Can someone tell me how long it takes to install Win XP Pro?  I am upgrading
from Win 98 on a Compaq Armada M700 notebook with 128mb Ram and 12GB hard
drive.  The installation went fairly quickly through the Collecting
Information and Dynamic Update stages, but has been sitting ...

Several XP workstations have developed a time drift problem. I have them on
a domain, and I was under the impression that GP would automagically keep
them in check with the server.
I can't run a time sync command from the login script, as the users don't

tried to repair from cd re-installation CD from Dell. Will not load and is
now in a loop. I can not get computer to reboot. Tried F8 and F12

I would like nuke my hard drive and  install a current version of XP Pro SP2
(I have on disc) without having to log onto the update site and leave my
system wide open while I download individual updates.  I know some of the
updates correct previous versions.  Is there any way to ...

After running an upgrade from XP Home to Pro which reported a failure after
restart but continued to a sucessful completion.  I am left with two choices
after POST.  Either a non-functional Continue with XP upgrade (top and hence
default) or XP Home (bottom).  Selecting XP Home ...

I have slipstreamed and created a bootable XP SP2 setup CD. I have
included the $OEM$ folder in the i386 folder. Had change the Winnt.sif
parameter to OemPreinstall=Yes.
My cmdlines.txt is located in the $OEM$ folder, together with all the

We use Remote Installation Services extensively to deploy all our desktops.
All of these desktops have .Net 2.0 installed.  Many of these desktops have
the Visual C# Express installed also for development.
When I run RIPrep, everything works well, except that I get an error ...

I installed some updates the other day and now I can't log into my computer.  
It will pull up the screen saying to click on name to log in, however, there
are no names to click on.  What happened?  Is there anyway to fix this
without completely wiping everything off of my ...

i am uninstalling patches using spuninst.exe using vbscript and script
passes administtor credentials.These are the patch numbers which are not
getting uninstalled.
KB891781

i reformatted my drive and reinstalled XP but now it hangs and displays
"<windows root>system32\hal.dll" maybe missing or corrupt.  tried to reformat
again and reinstall with the same result.
the program will go thru if (and only if) the XP CD is in the tray...

Hi Group!
We are currently implementing a network infrastructure for a few schools.
One of this schools has a lot of different computer types (7!!). Of course
we have to develop an imaging strategy for this school! RIS would be a good

Hello Group,
I'm new to using RIS, I've done a lot of reading on the web about the
pro's of using RIS. I have tried to set it up on a Windows 2003 Server
Standard Edition. I can load the disk images of a Windows XP SP2

When I install Dreamweaver, it requests for a new version of window installer.
Could anyone tell me where to locate the new installer for XP?
Thank you
Eric

I just formatted my hard drive and reinstalled clean xp pro.  now this
message again.  I have done this several times and get the same thing.
windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt  
system32/drivers/ntfs.sys and it says here that there isn't a ...

I upgraded from Win2k to XP by adding an SATA drive to a DELL 8300.  I
booted the XP-Pro disk, it saw the new SATA and I went and installed XP on
it. After the install the first thing I  noticed was the I now had a dual
boot:  XP and Win2K.  I didnot want that.  I also found that ...