i was given an old panasonic toughbook (cf25) for school. it has a 166Mhz
(pentium w/ mmx) processor, 48MB ram, 1GB HD, and is running windows 98. i
have a Nortel Networks 802.11b wireless lan pcmcia card that i want to
configure to use with my schools wireless access points.  ...

Hi all,
I am not sure this is the best place to ask this question but it did seem
appropriate.
I have a computer with XP Pro (and Office Pro) installed on it but I have

I couldn't get XP reinstalled on my computer myself, so I had an IT person at
work do it for me.  Finally got my computer back & although she used the
CD-Rom drive to install XP, the CD-Rom drive is now not being read.  Can't
reinstall software!  If this is wrong area for this ...

And when I am installing I get the error message;
"Reboor and select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot
Device and press a key"
I don't know why it does this.

I was playing a game (civ 4, which had a flakey install) and the computer
just shut off and rebooted. It posted fine, it went through the boot loader
and the windows logo and loading bar came up then it rebooted again. I tried
a repair install and the error message "Setup can not ...

Will a repair of XP SP2 clean out any errors in the Registery or should a
full reformatt and clean reinstall be done to clean up the registery? Thanks

I can't figure it out.... my machine will load XP home, but when I put XP Pro
or Media Centre on it, it freezes at the splash page just before loading.
What's the deal?
In safe mode it freezes at

my wife's laptop was stolen recently - but i still have the recovery discs
containing windows xp - can i install windows using that disc on an old
computer that currently uses windows ME? or, once it's been installed on one
computer, will i be prevented from activating it?

One royal pain in moving from peer to peer network to active directory domain
is handling the user accounts on the existing local machine.  Are there any
automated tools to do the following:
1.  Give the domain user account administrator privledge on the local machine.

My 40MB hard drive has plenty of free space but Local Disk C is only 10% free
and Local Disk D is 89% free.  I don't know why it is petitioned.  Can I
repartition or remove the partition?

Basically I used setup manager to create an unattend.txt answer file.
My intent was to deploy XP via a GPO, and that is why I liked using
setup manager because, as part of its processing, it modified the
winnt32.msi file to take into account the unattend.txt file it created

This is a problem I am having with my laptop.
I tried to reinstall XP, but for some reason my cd drive would not let me
boot from cd, so i installed XP when XP was already running.
it installed successfully, except my hard drive says there is about 40 GB

I have installed Windows twice today, and for some reason both times it takes
about 10 min. o turn on. After the Windows loading screen is finished, te
screen will go blank. Later, the welcome screen will come up, but it stays
like that for mnuets before starting Windows. What is ...

I'm Trying to re-install Windows XP Pro back on my computer, but when I try
to delete the partition which contains my old OS, it tells me it can't delete
because set up files are necessary to complete the installation.
I try to install on the partition anyways, but there is a ...

I had a problem with an xp upgrade from home to pro. I ended up having to do
a new install, but I installed the new XP in Windows2. Now I still have the
Old Windows directory, so I was wondering if there was any program that I
could get the Program Settings out of the old ...