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My preference would be Acronis Disk Director. Although I've never had a real problem with Partition Magic. Although I do recall once that I wasn't able to fix my corruct partitions with Partition Magic (although it wasn't responsible for corrupting it), Disk Director did the job. I, however, configure my partitions before installing and leave it alone. I create my install partition from Windows XP setup. Then the rest I create from Disk Management. I do not like to repartition once everything is installed to avoid corruption of data. I'm just a little wary about repartitioning. Thus, I really don't use partitioning software when the built in one does the job.

You are right about the irrelevancy of the title - it does not display, yet it's required to pass the parameters correctly!

It won't matter what partition is active. By installing XP, his MBR has been changed to look for ntldr, not bootmgr. (I'm not sure why you are mentioning not being able to install drivers. I don't think that would be an issue to installing EasyBCD. I may be missing something here.) If EasyBCD doesn't work, then try VistaBootPro. It does the same thing. If that doesn't work, check the pinned topics (How to Install XP after Vista and fix the bootloader.) As a last resort, try the following trick (only as a last resort): set you Vista partition as active. Then reame bootmgr as ntldr. You might be able to boot Vista that way. Then, fix what you need to in Vista by installing EasyBCD or VistaBootPro and add XP to it. It may work. Make sure you backup the files before doing this. Also, I recommend making a boot Vista boot floppy (which can boot Vista or XP). I have a post on how to do this (use the search function to find it). This floppy is handy when you screw up. Edit: Oh, btw, all EasyBCD and VistaBootPro do to fix the bootloade is run the commnad: bootsect.exe -NT60 All. So, to avoid all and any unnecessary steps, you just need this file called bootsect.exe and run that from the command prompt. This file is included in the Vista DVD and is packaged with EasyBCD and VistaBootPro. You may want to investigate if it can be extracted from the install packages. Or maybe it's extracted to the temp folder during the installation process.

I believe that is part of the visual style or shell32.dll. You need to reshack it to change it. I haven't seen anyone do it yet as I've been looking for a way but don't know how to reshack scripts. I hope some finds a way to really do this.

Yeah, it uses 8 mb for me. Need to uninstall. Isn't there another program that does the same thing? I saw it here somewhere? Yup, and here it is: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...&hl=tooltip

The above will not work because the syntax in the first quotes is the Title of the DOS Windows. You need to change it to: START "Installing Whatever" /wait "P:\CADD\_CAD Programs\AC 11 Install\AC11 USA 970.exe" The syntax is: start "Title of Windows" /wait "program to execute.exe" This will solve the problem you mentioned in post #3 about two windows.

I already posted this issue here. I got no replies and I never figured it out. Good luck.

Did you really expect to be able to dual-boot automatically, without any effort, to create a dual-boot, by just installing XP when Vista was installed first? Download EasyBCD and install it in XP. It will allow you to fix your bootloader and add XP to your boot menu. Check my signature to be able to dual-boot with Grub4Dos. It's worth a try.

Speed does not depend on whether it's SATA or IDE. The speed is dependent on what the drive is rated at - whether it's 6x, 8x, etc. So, a SATA 6x equals IDE 6x. The advantage of SATA is the aerodynamics with the slim cable. Less clutter. I prefer SATA over IDE. I, also, haven't had issues installing XP using SATA. I have a Samsung.

Drivers will definitely be a problem. Almost all new systems with Vista preinstalled do not have XP drivers. You'd have to buy a laptop with XP preinstalled to assure driver compatibility. Anyway, XP is best right now. Vista is a hog. My sister bought an hp with Vista Home premium preinstalled (AMD processor) and it's painfully SLOOOOOW. Although I think the processor has a little to do with it, I just can imagine why it would so so painfully sloow.

This file can get infected. I had a ctfmon.exe infected and spread everywhere. Thanks for the tip on how to disable.

Is the drive new or old? If old and making noise, depending on type of noise, your HDD may be failing.

yes! i haven't had a problem. if you do, try running it under compatibiity mode.

what is vivp.exe? i thought we were talking about vista transformation pack or vtp.exe? am i missing something? anyway, i have never been able to fully finish the installation with vtp 8 because when it tries to transform shell32.dll, it hangs there. i just manually reshack all the files. during installation, all the resource files are created in a folder called c:\vtp8 files. copy them and use reshacker.exe manually. works for me.

how did you go about installing ie7? if you extracted the download, then ran setup, than you won't get tabs. you'll have to run xmllite.exe.

