Newbie to Sysprep here.  We ran sysprep on a machine and rebooted directly to
Ghost and created our image.  When booting up a new computer now, the
mini-setup doesn't accept our OEM license key that is on the sticker of the
box.  We don't have a volume license key for Windows XP. ...

Hello again folks,
 I'm trying to clone approximately 50 machines.  All of these machines
have identical hardware and so I have setup my template computer with
all drivers thats will be required by the various components (NICs,

I finally had to upgrade my peer-to-peer network of WIN98 computers to
XP Home.
Before the upgrade, I had the ability to safely share files on a network
occupied by other other computers outside my work group by requiring a

Howdy,
Today I was trying to upgrade a Compaq Presario machine that came
preinstalled with XP Home to XP Pro.  I booted into Home and put the
Pro disk in, ran the compatibility wizard and all came back fine.  No

It seems that I have "changed computer hardwae significantly" enough that
WinXP thinks it is a new computer.  After frying a motherboard earlier in the
year, I had to get a cheapo board as a stop-gap measure, and now that I got
my new motherboard, windows wants me to register ...

I want to find out what service pack this copy of xp was installed with, it
currently says service pack 2 but I can't find the disk and need to
re-install so I need to see which release my oem key goes to.

I installed XP on a laptop that had Windows 95 in it.  
OK, most or all of you are laughing.  Others will ask me why I tried and yet
others will say it is impossible but it is done.  Now I would like to
reinstall the disk to take the computer back to factory specs.  I get so far

This question may seem redundant, but after reading almost all posts about
"audio and sound" system problems, still no success.
After a recent upgrade to XP from 2000 Pro, and after running device manager
and hardware many times,  I found that I still have no sound and audio ...

Machine 1 has XP home (activated, but dont have the disk) and I loaded XP Pro
- but did not activate it yet.  I want to uninstall it, going back to XP Home
(again, don't have the disk) to put the XP Pro on another machine, without
any XP.  Is there a way to uninstall XP Pro ...

In the old WIN98, upcaselock was made with the upcaselockkey but when you
did presse the normal upcase key you returned to small letter. Now you have
to press the upcaselockkey again which is a non sens. Is there a way to
change the parameter on XP

I recently called Microsoft Israel and tried to find out it there,but they
don't know themselves so it's kinda under investigation now,so I'm trying
the other ways.
I talked to a MS cust service rep and he told me that there's no way to find

I want to build a computer that has a removable drawer so I can swap out boot
drives, maybe 3 or 4 of them. No other hardware will change. Will this work?
Can I get by with 1 license for 1 computer?

I need a script that can change all the cp names in my domain. I would like
the script to automatically name the computers test1, test2, test3, etc

I done some work for a guy and afterward he could not pay me so I asked for
his laptop as payment.  I now have the laptop but it appears that the windows
OS on it was pirated.  I have an old PC that I have shelved that had a legite
windows copy on it.  Is there a way to use my ...

Recently when I tried to format my cd, we had a power outage and my computer
didn't get to finish the formating. Now, whenever I insert my Windows Xp boot
disc to hopefully install a lovely fresh version of Windows it locks up, and
the screen goes blank. I am currently using a ...