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I think that as long as the hardware is exactly the same the oem version can be activated many times. I have activated my OEM version several times already without problems on my Toshiba laptop. Its only when hardware changes you run into problems.

I see this to, you can disable system restore temporarily to recover the space and then try it. Not forgetting to turn system restore back on again. System restore in vista is different to XP, I have yet to locate the folder its stored in.

I believe you will need to install mediaplayer, or another player that is capable of playing wmv files. The easiest solution is mediaplayer, and that at least will get you back to where you would have been with the normal non "N" version.

I have a 2003 server, that contains several hundred GBs of MP3 music that I want to access from my XBOX360 via a server share. With XP MCE2005, I had a batch file that run when the user MCX1 logged onto the mce machine. This batch file was configured on the MCX1 user logon scrupt in user accounts. I have no problems accessing the music from vista home premium, as I have created a user account with the same name and password in the 2003 AD, and this works fine for the main pc. As I dont know a way of finding out the password for user MCX1 I cannot take this approach and need to run the same batch file I did with MCE2005. The batch file consists of the following statement, that basically logs the vista pc onto the domain. Net Use w: \\servername\music /USER:domain\extender extender The command works fine on vista, just need to find a way to get the 360 rdp session to run it. Any ideas?

Had the same problem. I dont think Vista Home Premium supports dynamic disks. You can see them but cant get them online. They seem ok in business and ultimate though. I had to put my dynamic disk into another XP machine, copy all the data off, convert to basic disk, reformat and copy all the data back again.

Quick Question. I have a large number of PC's that I need to wipe and install a clean XP installation, all the PC's are the same hardware. The PC's are old systems that are being resold to staff members, so what I want is for the new owner to have to enter the XP Key from the sticker on the case, What I have done is below. Install XP, Drivers, and XP SP2 and the PC works fine. Copy and extract deploy.cab from the XP SP2 CD. Run sysprep using the reseal option (is that the correct one) I used ghost to replicate onto another PC to test and the setup works fine, asks for computername user accounts, passwords etc. But knowhere does it prompt me to enter the XP license key. I need it to ask for the key, and not use the same one on each pc due to product activation. What command line options etc do I need to get the above to prompt for the XP Licence key?. The version of XP Pro is not the Corp version and uses normal XP Pro keys and not a VLK one, each PC has a unique key stuck onto the base unit. I have never used sysprep, so maybe I am doing something wrong and a step by step guide would be handy. It has to be said that the people buying these old systems may not be IT literate.

Doh, just as I thought it was sorted. After a complete reinstall from scratch and full config including running at 1080i@50hz the system hang is back once again. Symptoms same as before, as soon as directx comes into play the system hangs after a random period of time.

Update After much more fiddling, I finally gave in and reinstalled MCE from scratch. Several hours later I have a fully functioning system, all I need now is to sort out getting 1080i @50hz output again. At the moment 1080i @60hz is all I have.

Thanks for the replies, System is not overclocked, and has screen saver disabled. I even tried some memory from another system and the problem still ocurrs I'll check the power settings tonight but I think they are all set to "Always on". Looks more and more likely that a rebuild is going to be the only course of action. I may try that onto another HD and see if its stable.

I have a rather frustrating problem with my MCE system, All seems ok in windows, the pc will run for days if just left on the windows desktop. It quiet happily records scheduled programs, downloads the guide and is stable BUT. As soon as I hit that green button, its just a matter of time till my system freezes completely. It doesnt matter if I leave it on the MCE start screen or watch LiveTV, it locks the whole pc after a random period of time. The longest its lasted before getting stuck is about 3 hours, but it has crashed within 5 mins before. I have to power the system off/on to get working again. Nothing is recorded in the event log. System spec. P4 3.0GHZ HT CPU Intel D865GLC Motherboard 1GB Kingston DDR400 Ram (2x512MB in dual channel) 1x160GB HD (OS/Music/Pictures/Page file) 1x250GB HD (TV Recording/LiveTV Buffer) 2xHappauge Nova-T PCI DVB-T Tuners Geforce 6600 Graphics card connected via DVI to LG RZ-42PX11 PlasmaTV @ 1080i 50hz. Nvidia Purevideo decoder (185 version) MCE has all the updates installed from windows update, including rollup2, the little patch and the recently released Rollup. I have also installed the latest driver versions for the TV tuners but its still the same (dont think its those anyway as recording works fine). I have tried assorted graphics card drivers, motherboard chipset drivers with no success. Any Ideas, short of a complete re-install. Edit to add, I also have an xbox360 as an extender which seems to work fine. I watched several recorded shows without problem from it.

