Installed Pro Over Home / Still See Start-up Choice
Oct 13, 2009
I was running Win XP Home SP3 when it had a problem. This became fatal due to an IER flaw (Idiot Editing Registry.) Having no idea where my original disc was, I purchased and installed XP Pro SP3. Everything is fine except for the minor irritant that on every start up I am given the choice to start either Pro or Home version.I could probably do the one extra mouse click on a million boots for less trouble that it will take to fix it, but it just offends my compulsive sensibilities. Any suggestions on how to make it go to XP Pro without intervention? I have tried uninstallers and none of them see the Home version. I have deleted all the Home version files, which may have been dumb. I thought about a registry cleaner, but decided to ask before I got myself in trouble.
I am working with my son to build a new computer. We need to decide which Microsoft operating system to buy / install. We have a new ASUS motherboard and an Intel Pentium D 3.4GHz (dual core 64 bit). We also have a PCI express 16 graphics card. His primary use is gaming and also MS office applications for school.I have pretty much ruled out XP Pro 64 because I am reading about lack of application and driver support, but open to input on this.We need to choose between XP home, XP Media center, or XP pro (all 32 bit). I am not particularly concerned about Vista upgrade, although I do understand the upgrade path from XP Media includes the full graphical interface improvements in Vista Aero, and the upgrade from XP Home does not.
Is there any way I can be given a choice of which Hard Drive I can startup on when I turn on my computer if I put 2 individual Hard drives in it?If there is, I will purchase another copy of XP but I need to know before going to the expense of buying another XP operating system.
i have a dell computer with 2 hard drives and i installed windows xp media center edition on the second hard drive. now it gave me a choice of which one to go to. which was all fine. now being like 2 month later i didnt want that any more. so i formatted the second hardd rive so now i didnt want that choice at start up, but its still there and when i go and pick the one i formatted it says thats its not valid. which is right but what do i do to remove that message?
I installed Win XP Home on a computer that already had it installed. I really wanted to do a reformat and then install Win XP Home. So, now when I boot up, I get a choice of either of the installations. I want to delete one of them; how can I do this? Once this is done, and when I have more time, I would like to do a clean install. How do I do that?
I have a DELL PIII 450MHz PC that is running Win98se.If I wanted to upgrade to XP is it as simple as just putting in the disk and following the prompts or do you think I'd have to do numerous modifications to the bios etc. Is it as simple as popping in the CD? will all of my files and folder still be intact, just the way they were?
Uninstalled XP Pro 2002 back to XP Home, (both from discs), back to WinME. Reinstalled XP Home from disc, then XP Pro from disc, but still runs as XP Home.Even though XP Pro is now listed in the add/remove programs list in the control panel, My Computer's system properties shows the operating system as XP Home, and everything still resembles an XP Home configuration. Can this be fixed?
I have a laptop taht had Me on it. I tried to update to Xp home edition the system ran and I ahd choose the option to save my files. However once completed the screen goes black and I have no main screen or menue area on my computer
I bought a used PC. A kind person who sold me the PC installed XP Home to it using my name "automatically". The problem is that there shouldn't be my name, the computer comes to a friend of mine. I just bought the cheap PC via an internet auction.So, possibly during installation XP asks the owner's name (I still use Win 98, I don't know). Is it possible to rename the XP owner's name afterwards? I don't have any installation disks, just some sort of an XP recovery disk.
I successfully upgraded my Gateway from ME to XP Home editions the service paks, except there is a problem with my audio. The audio is scratchy and barely audible when I startup. When I "uncheck" the box "1 speaker digital" in the volume control menu, the sound is works fine not loud enough but ok. The problem is that when I shut down or researt the computer, that checkbox defaults with a check mark and next startup. Gateway says there is a conflict with the sound card and the hard drive and suggested that I download a driver I ALREADY had on there.I have been on the phone for almost one week with Microsoft, and they cannot seem to fix the problem either.
computer came with Windows XP Home installed. I have the disk to upgrade to Professional and did so. My automatic updater downloaded SP2. When SP2 was installed; my computer reverted back to XP Home. Should I re-install XP Pro or is the same thing going to happen again
I just finished installing Windows XP Home OEM, created my account and clicked to log in when, to my complete surprise, I was prompted to enter my password. Nobody was in the room while the XP software was installing, and I didn't create a password for my account (I didn't even have the option), so absolutely nobody at my house knows what the password is. I already checked the documentation that came with the software and it doesn't mention any password.
since then i have reformatted my hard drive and used other operating systems on my computer. if i reformat and install windows xp home again, will the key that came with my computer work?i won't be using the same disks that came with my system, i will be using a generic purchased version but i will use the serial that came with my system? is it going to work?
after forcing my laptop off, i restarted it only to find that the registry had become corrupted blue screen message: stop:0000218 {registry file failure}i searched the forums and found that i need to restart the computer using the windows xp (home) start up cd to access the recovery console.the problem is that the laptop came with an OEM installed operating system so not only do i NOT have a start up disk,but i also found a caution that the recovery console proceedure will not work with an OEM installed system.
