In my environment the My Documents folder is sychronized to a network share.
This is fine on the users PC's, but on Servers (2000 & 2003) and certain
application PC (XP SP2), I want to stop this from happening.
How can I set up a GPO on these machines to not allow My Documents to

I decided to upgrade from RIS on W2k3 Sp1 to Windows Deployment Services on
W2k3 SP2 and now I'm having some problems. I'm unable to get to setup a boot
image. I converted my WinXP image to the new .wim file. However, I cannot
seem to get to add a boot image. I'm geting "The file ...

when I do a Start>Run>msconfig  nothing happens.  
That is, msconfig does not come up on the screen.  I've compared the (a)
Registry , and (b) \windows\system32 on a laptop where msconfig works
correctly versus my workstation (msconfig not working) and can't find a

I've created a "master" station under XP SP2, defined some parameters such
as boot time sequence, system varables etc..
My problem is that Sysprep reset all values to default value just after
windows finish installation.

is there a way to split the unatteded file. I need to change the computer
name of the computer before windows run mini-setup. I've found a nice
solution but I need to modify unattended.txt file just after the ghost and my
problem is that this file is on the D drive (systemDrive) ...

I must have deleted some needed servic(s) on my XP Home
machine that I need.  When I plug in my external usb hard
drive it does not automatically see it.  What do I need to add/
change to get it to automatically see it like it used to?

Windows won't start "because the folloowing file is missing or corrupt:
HAL.DLL"
I get the above error message when trying to boot a computer that's been
working fine for 9 months.

Problem:
I was given a used portable computer with a tricky problem: It runs Win 2000
but the person I got it from does not remember the password to any accounts,
even the administrator account. To add to that the computer has no built-in

I have a dell notebook inspiron b130.  It has the 17" wide screen panel.  I
have had an issue where the screen cuts off approximatly 1.5" on each side fo
the screen and it is blacked out.  I do not know what caused this and have
tried some of the basic things in the control panel ...

Is it possible to move my xp install from G:\ (ntds, primary, system
partition) to replace win98se that is on C:\ (primary, xp boot, fat32
partition) using ntbackup and the FILE and SETTINGS wizard - or - will i need
to completely reinstall everything including all patches, ...

Help!
Can I remove a partition of a dual boot situation of XP and 98SE? I would
like to remove 98SE (I love the OS, but I guess it is the time to move on . .
Vista is here). And regain back the diskspace?

I have a laptop with windows 2000 pro installed. I want to format the drive
and install Windows XP, but the laptop does not have a built in CD/DVD
player. I do have an external USB Cd/DVD that I can connect to it. My
queistion is: will the laptop read the XP Full version CD if I ...

I downloaded the SP2 package and the Install Wizard is extracting the files
to the D: directory.  I want those files in F:, my FAT32 5GB directory, not
D:, a 50GB NTFS directory.  Is there some way to force the extraction of the
SP2 files to F: instead of the automatically chosen ...

My friend recently had a catastrophic system failure which resulted in
a fried hard drive, motherboard and RAM.  He cannot access any info on
his old hard drive.  He has an OEM system disk, but the product key on
the system case has been damaged and only the last 5 characters are

After the security suite automatically downloaded, installed and restarted, I
get a disk read error message, press ctrl alt delete to restart message.  
Every thing was working fine just moments before.
I seem to be stuck here.