I have no idea what happened , it all started with my printer, I ended up
buying a new one, installed that and all wen't crap! I have done everything i
know to do at this point. I hate to take it to a repair shop as I have some
important new information I have yet to back or burn ...

Ok, the guys at Microsoft didn't understand what I was trying to tell them
so let me try it here.
1.) I am trying to setup a deployment of 50 XP professional workstations
using RIS on a Windows 2000 RIS server.

Is there anyway to change a machine from using a OEM key to a VLA key?
We have a machine that has been installed with an OEM XPsp2 disk and key.
Now the machine wants registering and the key is already being used
elsewhere.  The machine, should be using a VLA key along with all ...

Past week my pc has decided it wants to break. Problem started where at the
windows loading screen it would get stuck, after a few restarts i loaded the
pc up in safe mode and edited the boot config to disable the windows graphic
to see what was going on when windows was loading ...

I have Windows XP on my computer. I decided to install it again so I
inserted the XP installation CD and instead of Upgrade I selected New
Installation. The the computer restarted and started the installation
process. Everything ws going fine until there was a power cut and the

I would like to take my existing boot drive (15g) and replace it with a
larger drive.  Ideally I would just like to somehow clone my boot drive onto
the new drive so that I do not have to do anything else, like re-install
software, users or xp.  

Please be gentle, i am new to the world of the newsgroup. :)
But the article i read just now confirms i'm in the right place. So, here's
what i'm thinking. I'd like to poke around under the hood of the new Win
Vista beta; i understand it's getting late enough in the game for a ...

I am trying to go from xp pro to xp home eddition....setup gets so far then
says that files can not be copied correctly.  then it says that the files are
coorupted and can't not install.  what am I doing wrong?  I have did this
before on another computor and it copied and ...

Hi,
I have Windows XP in NTFS partition, now I need to install windows 2000.
Actually, I tried to install windows 2000, but 2000 can't be installed
completely, I have to repair my boot files for my xp system. I notice in the

I recently posted the following steps for imaging a system:
Load and configure OS on master machine
Load drivers on master machine
Load applications on master machine

Is there a CD-Key that will work for any CD for training purposes?  I am
studying for 70-270 with out taking classes so I have not training kit
media or materials. I want to do some the answer file and RIS stuff for
the Installation Section.

I'm scripting a Windows XP install through BartPE.   I have a C drive that
will contain the OS, a D drive that will contained Docs and Settings, a Z
drive that will house my i386 folder and install media.  This is all fine
until I reboot.   Then it looks like:

when attempting to repair a win xp install i get the message
setup cannot create the folder  /windows/sytem32/dllcache
setup cannot continue
hope you can help

Hi, I finally figured out that when the MCE2005 install prompts for the
WinXP Pro SP2 disk that it is actually asking for the MCE disk #1 (that
is not labeled as SP2).
My problem now is that after inserting disk #1 again, after awhile it

I'm having a difficult time getting IIS to function under XP Professional.  
My objective is to have Front Page publish to IIS running locally on my
computer so I can test my website and asp pages.  I think I resolved the
logging in problem.  I'm trying now just to get the default ...