I have a 20 gig HD that is running a legit Windows XP home edition OS. However, I JUST bought a 120 GB HD and was gonna install that OS on it, but my friend tells me that I have to buy another copy of Windows for that HD. Is this true? I dont want reach into my wallet,extract all my hard earned dinero, and cast it to the smirking rottweilers.
I'm looking to purchase a notebook and learned a XP Home CD or a Bootable CD isn't included. XP Home is already installed. Isn't a XP CD needed to load uninstalled XP features plus to insert at various times when prompted? Also, can a bootable CD be purchased? If both are purchased at retail, would they be compatible with the installed version of XP Home and with the keycode differences? To be prepared for maintenance, what is needed to support XP Home?
I had an ingenuine version of Windows installed so I had decided to just install a genuine one after Microsoft had bugged me about it. The bad OS was XP Pro and I was supposed to have XP Home, so I had to do it the hard way. I decided to install XP Home then over everything I had. I copied/installed the important things I had backed up (not much). This was a few days ago. Everything was going well until yesterday I got a problem. I had just installed SP3 when it told me to reboot. I rebooted but I get an error before it's about to start loading my desktop. The error lasts for about half a second before the computer reboots and repeats the process endlessly. The error says "A write operation was attempted to a volume after it was dismounted." with "lsass.exe" in the title bar. The same thing happens if I boot in safe mode as well. Also, my computer is a Dell laptop, Inspiron 600m. What am I to do?? I really do not want to have to do that all over yet again just after having everything nearly set back up perfectly. Help!
is it ok to partition a hdd with an OEM version of windows XP home installed on it? i want to buy this oem copy of XP home(http://www.cclonline.com/product-info.asp?product_id=949&category_id=225&manufacturer_id=0) for an existing PC, which already has another OS on it. I have to wipe the hard drive before I can install the OEM XP home, since this version was meant to be distributed with new PCs only. But after I've wiped it, and have installed XP home, I plan to partition the drive and install another OS, is that ok?
I am having problems updating windows xp. After clicking on the selected updates to download (only the critical ones), the updates start to download, but then a notice that says the updates were "unable to be successfully installed". There is no reason for this given and no other error message.This happened to me in Feb. and I was able to google the error message Windows update gave me. The solution involved going into DOS & clearing something, but I can't remember what it was or where I found the instructions to do it.
Recently when starting Internet Explorer 6,instead of going straight to my Google Home Page,it instead go to; http://www.microsoft.com/windows/default.mspx A click on Critical Updates for IE6 at this page then starts trumpeting "Microsoft Update". Is Microsoft trying to get me to purchase something?
I have just installed Windows XP SP3 and now when I turn my laptop on it takes about 15 minutes!! to start up.I have 4 different users and this problem applies to all users on start up
I installed SP2 after a re-format today. And everything was going smooth at start-up. Then I started noticing that my icons weren't coming up, and my start button was missing! Well I opened task manager and manually started explorer.exe and it came up for 2 seconds and then terminated. I tried again and again, and it never worked. So I did a ton of Spyware and virus scans. I got rid everything, but it still isn't working! I just re-formatted not even 48 hours ago, I don't want to do it again. Oh yeah, and I tried to repair XP with my OS CD, no luck.
I'm running XP Professional SP2 preinstalled. For some reason, outlook express wont start anymore, just says it needs to close. It did this 2 months ago, and I had to reformat/reinstall. I dont want to do that again. My understanding is that OE is build into IE. I cant reinstall IE because it says its already installed. I followed some advice on the MS site about editing the registry, it didnt help. I then found out that IE6 is part of sp2, I cant uninstall and reinstall sp2 because it came preinstalled. long story short, how can I get OE6 to work again?
windows cannot access the specified divice, path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item.I stopped by a friend's house to service his infected Dell Laptop.Now I can't even access the system information - this is all I know.I installed AVG immediately upon installation it showed me three virus. I clicked on heal and quarantine as needed.Now the computer won't allow me to start any programs besides internet explorer and other silly, useless programs.
I think I have 2 copies of XP home on my PC.When I turn the machine on, there is a choice of c windows or c win. One is a clean never used profile the other is my familiar 4 user names.I tried to re-install my operating system with the Dell OEM disc to fix some peculiar problems and did sosmething wrong. How do I get rid of the 2nd copy and how do I reinstall the xp home..now I think I am getting password errors and I never changed it.
running PFS First Choice (A dos program) on XP SP2. I did get it working on XP prior to SP2 (once) using instructions from dgr on 18 May 2004. Now all I get no matter what I do is error 6009.Anyone still able to run this program on XP after the SP2 upgrade
When i turned it on today, he got a message saying "New CPU Installed!" But, i am 100% sure did not install anything the previous day. did nothing at this screen, but simply reset his computer, and this time, it skipped this screen but a computerized voice said something like "------ inaccessible" , it is too garbled to hear. After this i can access computer normally, except for one thing. mouse and keyboard stop and start working at regular intervals
