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Personally I find BV's suggestions worthless but if it floats your boat go for it.

Thanks for the reply but I am aware of ABR, used it months ago when I first found the thread here on MSFN Guess I was not clear in my OP, the OEM key that HP installs does not work anymore. I was always under the impression that key would always be accepted by MS.

anyone else was asked to activate their OEM (i have a HP laptop) yesterday Woke up, turned on the laptop to do a little reading and the first thing I get was a prompt asking me to activate windows, after six months this happens! I did go to HP online help and as usual did not get any so I just entered the key that is on the sticker, all went well but still I wonder why why now

Hey thanks, worked like a charm. I had two images (Acronis) one of Vista64 and the other XP and decided to dual boot. Made a small partition for XP, restored XP to it then ran startup recovery (VISTA )twice, used VistaBootPro to add XP and all worked out except the Hibernate issue.

Hi Thanks, feel free to host if you like. Oh I did not upload zipped version to rapid share, if you feel there is a need I will. Thank Jim

Hi Decided to post this in Unintended since it is directly responsible for the desire/need to write SCCU. If mods wish they can move/delete. SCCU allows you to create class objects with custom context menus of types: Icon Shell object Folder Existing Folder Short Cut Icon and Shell object types can be placed in Window’s namespace: Desktop Control Panel My Computer Network Places Entire Network Link to Inno setup and a ziped version. Oh this is my first Windows program so be gentle… http://rapidshare.de/files/10989067/SCCU_1.08Setup.exe.html Thanks Jim Edit: Uploaded wrong (used wrong ISS file) version...corrected Jan13,2006...Friday 13th!

Hi Just for fun try +R, I am sure it will make no difference but...LOL. Like aktivedesign suggested boot order is the only other thing i could think of. I have yet to have a problem with Nero so still use it for all my burns but might look into prgrams vakhal mentioned. Hope you get it to boot Jim

HI go here http://www.helpwithwindows.com/WindowsXP/w...sp2-bootcd.html Follow all steps for both ISObuster and Nero, Except when Nero loads and ask type of New Complilation choose DVD, then drop down and choose DVD-ROM Boot. Works for me and I hope it will work for you. Enjoy

Hi To burn an image with Nero go to recorder , when menu drops down choose burn image, point Nero to ISO file. Hope this helps.

Hi, I am just learning this but first thing i noticed with your CMD file was %CDROM% and was wondering if it should be %systemdrive% instead? Your files were copied over to the souce drive? Hope it works out Jim