Pick Up An OEM Or Upgrade - Components Region Specific?
Jan 2, 2008
I'm sick to death of this pc's lack of functionality so I want to upgrade it. I want to (if possible): Add more RAM Add a second HDD (120-160GB) Install XP Home Is there any way, short of opening the case, I can check what needs to be checked eg. if there's a free memory slot, what kind of memory to use, what kind of HDD will work etc. Also, where is the best place to buy? Do I want to pick up an OEM or upgrade XP? Are the components region specific?
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Feb 8, 2010
My company makes products that deploy on XP, like Kiosks. I need to be able to lock down my "application user" rights nice & tight, but leave my admin rights wide open. I find that GPEDIT effects ALL user rights, so when I want to prevent my app user from being able to right-click on the desktop (for example), if I got to GPEDIT > USER CONFIG > ADMIN TEMPLATES , anything I do there dorks up my admin user as well.These machines will not connect to a domain controller so they have to be locally administered.
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Sep 10, 2008
i tried playing a region 1 dvd on my laptop last week, the region setting on my laptop was changed to region 1 however the laptop went into 'busy' mode on me and the dvd did not play. after this my laptop was running slow. now it takes my laptop precisely 10 minutes to fully load,when it has loaded i can use the net or ms word without any problems and they work fine. however if i was to watch a video on Internet,even though the video has loaded, it plays kinda slow.
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Sep 15, 2005
UPON SETUP OF WINDOWS XP HOME THERE IS NO COUNTRY OR REGION INFORMATION IN THE DROP DOWN WINDOW IN THE PHONE AND MODEM SETUP.ALL I GET WHEN WINDOW POPS DOWN IS A BLANK WINDOW.
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Nov 29, 2004
Im trying to find out how to reboot my computer.I currently had windows XP Pro and I deleted something I needed by accident and then restarted. That's when it stopped working all it does is bring up the background pic and no icons or start bar. I have a win Xp pro disc but it doesn't do anything it doesn't pick it up for nothing so i was wondering how to make it pick it up manually ?
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Jan 10, 2008
I just formatted my computer last night and after I reinstalled XP Pro it started showing 2 same OS's to pick from when I start up the computer. I went back into the XP setup and looked for any extra partitions but there is only one so why is this extra XP showing up
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Dec 26, 2004
I got this used pc with 2000 pro in it. I was just getting used to Windows 98SE and didn't like the 2kP, so I installed my 98SE too. Besides having to track down the graphics program and audio driver, all went smoothly. Since the, I've been under the impression that I was running 98SE OS...until I added a cd/rw that keeps insisting that I must be the administrator to burn anything for Nemo.
So today, I naively went into the start-up Bios thinking I was going to just do a C:
einstall of Windows 98SE and get rid of all that unwanted system. Ha Ha.
Ok...So, ideally I'd like to get this 2000 software out of here and make it completely 98SE...or maybe get in there and become the administrator. I do seem to have a 2000 Pro Installation CD and somewhere I have 3 (I think) HP recovery disks.
When I tried to do the C:Win98 re-install, needless to say, all this did was go on ahead and boot-up from the hard disk (I assume). I couldn't get the "pick an option" boot-up screen at all.
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Jul 31, 2005
when i go to restart or turn on comp it goes and than a screen comes up and says to pick which os i want to use
1 winxp
2 winxp
how do i get rid of one ?
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May 29, 2008
I recently installed VPN client on my windows XP sp3 pc, and I started to experience network issues. My can no longer pick up any wireless signals. I see no wireless network available. My wire network does not appear to be working either. Is anyone else experiencing the same problem,
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The T43 will pick up my external firewire hard drive but my Lacie d2 Dual DVD +RW drive wont pick up on my machine what to do? I dont want to buy USB one as money is problem.DVD burner. Windows XP sp3. I used it couple miniutes ago on my Mac and worked. No the device does not install not even the light for the drive comes on (blue light), Yes it is powered by external power supply through the wall.
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Apr 13, 2005
sometimes my browser doesnt pick up a connection. But my yahoo does work. Sometimes my aim and msn won't connect either. I have a router connected to this.
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Apr 24, 2009
I am trying various screencapture programs, but when I try to select an area of the screen to capture, all I get is a black 'box' of the are where I snap'd -
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Nov 18, 2006
me how much memory i can install on my pc and also what size sticks i should buy
Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 1 (build 2600) Compaq Presario 5405EA 470032-640 MODEL1
System Serial Number: 4D23KQNTB02G
Enclosure Type: Mini-Tower
Processor a Main Circuit Board b
1.40 gigahertz AMD Athlon XP
128 kilobyte primary memory cache
256 kilobyte secondary memory cache Board: Compaq 073Ch
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Feb 4, 2007
The system event veiwer in control panel says that about 80% of the error I have is because of a specific file name called TCP/IP. I went to windows help, and they told me to remove this protocol and then re-install it using the "network" option in Control Panel. But, if I knew how to do this, you wouldn't be reading this right now! I do understand that this is a very basic problem to overcome, and its just a matter of removing and re-installing.
