just found the web site and am hoping someone could help me as i am getting nowhere on the Microsoft web site. I have just re-built a friends machine and am now just using windows update to update XP and everything else. I have no problems getting the small security updates but i now need SP1 and/or sp2. The SP wizard begins and starts inspecting the machine, then as soon as its starts creating a SP1 or SP2.cab file the machine freezes. Any ideas why this is happening? The machine had SP2 on it before it needed re-building.
I don't get it, all was great. This morning I was copying and pasting a movie file from folder to folder and instead of 50 seconds I get 9 minutes. Plus while it's in the paste mode the machine slows up and task manager isn't responding
I was recently given an IBM laptop, with xp pro installed on it. as i suspected the xp pro on it was not the original os and obviously will not pass genuine validation.I have the original key for the home edition that was on the machine but not the original disc. Can I use my own disc to do a fresh install but use the original key that came with the machine.
if i try to install xp pro 64 over a xp pro when booting from the xp 64 cd if i will be prompted upgrade or full installation ? if so do you recommend an upgade or a clean install, this is a new machine with win xp pro but it has AMD 64 PROCESSOR on it, so is capable for 64.
Do I had to get a new installation key to use when I install a upgrade CPU on a Windows XP Professional OS machine plus upgrading my system memory too?
how do i go about installing windows xp on a machine that wouldn't even start. it says cannot find operating system and stays there with the underscore cursor flashing. i inserted the disk anyway an tried to run it usind DOS commans, but it says that the setup file can't run from the command window. is there any other way to do it or that's it the machine is gone.
A while ago my pc started randomly freezing when i booted up, usually have to reboot three or four times before it works properly, i guess i must have a virus or something but no scans i run pick up anything obvious. Also when i try to shutdown, the screen freezes on the "Windows is preparing to shut down" screen.
I install Server 2003 Standard SP1 downloaded and installed on a PII 400, 256Mb RAM with IIS, ASP.Net 2.0, SQL server 2000 SP4, Mysql 5, and PHP5, and all without a single hitch...too good to be true. I went ahead and tried on what will be my server PIII600, 512 MB RAM, First try, Server 2003 couldn't find a file when installing, retried and it worked. Downloaded SP1 and when I was extracting it said "file is corrupt", downloaded 4 more times with same result. reformatted and reinstalled 5 more times and cannot get past "file is corrupt" on SP1 and sometimes extracting the .Net 2.0 installer got the same error. I swap all hardware with PC from first try (except RAM, Mobo, CPU, CDROM) with no change. Win98 and XP installed fine on the second PC just can't get server 2003
I recently installed xp for the first time after replacing motherboard and CPU.I skipped setup because I didn't know what I was doing. Now I can't boot up (cold or warm) without using the original disk. Can I just go into setup and change boot settings without re-installing.Is there anything else I should know before I attempt to fix this problem? I am tired of using the disk every time I update something or install new program.
I don't have an x64 machine, just a 32-bit Core 2 Duo. So, I don't know why I can't run 16-bit applications and DOS programs. Whenever I try to run something made for Windows 3.x or a DOS application, I get "NTVDM.EXE has encountered a problem and needs to close, sorry for the inconvienence..." Is it corrupt or what? This is a brand-new machine. I need to run several old MS-DOS applications and they won't run. COMMAND.COM but not CMD), EDIT.COM, QBASIC, they all bomb out with the error.
gotta guy with a machine that had XP on it he wanted to put a new copy over the old copy but only had the recovery disk. Anyway it turns out he now has 2 copies of XP on the machine. How Can I remove both copies and re-install a fresh copy of XP.
