Windows XP
Windows XP help and discussions.
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Downgrading XP Pro to Home
by Guest Stephen- 8 replies
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Is it possible to downgrade Win XP Pro to Home, that is without starting from scratch? The reason I ask is that a student family friend needed help with her computer. The immediate problem was fairly easily fixed. However, I noticed that the COA sticker was for XP Home but what is installed is XP Pro. She has the original Home (OEM) installation disc and valid product key. It appears that someone at her college, helping when things went badly wrong, installed XP Pro with what I assume is an invalid product key. Now I know it is possible to change the product key on an installation so as to legitimise it. However, I assume that the original product key w…
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shutdown issue
by Guest Ron Badour- 8 replies
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Any error message and if so, please post it verbatim. Have you tried doing a ctrl-alt-del and killing any application that is running before shutting down? -- Regards Ron Badour MS MVP 1997 - 2007 "Dan Conrad" wrote in message news:ODhIXOZzHHA.1484@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... > Laptop locks during shutdown -- only way to stop is to hold down off > button. Goes thru initial stages, blue screen appears and then freezes. > Suggestions? Thanks
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Source CD's needed
by Guest Owkmann- 20 replies
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I picked up an old HP 510n without any source CD's. I need to wipe the HD and reinstall XP. The XP Product Key is on a sticker on the side of the machine. How do I obtain source CD's? I called HP and they couldn't help me due to its age. Thanks for any help, Owkmann
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SATA HDD
by Guest Warrren- 3 replies
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I have a sata 200gig hdd as "C" in non raid configuration on controller one. I would like to a another sata 200gig hdd on controller 2. When i conect the 2nd drive and boot up I get to the boot up screen and then the system freezes and then attempts to re-boot. I am running XP SP2 fully upated on Abit AV8 mobo with AMD 3200+ via raid 8237 Any ideas would be appreciated.
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Re: Cd burning/iso
by Guest JenSBSer- 2 replies
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Re: Cd burning/iso Rick, What do you mean "cd's do not allow copying?" "Rick "Nutcase" Rogers" wrote: > Some disks do not allow copying, you may want to check with the vendor. > Otherwise, most major CD burning software can do a disk copy - Nero, Roxio, > Alcohol, just to name a few. > > -- > Best of Luck, > > Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP > http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ > Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone > http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone > Windows help - http://www.rickrogers.org > > "mancman3" <mancman3@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > …
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Erratic rollover message behavior
by Guest icon challenged- 1 reply
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At various times (no particular pattern) the roll-over message/hint is either not displayed in a visible area (partly or entirely hidden by say, windows tool bar), or not displayed at all. The biggest offender appears to be the date/time indicator (on the toolbar). By hovering the mouse icon over the indicator a small text box appears with the time in it). After a few checks on the time, the rollover box with time stops displaying. The only way I know to reset the functionality is to right click on the toolbar and select adjust date/time. Even without making any changes, after closing the setup window, the rollover display is good for a few more che…
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Where Did the Printers Go?
by Guest ll- 1 reply
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Win XP Pro + SP2 + updates Tried to print this morning and got an error msg. CP -> Printers & Other Hardware -> View installed printers shows _nothing_. Everything that was there (two printers that we installed previously, plus the standard Win stuff, e.g., fax) are _all_ gone. What causes this? How can I restore them? I can reinstall the two printers that we have if I have to, but what about the original MS items (can't remember all of them, fax, etc.)?
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Using xcopy for "cloning" your C; drive???
by Guest surface9- 19 replies
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I read on a previous post (can't find it now) that windows xp has a command to make a bootable copy of a bootable drive if the bootable drive is connected as a slave and the bootable copy was formatted by xp. The command quoted was: xcopy d:\*.* e:\*.* /s/e/y/o I tried this but the "bootable" copy would NOT BOOT. I got the following error message: NTLDR is missing. The bootable drive I used (mounted as a slave) is still bootable (when I mount is as the master, 1st bootable device). When I mounted it as a slave (and marked NOT BOOTABLE in the BIOS), and then ran the xopy / s/e/y/o command to my e: drive I noticed that the command ended normally but abo…
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I have an IBM/Lenovo T43 Notebook, worked fine for first 1+ years that I had it. In the last few months it's decided to have a mind of it's own regarding the mouse. Primarily the problem is experienced when I'm clicking on text and moving the mouse over the text to select it while holding the mouse button down. Sometimes the mouse will just jump halfway across the page, sometimes it just deselects what I was trying to select, sometimes it copy and pastes the text elsewhere while I'm still holding the button down having pressed nothing else. It's finally driving me nutts. I've reloaded the system and replaced the mouse. In addition to reloading the …
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Interrupting chkdsk from recovery console?
by Guest dean7710@sbcglobal.net- 3 replies
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I booted the Windows XP CD, and went into the Recovery Console. I started chkdsk with the /r option, and it's taking a very long time. I unsuccessfully tried to stop chkdsk with cntrl-C, cntrl-Z, and cntrl- alt-del. The computer does not have a reset button. How can I interrupt/stop chkdsk? Thanks, Dean
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windows xp repair problems
by Guest tjfarth- 17 replies
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Hi, my sister's computer was not loading xp. The following error occurred. winlogon.exe unable to locate component this application has failed to start because ODBC32.dll was not found. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem. she was told to repair xp. she went through the steps to repair as per instructions in previous posts. She got past the entering of product key screen and now there is just a blue screen with no text on it. It has been that way for quite a long time. Is it frozen? How can she fix this. Please advise. Thanks
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The application Help and Support doesn't work
by Guest Chosi- 1 reply
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.... since I updated to XP, now my Help and Support doesn't work, before was the printer and I needed to get another driver. What should I do ?
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Unable to Set Permissions or Take Ownership
by Guest Robert- 9 replies
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I am unable to change or set permissions or take ownership of any files below Documents and Settings. This is an XP Pro machine and I have tried many logins including Administrator. Any ideas on what to do? Thanks
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blue screen at startup can boot into safe mode...
by Guest Chad- 3 replies
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Hello, I have a problem that I need help solving. The computer starts up and I receive a blue screen telling me Windows is stopping the bootup to prevent damage. There is a device driver issue... I can start in Safe Mode, but I cannot startup in Safe Mode with networking. Here is what I have done thus far: - booted from XP CD and ran chkdsk /r - disabled the onboard network adapter - have uninstalled the network adapter from the Device Manager Since the computer starts in Safe Mode, but does not startup with Safe Mode with networking, it leads me to think that it has something to do with the Network Drivers. Can anyone be of help? Thanks in advance, …
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Documents and Settings
by Guest Janetb- 6 replies
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I am the only one who ever uses my computer. When I switched from 2KPro to XP Pro, installed by a computer technician, he left me with the following folders under Documents and Settings: All Users, Default User, Janet, LocalService, LogMeInRemoteUser, and NetworkService. Under 2KPro, I didn't have a separate user folder named Janet. I was either just Administrator or some such default name. Is this separate Janet folder really necessary? Can't I just be Default User or All Users? I ask because it seems most efficient to have all my settings in one place, and I see that there are entries in the All Users folder and the Default User folder in addition to …