Takeshi

What you're really asking is packet writing ability, like what InCD does.

Assuming you also want it done unattended (since you ask this in the UA forum), you'll need additional switches. e.g. WINNT /s:Z:\i386 /u:Z:\unattend.txt

These icons are shortcuts. The Recycle Bin is on the desktop by default so it shouldn't be necessary to do anything. But if you wish to rename it to TrashCan then you need to hack the registry.

If DELL is sending you an XP SP1 (why not SP2?) then you can make an SP2 CD readily. Or in the meantime have you tried adding the oembios stuff from the Pro CD to Home?

You did not waste my time really but it just seems odd that you're so paranoid about regedit. It won't bite you. Afterall you rightly suspected that incorrect reg is to blame. Doing what the KB says is not hard and doesn't require a degree in computing. You might want to try reinstalling IE6 but I won't bet on it.

LarryAllen: my reference to Ghost was directed at this comment: and not about ghosting after a repair/reinstall. Of course that's nonsense. Now we finally know your query is really about whether repair/reinstall is needed after upgrading the CPU of the same socket and without changing the MoBo and not about frequent reinstall in general. We can just concentrate on the real issue.

You need Windows XP Pro Eng version already installed first before the MUI Pack will install. The CD you bought sounds like it's only the MUI Pack, not Windows XP Pro as such.

You said earlier that you suspect the registry was to blame. So I provided the official link relevant and specific to your query. If you didn't actually want a solution that specifically involves regedit then it would have been better to say this at the outset.

You started off with a general question of frequent repair/reinstall but then talked about a very specific scenario of changing the chip. Programs that require installation write to the registry and create shortcuts so a repair or reinstall would destroy these. You cannot expect the Setup routine to detect what else is there in other partitions. PnP hardware detection is different. Programs that don't require installation usually survive a reinstall. Not everyone does frequent reinstall/repair. I don't. If you feel it's a pain to build everything up after a reinstall due to malware, then why not use Ghost or other imaging prog?

Please search this forum using these key words and you'll find plenty of old threads immediately: Help Protect Your PC WMP, system restore

Make sure the reg key is set to "Start"=dword:00000002 or why not just try without nLite? How many languages do you speak or need to use?

Changing the view of an item or hiding it is not quite the same as deleting it, or is it? Leaving the question of embedding the screenshot in doc aside, if it's an Outlook question, why not say it in the title and put the thread in the Outlook forum?

Open Task Manager or Run and run explorer.exe from there and see if it will start. Create a new account and see what happens.

The article actually takes you step-by-step holding your hand and also tells you to export the reg key to have a backup first so you're covered in case things go wrong. In computers (and most things) unless you do it yourself you never really learn the trade. We all start from somewhere at one stage. Read the KB carefully and do what it says. Editing the registry is not hard if you just keep your cool and be sensible.

With the svcpack method the KB######.exe needs to be extracted so you can't stop it from doing that. Normally something in the update file self deletes it afterwards and I suspect sometimes it doesn't happen. The residual files and directories have no hidden or system attributes. Even when I give Full Control to the Administrators in the folder's ACE I still couldn't delete it in Normal or Safe Mode. not again...

Protected Storage service should be started. Read this.

What's that? From your other thread: How did you rename the accounts?

These directories are extracted from the KB######.exe and they also occur during manual updates but normally get deleted immediately afterwards. It happened to me before when one such dir is left behind with Access Denied. I use WinPE to delete it.

I still don't understand why there's a need to use: LanguageGroup=1,2,3,4,5,6 as this installs most languages of Europe. LanguageGroup=1 already covers Eng and French. * Western Europe and United States (1) * Central Europe (2) * Baltic (3) * Greek (4) * Cyrillic (5) * Turkic (6) I suspect your physical keyboard is laid out differently. On my keyboard (bought in Vancouver) it is the standard US keyboard and the / key certainly types / whether I use En (Canada) or En (US) or En (UK). The / key is at the bottom row immediately to the left of the right SHIFT key (the same with the UK keyboard for this key). So my solution above should work on my keyboard.

It will let you do the repair. After repair you might need to reinstall the DELL drivers. It'll normally ask for the key. Normally OEM media accepts OEM keys. DELL may use a key for install which is different from that shown in the COA, in my DELL anyway. My DELL laptop with XP Pro comes with a DELL install CD so why bother with other CDs?

That didn't happen when I tried it. Can someone else try this to verify? Same with FF. There're other things in Windows that want to access the internet. When you run ntbackup, it (well, Shadow Volume Copy) wants to access the internet. If I block it, it still do the backup. So what the heck...

In the Netgear wireless router, there're options for passphrase using WEP and WPA but there doesn't seem to be this feature in Linksys if you can't find it (there isn't in the WRT54G). Each wireless router has it's own SSID so it shouldn't conflict with each other. Windows remembers each router's SSID with it's own key so why need to enter the key every time? And use WPA if possible.

Busy traffic/busy servers happens all the time and is beyond your control anyway. In my experience, KAV updates have always been slow (minutes) to d/l although you didn't say how long is "very long".

So VPC users should vote too? And why omit Win2k Server, Win Server 2003? Why lump Win2k/XP together?

Is it necessary to debate over which is better? At the end of the day you still need to d/l all the necessary files. Of course it'd be quicker to d/l the web installer than the full admin install at the outset but then you'd need to use the web installer to d/l the rest later. And it's just as easy to delete the install files afterwards.