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LOST in setting up a Dual Boot Operating System
An alternative might be to install 98 onto the small HD and clean up from that, then install XP onto the 40GB HD, then tell the BIOS to boot from the D: drive first, which I think it will do. Might that be preferable? Fantrace. You can leave windows 98 on C and the OS files for XP only on D. Every Os that M$ has

RC1 - A Tale of 3 Windows
Harry Ohrn harry...@webtree.ca microsoft public windowsxp newusers If you upgraded to XP over Windows Me you can revert back by going to Control Panel->Add and Remove Programs->Uninstall Windows XP. If you did not upgrade or you wish to clean install do this: 1) Boot the computer with a Windows Me Start-up floppy.

Upgrading from 2000 to XP Pro I wound up with both. How do I lose
When back, he went to Windows Updates - found I SP1 - I Driver - and 23 patches to install, to bring it up to date. I tried to D/L the SP1, but it would leave approx. ten minutes. I tried to D/L 2/or 3 patches at a time, the same problem 5 minutes left. Could not complete a full D/L; no matter how I tried.

Can't boot to XP 64 with drives connected to Maxtor Ultra ATA
Secondly, please make sure you have Office XP installed. Again the system I used had the Professional version but Home Edition should also work. Leave "Regional Options" as is. 4. In the "Languages" section, select "Install files for Eastern Languages" and let it install and it will ask to reboot the system,

Can't make up my mind . .
Now however, we have 1 pc with Windows XP installed and PowerPoint XP. When we run the slide show on that pc, and move the mouse over the text, During the slide show, if I leave the mouse cursor over the one of the pieces of text that fires the macro to bring the image over, then exit the slide show to go back

Reactive Programming (RiP)
Next remove all the hard drives except the 80 gig you want to install the OS on, you can install them after you have the OS installed, you dont want any more problems than necessry. Next set the intergrated peripherals on chip SATA to auto, it will not work on manual setting. Next leave the Primary IDE channel

NTLDR
Shortcuts to individual documents still worked OK, as did the XP installed shortcuts, (My Documents, My Computer, My Network Places, Internet explorer Recycle With all this scare of the Blaster and SoBig viruses, I thought that I had better try to protect my computer as best as I can, so I downloaded SP1 again.

Can not fully download "Windows Udates"
I got a new machine with XP installed and I like XP a lot. THe problem is, in the Documents & Settings folder, there are five (5) subfolders. These are Administrator All users Default User XX (me) Owner Now I have asked this once and was told to leave this alone, but I'm asking again anyway cause it's annoying me.

Docs & Settings -- how to get rid of extra user directories?
This is where XP keeps default settings. Leave it alone. 2) You can move everything (Start Menu stuff) from All Users to your Dir if you wish. You can delete the Dir but some Install program will probably recreate it at some point in the future. 3) Administrator only exists because you logged on ONCE as

a little dated but, very entertaining...W2k recital !
The additional set-up complexity can be a pain also. You would be best off to purchase a new computer with XP installed. That way you can keep what you have, of XP (I am aware that you cannot mix the 2 memory types), or should I leave the current 512 SDRAM in and replace it after the fresh install of XP?

Can't start net adapter - won't assign i/o resource
It offers three options as follows: BootMgr Install the FreeBSD Boot Manager Standard Install a standard MBR (no boot manager) None Leave the Master Boot The ??? is a Dell diagnostic slice, the DOS is the XP and, of course, FreeBSD is FreeBSD. But, if you want, you can install one of the other third party

dual booting xp and 98 question.
The default settings for this menu can be readily edited from within WinXP. NOTE: If you elect to place Win98 on the "D:" drive, you'll _have_ to leave the "C:" I have 2 hard drives and Win XP installed on c: On the other drive there is nothing on it yet. I want to install Win 98 on that drive and be given the

duplicate messages between XP and win 2k dual boot
Just leave it unpartitioned space to work with. Yes. They use different file systems, and thus XP can't read files saved to the Linux partition. But Linux can read Microsoft FAT partitions. Also, if Windows knew that another operating system were installed, it would eat it. Not true. Be aware, however, that if you

ME won't boot
Makes a lot more sense for the average user to buy it with XP installed. For someone who only wants it as an Internet browser/media player/word processing/spreadsheets, then there is no need for them to leave Linux Wrong. If only so they can use the same apps on all their systems. - and this really is the target

Eee PC in more Australian stores
It's not apparent but folder items in this list can be double-clicked to show or hide the category's options. Second, before these choices showed up in XP's Folder Options, I used Tweak UI to manage web page/web folder combos. The particular version I used was for Win9x/ME and Win2000. If you have that installed,

Swap Win98 drive before XP install?
Edward J. Neth ej...@yahoo.com alt sys pc-clone gateway2000 Even with XP installed on the D drive, the boot files are still on the C. If you install ME, it will leave D alone but remove the XP boot manager, which you'll have to manually restore. This TechNet article should assist you

Dual Boot XP on disk 0 and WIN98 on Disk 1
Big Brotherish registration restrictions You don't have to *register* to activate and if you buy the machine with XP installed, that's already done. 2. Child window oddities (MDI: Multiple Document Interface) That's rare these days, but I like the option of writing an MDI app if I want to. 3. Control panels can not

WinXP Does not show 3rd Partition!
You can have dual boot available for a month or two until you're satisfied that all of your applications and data have been migrated successfully to the new OS. After you get XP installed, you'll probably want to run NTFS. Updating Win9x, or installing over a Win9x system will leave you with a FAT-32 file system.

OT Microsoft
I upgraded from Windows ME to XP. I now plan to sell the computer, and I would like to completely clean it out, but leave XP installed. I have tried to reinstall XP, but it does not work. My restoration disks that are Windows ME will not work, since XP is installed. Does anyone know how I can do this?

I'm preparing to install XP for 1st time. Have any 'tips' on ...
David H. McCoy <f...@mail.com> wrote: <snip> Let him keep believing that OS/2 is better, XP sucks, and the world will continue to leave him further and further A computer with only DOS installed can be much more useful than a computer with XP installed if the DOS computer has a particular piece of software or