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That is a system folder used by Windows Me, so it's not going to let you delete it. However if you are sure you do not want to use the system restore feature, you can uninstall it and remove that folder using a utility called "System Restore Remover Pro".

I have to strongly disagree. Windows 2000 is just as capable a gaming OS as Windows XP is. Some say even better because it does not eat up as many resources as XP.

A 124kb signature makes my modem very unhappy.

It's not like they are a secret; they are right there on the main page as plain as day. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/partnerpack/

Ah, I see now. I never bother adding any third party programs to my slipstreamed CDs so I hadn't really thought about that, but I think the original poster just wanted to install Windows and nothing more, which should be fine.

I am going to guess you are talking about Internet Explorer. Go to Tools, Internet Options, and click the Content tab. Click the Autocomplete button and put a check in the box that says "Use Autocomplete for User names and passwords on forms." It should now ask you if you wish to save passwords when you enter them in web pages.

As has been pointed out that does not make one bit of difference. What you would be doing is still completely illegal and you can still be held responsible for it. I seem to recall you were banned from another forum because of Windows "Florida". All you have to do is make a patch file, and be sure not to include any Microsoft files with your patch. I really don't see why you object to that and wish to break the law by making a complete copy of Windows available for download.

Zip Genius cannot create RAR files. It can extract them, but there are plenty of freeware programs that can do that.

How would it be registered to his friend if jpatto used his own key? Personally I feel that if you bought a license and have your own legal product key, it makes absolutely no difference whose CD you install from. If your hardware has not changed you can back up the wpa.dll file from your system and restore it later.

As far as I know it isn't possible to add group policy support to Home Edition; if some one found a way to do it I'm sure it would have been posted all over the place a long time ago. I've never heard of that program you mentioned but the price seems kind of steep to me; if I were going to spend that much I'd probably just go ahead and buy XP Professional. It may work just fine though, but I would want to try a demo first. Maybe check Google for some reviews at least.

I'm afraid I don't know why some of them work and others don't; perhaps it's a BIOS issue with the older servers or something like that. Anyway if it were me I would seriously consider upgrading to Windows 2000. If that's not possible I would at least reformat the MO disks using FAT16. I'd be too afraid of risking data loss trying to use FAT32 disks with Windows NT.

If you are wanting to install Windows 2000 over XP or 2003, you can't. You can only upgrade from an older OS to a newer one, not the other way around. Sorry if that's not what you intended; I'm not sure I understand what you are wanting to do.

RAR is a proprietary format; as far as I am aware of there are no freeware programs available that can create rar files.

Actually Me is DOS 8.0, but it has the same limitations (FAT16 and FAT32) There is a free utility from SysInternals that will allow you to access (read only) NTFS partitions from DOS. You can find it here: http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/ntfsdos.shtml

No, it checks the floppy drive automatically for a winnt.sif file when you boot from the CD. If found the file is used; there is no need for any command line parameters, just boot normally.

Before SATA we had big wide cables stuffed in our cases that blocked airflow and were sometimes hard to route. Had to shut off the computer before adding or removing any drives, and were limited to two drives on a channel. Not to mention having to fidget with little microscopic jumpers and sometimes unintelligible charts detailing the settings. Yeah, I'd say it's definately worth it.

I wonder how many people are just getting a nice placebo effect and "thinking" it's faster or more stable? I mean, they are practically the same OS; 2003 is just XP with lots of features disabled and more server specific features thrown in. Now that SP2 is here XP is actually the newest and most secure OS (until SP1 for 2003 comes along).

Here you go: http://www.xml.com/pub/a/98/10/guide0.html

Between the two definately Coke, though I mostly drink water now.

This guide should answer most of your questions http://unattended.msfn.org/

I think they kind of go hand in hand myself. The initial install using unattended so you can customize the OS however you like. When you are satisified with it make an image so you can get it back up as quickly as possible.

I don't have the NT Plus! pack so I'm afraid I couldn't check those. Since it's NT based it may require some other dlls. You might try running it in NT compatibility mode though. I think the sage.dll is just used for the system agent feature that let's you launch them by clicking in the corners. I don't really need that so I didn't look into it; they work without it. You can always just create a shortcut to the scr files if you want to launch them manually. That also happened for me, I have no idea why. It might be because there is a space in the file names. Anyway just remove the _original from the name and they will work fine. Make sure their dll files have the same name as each scr file. All of them do show up properly in my screensaver list now.

In case you missed it on the previous page I figured out how to get them working. You need to have two extra files besides the ones you listed.

Not a good idea in my opinion, especially if E: is your CD-ROM drive. Drive letters often change; when you boot from your CD-ROM the letter it's assigned may be something completely different. If E: is an existing partition on your hard drive and you are sure it's not going to change, I suppose it would work ok. It's better to use variables though.

I remember that movie now; it's when the XP logo comes swirling onto the screen. It is so short I had forgotten all about it. If that is a wmv file it would be interesting if you could replace it with your own custom movie. I found this info on FactoryMode on Microsoft.com: Specifies whether systemdrive\Sysprep\Factory.exe runs on first start.