Windowas XP Best of the Newsgroups - Archive

The Windows 2000 install will overwrite the boot sector and the NT bootloader files with older versions. To replace them, boot from the XP CD, get into the Recovery Console, and type the following commands:

FIXMBR C:
FIXBOOT C:
COPY x:\I386\NTLDR C:\
COPY x:\I386\NTDETECT.COM C:\

Substitute your CD-ROM drive letter for 'x' in the COPY commands. This will put back the XP bootloader files and allow you to boot into XP and 2000.

Mike Ketchen MS-MVP (XP)

This can happen if the convert program can not create, use or find a FAT free area of the disk. It needs this to start the process.

Check out this KB article: https://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;156560&sd=tech

Randy Byrne
Microsoft MVP (XP)

Tony,

Logon with an admin rights user.

Assign "the kids" logons to another user group other than administrator (ex. User group)

Go into Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Local Security Policy and select Local Policies>User Rights Assignment.

Scroll down to "Shut down the system" and open it.

Add/remove groups. (ex. remove the users)

That should remove the ability of logons in the users group to shut down.

Hope this helps.
Randy Byrne
Microsoft MVP (XP)

On the ME computer, be sure you have enabled Print Sharing in the Network Places Properties page. Make sure you have the latest and working drivers for your printer installed on the ME computer.

On your XP computer, add a new network printer, and browse to your ME computer. If set up correctly, you should see your ME computername in the list, and a printer available to use under that.

Yakbak

gpedit.msc to get to the Group policies editor (as administrator). You'll find login and logout hooks there for scripts/batchfiles.

Hope this helps
Ceewun

Go to start/run, and type "control folders", click the View Tab and uncheck the checkbox for "Use simple file sharing"

Rightclick any folder, and look on the "Sharing" tab for the settings you prefer.

Mark L. Ferguson

there's a GUI version for w2k/XP wntipcfg download https://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/reskit/tools/existing/wntipcfg-o.asp

enjoy
Terra

Yes, you can upgrade WinMe without losing your dual boot.

Start WinMe and begin the XP upgrade from there. You'll be fine. When the XP upgrade is done you'll have a dual boot between WinXP and Win2K.

Kevin Eddy
Associate Expert
Expert Zone

The upgrade process does NOT necessarily need to see the old O/S on your hard drive. If it checks and can't find it, it will ask you to put in your original CDROM (the one with ME on it) to verify that you own a qualifying product. Then you'll put your XP CD back in to finish the installation.

So since you plan to reformat anyway, just reformat, install the XP upgrade (it will need to see your ME disk at some point), then install your drivers. You should install Windows 2000 flavors of your drivers if they are available. The install your software, etc.

- Jim

If you right-click on My Computer and choose Manage, you'll start the Management Console. From there, click on Disk Management. In Disk Management, you can change the drive letters of your drives.

Mike Kolitz, MCSE
Associate Expert - Windows XP
https://www.microsoft.com/WindowsXP/ExpertZone

Rightclick on the Start button and choose: Properties. Choose "Classic Start menu" and press "Customize", then check the "Display Log Off" checkbox.

Katom

Newsgroup: network_webSubject: Hibernate function

Hold the shift key and you will see the standby button turn into the hibernate button!!!!.

Rick & Darlene

A:hold shift when inserting the CD........or right click the CD from MY computer -properties-auto play set it to take no action.....

Rich@TLC

Joc:

Home: https://download.microsoft.com/download/WinXPHome/Install/310994/WIN98MeXP/EN-US/WinXP_EN_HOM_BF.EXE

Pro: https://download.microsoft.com/download/whistler/Install/310994/WIN98MeXP/EN-US/WinXP_EN_PRO_BF.EXE

Donny Broome

Go to the adapter or connectoid properties and unshare it. Your local network addresses will then be from 169.254.x.y but if you re-share an adapter again, they will switch back to 192.168.0.x. Everything should work fine in the meantime, as long as all your machines are rebooted or you do an "ipconfig /release" followed by "ipconfig /renew" on 2K/XP machines to refresh the DHCP/APIPA addresses. You don't have to do that release/renew on your ICS machine.

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Kent W. England, MS MVP for WinXP Networking

Don't know if it's what you want, but try either of these to install "Management and Monitoring Tools".

