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This will not work. The Dell CDs are made to only authenticate with Dell computers. If installed on an HP, it will not activate. Trust me, I've already seen friends make this same mistake. I'm not even sure what you're trying to "strip" with nLite...? nLite does not have the capability to modify the aspects of the CD that affect this. You will never see a response on this site claiming what you are trying to do is possible, because by all legal means, it isn't.

In order for "Simple File Sharing" to work, the builtin guest account must be active (I think), which isn't good practice anyway. Here's how I set up scenarios similar to yours: This method only works on XP PRO. If you have Home ed., it can still work, but has to be set up a different way. First, for testing purposes, turn off all firewalls. Can you ping each computer (by NETBIOS name) from the other one? Can I assume the administrator account you use to access both computers has the same username and password on each computer? (for this work flawlessly, the answer should be "yes"). Open group policy editor (Start --> Run... ---> gpedit.msc) Go to Computer config --> Windows Settings --> Security Settings --> Local Policies --> Security Options Set the policy "Network Acess: Sharing and security model for local accounts" to "Classic - local users authenticate as themselves" Do this for both computers. Reboot. You may have to go into the sharing properties of the folders you are trying to share to make sure that the appropriate permissions for access are set. Sharing permissions are separate from NTFS file permissions, but both can affect the ability to access files over a network share. OK, what you have essentially done is disable simple file sharing. when you attempt to access a file, you will authenticate as the user you are logged into the local computer, so as long as the username/password is the same for both computers and has admin rights, you should have no problems there. If the username/password is different for each computer, it will still work, but it will ask you for this information each time you access the shared folder.

Great site...meant to add that link as well, but apparently forgot--that's where I got the info for the google search I referenced.

What exactly are you trying to accomplish? Users who are not administrators cannot make changes in device mananger, and most settings you could use to disable it could be reversed by a user with administrator privileges. I would suggest that the easiest way to deny access to device manager would be to not put users in the "administrators" group--unless there's something I'm missing here.

I suspected that that key might not "force" the use of the standard start menu--and with the expection of using group policy, I haven't seen any way to disable the classic start menu or force the use of the standard one. If a setting could be located that determines this, I'd be happy to demonstate a VBS script that could automate it, but it doesn't seem to exist. Is there a certain functional reason you're trying to accomplish this, or is it strictly cosmetic?

If you're on a domain, this can be done easily through group policy under: User Configuration \ Administrative Templates \ Start Menu and Taskbar "Force classic Start Menu" = Disabled The following reg key controls the start menu type as well: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer] "NoSimpleStartMenu"=dword:00000000 A dword value of 1 forces the classic view and disables XP view (the opposite of what you are asking), however I'm not 100% sure if a value of 0 forces the default XP view, or just enables it as an option.

Have you tried disabling the builtin firewall? If the firewall is running, I believe ICMP ping requests will be blocked.

Do the yellow queston marks (?) appear over the Network devices? That wasn't quite clear in your description. Regardless, the first thing you want to do is clear any problems from the device manager. More than 9 times out of 10, those question marks indicate that drivers are not installed for that device, so you'll want to clear those up for your system to run properly. You should be able to download all of the drivers you need from the Dell website. (Personally, I wouldn't even start messing with the Internet connection until all of my device drivers were installed). The red "X" icon in the network connections window usually indicates that a devices has been disabled. Are you able to re-enable these devices? The other thing to check is to make sure all your services have started. For the wireless connection, for example, unless you have 3rd party software managing the connection, you'll need to have "Wireless Zero Config" running.

You coworker's information is probably assuming your network is a "class C" sized subnet (subnet mask of 255.255.255.0) or smaller, and in that case, an IP ending in "0" would be a network ID (not a client ID), as it would be the first IP address of a given range. If you are operating on a larger subnet, however, than this is not necessarily the case. If your subnet mask is 255.255.0.0, for instance, there are about 255 different possible client IPs on that subnet that could end with a zero. I'm not sure about the peer-to-peer network issue jaclaz mentions, but to answer your question: Just because your IP ends in a "0" does not necessarily mean it is unroutable. If you don't have any problems accessing the Internet or other network resources, then I wouldn't worry about it.

Google is always your friend.

Best thing to do would be to go to the HP support website and search for your product there. You should be able to find the information you need.

Hmmm...that's strange, the membership in the administrators group should supercede the membership in the users group unless there are specific "deny" permissions set in the group policy or ACLs preventing the creation of the new profile. Glad to hear everything is working fine now.

