How do you format the hard drive?

I've seen lots of pages which recommend different methods to delete the
pagefile.sys.
The most popular methods, even posted by MS, include enabling in the local
security policies an option to automatically delete the file during shutdown

I have Windows xp Service Pack 2
Each time I click on "Express Update" it returns the error code: 0x800704DD.
Anyone have some ideas on what I need to do?
(Error number: 0x800704DD)

Hi,
Has anyone been able to somehow tweak the MDT scripts so that they support
specifying regional settings in the unattend/sysprep files when deploying XP/
win 2003? It's driving me crazy that this is the only thing that keeps me

the org I work for has a number of clients that are used by multiple people.
Despite being trained to use ctrl+alt+del for log on ONLY, many users are
locking the workstation, rendering it unusalbe by the next person.    We do
not want to disable this feature at the user level ...

In some of my older images I've been settings things like UI theme and
desktop background in the Administrator user profile. Well with XPSP3 no
matter what profile i set or what options are configured, It launches with a
fresh profile like it is out of the box. What am i missing? ...

Dell Optiplex 320 xp pro sp 2 system had explorer error on boot (along with a
shfolder.dll error from DRwatson) and would not boot except into safe command
mode. After reading, I decided to reinstall the xp sp2 OS on top of the
existing non-working OS in the c:\windows directory.

I am building a custom install of WinXP SP3 for our school district on a HP
6730b notebook. I re-installed XP with our Enterprise copy of XP so that when
Sysprep runs I can put our Enterprise CD-Key in the Sysprep.inf file and that
is taken care of. The only questions during ...

I run XP sp3 with all updates.
When I boot after everything is done the computer tries to install "FAX". I
don't use windows fax and on my screen windows installer tries to install
fax until it asks for a disk.

Trying to install XP Pro upgrade on newer version of XP Home (SP 3 is removed
but still showing in system info). I get the new/old mismatch message.

I don't know if I am sking this in the correct group, but here it goes.  I
have an older laptop that had Windows ME installed.  I have upgraded it to XP
PRrofessional SP3.  I am trying ti upgrade the memory, but it is not able to
read it.  Right now I have 128MB of RAM and I am ...

Is there an option on the xp disk for a repair only? I would like to do a
repair and not a fupp reinstall if possible?

After removing win32/pepatch in safe mode with AVG, my pc would not boot to
the desktop. Instead it continues to reboot before it even gets to windows
logon screen. So I inserted my Windows XP Pro disc and performed a repair
install on the C drive. It installed the necessary ...

I am trying to install WinXP 64 bit onto a new computer that I am building. I
have 2 300 gig SATA hard drives setup as a RAID. I also have a floppy disk
that has the driver/controller on it. Whenever I boot up the computer, the
WIN XP 64 CD loads and I press the F6 key while XP64 ...

Is there a way to find out the numbering of controllers and disks in
boot.ini, and how it relates to real hardware?
Which physical controller gets multi(0) and which gets multi(1) and so on?