IcemanND

is the drive coming up as dynamic or basic? As I recall you could for it to make an external device dynamic in sp1 but it wasn't supposed to and they fixed/broke that in sp2. change it to basic and try again.

is the MSI service running or restricted somehow?

with win98 and me you will want to use the xcopy command as there are subfolders in the win98 folder XCOPY Z:\SETUP\98OS2\WIN98\*.* C:\CABS\*.* /s get the XCOPY executable out of the windows\command folder for the version of os you are using to boot.

As the CABS folder for Windows 95 has no subfolders just use copy COPY Z:\SETUP\95OS2\WIN95\*.* C:\CABS or COPY Z:\SETUP\95OS2\WIN95 C:\CABS should work fine I would use the first personally.

stick the drive in another machine as slave and copy the files off that way

will it boot to safe mode?

Try removeing: Filesystem=*, I believe the only valid setting is FileSystem=ConvertNTFS

get a single button mouse, Apple sells alot of em.

Here's the VBscript I use to do this. I run it out of RunOnce. It has one argument which is optional: CHGOWN.VBS [NEW COMPUTER NAME] if the argument exists it runs silently. NOTE: A reboot is still required after running. 2nd NOTE: it will not let you cancel or close you have to click OK or kill it in the device manager. CHGOWN.vbs Option Explicit set args = WScript.Arguments Set ws = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") Dim args, ws, t, p2, p3, p4, p5, n, j, h, f, k, cj Dim itemtype,num num=args.count if num >0 then cj=args.Item(0) p2 = "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\ComputerName\ComputerName\" p3 = "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\" p4 = "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\ComputerName\ComputerName\" p5 = "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\" j = ws.RegRead(p2 & "ComputerName") h = ws.RegRead(p3 & "NV Hostname") f = ws.RegRead(p4 & "ComputerName") k = ws.RegRead(p5 & "NV Hostname") t = "Compuer Name Change Utility" if num=0 then do cj = InputBox("Type new Computer name and click OK", t, j) loop while cj="" end if If cj <> "" Then ws.RegWrite p2 & "ComputerName", cj ws.RegWrite p3 & "NV Hostname", cj ws.RegWrite p4 & "ComputerName", cj ws.RegWrite p5 & "NV Hostname", cj End If

does it show up in the disk manager?

see: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=9508&hl= for multiple was to enable.

"No Password User" can be any valid user name on the machine and there is no space between the quotes.

Hmm, seems to work fine for me. Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon] "DefaultUserName"="No Password User" "DefaultPassword"="" "AutoAdminLogon"="1" "ForceAutoLogon"="1"

If you are refering to a power on password use GH's suggestion if you are referring to the windows logon password click CANCEL.

I use my brain, and usually take a song title or long book title and use the first letter of each word and then do character substitution. so "The Hunt For Red October" by Tom Clancy becomes THFROTC then substitute to get say - t#f&0t(

The system shouldn't care what speed the drive is as long as it will fit in the drive tray. The connectors are the same.

THis is entirely possible to do and quite common in many businesses, naming a machine after the user. XP is the first windows OS to try and prevent this. Once you have the machine set up and your users created then change the computer anme to the desired name and reboot. You can't create user with name of computer but you can the other way around.

no Norton install or objectdock. This is machine which has been up and running for awhile and was not built with a cusom cd. I'll check out winguides and see if there is anything there. Let you know tomorrow.

THe problem is that the "Empty Recylce Bin" option is not on the context menu for the Recycle Bin and the "Properties" function returns "Properties for this item not available". All available patches are installed and there are no viruses or spyware. Any ideas?

run chkdsk from then command console when booted from the xp cd, if it still reboots my only other suggestion is to put it in a system as a secondary drive and run chkdsk from the other systems os.

if your useing a NIC check the power management settings on the NIC in the device manager, used to see this alot with 3COM cards and the os turning them off thinking they weren't in use.

What's the blue screen message? to stop the rebooting right click my computer and select properties, click advanced tab, click settings button for Startup and Recovery, removed check for Automatically Restart. It will then stay on the blue screen until you manually reboot or shut off. That way you can read the error screen. To me it sounds like a possible bad sector on the hard drive.

to get service tag if not on label on bottom of machine, either go to Dells tech support page and have it auto detect it for you, downloads a small activex app to do it or press F2 when the DELL logo is on the screen at first power on, the first bios screen has it displayed there. As far as a recovery cd, the C500/600 came with an OS cd and a Apps/Drivers cd, not really a recovery cd. Unfortunately you normally are stuck buying a new one if yours is lost. If the small screen you are talking about is that the screen has a approx. 1" black bar going arounf it either change the resolution to the max the screen will display of press FN-F7 an it will stretch the display to fill.

For the NORMAL user, who browses the web, sends, e-mail, uses office, plays music, there is no real advantage to an Athlon64. The advantage is going to come when using those processor and memory hungry applications, such as video rendering, image editing 3D CADD, and anything else with heavy calculations. There may be some noticable difference in palying #D games but I personally ouldn;t think it would be that great a difference to offset the additional cost of the processor and os. But I'm not the avid gamer. As far as preventing worms, etc. Smart computing would do just as much as the DEP. The last time I had a virus on my machine was 1985, so that's not a concern, and I don't think that DEP will prevent system crashes anymore than I think the next version of Windows will come bug free (read 0%).

Try updating your video drivers to the newest version, used to see this alot on Compaq laptops. OR Disable Fast shutdown, run msconfig, click advanced and check the box next to 'Disable Fast Shutdown'. Also be sure to have all of the windows updates installed.