FAT64

The latest versions of Nero and Easy Media Creator certainly support LightScribe.

What's a floppy disk?

Control Panel>Add Hardware?

A 42 year old male, God I'm such an old git!

All you need is a crossover ethernet cable. Manually assign IP addresses (or use ICS as previously suggested) then in the Internet Options/Connections/LAN Settings of the laptop enter your Proxy data.

You need "admin" privileges, otherwise anyone could shutdown anyone else's computer.

Written comments are libellous, not slander

I think that you don't understand my signature, 10 in binary = 2, now do you get the joke?

If you are using DNS, then why on earth are you using HOSTS files? Do you have a DNS server (I don't think that is possible with XP)? Or are you using the DNS servers of your ISP?

What's a .ULZ?

I always logon with an ordinary User account. If I need to do "admin things", there's always Run As or as a last resort, logoff, logon as Admin, do whatever needs to be done, logoff, logon as an ordinary User (a bind, I know).

You won't find Windows 98/ME printer drivers on an XP CD. You'll either need the Lexmark printer CD or Google them on the Internet.

Tried it, didn't like it, never did it again.

On my Server CD it is called "SWIADMLE"

ALL versions of Windows 98 do not "understand" Group Policy. You will have to resort to using "PolEdit".

That would be: WinINSTALL LE. This cheap and cheerful version is free and you should be able to find it on the Windows Server CD. \VALUEADD\3RDPARTY\MGMT\WINSTLE

Windows 2000 Domain with XP Pro Clients

My advice (for what it's worth) to vanya203 and 80% of his co-workers would be: Use another word processor.

Why do you want to spoof MAC addresses?

Personally, I'm indifferent. 6 or 7, doesn't really matter to me.

That depends if you or the installation created a restore point to go back to.

What are the NTFS permissions for the folder? Can you do a screenshot?

Other - google.co.uk I used to use dogpile.com

It worked, but I received an email within minutes from Microsoft with the key anyway.

Why bother with all that mularky? My link is 100% free.