ImageX is independent of the OS installed. It does not perform an OS check before creating an image, although I'm sure it does not support Linux partitions - that's about all. So, ImageX is perfectly suitable for XP and I use it for XP, not Vista.

Update: I successfully restored an image of Windows XP installed on C:\ where the image file was on C:\. So it is possible to restore an image located on the same drive you are restoring. You, of course can't format it then restore the image, but you can at least restore XP. All the files that are not in the image will not be touched.

You didn't read carefully. It states "The Package Manager command-line options give the following for the /s switch which can be used online or offline (I'm assuming online means while you are using Vista and offline means a mounted image or while in XP). In the post right after mine by prathapml, he states he installed hold 'em poker using cab file! That shows it can be done. The syntax in that post. You don't need any other reference, but you'll need package manager.

Tarun, It was version 3.0.13.268 that I initially installed. And I forgot to mention that after I downloaded the upgrade patch to 3.0.14.276 and couldn't get it to install, I disabled Comodo and installed the patch that way.

Include Office Word 2003 toolbars in Word 2007's ribbon by following the guide here. It's FREE b/c it's do-it-yourself! http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=109733

Ummm, I think you can install updates from .cab files in Vista. See my post here regarding installing DreamScene from cab file: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?s=&amp...st&p=642191

Finally, mystery solved. No, the XP registry does not work any more. For some reason, MS made a change to this by placing it in the policies: Disable Webservices for unknown file types Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 ;Disable Webservices for unknown file types [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer] "NoInternetOpenWith"=dword:00000001 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer] "NoInternetOpenWith"=dword:00000001

Finally, mystery solved. No, the XP registry does not work any more. For some reason, MS made a change to this by placing it in the policies: Disable Webservices for unknown file types Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 ;Disable Webservices for unknown file types [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer] "NoInternetOpenWith"=dword:00000001 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer] "NoInternetOpenWith"=dword:00000001

I have come up with a way to bring back Word's 2003 Classic Menus and Toolbars for FREE. And you can do this for free with a little effort. First, everyone needs to understand that there are some core changes in 2007; therefore, you cannot completely replicate 2003 Menus and Toolbars. Some buttons will not cross over to 2007 because of these core changes. So don't complain. Second, you need Microsoft Word 2003. If you don't have it, you need to find a computer that has it so you can carry out the first 6 steps. Are we ready? Here we go: 1) First, open up Microsoft Word 2003. Click on "Tools", then choose "Customize..." 2) On the "Toolbars" tab, click on the "New..." button. Under "Toolbar Name", call it "2003Menu". 3) You should have a blank toolbar to work with. Now, click on the "Commands" tab and under "Categories", click on "Built-in Menus". Then, one by one, drag and drop them on the new empty toolbar. 4) Repeat steps 2 and create a new toolbar called "2003Standard". Then, go to "Commands" tab and find the buttons that match your standard toolbar. 5) Repeat the above to create a toolbar called "2003Formatting". Again, find all the buttons that belong on that toolbar and drop them on the toolbar. 6) Customize the buttons any way you want. You can even add your macro buttons! Here's what mine looks like: 7) Ok, now you should have created your menu, Standard toolbar, and Formatting toolbar. Now, close Word so that these toolbars are saved in the default Normal.dot template. Then go to %appdata%\Microsoft\Office\Templates\ and find the Normal.dot file. It should be about 33 Kb, more or less. It may be more if you have macros and other things. Copy this file so you can take it to a computer with Microsoft Office 2007. 8) Now, open Microsoft Word 2007 (probably on a different computer). Then, go to %userprofile%\Application Data\Microsoft\Word\STARTUP\ and paste the Normal.dot there. Now, when you open Word 2007, it will show your classic menus in a tab called Add-ins and group called "Custom Toolbars". This tab is automatically displayed. Here's the result. It's not 100% the same but it's better than nothing for free: I hope this will help those who are 2003 nostalgic and quell some of the "I hate 2007 GUI". Of course, I'm not sure how it's done for Excel and Powerpoint, but I'm sure someone can figure it out and post it here.

* I don't understand why your one CD doesn't work on all the computers? If it's only 3 mb, obviously you don't have the ghost image stored on the CD. Thus, the CD should work on all computers as the ghost image is not specific for that computer. * What type of a boot CD is it? If it's just 3 mb, what's on it? Are you emulating a floppy disk to make it bootable?