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Totally unnecessary steps. It's much easier than this and it's all covered in the "Vista Unattended" section. It's really two steps: 1) Format with diskpart and 2) Copy all DVD files to USB. That's all there is to it.

It's actually the rows that breaks across a page. To disable it for the table in question, Select the table --> Table Properties --> Rows tab --> Uncheck "Allow row to break across pages" under Options. Done

Eureka!! Thanks to 2Forza, here's how to add "Empty Recycle Bin" to the right-click menu: ; Add Empty Recycle Bin To Right Click Menu [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{2559a1f6-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}] @="Empty Recycle Bin"

Dude, we are talking about adding "Empty Recycle Bin" to the Recycle Bin in Start Menu, not to EVERY folder, EVERY file, etc. That's unnecessary.

Yes, an "Empty Recycle Bin" context menu entry would be nice. That's one of the things that I do most commonly--keep the bin clean. I've been trying to find this in the registry but have been unsuccessful as of yet.

Just curious. Does restarting XP solve the problem without a fix? It happened to me yesterday and I was going to try your fix. But then after a restart, the problem was solved and so I was like, I don't need to fix it. I'm not sure if it will come back though; and I'm not sure what triggered it.

HDD and Partition size doesn't matter with Ghost. You can image a 10 GB partition and restore that image to a 6 GB partition and it will work fine. I've done that plenty of times to the same system though. You issue would be different hardware would cause problems and missing drivers such as AHCI drives.

set three = someword%one%%two% echo %three% leave no spaces and exclude "+" between %one% and %two%. Edit: dexter beat me to it.

If you don't have data on it already, then maybe you should try to format the drive as NTFS rather than converting it. If you already have data on it, then maybe copy it to HDD, then format it as NTFS. FYI: Also, XP diskpart doesn't support USB flash drives, but Vista diskpart does. Maybe consider partitioning it with Vista diskpart if you want multiple partitions. Vista diskpart will allow you to format any size partition as NTFS. I've even done a 10 MB partition as NTFS just for testing.

There's an error in your code: It should be either: # Boot Vista by finding and loading bootmgrv title Microsoft Windows Vista find --set-root /bootmgrv chainloader /bootmgrv or # Boot Vista by finding and loading bootmgrv title Microsoft Windows Vista find --set-root /bootmgr chainloader /bootmgr You are either missing a v in line two or you have an extra v in line 1. Whether you need the v or not depends on whether you renamed bootmgr to bootmgrv. If you didn't rename it, then use bootmgr in both lines. The only time you need to rename bootmgr to bootmgrv is when you are renaming grldr to bootmgr. If you didn't do that, then you don't have to.

Post your question here: Open XML Developer. You might get an answer there.

Great. Do you mind sharing how you accomplished and what language you used?

I thought it was part of Office as an "add-on". You don't see it?

Goodness gracious, jaclaz. You don't need ANY of that. Just use the floor function. One elegant formula will do that: Put this in I3: =floor(F3/10,1) It will divide a value in F13, say 18, by 10. You get 1.8. The FLOOR function floors the value of 1.8 to 1. All values between 1.0 to 1.9 will be floored to 1, including 1.0 and 1.9. All values between 2.0 and 2.9 will be floored to 2, including 2.0 and 2.9. Hope that's a simpler solution than building ranges and using VLOOKUP. (There's also a CEILING function that will increase the value to the next greatest integer, meaning 1.8 will become 2. 2.4 will become 3. This is different from rounding.) Ha! I was a math wiz.

I've also been locked out on my laptop with 3 users but with a difference scenario. What happens to me is after the system logs off for inactivity, when I try to click on my profile to enter the password to log back in, it won't work! I cannot get the cursor in the password field box. It's happened several times. However, on a computer with a different logon GUI (logongui.exe), this does not happen. So, I wonder if it's a problem with MS's own lo logongui.exe?? Oh yeah, it happened on my Uncles's desktop too, when I was at his house... he has like 3 users with one being a guest account. I tried to get into his profile (I was just playing around with passwords) to see if I could guess his password but it wouldn't let me in the password field. The only remedy is to restart the computer at this point.

@nuhi. Are you saying the vlited copy will install on 256 mb ram if booted from cd? I had been wondering about that.

Ditto. I've already said it's for testing in post 6, not running your main PC on it. I actually used 256 mb RAM. Yes, once you install all your apps, it' will start slooowing down.

The room temp is around 78 F. It's a stock heatsink/fan. I think it's a 8 to 9 cm; not 12 cm. I can install memory, hard drive, pci cards, etc. but I'm a little apprehensive about messing with the CPU, especially applying arctic silver because I've read you can screw it up if you don't do it right. Any points on WHICH, WHERE can I find, HOW to apply? Any good heatsinks? I have an Intel Pentium 4. I can get more info about processor if you need it.

This was posted almost 6 months ago and no answer so I thought I'd answer. Given that you already have XP setup and no floppy, what you can do is take advantage of Grub4Dos's ability to map a floppy image to a virtual floppy. I've tried this method and it works. Here's what you need to do: Setup your XP to boot Grub4Dos menu. See this post for help on this: Multi-boot XP / Vista. Don't worry that it's about multi-booting Vista and XP. All you are interested is in renaming ntldr to ntldrxp and grldr to ntldr. Next, you need to make a floppy image with your AHCI drivers using WinImage or any other floppy image creator. There are some free ones you can search for. Then, when you have your menu.lst made, you need to this: title Boot CD using Smart Boot Manager (mapping 2 floppies) find --set-root /sbootmgr.dsk map (hdx,y)/yourfloppyimage.img (fd0) map --mem /sbootmgr.dsk (fd1) map --hook chainloader (fd1)+1 rootnoverify (fd1) Or if you use Grub's native CD-rom support: title Start BartPE from CD-ROM 0 map (hdx,y)/yourfloppyimage.img (fd0) cdrom --init map --hook chainloader (cd0) boot In both cases, x and y specify your HD number and partition number where your floppy image is stored. If you rather install vista from HDD, then copy your DVD to root of any drive, then use the following: title Start BartPE from CD-ROM 0 map (hdx,y)/yourfloppyimage.img (fd0) find --set-root /bootmgr chainloader /bootmgr boot Hope this helps anyone without a floppy.

Some managers can speed up downloads on slow networks by downloading several parts of a file simultaneously. For example, a 100 mb file can be broken into 10 pieces and the manager can download 10 pieces at the same time. The download site has to allow multiple connections, however. Managers are handy, because they can resume broken downloads; unlike IE which may or may not resume broken downloads.

Have a look here: Vista and XP file sharing. You need to download an update for all your XP machines. (This has nothing to do with unattended vista. You should have searched first in Networking section before posting.)

Is he on wireless. If you lose connection transiently, it may stop. Use download manager, such as MassDownloader or FlashGet, as nitroshift suggested.

I think what he's talking about is the redistributable sp2 vs the regular sp2. You can use either one.

You need to do this, not from within Word, but from Start --> Printers and Faxes --> right-click your printer in questions --> Printing preferences (not Properties) --> set your defaults then apply.

I didn't think it was that complicated. Just right-click on autoshpae --> format autoshape --> in fill color, choose black. By default, the line colors are black so I'm not sure why the "gray" in your question.