Control Panel | Add or Remove Programs | Add/Remove WindowsComponents

Network Connections | Advanced | Optional Networking Components

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Best Wishes,
Steve Winograd, MS-MVP

I would suggest that you copy your web content to a safe place use add remove to remove IIS 5.1 in the upgraded XP remove all traces of the old / removed IIS use add remove to install IIS 5.1 after a fresh reboot restore your web content

Also, note that if your upgraded machine was at Front page 2002 you will need to reapply the 2002 server extensions since the earlier preview XP came with fpse 2000

Roger Abell
MS MVP (Windows Platform)

Newsgroup: security_adminSubject: Windows Update Fix

First, open regedit.exe and proceed to:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER \Software \Microsoft \CurrentVersion \Policies \WindowsUpdate

If the key WindowsUpdate does not exist, create it. Within this key, you may see one or both of the following DWORD entries:

NoWindowsUpdate and/or DisableWindowsUpdateAccess
If either of these entries appear, change their values to zero.
If they do not appear, add them as DWORD entries with their values at zero.
Second, under:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER \Software \Microsoft \CurrentVersion \Policies \Explorer
you should see the entry
NoWindowsUpdate
Change the value to zero.
Third, under:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \SOFTWARE \Microsoft \Windows \CurrentVersion \WindowsUpdate
Right-click on the WindowsUpdate folder, click on Permissions
Give Admin (and/or System) Full Control and Read permissions by checking the allow boxes.
Close Regedit.
REBOOT the machine.
Try the Windows Update site again. If this does not correct the problem, please post your problem and I will look into it.

Thanks and good luck.
Stan
microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin

- Right mouse click on "My Computer"
- Select the "System Restore" tab
- Either select "Turn off System Restore on all drives" or...
- Select an individual drive, click "Settings", and turn off system restore for that drive or change the space allocation

Faramir

Newsgroup: setup_deploymentSubject: Hanging on shutdown in XP

Johnathan,

It's likely that your PC is not completely ACPI compatible. It may be that this workaround will work though:

Go to Computer management/Device Manager.

Go to View/Show Hidden devices. There may be one disabled device called the NT APM/Legacy Interface Node. If you enable this, shutdown may work again. It worked for me on a Gigabyte board, but on an IBM board caused the system to reboot rather than shutdown and power off. Give it a try, there should be no problem re-disabling it if you have to.

JasonK

You have two options. Either download the setup disks from Microsoft at https://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;310994&sd=tech. Or boot your PC with a DOS boot disk that has smartdrv.exe on the floppy and drivers for your CD. After booting with the floppy, run smartdrv and then run winnt.exe in the i386 directory on the XP CD.

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Tom Porterfield
MS-MVP (DTS)

I suggested that you use this, and I am sorry to hear that it messed up your system. In my own defense, however, you spoke of upgrading to Windows XP from Windows 98SE, and that you were unable to install XP because it found a conflicting OS (Linux). I didn't know you already had an NT OS installed... :(

A.A. Koch
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His problem isn't that he had a NT OS installed but that he used a disk overlay program and failed to mention it. You told him the correct way to remove Grub or LILO from his computer, he failed to provide all the information.

Andy
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fdisk /mbr should never be used with a NT OS's unless you want to eliminate the NT boot sector and replace it with the DOS boot sector, so you can reload DOS/Win9x OS. Difference being - FDISK /MBR sets a system up to boot DOS, thus the boot sector tell the machine to look for a file call IO.SYS to continue booting the OS. NT OS's on the other hand have utilities (depends on which version of NT - 2k/XP use the "recovery console" - I'm unsure about NT 4.0) to replace the boot sector with the NT boot info to look for the files NTLDR, NTDETECT.COM, and BOOT.INI.

fdisk /mbr would have not been too difficult to recovery from, had you booted with the WinXP CD and went into the "recovery console" and used the FIXMBR command, or choose to "Repair" and existing WinXP installation and had it inspect/repair the bootfiles and boot sector, had you not been using EZBIOS on the Maxtor drive. My suggestion, try running without the manufacturer's software first to see if you have the full disk capacity. When you reloaded EZBIOS, you in effect destroyed the partition table that held the information where each partition begins and ends on a physical drive.

I'm sorry someone gave you the incorrect information, but you'll be an expert on this from now on.

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Star Fleet Admiral "Q"

Set the following key to the indicated value.

[HKEY_USERS.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Keyboard] "InitialKeyboardIndicators"="2"

David B.