Works fine for me.

How hot is the laptop getting, maybe a fan has failed and the CPU us now overheating and the system is shuting down to protect itself. Could be the case that for a while the fan has kind of been working but has now completely stopped.

If memory serves me correctly, boot.ini ntdetect.com ntldr that should get you going.

Yes, its done from the command prompt. You really need to use the recovery console. Set your pc so that it can boot from CDROM, then insert your XP CD and restart your pc, when prompted press a key so it boots from CD. when prompted press "R" for repair using recovery console. when prompted for windows XP install to repair select the required option (Usually 1) if prompted enter the administrator password for your install. type chkdsk when finished type exit and your pc should restart.

Have you tried running a chkdsk of your boot drive. The error messages like this I have seen when windows didnt shutdown cleanly resulting in file corruption, and has fixed 99% of pc's where I work that wouldnt boot before.

Not sure if this will work as you need local administrator rights, double click on the recycler folder, inside you will see a number of folders with funny names. Delete this whilst holding down the shift key.

In the end I gave up with that PC, still wouldnt work with HT disabled so I put it down to some hardware that NT4 didnt like. I ended up installing it on a slightly older pc with an older Intel motherboard with integrated graphics and it installed fine.

At work we are about to migrate from an NT4 domain to a 2003 AD setup, as most of our existing hardware needs to be replaced due to its age and inabillity to run 2003 (includes all BDC's) I need to install NT4 server as a BDC onto our existing domain, promote it to PDC and upgrade it to 2003 so I can get the AD. The pc we are going to use for this task a standard desktop pc with intel motherboard, the processor is a P4 3.4GHZ with 1GB ram. The problem is during the initial stage of setup the pc crashes before it loads the NT shell. What happens currently is... 1) PC boots from CD detects hardware then loads all the bits and bobs as usual. 2) Once the PC gets to the point of changing to the smaller setup text (NT shell) the display gets corrupted and the pc locks up. Hyperthreading is still enabled, could this be the cause of the problem?. Anything else I need to keep an eye on?

What about using ntbackup and then using restore to restore to the new location. A bit long winded but should work.

OK, Just to let you know I have had success, I am not sure why but now it works. All I did was insert a pause at the start of the script, wait for replication to do its stuff and hey presto it ran, so I took the pause out waited again, and it still ran only now the script is exactly the same as it was when it didnt worl

I have done a little experimenting with a test win2k server active directory environment and the logon script processes correctly it seems from the netlogon share. I will have a play when I get to the office tomorrow. Someone elsewhere suggested giving the everyone group full control of the c: drive. I will try anything for now.

Thanks for replying fthr jack. In user manager for domains on NT4 you have the option to set each user that logs on to execute a batch file after the logon is complete, in out case we use this to update the installed virus software ,audit the pc's software and setup/deny access to the internet through our corporate firewall. The option in user manager is just below the user profiles box. With win95/98 you get a little dos box that says "please wait while your logon script executes", with nt4 you get a cmd prompt running but with XP nothing happens. I know because the pc's dont audit etc. I tried searching using technet plus that we have at work, but since they changed the layout in september it seems harder to find anything than before. Thanks again.

Well, This is a long shot. At work we are currently replacing our antique Win95/NT4 pc's with superduper pc's running Windows XP Pro corporate. For now they need to integrate into our NT4 domain structure, here's the problem. Logon script processing is non existent on the new XP PC's . It may of happened since XP SP1 but am not sure, what I am looking for is a resolution of some kind especially if someone has seen this before. Thanks Manny edit. just to add they run ok under NT and 95/98

Not sure where to post this but I have a strange problem. I have winzip 8.1 installed and on some zip files, when I download from the internet IE downloads into a temporary folder before loading winzip. I dont want this to happen how can I get the save dialogue back. I can right click and do "save as" but that only works on sites that have not disabled the right mouse button.

Something I found, having already changed the product key using a keygen one to install sp1, I then thought I would try and change the key again. It does not work. so keygen keys dont work after installing sp1.