[need to reinstall xp with a dell disc on an hp computer]

I thought maybe I could strip it with Nlite

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.

[Networking file share horrors]

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.

[Help with selecting RAM]

I'm surprised! I thought everyone working these forums would know about www.crucial.com

as being the last word in RAM compatibility and availability.

Many RAM retailers use that site as a Reference tool.

Looking at that site and putting in your Make and model,

the site says that you can install 2x1 gig sticks of DDR2, PC2-5300 ram.

for a total of 2 gigs.

Their price is $53.99 for the two-stick kit.

That's a very reasonable price and their ram is guaranteed for life.

Check it out.

Good Luck,

Andromeda B)

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.

[How to hide of dissable device manager?]

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.

[Restore XP Start Menu]

I already see this registry key ...

But unfortunaly, it doesn't work for me ...

Another idea ? In VBS ?

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?

[Restore XP Start Menu]

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.

[Cannot ping to XP32 SP3 lite install]

yes, the server, RPC and RPC Locator services are enabled and running. I tried a couple of times more also with the full install without removing any components and it seems the ping problem still exists so I guess it's a problem in my xp install or something with SP3, so I'm trying another version right now to see if this solves the problem....

After trying another version: It seems this problem still exists... could it be an option or some security settings that prevent the system from answering a ping request (it does answer a ping 127.0.0.1 to itself)? because everything else works just fine and I can connect to the internet and browse or anything else, I just can't connect to the computer from another computer.

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

[wired network problem xp sp2 after reinstall]

hi guys

i have just re-installed windows xp sp2 on a dell latitude D610, I am now having trouble with my network connections,after the reinstall i noticed that in device manager that there was no icon for network , i lost the dell drivers disk that can with the machine so i downloaded all the drivers from dell after sumitting the service tag, and I still have the same problem, In device manager I can see Broadcon NetXrreme 57XX Gigabit Controller that i instlled , i can also see the pci wireless card that i installed dell true mobile 1300 WLAN PC card, under other devices there are the yellow ? Multimedia Audip Controler,PCI modem, PCI SImple Controller,video controller .

so I think its somthing common to both the internal wired NIC and the PCI wireless NIC , when I run ipconfig /all i get a media disconnected for each one , so it is seeing them, in nwetork connections there is an icon for each interface wit a red x.

the wireless card can pick up my wireless lan but cant connect, can anyone shed any light on this issue as its driving me mad...

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.

[I am very worried]

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.

[Help with selecting RAM]

Google is always your friend.

[Help with selecting RAM]

Hey I have a HP Pavilion dv6000 laptop. And im looking to upgrade the ram from the two 512 it has now. To two 1 G but I know this might sound silly but im not sure on which RAM to get for it, like I have no idea on how to find out the. PIN I think its called that fits in my computer if someone could help me out I would be very thankful.

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.

[Can Not create new user]

Thanks for the suggestion Flash, I did try that before without sucsess. Tried again but went to Admin tools/Comp management to look at the groups against the new user. The new account was a member of admin and user. Took out the User and was able to log into the new account Logged out and changed to limited account and everything was fine

Still dont know what the Personalizing Settings: IE7 Uninstall Stub thing was but i dont care now as it all works!

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.

[Can Not create new user]

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.

[XP PRO OEM upgrade]

I am running into some difficulty upgrading one several of the computers at work from 2000 pro to XP pro. Without realizing that oem versions of XP for system builders cannot be used to upgrade a computer 4 of them were purchased for the upgrades. I have a copy of XP pro retail version but the product key is already in use. My intention was to use the setup files from the retail version along with the license of the OEM version (not realizing that this doesn't work). I have looked all over the internet and found several different answers to this problem (such as changing the PID in setupp.ini file on install CD) but non of them offered a good, legal solution that was able to be activated without any problems. My Question is this. Should I be able to perform the upgrade using the retail XP CD (initially using the product key that is already activated) and then during the activation of Windows, use the phone activation and change the product key to the OEM license before calling M$ to activate? Is this a legal way to bypass the upgrade limitation of OEM versions and/or will it work?

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.

[Network's workgroup is not working, need help.]

SP3 but same thing in SP2 too.

And i tried it without VMWare on Network of 3 computers all same nlited windows.

Maybe its something i removed from Services?

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

[Installing XP]

Try this: 34-minute hiccup

[SP2 wont install not enough space]

My HD is partitioned so that I have C drive at 13.9GB (only 1.5GB availabe) and D Drive 98.2GB with 18GB available. When I try to

install SP2 it tells me first that I am running out of space and I have tried to clear everything off the C drive possible with all apps

installed on the D Drive. I am wondering if I will be stuck moving my partition which will probably cost me 40 bucks for software. I wish

they gave me more room of the C Drive I dont know why they made it so tight ! Can anyone help with this ?

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.

[(URGENT)Suggestions for DIsk Imaging software]

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

Thanks for fast reply guys...i thot i could compress my HD to one DVD....has anyone done it before?? I remember back in the day it was possible with Windows 98

Yeah...Windows 98 took up MUCH less harddrive space than windows XP!

[xp vpn server and vista vpn client, can't connect]

The first problem I see is that when I set up the user account on the xp vpn server machine is that in Network Connections>Incoming Connections>Properties>Users>UserName>Properties - It shows a 14 digit password. This doesn't match as I entered an 8 digit password. I then deleted the account, set up a new account with no password and lo and behold, when you go back into Network Connections>Incoming Connections>Properties>Users>UserName>Properties - It still showed the 14 digit password.

This is normal--the "hidden" password field will not represent the number of characters that correspond to the actual password assigned.

Okay, I then set up the vista vpn client machine, I did this through the wizard and the ip address of the remote machine to ***.***.*.4 (which is what the xp vpn server machine lists as IP Address).

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.

[Renaming /WINDOWS folder & subfolders]

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!

[Multiple Internet Connections?]

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.

[Adding XP SP3 to a Dell XP Pro SP2 - no go]

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.

[how can I access another account in another windows]

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.

[how can I access another account in another windows]

what is "ex XP"?

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.

[integrating XP SP3: "windows firewall settings cannot be displaye]

Hi,

I integrated XP SP3 in my installsource.

When i install a new client the screen resolution from my unattend file (1024 * 768) is not accepted. it just appears in 640 *480.

Also, i cannot ping the computer and when i try changing the firewall settings I get: "Windows firewall settings cannot be displayed because the associated service is not running. Do you want to start the Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) services?"

If i click Yes, an error occurs.

Anyone got a solution for this?

I already got a clean Xp installation CD with SP2 integrated and slipstreamed the SP3 in that I386 folder. Still the result is the same

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.