Up Grade Window But Failed
May 31, 2005
I originally had Windows Me on my pc and lap top. Well I decided to up grade both to xp pro but failed to "read the small print" and now, I can only activate one. I decided to activate my lap top but now, I am unable to use my pc because the activated license is on my lap top. How can I uninstall the xp pro from my pc and reinstall windows Me. I have the start up disk and cd for windows Me. If I can do this myself with help from all you wonderful members, I would really, really appreciate it.
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Aug 9, 2005
When shutting down or restarting my computer I get the following message for about one twentieth of a second then a warning sound and finally the machine shuts down or reboots as normal.Can something be done to remove or settle this warning?
"The application failed to initialize because the window station is shutting
down."
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Aug 26, 2010
I have read some of the dual boot options on this forum but I don't need that information, what has happened is that I got a HP Pavilion Slimline s3713w that had a bad hard drive. After getting a used Serial ATA drive to replace the bad one, I formated the drive and installed a good legit version of XP Pro. The install when quick and flawless until I started the computer to check everything out and I had no Lan and no Sound since it is all integrated into the mother board. NEVER being a Vista user I was not aware that you could not down grade to XP. I have read that it can be done but as of yet not found what I need, most people don't get past the install without getting an error message about not detecting a hard drive.I have tried getting the drivers that I need from the HP site under Vista and XP with no luck.
If this Desktop was bigger I would just install a network card and sound card but there are no pci slots available inside this tiny little unit. I am looking for someone that has had this problem and found a way around it. There was no install disk that HP provided with the PC so I couldn't go back to Vista either. I have a nice little computer that just needs some help.
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I want to upgrade my os .XP pro from XP home. I still want to use the programs and applications from XP home.Anybody know how?
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Ever since I bought my laptop a couple of years ago I have had this annoying screen pop up every time the computer starts up entitled Avance AC '97 Audio Setup (4.70) Maintenance Complete..in the window itself it reads....
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I just replaced my old Windows 2000 HD with a newly purchased HD and installed Windows XP Pro/SP2 with all the latest updates from MS.When opened this web page by placing cursor on the line and click, the Google page appears briefly on the myWin.doc window but immediately closes and opens a new, different size window for the Google web page. In the old Windows 2000, the Google page remains opened on the same window overlapping the myWin.doc window and no new window is opened.
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Feb 13, 2007
My log in name doesn't really do my novice pc skill justice. I am actually dumber than a PC spare.
I decided to leave the stone age sort of and bought a copy of windows xp home to extend the life of my POS just a couple more months. I didn't want to buy a new computer and got a deal on a copy of xp home. I am planning on buying components and building a system from scratch soon, but for now just needed to keep going. Several of the sites I like to frequent recently upgraded and no longer support ME. The copy of xp I received turned out to be an OEM Windows XP Home w/ service pack 2.Like a moronic bozo I set my IOLO Drivescrubber into motion and whiped my HD clean. I didn't change anything in the bios as one: don't know how to and two: afraid to. Once the drive was clean however it failed to recognize the cd rom of xp. I then remembered I had to format and partition the drive in order for it to do so.
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Apr 13, 2007
I had to do a Windows Repair on my uncle's computer and now I am trying to install SP2 again on a CD I got awhile ago. Well about halfway through it stopped. Says it failed. Anyone know why that is and how do I fix this so SP2 installs fully? I also tried to do it off of Windows Update. Failed that way also. I also tried doing it in Safe Mode. No luck. Same thing happens. What may be causing this? I got rid of 205 spy and adaware that he never scanned for. I also ran an antivirus scan. No viruses.
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Nov 9, 2009
Have Toshiba A135-S2276 laptop. Vista installed. Have vista recovery disk. My cyberphobic aunt wanted xp installed so it would be like her old computer.I've done the following on the laptop: Fdisk, partitioned and formatted hd in FAT32. Started the win xp pro OEM (legal license) install. It recognized the cd and everything was going well until there was a power failure when I was putting in the product code. I tried to simply restart the install and the cd was invalid media. Disk booted up to install menu in my legal win xp desktop. So it isn't totally corrupt.Laptop hd, fdisk, repartitioned, format and no startup with OEM Used set of win xp pro floppy disks to start install. OEM still invalid media. Did install with old xp pro, illegal copy. That worked. Unable to read oem. Downloaded and installed all of the win xp toshiba drivers. Had to search for the drivers as toshiba doesn't post them.
