Takeshi

A sysprep'ed system on first restart detects PnP devices but not Mass Storage Controllers as such. If the controllers are different and it cannot find the drivers then it won't start. It's not possible to sysprep on a ghost image. It might be possilbe to add the drivers to the image or to a partition restored by the image. The partition is not bootable but that's not the intention. The idea is to access this partition from a bootable OS. Add the drivers. Re-image. That's the theory at least.

You have tried these? HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop Wallpaper HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop Wallpaper

I've used RD between two computers using NetGear wireless router and I didn't have to configure anything in the router or enable uPnP. It just found its way.

purewaveform: I'll try your suggested program which I saw mentioned on another post. silver22: I didn't realise you have XP Home Ed, in which case it is not possible to access the Security tab except in Safe Mode. So try the Safe Mode first. If you are dual booting with Win2k (from what you said), then you should be able to view SVI directly in Win2k. It's also possible to edit folder security permissions in normal mode using the cacls command (also available in XP Home Ed.). I've tried it successfully but it's rather non user friendly. I've actually used another small tool before, called DirGraph, which shows graphically the space occupied by directories. But thanks for your suggestion too. Whatever method you use to view the SVI folder, you should not manually delete the RP subfolders (each corresponds to a restore point) but do this via the System Restore interface. In fact if you disable SR it will delete all the restore points so it is a quick but indirect way to find out how much space is taken up by SR. An empty SVI folder (with no SR points at all) should have a size of 20.0 KB.

Yes it's possible but not straight forward. If you already have programs installed in C then you cannot simply move them to another partition without a lot of editing the registry. You'll be much better to uninstall and reinstall them to the new location. You can redirect the default prog install path as describe below but this is not strictly required as most programs give you a choice anyway. The change only applies to new programs you install afterwards. You can change the default paths of these shell folders by using Microsoft PowerToys TweakUI. It can be done directly via regedit but TweakUI is easier. Note that after doing that you have to move the files in My Docuements to the new folder (leaving the original My Documents in C). I just find it simpler to make a new folder called My Documents on another partition and manually move the files. Most applications ask you where to save your files so again it's not strictly necessary to move the default save file path.

Windows XP recognises SR so it shouldn't report the space occupied by the SVI folder as UNKNOWN. They are all accounted for in my system. SR points are totally separate from hiberfils file. It's easy to dip into the SVI folder without using extra tools. With it unhidden and Simple File Sharing disabled, R click on System Volume Information folder > Sharing and Security > add your admin account to the list. Ensure there is at least Read permission. Then you can read how much space is taken up in Explorer directly.

That's interesting. I've followed previous threads here (esp. topic 14316) and have succeeded in multi-boot: Windows XP SP2 Windows PE Recovery Console all on the 1st active parimary partition. Then I tried dodjer42's method but without using a boot manager or hiding partitions just as an experiment. If I put minint on an adjacent primary partition (with an existing 2nd XP) it doesn't work. It doesn't look like a simple editing of boot.ini's ARC path would do. boot.ini [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="XP SP2" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Windows XP" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\MININT="PE" It gives the error: which is the typical error when the registry is corrupt in Windows. I thought of the Recovery Console but it only installs on the first partition and BOOTSECT.DAT seems to load minint from the first partition only.

Thanks for pointing this out johnbreton. To put the above quote in context: http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documen....asp?frame=true Hopefully now everyone is clear about it.

Folders inside User profile inherit permissions from their parents by default. Check also you have disabled Simple file Sharing.

Actually looking at the error messages above, it occurs to me that perhaps the program itself could just be making an unintentional error. I've not used Reg Crawler so this is only my impression. If it had just deleted the same keys in HKCR, then it won't find them ("search error") again in HKLM; the classes CLSIDs are actually shown in both hives. Many keys are mapped this way. I'd actually open up regedit and see what's there.

If you're referring to the Start > All programs menu, you can manually re-organise them in the Start menu folders and enable scrolling. This will trim the list down a bit although not quite what you're after. As to the frequently used program menu (on the L), you can customise the no. of items shown and (via regedit) specify which programs not to be listed.

Just to add that according to Win XP Resource Kit, In all the M$ stuff that I've read, it seems they pay a lot more emphasis to network install so perhaps it explains their oversight for CD.

There is a huge amount of info from the above websites and it's worth spending time to look through the articles. A few comments: 1. TMPGEnc is free for encoding to mepg1 and only a limited trial for mpeg2. 2. Buy a good hardware capture card (internal or external) that directly encodes analogue to mepg2. Do not use software encoding for mepg2 if possible. I myself use ATI AIW 9600XT and the mpeg2 quality is excellent at 5Mbs VBR. Unless you're going to do a lot of video editing, it's not worth going through the avi intermediate step. Some people use a DV to do that. If you really want to do a lot of cleaning up of the old video then it's a lot more work involved. 3. You'll need lots of HD space and RAM, preferably a second fast HD, and a reasonably fast CPU.

Not sure if your sister's acc is Admin or any admin. If you use XP Home Ed the Admin account pw is blank by default (go to Safe Mode). If you use XP Pro, blank the Admin account pw (discussed here recently). Provided it's all for the legit reason of course.

Just use the chkdsk tool in Windows XP. You can run it from the Recovery Console or at booting (after setting it up in Windows).

Rename the localizedString key (same effect as deleting it) as well as add My Files to the default value and it worked when I just tried it. In Start menu, it now says My Files. In Documents and Settings, it did not change but all I needed to do was to rename it there directly. (I wrongly remembered TweakUI could do that, but instead it can redirect shell folders.)

Normally you go to services mmc by pressing [Windows] + R, type: services.msc Have a look: http://techrepublic.com.com/5100-6270-5225409.html

The boot screen is embedded inside ntoskrnl.exe. The original can be found in the CD.

Don't forget the space taken up for Recycle Bin and space used up in Program Files. You can reduce the space reserved for Recycle Bin and install new programs elsewhere. I'd not turn off SR completely: just reduce the space reserved. Moving the page file should not be a problem. But limiting a partition to 4GB is pushing it a bit for WinXP unless you spend a lot of time pruning it to reclaim space.

M$ TweakUI can rename My Documents and change the Common Dialog Boxes. The reg key for My Document is: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{450D8FBA-AD25-11D0-98A8-0800361B1103} Following the analogy of renaming Recycle Bin, modify the localizedString value or add your desired name to Default should work. But I've not done it to My Documents. The key for Common Dialog Boxes is: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies#comdlg32 It's a bit tedious to explain, just use TweakUI first and look at the registry.

Sysprep.inf is a separate file you put inside Sysprep directory.

Then the obvious thing is to speak to the network admin.

Some of the files are different in localised versions (not the same as installing Fr IME on En version). Or are you using MUI?

1) As I understand it, Autopartition only applies to an empty partition. If there is already a formatted partition Setup will ask you. 2) I think so but others can confirm this. 3) I'm not aware of a command or switch to format FAT in WINNT.SIF. 4) convertNTFS is for existing FAT. 5) yes and no, see ref.chm for details I think to do a clean install with existing OS you need the repartition entry but this will delete ALL the partitions on the drive, according to ref.chm.

This may be the reason: Win XP only lets you format FAT32 partition up to 32GB so if the partition is >32GB the option is unavailable.