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Outlook for my POP3 accounts, and then GMail for everything else.

If your key doesn't work, call Microsoft. They're usually pretty helpful with keys that don't work, as long as they can either: (a) confirm that your key is valid, or (B) get proof that you have the COA for your licence. If your key is illegal, then you shouldn't be posting here.

This fits better in Software Hangout than XP. Moved

Nope... that's not true. - Microsoft Windows XP Professional EULAOne computer, two CPUs max per licence of XP (Home or Pro). If you want more, you're running a server and need to buy the appropriate licence.

To answer your question as to the differences between XP Home and Pro, a simple Googling would find this useful link. I'd say go with the Full version if you can. OEM versions aren't directly supported by Microsoft, so you'll have a bit of a harder time contacting their support staff if anything goes wrong.

Have you tried re-installing Alcohol, and seeing if it recognizes the already present virtual drives? (Then uninstalling...) No, wait... never mind. A Google Search might help you out...

There was Kol's VistaXP, but for copyright reasons it was removed. (Which I can completely agree with.) Just search WinCustomize.com for "Vista" and you should find something to your liking. Moved to Customizing Windows.

Solved here too. Thanks a million xper!

That makes two of us...

NO! You cannot "get" the UA CD from anywhere. You make it yourself from your own XP install CD, and modify the necessary files as needed. Then you add the installers that you want.

There is a known problem with installing Office 2003 at T-12. Search for Nankai's post about it. He's made a custom installer that gets around this.

Let me guess... your install CD doesn't ask you if you want to "Press any key to boot from CD", right? That's what a normal install CD does, but I think that there's an option in nLite to remove it (or if you've found an alternate boot.bin file and used that as your bootsector). Either rebuild your CD with the regular bootsector, or manually set the boot order to your hard drive after the initial text setup.

Glad to hear that it's not a problem with your computer. If you ever run into troubles again, feel free to ask here (after the usual self-troubleshooting of course... ). Cheers!

It's gonna be the Dell Inspiron 6000 with the WSXGA+ screen and 9 cell battery. 5+ hours of beautiful goodness...

@ronin2040 - It's usually pretty rare to have a really horribly fragmented pagefile. The pagefile isn't going to grow by 64K at time - it'll grow in several hundred MB at a time. Windows will look for the next possible contiguous free space to place the pagefile in and then reserve all that space for it. I really don't think that you'd get any more fragmentation from a partition with 4K clusters vs 16K (or whatever). To take it one step further, those people who set the cluster sizes manually are probably also those who set the pagefile to a static size - so the whole argument of reducing fragmentation levels goes to moot. The separate partiton argument makes no sense whatsoever. On the same hard drive, you're hurting your performance by placing the pagefile farther away from the system files. Whatever issues you would run into with fragmentation on your system drive, you'll have on your other partition as well.

Ok... here's the deal. Both Diskeeper and Perfectdisk now do free space consolidation. The difference between the two is that PerfectDisk organizes the files based on usage. Less frequently modified files are placed together at the beginning of the disk. (Think core system files, programs, etc) This means that more frequently accessed files (which are the ones that are more likely to fragment) are placed after the already defragmented files. Usually PerfectDisk takes a while longer to defragment the drive than Diskeeper, but it also lays out the files in a more efficient manner. However, the one feature that Diskeeper has over PerfectDisk (and this is the big selling point for most users) is the Set-It-and-Forget-It feature. It really does work as advertised, and once Diskeeper has had its way with your hard drive for the first time, it causes no adverse affect on system performance. While you're not doing anything I/O intensive, Diskeeper will monitor the fragmentation levels of your hard drives and automatically enable the defragmentation engine when fragmentation levels reach a point where they would adversely affect performance. The base line on this is that if you don't want to be bothered with worrying about fragmentation - buy Diskeeper. If you care about the extra performance benefit, buy PerfectDisk.

Yup... Konfabulator is now known as Yahoo Widget Engine (or something of that sort). I haven't had much time to look into it (or update the guide), since my laptop just died, and school's started again. Wait for screenshots from a new 1680x1050 laptop screen though...

Well... there's no reason why OpenOffice can't print from Windows. I've done it just the other day... As for Word itself, it's called Autocomplete or Autocorrect. Dig through the options in Word to find it. It's there... I think that this is more of a PEBKAC rather than an XP problem. XP is different than 98 - plain and simple. It takes some getting used to, but it's much more powerful than 98. For a modern computer you'd be insane to run Windows 98 on it. If you don't like it, install Linux and have fun configuring that.

Is this really your first step at an Unattended XP CD? You need to learn it in steps. If you try to do everything at once, you'll never figure out where the errors in your files are. Follow these steps: 1) Make a basic unattended XP CD 2) add application installs 3) add driver packs Do one at a time, and make sure that each step works perfectly before continuing. That way, you'll be able to iron out the errors in each of the critical files - one at a time.

@jcrsantiago - Read what Wraith said above and what he's written in the PDF files. The information on how to use XPlode is all there. You just have to take the time to learn it. @all newbies - The fact that the setup files are in XML format makes things a LOT easier to maintain. Download Notepad++ and open one of the XML files provided. Play around a bit with clicking around in N++ and you'll see what I mean. Not to mention that XPlode does a lot of the dirty work in XP setups for you. @Wraith - Any chance of the wiki being revived? I'll probably add to it now and then.

Moved to Software Hangout.

Moved to Programming.

w00t!!! Thanks xper! (btw - congrats on being the only member with 5 digit post count... )

Nope... hardcore BBCode-er here.

Any advancement on this? It makes my browsing of the forums a lot slower...