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First off... are you talking about: you bought the computer and the restore CD came with the computer or was a partition on the hard drive..... if so this is no help to you... If it was a CD that you copied to your hard drive I believe if you open a command prompt and go to the I386 folder and run Winnt.exe it will install... as for the winnt.sif, that file is read after files are copied... what tells the computer to boot from the CD and run Winnt.exe is when you make the iso and you use that CDImage program available Here there is a xpboot.img file that gets copied or put as a seperate track on the CD so that the computer treats the CD as a boot floppy to run the winnt.exe someone correct me if i'm wrong about this...

heres a guy that seems to have the same problem as you and some steps on how he got it working.... http://club.cdfreaks.com/printthread.php?t=99892 as for USWXP32P_ZX, it seems like thats a file/folder that they use for refrencing to prevent duplicate files... or something.. its discussed on the link above. I've never heard of that file/folder before.. hope this helps ya.

is this a USB Keyboard.. it may need drivers that aren't installed yet to work... if it is usb and you have one of those connectors that take USB to PS/2 then use one of those and try again. *CAUTION* always shutdown the computer completly when unplugging peripherals from your computer. so shut down change keyboards and turn it back on.. don't want ya screwin up your mainboard because of this.

how big is the I386 folder, and how big is the USWXP32P_ZX folder/file?

Welcome Chris, don't worry about not knowing much, we all started out not knowing much about computers too. just try to follow the rules heh

I use TuneUpUtilities Registry Cleaner and CCleaner as well. i have had some problems before with registry cleaners just make sure you look over wahts being deleted before deleting it. Both Tunup Utilities and CCleaner, in the past year or so i've used them i've never once had to remove something from the "to be deleted list" so you shouldn't have a problem with them.

theres a google search at the top, i find that a lot better then the built in search. can narrow out the stuff you don't want using the minus symbol.

well i tried, it asks for a user and password. mind i can't read the language lol. I'm guessing if you have any other computers to try it on those computers. or contact the webmaster and ask him if you can have him/her email it to ya.

That's using something called SLP-activation.If it finds a recognised BIOS id, it will get activated. If not, it won't. Google for more info! yeap, just found that in a google search thanks

the old posts still have the answers to some questions. so i doubt they will be deleted. unless they delete them on switching over to the IPB 2 system.

just visited, very well and very informative site you have.

the next version of "Windows" maybe....

I just smash all the keys on my computer and throw my keyboard across the room. that usually follows with a punch to the front of my computer followed by me unplugging my computer and taking a nap... needless to say.. my computer doesn't crash much.. i think its scared.. lol

Sorry, I have very little tolerance for those who blatantly ignore the rules. yea me too lol. The rules are there for a reason people... B)

yes it is free, it converts to .COM though, unless theres some command line switch i didn't see. only thing i have against .COM files are that when you hit the "X" to close the box it comes back with the Program is not responding box...

wonder if it has anything to do with the emachines chip on my mainboard... i'm guessing that also hold the Emachines post logo (the logo that flashes at the very begining upon boot) (dell, hp, emachines and mostly all retail computers do this) don't see how this would work, but for Christmas i'm supposed to get a new Mainboard and a copy of windows XP home so i'll find out then

now now RyanVM, no ones idiots here except me.... but we must all obey the rules... don't post links to warez sites again please.

I see, so insted of making RestoreCD's for each computer each with a unique Serial number, they just make an agreement with Microsoft that allows them to just make this one Key. although, now i'm even more confused.. cause what would stop me from releasing this Key out onto the internet... a google search didn't show any illegal sites like if you did a search for the famous "FCKGW" key....

so i'm bored.. i find an old program i had called RockXP. it tells me my Windows XP CD Key is "MYFFD-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX" but i look at the back of my case and that key is completly diffrent.... is this MYFFD key like a universal key or somethin? I also typed "MYFFD" in google and 1 topic from another forum came up where a guy had the same begining 5 letters... also an Emachines computer... (I think.. he mentions he has 2 computers one of which is an Emachines and one of which is a HP)... so what gives with this key?

I know nothign about Sata drives or drivers, but you should get VMWare.. its a shareware for 30 days virtual PC. just make the ISO and use VMWare to install and test. no more making frisbees out of your CDs

@cyntiagirl nothing is completly safe besides not lending out your CD, there is ALWAYS a way to break a security feature. even if you found someway to encrypt the whole CD and still have it work there will be some way around it. @zbeta LOL! but i wanna take my computer with me when i die! I wanna set up a really "phat" (slang for cool, awesome etc...) LAN and play Counter-Strike Against George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini.. Etc.. LOL @Incroyable HULK Looks awesome even though it doesn't offer much in the line of security it is hidden from the average user. one suggestion is to maybe use an autorun.inf file and tell it to run a program that just enables the "hide files and folders" then exits... so incase they do have it set to show hidden files and folders when the CD is inserted it will change it

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Thanks B)

Answer has been found.. nevermind... ok.. kinda simple.. but i can't figure this out... on form_load i have my program read from an ini file then if "list" = "[NOT FOUND]" I need it to not add it to my listbox... heres the code that i have so far... i want to make it simpler and not put If then statements all the way down... list = INITool1.GetFromINI("Track1", "Location", App.Path & "\settings.ini") playlist.AddItem list list = INITool1.GetFromINI("Track2", "Location", App.Path & "\settings.ini") playlist.AddItem list list = INITool1.GetFromINI("Track3", "Location", App.Path & "\settings.ini") playlist.AddItem list so lets say... if for Track2 the user didn't put anything in it.. so it returns the string "[NOT FOUND]" but Track3 has something. If i use something like a Do Until event, it will stop on Track2.. insted of reading track 3 and so on.. any ideas? Thanks My Solution... For i = 1 To 20 list = INITool1.GetFromINI("Track" & i, "Location", App.Path & "\settings.ini") If list = "[NOT FOUND]" Then 'do nothing and don't add to the list Else playlist.AddItem list End If Next i End Sub

as opposed to a broken php script? but yea.. php.net is a good site for help.