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Jun 19, 2008
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Jul 2, 2008
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Jun 29, 2005
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Oct 9, 2006
How do I learn what my PC's specific IP Address is? (I have WinXP)
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May 4, 2006
i have new laptop and it has Windows XP installed, I'd like to check the processor size, hard drive size, memory and other components to make sure I've got what I've paid for.
I've always used Windows 98SE in the past so could some kind person talk me through the procedure for XP.
It would also help if you could advise the main changes to watch out for using XP.
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Feb 17, 2005
[FONT=Arial][SIZE=4] Have another good one... I'm trying to learn NetMeeting just for the hell of it. Ran across an interesting problem (NOTE: system description below) Went to add windows components in Win XP Pro... Selected those to be added, XP started looking for install files, but could not locate specific application and dll files. WinExplorer displays the correct file in the correct folder, but install program cannot seem to locate same. Tried to install from HDD as well as O/S CD. I have installed XP on 100+ computers and never seen this Where in hell is NetMeeting Can't find it in XP, and don't get much of any answer from Help and Support
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Jun 13, 2008
I am trying to completely lock down anything from running on a specific user account, except for 1 program which auto runs on boot.. I'v been able to lock the system down pretty well with the group policy editor.. but is there anything similiar to this that will edit specific user settings only? Or make my admin account not affected by the group policy editor?
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Aug 23, 2007
I find that certain programs show up blank boxes,instead of the icons which are supposed to be there. For example when I click on Mcafee antivirus software, it opens up a blank box. I can't remove it through 'add remove programs' because when i click 'remove' on it another blank box pops up,which is actually supposed to have the 'uninstall' icon. The same is the case with System restore. I cant do a system restore because nothing comes up when i click on it except a blank box. I do not know what other programs would have this kind of problem. Please help me resolve this issue.
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Dec 19, 2006
I'm having an issue with a new laptop. several programs or just parts of programs will run painfully slow or take several minutes to load or when they finally do load they freeze. System restore and help files suffers from the same problem along with msn messenger 8, ares, and the dictionary in microsoft works. those are all that i've noticed with the problem i'm sure there are others. i've used registry mechanic tried reinstalling msn and ares with no solutions. also this problem seems to be profile specific. i created another profile on this machine and the problems seemed to dissipear but i would perfer to keep this profile. when i'm trying to load these programs if i open task manager the cpu will usually be low as if i'm not loading anything. also there is somtimes about a minute or 2 or halfway into loading the program loading will apear under the apps twice. one as itself ares.exe or whatever the restore exe is, and one at explorer.exe. i dont believe explorer.exe is a virus it seems to b normal. i assume that the problem has to do with the cpu right now but i have no idea how i would fix that. other than those few programs everything else runs fine. i defreg regularly and so on. i run avg 7.1 windows xp home. its a 64 bit lap i think so i assume it would be a 64 bit edition HP Pavilion.
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Oct 7, 2008
I'm having problems with various programs that I've had work on other computers fine. The UI gets crowded to the point where I cannot click on what I need to, or type what I need to, and in some cases I have to use another program entirely. This has happened to over 10 programs that I recall, and the 'severity' of the bugginess runs from this: which isn't bad, mainly cut off unclickable words and boxes, to this. which is completely and literally unusable (I also need to get this particular one working soon, so if there's a quick fix it would be really appreciated). I see a lot more of the second type, I can provide more examples if asked.I enclosed the dxdiag in hopes that that might help. The one and only thing I might see that would cause this is I have a custom theme, but I've disabled it with no results.
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Aug 17, 2007
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Jun 20, 2010
I've created a batch file to do specific tasks.The file works perfectly and does exactly what I want, but I'd like to have it run at startup on Monday morning.This is what I've got, but it runs at every boot instead of just Monday.
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Sep 23, 2007
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0x0000008E (0xC0000005, 0x8052ADBC, 0x9ECEBE48, 0x00000000)
System Specs Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T7200 @ 2.00GHz DDR2 2.0 GB RAM Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition ATI Mobility Radeon X1400
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May 4, 2006
I was wondering if anyone could throw some insight into a wierd problem I have with some Dell PCs. On site we have a selection of GX240, 260, 60, 270, 280s. Recently, I have had four identical problems with four GX240 PCs.The GX240s all have been built using the same W2K image, and are about just over 3 years old
All of the problems have been stop errors on boot, and whilst I managed to recover one on "Last Known Good" I have had to run a repair on the other three. The early ones have been fine for a few weeks now. Nothing about the GX240s are different from any other systems, no specific software, even the drivers are pretty similar to GX260, but certainly nothing done on them recently.
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