and other program installed from my drive H:
to drive C:
With many thanks.