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Doing a repair wont work. Boot from the CD, delete the windows partition and do a clean install. Start from scratch, its the only way.

My icons always keep their positions after restarting explorer. Maybe that only happens when you 'kill' explorer through task manager, rather then ending it the proper way. The proper way to end explorer... Go to start then shut down to get the 'shut down windows' dialog box Hold alt,ctrl, shift and then press cancel. Explorer will shut down. And of course, alt,ctrl,del to get taskmanager so you can restart it. All of my system tray icons dont come back though.

I have problems with my windows setup skipping over partition selection. The strange thing is, it seems to be totally random at times. A few weeks back i was having problems with my install, it kept quiting during file copy, it was a ram problem and i solved it. But before i did, i tried installing at least 10 times and sometimes i would get the option to choose a partition and sometimes it would go right over and straight to file copy. On saturday i did an install on an old drive i had. It was already ntfs and had some stuff on it. Windows setup didnt give the option to delete or choose a partion, it just went straight to file copy. This was a problem because now i have tons of old stuff that i need to delete manually. I guess windows setup just does whatever the hell it wants too!

Well, that failed... but it did stop xp from hanging on the logon screen though. It went back to doing its autologon thing. So, i tried the registry where benners pointed me and removed the default user and also deleted the account. Now its back to "password is incorrect, blah blah blah". It was trying to autologon a default user that didnt exist! Anyway, i searched the registry and found the key to turn off autologon. Its all good now, working like it should. I have a question though... Why didnt autologon switch off for the default user, i thought it was set in the unattended cd to logon only once?

Good idea, i'll give that a try.

Hello all. I used my unattended cd last night to set up a computer for my brother. My cd has the add user and auto logon. Today i making the finishing touches to his pc and decided to change the default name to his name, add another user and i also removed any passwords. Well, after a reset windows logon screen poped up with an error telling me that the password is wrong, blah blah blah. It went away after a second and the logon never went anywhere, just stayed at "loading personal settings". I thought i could fix this by booting into safe mode (as the admin) and removing that particular user, but that didnt work either, the same error happens. Whats going on, how do i fix this?

Hello all. Does anyone know the switches for this program?? Ive tried using the switches from all the other well known installers, but i think this one is a custom one from winmx.com.

Good enough for me!

It opens the nvidia settings menu. On my right-click, i have "analog display", since his is digital, i assume hes using an LCD monitor. But why want it gone??

Just curious... but why do you want it gone?

Im at work right now and i checked one of the Dell oem WinXP cds we have here... it doesnt have bchk32.exe on it, so i guess the method i explained above is out the window now. I did however find out that if setup is run from windows, it does not do a bios check. A bios check is only done if you boot from the cd. So, you could load an older version of windows (if you have one) onto your comp and then run winXP setup from there. Its an extra install process, but at least you dont have to do any hacking.

Check your I386 folder on that dell cd for a file called "Bchk32.exe". I know that on a win2k dell cd, this file is responsible for checking the bios, its a good possibility its the same for xp. When you run setup, it launches bchk32.exe. Bchk32 checks the bios creates a .tmp file and writes either "+++" or "---" into it. "+++" being a confirmation of the dell bios. Simply deleting bchk32 doesnt work, im guessing some other .exe's checks that .tmp but i dont know which. So, the easiest way around the problem is to hex edit bchk32, find where it stores the "---" and then change it to "+++" so that no matter what bios it finds, it will always write "+++" to the .tmp file. Heres what to do... 1) Load bchck32.exe into your hex editor 2) goto offset/location 1F92 (hex) or 8082 (decimal) 3) you should see "---" at this location, just change it to "+++" 4) save the edited file and replace the old one with the new one Remember, this is originally for win2k so i dont know if it works for winxp. If you try it and it works, let us know. BTW, this is not my work, i came across this some time ago, dont remember where though.

Thanks shark... i'll be setting myself free with my next upgrade this summer.

Im just curious... Why does winxp slow to a crawl during high levels of disk accessing, but doesnt slow to a crawl during high cpu usage? Im running an amd 1800+ with 512megs, 160gigs of total space and a gforce3 ti 200. I do lots of video editing and encoding and when i do, cpu usage goes to 100%. While my videos are being encoded, i can easily open and run other programs without too much slow down. But when i burn these videos (4gig average) my computer slows to a point where its unusable, even using programs as simple as notepad suffer from this. Cpu usage is always less then 10% but disk access is obviously high. I expect slow response from programs that need to be loaded and need access to the HD, but why would a program like notepad, thats already loaded, suffer so much?

Format the drive and do a clean install, that will take care of all your problems. I know i know, thats the easy way out, im just being silly. But seriously, it may come to that. A clean install is whats best for a machine thats been overrun with spy/ad ware.

Tried to upgrade win2k to xp, it all went smooth right up until xp booted up, again it just hung. Im beginning to think that this machine will not run xp for some reason. Im feeling tired and lazy so im not gonna try anymore, i'll reload win2k and just stick with it. Thanks for the suggestions.

Tried to upgrade win2k to xp, it all went smooth right up until xp booted up, again it just hung. Im beginning to think that this machine will not run xp for some reason. Im feeling tired and lazy so im not gonna try anymore, i'll reload win2k and just stick with it. Thanks for the suggestions.

You can do a google search!

I just installed win2k and it went smooth. Im now gonna try to upgrade from win2k to xp. If that doesnt work then i'll give your sugestion a try.

Nope, tried that already, the keys do not respond. I had to hold the power button in for 5 secs in order to restart it... maybe youre right, something is corrupt. I dont know how though, ive used these same CDs many times before. Im gonna give win2k a try and report back.

Hello all, I tried to load winxp pro onto an old p3 sony vaio today and ran into a problem, setup wouldnt continue past the boot screen. Everything goes smooth, file copy and all, right up until first reboot. The computer restarts and up pops the boot screen but thats where it stays, no windows setup gui. It doesnt appear to freeze because the bars keeps scrolling... and scrolling and scrolling and scrolling. I left it for over an hour but it never got past the boot screen. I tried using 3 different cds, my unattended, my sp1 integrated and my original but all gave the same results. Ive set up winxp hundreds of times and have never seen this happen before, im totally baffled. Anyone ever run into this problem before?

Thanks jack!

I had this problem a few weeks ago, i'd get the error with random files during setup file copy. I must have ran windows setup at least 20 times but i couldnt figure out what was wrong until i got a Blue Screen of Death.. thats right, a BSOD during windows setup. The error it gave was one that usually points to problems with RAM. I swapped out my RAM and after that, the install went smooth. Try changing your RAM and see how it goes.

No problem, i can wait.. thanks!

Me neither! *eagerly waiting for jacks return*