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SP3 downloaded automatically but when I try to install it I get an "Access Denied" error message about half way through the installation. When I click OK on the error message it starts backing out the changes and after that Windows runs o.k. I have tried it twice with the same results. I disabled the Firewall temporarily on the second try but that didn't help. I don't know what it is trying to do when it fails because all I get is the error message.I am currently out of town so it will be next week before I can try anything but I would like to know where to start when I get home.
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Nov 11, 2008
I have reformatted many times and took the same steps I always do, Ctl F11, agreed to erase and continue, etc. When I was told to continue, instead of my computer reformatting smoothly, I was given an error saying that it could not be completed and a black screen saying only that an error occured and to hit Ctl + Alt + Dlt, I was brought back to the same black screen asking to restart.
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Feb 21, 2009
Got the dreaded "Windows failed to boot up. Desperately searching for some way of getting into WinXP Pro but had no success until I tried the following, which I have written for our users: winxp pro on one of my XP machines would not boot into windows. Tried the "usual" steps to boot, including use of the winxp cd and the win boot up floppy. No luck but I was able to get into Safe Mode using the floppy and then hit Start>Run and typed in the run box "msconfig" (without the quote marks). When it opened, I noticed in the the bottom of the window had this Launch System Restore words so I clicked it and was able to restore the computer system to a day before the last restore, let it do it's thing and when it was over, winxp booted up and I was back in business.
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Jul 29, 2005
All of my history of updates say that they have failed. Windows xp professional with a good license. How do I fix this?
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Apr 8, 2008
I recently visited Microsoft Windows Updates and was horrified to discover that a total of 394 Windows Updates had failed to install. I clicked on 'Find Solutions' and followed the instructions, which were, click 'Start', click 'Run', type 'services.msc.' then make sure Background Intelligent Transfer Service is on Automatic (not manual) and is 'started'. I did this and tried to re-install the failed updates. This worked, but only for the 5 most recent updates (otherwise there would have been 399 failed updates). How do I go about installing ALL of the failed updates?
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Jul 2, 2005
While I was manually checking my updates, I checked on the "Review Your Update History". I discovered that all 6 of the June 14 updates showed "FAILED" I tried checking for updates again, with the same results. Has anyone else experienced this, and how do I get the updates to install?
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Apr 23, 2010
Everything was running fine with my desktop PC till I turned it on this morning. It booted fine, Windows XP started and I entered my password. My desktop background appeared as standard but i had no taskbar, no start button and i was geting no response from either my right or left mouse buttons from clicking on the screen. I tried to get into task manager by using CTRL+ALT+DEL hoping I could get my explorer processes running again, but nothing happened other than a brief appearance of an egg timer. I powered down and started again hoping it was just a glitch. I was too optimistic. So I tried again, again and again achieving the same results. I had no luck getting into task manager or accessing any functions at all. I assumed that if explorer wasnt providing me with rudimentary functionality and if task manager was refusing to work either my only option was to attempt a repair installation of XP using my Windows setup disk to fix the problems.
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Oct 27, 2007
System info:Compaq Presario 5000, Intel celeron,600mhz,40ghd,256mb and operating system was WinME. I first upgrade to WIN XP-PRO and all was fine for a week I then decided to wipe the HD and remove the partition and then reinstall winXP-PRO. This is when my problem began. During this new installation, it gets to the "windows" installation the error message then pops up which read "Installation failed: D:I386ASMS,error message :Incorrect function."Fatal error, one of the components that windows needs to continue setup could not be installed.I am unable to pass this point.
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Dec 18, 2004
I was wondering if you could help me. A few months ago, I was trying to install my old printer on my new XP laptop. I inserted the disk and ran into trouble because (I think) I didn't have the correct print drivers on this new computer. Instead of messing with all that, I wound up buying a new, networking printer. I have the new one installed and it works beautifully.The problem of this pop-up remains, though. I guess it's not really a problem -- just really annoying. Whenever I turn the computer on, it wants me to go through a wizard to help me complete the installation of the new device. Well, I don't want to install that old printer anymore. I've searched and searched, but can't figure out how to make that pop-up quit.
