I have a limmited account and my guest account on my computer that I want to
be reset every time they are loged-off.  What I mean is that I want the
desktop and screensaver to go back to what they were and I want any saved or
dowloaded files and programs to be erased.  I don't, ...

Is there a way that I can create a mandatory theme that will be applied to
all the users on the PC? I work in a Enterprise environment, and we are
rolling out about 100 laptops with Windows XP. We want to make the
backgrounds and appearance the same for everyone, but lack the ...

My colleague has a PC which running on Windows XP Professional SP2.
But she got that XP from internet downloading.
Now she's bought an XP with legal license, how do we change the seiral
number without reinstalling?

i am planning to upgrade my hard drive to 80 gb(existing of 40 gb).my cpu
cabinet is such that no extra slot is provided for having another drive to be
placed.so i planned to (or simply copy) transfer all the details of existing
hard drive to new one including set up files, ...

I just built a new computer based on an Athlon 64 3000+ processor, ABIT AN8
Ultra motherboard and Windows XP Pro operating system.  All the other
components are also new and represent current technologies, however Windows
indentifies my computer as a "Standard PC" which is a ...

Hello! I was hoping to get feedback/suggestions for a problem I am having. I
am a technician working at a Canadian Staples outlet and every single copy of
WinXP Pro Upgrade that we have here will not accept the CD Key included on
the package! There are no characters that are ...

I need help in figuring out what this error message means
"  An unexpected error (1073706048) occurred at line 1773 in
D:\xpsprtm\base\boot\setup\arcdisp.c.  " I was trying to do a clean install
on a new hard drive I formated the drive using Maxblast 3 then tried

I have an age old DOS application (I know, rewrite it, but hey it works) that
we use for business.
Anyway, we set the PIF file to run in Full screen mode, and on some PC's, it
works fine.  On other PC's, we get garbled characters on the screen

Here's a real challenge for which I would be eternally grateful for ideas on
what's up and how to fix it. Please help!
I upgraded Windows Me to XP Home on my IBM NetVista 2276-71U (now 30U),
Pentium III (800 MHz) with I810e on-board graphics (1 MB). I added memory to

I have an old PC that was running Win98SE and I wanted to set up a wireless
LAN at home with my laptop. Unfortunately I couldn't get Win98 to work with
the WLAN card so created a second primary partition and installed XP Home on
it (kept the original 98 partition for gaming ...

Hi...I loaded the volume license key CD-image (MSDN CD) into the RIS
server, it looks OK when the image was created. However, it gave an
error message when I used this CD-based image to install a new
computer. It says:

I curerently have Windows XP Proffessional running on my PC. I have a new
hard drive and wanted to install Windows Server 2003 on it aswell. So i
wanted to run Server 2003 on one drive and XP Pro on the other.  Is it ok
just to nistall Server 2003 as i would any other OS and ...

Is it possible to deploy images to different workstations and avoid the XP
activation after sysprep if the image is created from WinXP SP2 machine with
OEM license?
OEM XP versions are supposed to be used only with the hardware they are

In my PC I have dual-boot installation of W 2000 Professional and W XP Home.
Now I wanted to remove XP to move it to another PC. When trying to remove XP
I first used Control Panel and Add/Remove Programs, but I only could remove
Service Pack 2. After removing it Add/Remove ...

Our school was recently donated a bunch of IBM P4's with Windows XP Pro
COA'a but the hard drives are wiped clean.  I understand that we are allowed
to reinstall from XP from any existing media we have but I'm having problems
doing it! The only media I have is a Operating System ...