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Yeah... this reminds me of the Sonic 3 speedrun that's on that site... I remember having left my Sega on for about 4 days just to finish that game...

Holy crap dude... MY EYES!!! To answer your question there was a review posted on the Hardware News section on the frontpage just a few days ago. http://www.laptoplogic.com/reviews/detail....id=92∂=full See for yourself.

Try starting over from scratch. Follow the guide that's at the top of this forum. Start with just slipstreaming SP2, and then move on to slipstream the hotfixes. This will help you pinpoint where things might be going wrong. You didnt' perchance use nLite to remove anything, did you? If so, then you're dealing with a completely different problem.

Boot into Safe Mode (press F8 continuously right after turning on the computer and select Safe Mode). Get your Windows XP CD and put it in the CD-drive. When the desktop has loaded (you'll be asked for a confirmation - say Yes), go to Start->Run and type in cmd. In the command line that appears, type in sfc /scannow and press enter. Let the program run. It will scan your system for corrupt or missing system files. Once it has completed, boot normally and visit Windows Update right away and install all updates. See if that helps the problem.

It looks like you're dealing with an Upgrade copy of XP Professional. The Upgrade needs to know that you have a licence to a previous version of Windows to continue. That's why it's searching your hard drive for one, or asking for the old version's install CD.

To all those people who suggested Opera or Firefox... you're not helping much. The original problem was with IE not working, so providing an alternate browser doesn't fix the problem. It's a work around. The original poster also said that he/she would prefer to use IE. Your IE must have worked properly at some point... Follow through this guide and then come back. Focus more so on the malware and Windows Errors sections than the rest (probably don't have to worry about drivers). Windows 2000/XP Troubleshooting Guide Also, be sure to look through the Malware Prevention forum for Spyware/Adware scanners and other tips there. Malware Prevention

To answer the original question, Fencer's suggestion of using an ISO of the CD is probably your best bet. It's fully legal, and doesn't deal with altering or cracking any files. As for the links posted, they were removed because they discuss circumventing copyright protection. I understand that they're "meant" to be used with legitimate copies of games, but they also allow for illegal games to be used. Do not post links such as those on this forum. Title Edited - Please follow new forum rules from now on.

Mind explaining this a little bit better? Perhaps give the exact error message? Title Edited - Please follow new forum rules from now on.

Yup... what he said. The only Windows versions that have more recent kernels than XP are Server 2003 and Vista. Title Edited - Please follow new forum rules from now on.

Isn't OneCare still in Beta? It could be that the installer/uninstaller is one of the features that still needs work.

Saying that you had nLited your install from the start would probably have helped. Chances are that you've removed something that OneCare depends on, but since most hardcore nLiters don't use OneCare (at least none that I know of), the dependency list hasn't been made yet.

Dangit... I don't have a floppy on my laptop. I'll have to find that virtual floppy prathapml was talking about at some point.

Have you tried running sfc /scannow? Title edited

AHH!!!! My ears!!!! AHH!!!!!

Program name removed. There is zero tolerance for keygens, cracks, patches, etc on MSFN. Please take this into consideration before posting. As for the original question, there is no legally available tool for what you want. You can find the key of your Windows installation with several freeware programs (Lavalys Everest for example), so discussion of that is fine. On a second note, why would you want to do this? If you have purchased your licence to Windows, you will get an appropriate key. If you don't know what the key is, then you didn't acquire it legally. (Meaning that this discussion is breaking MSFN Rule #1) Edit - On second thought... this is breaking rule number 1. Topic Closed

Have you tried removing the folder using Knoppix or BartPE? That would be my next move. Another solution would be to use the recovery console to remove the folder. To install it, put in your XP CD and run the following command: D:\i386\winnt32.exe /cmdcons It will install the recovery console on your computer, and give you a new boot option. You might be able to delete the folder from there.

When I try this method, ERD gives me a crapload of errors on startup (problems with network adaptors, can't find the Windows install, etc etc). Not to mention that when I make the rest of my CD, nothing else works... I've followed the guide to a T, but no luck. Is there any way that we might be able to replace the default Firefox folders by portable Firefox or the like?

I'm gonna bump this since I haven't found a working solution yet... I've been trying to add Acronis True Image to my Multi-boot CD, but no luck. I did it pretty much as Incroyable HULK mentioned in his last post here. 1) Create Bootable Rescue Media. 2) Created ISO of Bootable Rescue Media using UltraISO. 3) Extracted the boot sector (Bootable->Save Boot File) and saved it as ACRO.DAT. 4) Copied Recovery Manager folder to root of AIO-CD 5) Copied ACRO.DAT to root of AIO-CD 6) Added the following lines to my CD-shell: [b]print "4) Acronis True Image Recovery \n"[/b] [b]if $lastKey == key[4]; then chain /ACRO.DAT[/b] 7) Created ISO using CDImage using the following command (from batch file): cdimage.exe -lAIO -t08/23/2001,09:00:00 -bG:\AIO\BOOT\loader.bin -h -n -o -m G:\AIO G:\AIO.iso When I go to boot from the Acronis Option, I get an error that the boot failed. Any ideas?

ninio1985 gets my vote. Nice and clean, not to mention Ubuntu.

Real Media files need to be decoded just like any other media. The Real Alternative installs the necessary codecs to allow you to play Real Media files in Windows Media Player. There's no "patch" necessary.

It could be that you simply don't have USB 2.0 ports on your computer. Either that, or some USB ports are 1.1 and some are 2.0 (depending on how old your computer is). My first computer had 2 USB 2.0 ports and 4 USB 1.1 ports. Check under Device Manager to see if you have a device listed as : Universal Serial Bus Controllers->Enhanced Host Controller I believe that is the device responsible for USB 2.0 functionality. Title Edited - Please follow new forum rules from now on.

@tal ormanda - That's not entirely true. It'll simply tell you "media disconnected" or another error message. His problem was that Windows wasn't even able to find it in the first place.

Have you tried all the suggestions from the other threads? Have you checked about the bold section (i.e. up to date drivers and BIOS)? What are your hardware specs? Edit - What are these other "random crashes"? Title edited - Please follow new XP Forum rules from now on.

I know, I'm just putting out the word to make people aware. I wasn't implying that he wasn't following the rules... here. I'll put a smiley there to make it a little less harsh.... *edits*

Right-click on the desktop. Select New->Text Document. Open that document. Copy the code posted above into the text document. Save. Right-click on the document and select Rename. Rename the file to msilogging.reg Title Edited - Please follow new forum rules from now on.