Hi, I'm trying to if I can, re-install windows XP Home Edition on my
girlfriends laptop. Windows XP came pre-loaded on her computer and we can not
find a installation cd or anything that refers to re-installing XP. Is there
anything I can do to accomplish this? I remember a long ...

I am attempting to reload XP Home on a new disk 120 gig Western Digital
following a hard disk failure. The XP version is 2002 (an early issue).
At first attempt have received the blue shutdown screen 'to prevent damage'
as it was about to format the disk.

BlankI have been attempting to set up a dual boot without luck.
WME on first partition.
Copy of WME on second partition and this is the one I'd like to upgrade with
XP. Or either if I can get it to work.

i was playing with an unattended installtion last days, everything works
except including the driver for a bootable mass storage device. source is a
original windows xp professional sp2. ($OEM$\Textmode)
I found a DELL "Recovery"-CD which is also a XP professional sp2 cd with

I have a brand new machine, installed XP Pro that included SP 2 and
immediately updated to SP 3. I then installed Office 2007, an antivirus
package and printer drivers and and then went back to Microsoft Update
expecting to install Office 2007 SP1, and any other needed update ...

I looked but didn't locate any info on this subject - I apologize ahead of
time if I missed the info in a previous post or if I've chosen an
inappropriate discussion group.
A friend of mine has an older Toshiba laptop which is running XP with sp2.

I've got a PC with a valid XPproSP2 license but no PID sticker.  Is there a
way to ask the system what its PID is?
Thanks,
Dean

I checked n my hyper threading is disabled.How do I enable it?I am using an
Pentium D 3.0 ghz Dual core processor n Intel 945GNT motherboard.Can anyone
help me n give me details how to enable it.Thanks n appreciate any help.

I deploy WindowsXP in a lab of 14 computers and I have been using imaging to
perfrorm this. Some of the PCs may have changed something in their hardware
and now when I re-apply the image, 4 of them require activation. Some of
those cannot connect to the Internet and it gives me ...

Until a few days ago, I was using Windows 2000 Pro (English).
A long time ago, I had made a registry change so that the
"ProgramFilesDir" was C:\P instead of C:\Program Files (I don't like
directory names containing space characters).  That worked fine in

I'm sure there are many of you out there that believe in having a
single sysprepped image to use on many disparate types of hardware.  I
am, too, pursuing this goal, and have a question about how you all
handle drivers.

I just bought new HP dv9575 with VISTA , would like to rollback to XP -
everything set - XP Pro CD has made from image (nLite was used and manaul
editing of SIF ) file ws tried, added iata76_eng.exe (from Intel site) sata
drivers both - in TEXT and in PnP mode - everything goes ...

I have installed the SP3 English on a Windows XP.
Now the Network Perofrmance is very, very slow. For a 2,5MB file it takes
about 3Min to copy from a Windows 2003 server.
Thanks for any advise

Can I install Windows XP Pro on a Dell laptop that comes installed with Vista
Home Edition?  Do I have to format the disk first?

I tried to install XP servicepack 3 (final) to XP professional. I have had
sp2 and all updates installed. SP3 installation leads to blue screen of death
with error 0x0000007F (0x00000008, 0x80042000, ....) (if I remember right the
rest was all zero) This happens when it is ...