I am working with Asus motherboards that have the Nforce410 chipset and
integrated nvidia ethernet. I cannot get this boards to do a RIS network
install with the integrated ethernet. I get the good old "This operating
system image does not contact the necasary drivers for your ...

I just recently reinstalled XP Pro and noticed that all my frequently used
programs are missing from the Start Menu.  I still have the two "pinned"
items above the blank area.  I tryed searching for solutions on the net and
made registry tweaks but nothing works.  

Just spent some time working on my son's family PC running XP Home, where it
was failing BSOD on shutdown.  No amount of repair/re-install of XP would
clear it, so I have done a parallel install of XP to folder c:\winxp.  All is
now working fine on this 2nd copy, all ...

How can I not install the Internet Games during an unattended install.  
Specifically, I believe that I should be able to add a line in my
unattended.txt or Winnt.sif file to have a value of 'Off'.  What is the value
for the Internet Games?

how do i set up a local user account please?

Hi I just recently installed .Net Framework 1.1. I needed to install this
because I was installing the latest driver for my ATI video card.
After installing both things, when I restarted my computer, it now requires
me to log on my account. Meaning I now have to press on the ...

After my PCs PSU went phut, I was left with an unbootable system, so I
decided to buy a nice shiny 500W PSU and clean install Windows XP; it did
not go well!
Hardware is a 3.0GHz Pentuim D / ASUS P5WD2 Premium / 2 GB Corsair RAM. 3x

I am having problems with my sysprep.inf file.  I think it is not even being
used.  No matter what I do it always makes me go through the gui setup and
enter the prduct key.
I have the file in C:\SYSPREP\*.*

My Outlook Express Ver 6 is only saving my copies of deleted and sent
messages for 60 days.  How can I change that to 6 months?
Bob

Whenever the install process gets to this file it hangs and won't let me past
this point. It only deletes everything installed up to that point...please
HELP. I've had the W32/sdbot.worm.gen but my Mcafee subscription says that I
have eliminated it.

I have a laptop whose primary and only harddrive is becoming unstable so I
bought a new harddrive.
I'm now wondering if it's sufficient to use the product-key sticked to the
bottom of the laptop, when I do a fresh/new installation of the same OS ?

I have an established windows xp pro x64 installation, originally installed
properly to drive C:
I recently put in another hard drive, which for some reason bumped my system
drive up to G: instead of C: with the newly installed drive taking up the

Had a couple of cases recently where brand-new licence-keys were simply
refused by Setup (definitely the right type for the CD)  -and one today which
activated successfully after setup, then only seconds later claimed that
"hardware changes require a re-activation" - You guessed ...

Hey i though i did a repair of windows but when it came up is was a new
install, no data was actually lost but the programs, and profiles werent
there, the were in the program files dir! So i know i did something wrong,
but when it came up i now im thinking i dont think i seen ...

well, I have got many times a blank screen and a mouse  pointer after Windows
logo appears once the computer reboot having already setup the installations
files to start the applications setup. I have tried the recovery console to
try to recover AND FIX the MBRR to work and ...