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Assuming your harddrive is FAT32 and your i386 dir is in the root of d: 1. Boot to a DOS disk (windows 9x startup disk will do just fine) 2. Format C: 3. Run SMARTDRV (if you dont have it, download it) 4. D: 5. CD i386 6. winnt Setup will now install Windows XP from the harddrive.

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Which server OS is this? Have you entered in the licence details where you type in your license information and then you recieve an email from microsoft with your license key or whatever they send you?

if you put them on ebay I guess you would get around £80 or £90 each maybe. If I were you, I would wait until december and put them in your local paper during the build up for christmas. you'll get a lot more then, maybe around £170 each.

Thats great news Gurgelmeyer I'm glad to hear everythings coming along ok. Thanks for your information on Catroot.

Well when you introduce a new exchange server into a domain and transfer users to it, the new server name gets automatically set in outlook. I can confirm this because I did it under a live corporate environment. About 5 machines failed to get the new server name automatically so I had to go and do these manually after they phoned me. All the others machines had no problems. That’s probably what fizban2 was talking about. In this scenario however, where a new domain is introduced into the mix, things are probably different.

well you may be able to edit syssetup.dll but that will only affect the post networking part of the install.

I've looked into winntbbu.dll before but I'm not sure how it could be done. 2k uses so many different files for the install screens, syssetup.dll being one of them.

2k of course. gdogg had managed to get xp's memory usage down to 51.6Mb last time I looked. I however, have got 2k down to around 25Mb memory usage and my system32 folder is currently 37.2Mb. I've tested every single file in system32 and I only have left in there the files which are required for windows to boot with no errors. Of course, I'll need to add a few files back again for the functionality I need. For example, I'll have to put VDMDBG.DLL back again so I can run Taskmgr.exe (then I'll be able to see how much memory usage I'm really using). But there are still improvements to be made like giving minlogon a try. I assume minlogon will let me remove a few more dll files? I hope somebody knows which ones, otherwise I've got 84 DLL files to test. Although thinking about it, a lot of those files couldn't be deleted while windows is running. Maybe if I went through each file in safe mode, I could reduce it even more. Then theres all the registry pruning to be done.

yeah I think on first install, xp uses somewhere around 120Mb ram where as 2000 uses about 92Mb. to answer your question, yes, 2000 would be faster

lol thats well cool nice find

I just use public folders and assign security rights to whoever needs access to the calenders. There's about 8 shared calenders in there at the moment all with different people being able to access each one.

ok can you access the computers by IP? have you checked your firewall settings?

LOL very nice find. I had to it watch again

The msn spoof doesn't seem to be working at the moment but I love the google spoof. its a shame it doesn't look more like the original. But then I suppose they would be sued.

I never have problems with ghost. Just make a ghost boot floppy and away you go. A while back I had to install windows 2000 on 25 machines so I just set one up with Windows 2000, drivers, office and booted to a ghost boot disk and ghosted it to the other 24 harddrives. Every copy worked without any problems. At the moment, I’ve got 6 machines to install Windows XP/Office 2003 on. In fact, Windows XP is probably just finishing its unattended installation as I type this. After it’s all done, I’m just going to ghost it to the other 5 harddrives.

If your rich then thats up to you. Personally, I dont buy a new computer until I can afford one at least twice as fast otherwise there's no point.

What is the Catroot folder for and is it safe to delete?

Runonce is nowhere near as good. win2k would be installed up until the Runonce stage then it would install each update separately one after the other and we're talking hundreds of fixes - it could take hours. With Gurgelmeyer's pack, you could actually update your installation files in the i386 folder and have a proper updated windows 2000 disk. Just install Windows and you have the latest updates (as apposed to an old out of date disk with updates in a separate folder which Runonce installs). This project Gurgelmeyer is undertaking is such a good solution for all users of windows 2000. I take my hat off to the guy. Excellent work.

Thats just what I'm looking for. I get a long pause before the logon box appears. This looks like the answer.

whats this about patching winlogo? what does that do?

Try Windows 2000 drivers. They might work.

Thats great news but will it contain IE6 or will we have to wait for 5.1 to get that?