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Which drive letters this partitions have?

When you delete those two partitions before windows setup begins you can create a C: partition and enter the size you want (C:and F: free space). Once you install Windows XP you can use Partition Magic to resize your partitions as you like..

Ok, transfer the contents from C: to D: drive if you have enough available free space.. If not, try to compress contents on drive D: to gain some extra space.. If you can't do that, that's probably because D: drive is formated with FAT32 file system, in that case you should convert your partition to NTFS.. Now you can boot from CD and then delete partitions C: and F: You can install windows on C: partition.. When windows installation finishes you can use disk manager to convert your drive letters as you like or recreate partitions.. You also can use some third party software like Partition Magic 8.0..

Why don't you use registry editor and try to remove this key?

Maybe Irfan View which is a freeware?

Could you give us a feedback what kind of virus was blocking this?

Try to install DirectX 9.0c.

But Windows XP and Windows 98SE don't use the same device drivers...

Is this happening for the first time? Have you install something recently, SP2 maybe?

Try to reinstall this theme manager..

What kind off access do you use? Try to download latest drivers for your connecting device...

Which theme manager do you use? Try to reload your theme.. Why do you have three BT icons in the system tray?

Obviously not, my fault

I think that Net framework 1.1 is installed with SP2...

wow Tell me how much can I overclock my P4 2,80 on Asus P4C800 Deluxe? But I want to retain stability..

Maxton, just another shell for IE, works perfectly...

I guess he's trying to say that he could not logon to windows because time for activation has expired.. Try to recover the file you've deleted or maybe there's a solution to activate windows even in this tricky situation... I'll try to find something at Microsoft Knowledge base, let's wait for prathapml, maybe he's got a solution...

when you're using sysprep you can use -nosidgen which runs sysprep without regenerating SIDs that are already on the system. This is useful if you do not intend to duplicate the computer on which you are running Sysprep. and you can use -activated switch which prevents Windows Product Activation resets. If this parameter is not set, Sysprep can reset Windows Product Activation a maximum of three times. Hope this helps

There is no deactivation. If you reformat, you will be asked to activate and, assuming your hardware is the same as when you first installed XP the process is no different from when you first installed. It's a hand shake between two computers over the Internet. If there have been enough hardware changes to reach the activation threshold, then instead of a relatively automatic activation, you would be prompted to call a specific phone number wherein you would explain what changes you had made and that it's still the same computer and they would give you a new activation code over the phone.

Download the latest version of Stinger from stinger run this program and clean possible viruses.. After that install Spybot S&D and AD-Aware Personal edition to clean spyware, adware, hijakers and other trash that has possessed your PC...

I think you're having problems with your hard disk.. You may check your disk for errors within windows..

@prathapml I agree with you to disable services that you don't need but isn't this service set to manual start by default? On my PC it hasn't been started anyway? I'm using Nero 6 for burning CD-s and DVD-s..

Why, could you please explain?

I would install third party software...

I have P4 2.8GHz processor on ASUS P4C800 Deluxe MB, if you are Intel processor fan you should have take better motherboard than Soyo, for instance Asus, Gigabyte, Soltek are my favorites...