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Apr 12, 2006
My 20 GB HD is the master. everything was installed properly and I had no problems.
Yesterday I decided to change computer cases so I decided to transfer everything to the new case. I checked and tripple checked the hardware hook up. Every button and light works properly. When I turned on the comp, it would try to load and then it would turn off and restart on me. Thats fine, I figured I could use a format. So i put in the Original XP CD to format. Took me to the usual blue screen where it loads its drivers at the bottom, however after it loaded the Press F6 to load Raid drivers and Press F2 to do whatever, it froze on me. I can't understand why. BIOS loads everything, and it recognizes everything. I tried the whole put in the windows 98 or ME boot disk, but it would not load the drivers and then it would load from the XP cd. And yes it was set to boot from A: drive first.
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Apr 22, 2008
My ntdetect.com file is missing(I believe it wound up in the recycle bin). I have read through pretty much every pre-existing thread on the subject. I have downloaded and make a disk of xpprobt.exe as suggested by one, and after a minute on uncomfortable waiting it spouts out that hal.dll is missing. I created an ms-dos diskette to try and copy the files manually to where they belong(I have a copy of hal.dll also) But I may not be the right disk, seeing as it was created on an XP sys. and the one not working is 2000 SP4. When loading the ms-dos disk it flashes an ME(?) logo. Not sure why but W/E Unfortunatly nothing but the dir ms-dos command actually Does anything, and trying to copy the files(yes, I used the correct command line) yields an Invalid Drive Specification Error(?) for some god-awful reason. Now i'm wondering what else I could do to fix it.
I have the links to the official microsoft boot disks and boot disk essentials here:
http://freepctech.com/pc/002/files010.shtml
Some of the other threads have other posted URL's for fixes; this is the only link still working at this time. I will be attempting to troubleshoot it myself using microsoft and disk essentials files on the site, while continuing to search the forums for any other posts related to this. Anyone know of a sure-fire quick fix that they could post that may not exist elsewhere on the site(or at the least, save time trying to find it)?
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Nov 30, 2004
Thanks for oppening the topic but now my problem is not here .l'll re-type the problem .Im running win2k pro and now when i right click on a desktop icon or any other icon i get ":Failed to load resource DLL" with no explanation of what dll is missing or corrupt .Once i press 'OK' the problem goes away and everything seems to run fine other than a few exceptions that im not sure are tied .My friend says he had the same problem and a week after ignoring it his pc crashed and died.
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May 12, 2010
I formatted and reinstalled Win XP on Dimension 2400, but this time around 13 minutes to finish, I got prompted:"INF install failed. reason: handler and parameter error"The after 1 hour, I prompted:"13 minutes to finish install" and it froze.I did reinstall few times before but never had this problem, only thing that changed since the last reinstall.is that I chaged ISP to Shaw cable fast internet connection.
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Sep 10, 2007
"The application failed to initialize properly (0x80000003). Click on OK to terminate the application." Since I installed Visual Studio 2005, I've been getting this error when trying to run Soulseek, which has been working fine before. After OK, the same message comes up again, and after OK again, it closes and Soulseek doesn't run.The same thing happens trying to run Media Player Classic, and the HijackThis installer.Some googling suggested that other people had similar problems with other programs that might be .NET Framework related. I tried reinstalling Framework 2.0, installing 3.0, without any luck. Finally, I uninstalled Visual Studio and everything I could identify as installed with it, but still nothing.
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Feb 25, 2009
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Mar 8, 2008
I have xp pro installed on the c: I want to install xp home on the I drive but on the setup up screen it says I can only install it on f:/ or d; or e:/ why dont I get all the drives I have formatted to install to instead of 3 partitions allocated?
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Jun 16, 2006
Recently Windows Update hasn't been working for me. I, just about a minute ago, tryed updating and 8/8 updates failed These are the upates I was trying to download/install but they all failed.
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Update Rollup 2 for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 (KB900325)
Security Update for Windows Media Player 10 for Windows XP (KB917734)
Security Update for Windows XP (KB914389)
Security Update for Windows XP (KB918439)
Security Update for Windows XP (KB911280)
Security Update for Windows XP (KB917953)
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