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Never mind.

Do you have sub folders in your contacts ?

PDF files are nothing special when it comes to attachements. -Do you see the attached files in your Sent Items ? -What is the size of the said sent mail (in Megabytes) ? -Did the mail arrive at all (it seems yes)?

Welcome. Where is the good old time those few questions were answered 5 times a day and people were sweared at because they didn't even bother reading the last few threads ? Please read the red message up your screen. -"it cannot copy the file accessor.inf", at what point exactly ? (text mode part, before showing disk and partitions ?) Please state exact message. Please also state what Microsoft cd you start from and if you do everything in 1 go. Modifying a cd prior to applying SP3 gets you "missing files" errors. -rejected key

Search that text file for "wireless", you'll find your problem in 3 seconds. It looks like you removed everything without too much care. Be prepared for a lot of problems.

Apparently the drive is OK on your computer. You can't frormat a hard disk out of the box, to be more precise, you format a partition, not a disk, so you first need to create a partition (or more of them, according to your needs) and you can do so in Computer Management/Disk Management. The drive letter appear after that, unless you choose not to give it one. Maybe this is what you call "seeing the drive"; see it in Windows Explorer. More worrying is the fact that the Vista installation does not see it in your wife's computer. Vista should be able to see the disk, offer you to create partitions and format the future system partition. But maybe here to you got confused and the disk appears not with the drive letter but as "Unpartitionned Space" ? Does the drive appear correctly in Bios screen (on her computer)?

I find it misleading. I read that as "Home and Pro(SP0), SP1, SP2", anyway, confusing if you're looking for minimal requirement. Maybe I'm wrong. But I clearly recall it saying SP1a must be installed prior to SP3 which it does not say anymore. Again, maybe I'm wrong. I have no intention and no mean to test that (got no SP0). Just trying to get things clear(er) but got no grip on it. Anywhere you look, it's confusing. The pdf for SP3 says "Fundamentally, deploying Windows XP SP3 works the same as deploying SP1 and SP2 for Windows XP: SP3 is cumulative, so users can install SP3 on top of Windows XP SP1 or SP2. You can run the SP3 update package on any edition of Windows XP SP1 or SP2. For example, you can run the SP3 update package on a computer running the Windows XP Media Center Edition with SP1. The exceptions are Embedded editions for XP."

For a long time, Microsoft's site has stated "Windows XP SP1a" as requirement to installing SP3 on a running system. Today it does not. Don't ask me why or if anything was really changed. But so it seems SP3 can (now ?) be applied directly to any version (through download or through WindowsUpdate) of a running system. This was always the case for slipstreaming SP3 to an installation set of files (what we're doing here). So it seems -X- overlooked Microsoft's change of mind and also in your precise case overlooked the fact you already do have SP1 installed (if I read your 1st sentence correctly), which lead to bphlpt's contradicting answer but with unneeded precision. I'm not saying both are wrong, I'm just stating MS changed their mind.

What a great advice...." doesn't work ? ... do it again." The ini file is also in the root of the install files set. I guess that part is not formatted when the install starts. Attach it to your next post. What exactly is written on your original XP SP2 media ? Don't come back in two months.

How does "your disc" appear at this moment ? Is it an external/internal disc ? Does it still have a drive letter ? What exactly were you doing and did you see when it happened ? Was the process instantaneous ?

It lists 2 services that the OP has not removed (if ini file shows the one and only session). Google suggests to update .Net Framework 1.1 to latest Service Pack.

Don't know exactly what you mean. The "Back" button is still there. The iso is created aside the source and you can still restart nLite using that source. Indeed, there have always been things you can (like adding a driver) and things you can't do (removing something) on an already modified source. Well technically you could, but even if you avoid potential immediate errors, its still not advised. The ini file is like the road from A to B. If you try to take the same turns starting from anywhere else, it won't get you to where you think it does. Also minor bug is the fact that your ini file doesn't take the Service Pack modifications from within the very nLite session in account. I mean you're better off applying ServicePacks then restarting nLite and reloading ini file. Looks confusing ? I'l try to explain better: You load XP fresh, components 1, 2 or 3 are addded by SP3, you remove component 2 with nLite and save your work and ini file as is. Next time you want to do "exactly the same", you reload XP fresh and your ini file, nLite will see component #2 is not included in XP, and will not list it for removal, even if it will prompt you for SP3 and include that component, so at the end, component is not removed.

Do you set both IPs to be in different ranges (and from 2 different devices ?)?

Have you tried running the 2nd file on Dell's site ??? ..."floppy-less" it should be.

I'm NOT even sure repair install is the answer to your friends problem. I've never done one but I believe repair install fixes a broken XP, it doesn't make a slow PC run faster. Good cleaning and a defrag would. As well as $10 additional RAM. There is not much "benefits of nLited XP", clean (recent) install is the key factor. edited: NOT sure.

nLite is not only free, it's out of developpement since 4 years at least. You can search the forum for "recovery discs" (read this for instance), but your best move would be to get an HP install cd from ebay, same version as yours (Home/Pro). Ident files; there are 3 ident files, depending on your version (Home/Pro) and SP level. You can easily google that and create them yourself. Try using a CD-RW. Or test your iso file in a virtual machine (download and install VirtualBox if you have few gigabytes free on a machine).

I got same name but 16,971,552 bytes.

nLite always assumes you are starting with an original installation disc. Thank God. If not, it should spend an hour checking for the presence/validity of every needed file. What happens if you let it write the ident files for you (doing something different... to what)? More people have tried starting from recovery discs, I don't know the results (very few report when finished).

This does not happen here on my Excel2007 (even with K10 to M10 filled with numbers), neither with or without the option "Formula AutoComplete" .

Please next time always give exact error message. I believe you copied your files from cd manually and missed the "ident" files from the root. Their names depend on the version you use (Home/Pro and SP level).

Get to "Customizing Windows" forum, search for "text mode", returns 6 threads, 3rd seems to have an answer, next ones maybe also.

How big is your exe file ?

You're not supposed to use nLite for installing a clients PC. When installing nLite, it says it's for personal /non commercial use only, and you clicked "I agree".

If possible, always install older OS fist, as next OS will now how to hanle the old one. In this case, install XP first, then 7. You should still be able to repair Win7's boot loader so that it now incorporate an option to boot XP as well. If you describe your situation now; -in what order the OS were installed, -what os is installed to what partition, -what partition is active someone could help you fix that in a few minutes rather than hours reinstall.

If it belonged to you, we would help, as nLite is licensed for personal use only.