Through the multi-license agreement between Microsoft and the school district
I work for, I want to load a copy of XP Pro to my Compaq computer. I have a
new (9/05) eMachine, Intel Celeron 330(?) that came with XP Home. About 3
months ago, I loaded XP Pro on it and it upgraded ...

I did a new install of Windows XP Home Edition on a computer I built last
year.  I pressed F6 to install drivers.  I get through the entire install
seemingly okay, then when it restarts, the Windows XP screen appears for a
second then goes away and it reboots.  It keeps doing ...

Is there a single binary that bundles all security and bug patches so I
only have to click once to update everything in XP?
At this time it seems like I have to manually click each update for each
XP machine, and I see there are tens of security updates. When it's

how would one enter data with quote marks for reg add?
For example if I want the data to be
   "somedrivePathSpec\a pgm.exe" %1
I tried

my computer is in the reinstallation limbo and i dont know what to do
it goes to installing 39 min left
at 34 min left its installing drivers
it asked me for sound driver and wouldnt continue

Perhaps this may not be the correct subject forum for my question, however, I
beg your indulgence. My question: What is a reasonable or optimum amount of
disk space (MB) to allow for "temporary Internet File Folders"? Thanks.

When I ping the domain controller from a client machine, it only pings by
typing the ip address but does not ping while resloving the domain controller
name.
Also, when I do an 'nslookup' i get a response saying ' Can't find server

Is there a way to export a single registry value?
Using the reg command, I can do a "reg export", but that exports every
value in a specific key. I need to export a single value and cant seem
to figure out how!

Something called Client Services for Netware has disabled the Welcome Screen
and Fast User Switching. The message tells me I must uninstall Client
Services for Netware to get my Welcome Screen back.
I don't know what Client Services for Netware is... where to find it.... or

Aloha.....
I bought a DELL Inspiron 5100 3 years ago that came with Windows XP
Home.
Now I am dating a Japanese girl who is living with me and wants to

Hello, all;
I have been building Windows XP SP 2 images and have been trying to create
one that will work for most hardware in use where I work.  I have run into
the situation that others have where using the "ACPI Uniprocessor PC" (ACPI

I've created some images of workstations & laptops I recently bought, that came with XP pro pre-installed. I used sysprep to create a deployable image of each of these, and have run into one particular problem. Is there a way to avoid having to activate each of these computers ...

Here's my problem...
1) XP does not support dynamic disks.
Here's the scenario:
Moved a basic disk and dynamic disk from an old machine to a new machine.  

My windows xp pro is not booting up. it was working fine until i removed it
from my system and made it slave on a new system with sata hdd. after that
when i reconnected it to my system it gave following messaege during bootup.
" corrupt or missing ntfs.sys. please run repair from ...

i need to know how to get on the web without connecting to the internet and
need more security  and spamblockers for webs that doesn't supposed to appear
on my computer doesn't show up..........