Hi All,
I have a big pool of computer client in my company that is running xp home
edition and we are planning to upgrade all to xp professinal edition.
I am wondering what is the best way to perform these upgrades, do a clean

Before I re-installed Windows XP Pro on my Laptop I wanted to save my files
and setting from the laptop.
I run the wizard on my laptop, writing the files to a sub-directory on a
Windows 200 server on my network. Every thing ran ok without any errors.

     can anyone say if this statement is true, i have 1 gig of ram and was
curious??
If you’re blessed with a large amount of RAM (at least 512Mb), this tweak
should make Windows XP run faster than ever - it stops the core Windows

I had Windows XP installed, but the system crashed and some of the Windows
boot files became corrupted. The only solution was to re-install Windows XP.  
I re-formatted the hard disk using F-disk on an existing Win 98 floppy
boot-disk.  When I started the installation from Win XP ...

Win XP boot option screen does give chanve to boot from CD, is there a way I
csn set the boot to look to the CD first, then go to the hard drive?

I am getting the same message that the previous guy had -  - only my status
file is THERE.   The location that you specified does not contain stored
information. Please type a valid folder path into the edit box".  HOW DO I
GET MY DATA?  Everything seems to be right.

I have XP Pro. I have loaded SP2.
When I try to Shut Down the machine, it takes loooooong time to show the
RESTART / SHUTDOWN / LOG OFF options and then again a looooog time to
actually shutdown.

I have a G40 thinkpad with a new hard drive and I cannot find a restore
disk.  Maybe there isnt one, maybe I didnt look hard enough.  I have a valid
product key.
Obviously (??) I cannot use a Dell, unfortunately, I got a bunch of dell xp

I got windows xp sp2, reformatted, partitioned, everything went well until it
got to setup is copying files:  at the bottom of the screen it says copying:
driver.cab and it won't go any further.  Can anyone help me i've re-started
the setup 5 times now and it stops in the same ...

I wish to move a 2003 standalone machine to new hardware without having to
reinstall from scratch.
Yes, technically this is a server question, but the answers seem better here
and should be the same between XP and 2003.

A year or so ago I replace the "C" scsi boot drive on my XP Pro system to a
large IDE.  Think I used easy migrate or maybe true image and rebooted, but
the net effect what the from then on my boot drive was "D".
There are about two programs that dont work right.  I am now using some

Is there a simple way to rename computers after they are imaged or during the
imaging process? I can change the name one at a time after the image has been
processed but if I want to roll out 50 machines in one day how can I rename
them without touching all of them?

Can anyone offer some advise as to which software to use to create, and
deploy images of a machine.
I have both Ghost, and Live state recovery and they will not work. Unless
I'm using them wrong. This is what I've done so far:

I am trying to install XP Pro (OEM) SP 2 on a new machine with a SATA RAID5
array.  I F6 druring the install to specify a mass storage device driver, it
recognizes the array and even partitions/formats it.  But, when it tries to
copy files I get can not copy error.  I have tried ...

I have the images but the install always fails with the following error:
The Operating system image you have selected does not contain the necessary
drivers for your network adapter. Try selecting a different operating system
image.