Got a new Windows XP OS and took the laptop & CD on vacation in my music CD
case.  Realized too late I needed the sleeve with CD key to activate.  Since
coming home I cannot locate the CD sleeve, cannot activate.  
Is there some way to get the key from the disk, or will I have to ...

Situation : My network gathers approx. 200 PCs.
We use Norton Ghost Version 7 to deploy customized packages on Windows
XP clients.
Although very useful, this software isnt supported anymore by Norton.

Is there a way to completely clear ALL USB information, an restart it as it
was in a clean install?
my webcam for instance is recognised fine, but other devices like Storage
(external HD's and memory sticks) and hubs ar not found in the right way.

I am curious and am looking for a method -  
Have a laptop, have restore disks, have a win product key for the laptop
installation.  Got the i386 folder on laptop, but it seems useless since
there is no win "setup.exe" application

Good day,
My first physical drive is partition in 3 partitions:
Drive C (30gb)  (original xp)
Drive D (100gb) (misc storage)

Could somebody please help me with this.The baby was messing around with the
keyboard and somehow hes got it so everything is upside down on my
monitor.Does anybody know how I correct this please.

Can anyone tell me where I went wrong:
I changed the location of the My Documents folder to put it in the root of
D: rather than in some obscure subdirectory of Docs & Setts.  (Actually what
I really wanted to change was the whole identity as well as the My Documents

    I would like to use some hardware that works only with windows Me/98.
My idea is to try a dual boot system but my concern is that I have to blow my
windows xp configuration for this. I worked hard to get the system where it
is and unfortunately I see the dual boot system ...

    for roughly 5 days I have been trying to install Windows XP SP2 onto my new
computer. Without fail, it freezes during the second phase of installation.
Most commonly it will lock up at the very end during the "Saving settings"
section, however it has no qualms about freezing ...

Recently upgraded to xp.
Start/Shut Down Computer takes me to a "shut down" screen - but STANDBY is
the default.
1) This seems to indicate that STANDY is preferable to SHUTDOWN.  Is this

I posted the following question earlier in the Windows XP General forum.
"A scientific instrument is part of a system controlled by XP.  I want to use
the instrument on its own (not as part of the system), and using different
software that I will install separately.

Hi,
I was wondering if Microsoft offically supports the changing of a Windows XP
HAL with the utility DEVCON?
We are designing a Universal image, and this has proven to work very well -

Can anyone tell me how the boot.ini should read to boot xp from disk 0 and me
from disk 1?  I know I need to add a line to the boot ini for the second hard
drive, but I don't know the proper syntax. I can find all sorts of info on
dual booting from two partitions on the same ...

i have a pc and i'm putting a new mother board in it and the copy of windows
xp on it was from a recovery disc that came with the pc from acer and its a
32 bit version of windows. the new mother board is a 64 bit. i was wondering
my mom has a copy of windows xp home that she is ...

I had a drive with XP Home, which had become too small. So I purchased
a new drive on which I'll install XP Pro. However, I still want to keep
the XP Home disk until I'm pretty sure that I've got all programs and
settings I need transferred to the new disk. By default, the system