I'm almost done building a new machine for a friend. He's not keen on all the hassle of reinstalling software on the new machine then adding all the personal touches again.I wondered if it might be possible to take the HDD out of his existing machine - giving him two HDDs, and making this transplanted drive the master drive and renaming it C: and renaming the new HDD to E:To my way of thinking, the new machine should boot up from the transplanted drive and boot the OS (WinXP), which should find and install the new hardware in the new machine then continue to run as if it was the old but with the faster CPU and bigger RAM of the new machine.This would obviously save heaps of time reinstalling WinXP, Office, Antivirus plus backed up data, emails etc. etc. etc.
Under Tools, Internet Options, General, Home Page, there are entries listed that I don't want. MSN is my Home Page but there are some pages listed that I want to remove. I have tried just deleting them but they just come back. I do not have any viruses on my machine. There are just 2 entries that I want to delete.
I have an old PC that I am installing NT 4.0 on it. I don't want to open my machine to see what kind of NIC card it uses. Is the another way to do it, please? if so, how?
I had two OS on two partitions, one WIN98 (c:/ drive) and the other winXP pro (d:/).I loaded win98 and then rebooted to dos, formatted c (need the disk space).I reboot and it tries to load win98 and not winxp (which is located on d:/).How do i change the boot process so it lods winxp pro from d ? BIOS?
I use Windows XP home edition SP2 but when I shut down the computer, it will shut down but after a while it reboots itself, what is wrong with the thing?
Trying to help a friend but I am having troubles attempting to format this HP machine. I wonder if the HP software changes the way windows work, anything you guys know about HP?
I need desperate help from someone right away. I have popups from Aurora and yeild manager coming up everywhere. Have tried to run ad=aware to no avail. It tells me to reboot constantly, which I have tried to no avail. Have reset start point to prior to last installation of ipod software and they are still there. Ran virus scan with Norton and got hundreds of hits!
just recently my XP machine seems to be possessed! The menus and web pages are jumping around on their own, can't figure out why this is happening. Everytime I open a web page, open a explorer window, or even try and use the run menu, the menus, scroll and drop downs just jump back and forth between choices, it is even happening when I open outlook and try and read emails, I can't because it keeps scrolling randomly back and forth. it is even happening when I open any and all programs, like when I open wmp or winamp, it just jumps around like someone is playing with everything! Do I have some weird virus, or did I perhaps disable something and not know it? I have been a tech for years, and I am stumped on this one, and it's my own machine!
Is it possible to have to operating systems on the same computer? I have a laptop that had an older version of Windows and then I upgraded to XP, but it seems like the old OS was not removed and now my 10G HD is maxed.
my pc is running especially slow. it appears to be free from any viruses or spyware i run avg, adaware and spybot alongside symantec corporate edition antivirus and all scans come through as normal. any ideas what could be causing this? i know this is a bit vague.
My friend has an E Machine Model #W3107 with XP-Home. She had to use the "recover disk/restore disk" that came with her E-Machine. She says she can't get on the Internet, can I help her. I looked at her "Device Manager" and I found "yellow ? " on the side of Other Devices, Multimedia Audio Controller, Other PCI Bridge Controller, PCI Simple Communications Controller, SM Bu Controller & Video Controller (VGA Compatible). I tired to find each of this drivers and can't seem to find any. This machine has a "Recovery Partition on it (H) and a Local Drive (C).
When I go System properties and I find that I have 1.5GB RAM installed on this machine. I would like to know how its divided? 1GB + 512MB OR 768MB + 768MB.
i'd like to format my machine running xp pro and do a fresh install do clear all the clutter can you tell me how to go about this and of anything i need to look out for
I work for a small company that has about 20 workstations, most running XP Pro, most purchased from Dell with XP preinstalled. We have no volume license. As PC's are retired from service, can the XP license be transferred to another machine? If so, how? If not, why not? It would seem that legally, if I own 20 legal copies of an OS, I ought to be able to run 20 copies on 20 PC's, regardless of which 20 PC's.
I have setup 3 profiles on my machine. One is adminstrator, one is for a teacher and one is for a student. I have installed software on the administrator profile but i need to access it from the student profile. How is that done?