For the login problem, try putting the user in the administrators group and logging in. Once the first login is finished and the profile has been created, you should be able to remove the user from the administrators group and log back in.

Not sure about the answer to your question, but I'm going to guess "no". Even if you were able to do an upgrade install with your OEM disks, I would recommend doing a fresh install regardless. It will actually probably save you the most time in the long run.

Certainly could be. What services have you removed/disabled? Are the server and workstation services running?

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Here's what I would do: If you have Hibernation enabled and/or system restore turned on, you can try to disable those to free up some space. Check desktop and My Docs folder for large files and move them. Run disk cleanup and CCleaner to remove unneed/unwanted files. Last resort, move swap file to the D partition. I agree, C partition should be larger. If you started with RTM XP, then updates alone can cause just the operating system files alone to occupy much of this space.

The ability to get everything on one DVD will depend on how much you have on your harddrive, simple as that. If your install source was fully updated (slipstreamed) and you don't have a bunch of music or files on your C: partition, then it shouldn't be a problem. If you installed from an SP2 disk and ran updates after installation and/or have a decent amount of apps installed and files saved to the disk, then your chances get less and less. Most good imaging software won't copy the pagefile to the image, probably not the hibernation file either, but may want to turn that off just to be sure. I've used this app before with a bit of success http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/image-for-dos.htm Yeah...Windows 98 took up MUCH less harddrive space than windows XP!

This is normal--the "hidden" password field will not represent the number of characters that correspond to the actual password assigned. This might be where your mistake is. The ***.***.*.4 address is most likely part of a "private" IP network (10.x.x.x or 172.16.x.x or 192.168.x.x). The IP address you want to use is the IP address of the internet interface of your ROUTER that the XP machine is connected to--this would be your "public" IP address. There are several ways to find this out (it should be in the router config), or you can go to http://whatismyip.com/ and you should be able to see your public IP address from there. What port forwarding does, is it tell that router that any traffic that comes in on a specified port should always be forward to the same local host, in your case the XP box with IP ***.***.*.4. This to overcome the fact that the XP computer doesn't have it's own IP address that is routable over the internet. Of course, unless you have a static IP from your ISP, this address will change periodically.

Is it possible? Yeah. Is it easy? No. Would I recommend it? Absolutely not. Are you more likely to just screw everything up than actually accomplish what you're trying to do? Yes. I don't know off the top of my head how to do this and provide instructions in this post--but I've seen this tried before. I'm sure if you search here or on Google you can find instuctions for renaming the system folders. (BTW, %WINDIR% is an environment variable--you don't want to change that, but rather re-assign it). Fact is though, as mentioned here already, on an existing system there are so many registry entries and other settings that point to that directory that it would be a VERY tedious process to do it and get it work right. Even if you didn't screw up the computer so bad that it wouldn't boot, chances are a lot of your apps and other stuff would break, causing many headaches. I agree, unless you change the name pre-installation, best not to change it at all!

I don't think there is anyway to assign specific connections to individual applications, but depending on what exactly "everything else" is, you may be able to achieve this by manually adding entries to your routing table. We would probably need more information about what kind of network traffic you're trying to isolate to each type of connection.

Don't know if this helps, but I've used the Dell XP Pro SP2 CD to slipstream SP3 and everything worked fine, this is using Optiplex 745, 170L and Latitude d630 models (using AHCI mode). Pretty much same thing here, didn't add anything else other than SP3, along with some unattended settings and removing internet games. Sorry, not a solution to your problem, just wanted to help you rule out what you can.

That is strange...I would think if the folders contained files you should not see a size of "0", plus if you are a local admin you should be able to access the security tab of the file/folder properites as well. You could always try booting to a "live CD" like BartPE or Knoppix to see if you can access the folders that way.

old XP You should be able to right-click on the files and/or folders to see the properties and take ownership of them under the security settings. This is assuming you are using an admin account in the "new" xp and that your partitions are NTFS and the files aren't encrypted.

Yes, keep in mind that when you install windows XP (regardless of Service Pack), you *may* (hehe) have to install specific drivers for your hardware once XP has been installed. If you set the screen resolution at 1024x768, it won't matter if you don't have the video drivers to support it. I would imagine as well that if you don't have any working network devices that the firewall services would fail to start, but I could be wrong about that. Once XP has finished installing and you have logged in, open up the device manager from the control panel and make sure you have no devices with a yellow exclamation(!) beside them. If so, you will need to download and install the device drivers for each of those devices. Some folks like to integrate the drivers they need into thier install source--and there are also plenty of resources in this forums for finding out how to do that.