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Hi!
I have Win XP home edition preinstalled. I want to install XP Pro to install. But I do not want to go through, uninstalling xp home and back-uping my entire hard disk to do that. Is there an easy way to upgrade my OS without losing any data?
Please help
thanks,
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You can upgrade to XP Pro, but your still gonna want to back up and you may just be better off doing a fresh install.
Matt Newman
Sonork: 100:11179
"Jokes should at least try to be intelligent - this is just toilet humor" - Heath Stewart
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I'll second doing a backup, but I was surprisingly happy with the upgrade from Home to Pro on my laptop.
After 8 months of use it finally got to the point where enough junk had accumulated to make me want to reinstall from scratch but those 8 months were enough for HP to upload a driver pack so I could do the install from scratch 
James
"I despise the city and much prefer being where a traffic jam means a line-up at McDonald's"
Me when telling a friend why I wouldn't want to live with him
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James T. Johnson wrote:
on my laptop.
I would probably have done the same thing on a laptop. I have found myself stuck out of luck without drivers and a failed laptop install
Matt Newman
Sonork: 100:11179
"Jokes should at least try to be intelligent - this is just toilet humor" - Heath Stewart
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On Windows 2000.
How can i reset a file association ?
I can go into Folder Options->File Types, and change manually the application for each file type, but for example, bitmap files (.bmp) are set to opera, which I removed a long time ago, and I want to reset it to the initial default application for bitmaps.
Thanks.
Maximilien Lincourt
"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon filled with backup tapes." ("Computer Networks" by Andrew S Tannenbaum )
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right click on any bmp file and choose the 'open with' option. There on, select the MS Paint or your bmp application, and select the check box below promption for open with this in future.
That willl do the best, I guess?!?!
I was born intelligent
Education ruined me!.
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I am trying to install XP on my dads computer because his suddenly got a case of reboot as soon as it starts up. So I am trying to install XP on a spare drive. When it is in the copy files mode it will suddenly stop and say something about file not copied etc etc. I have switched between 2 cd drives 2 XP Home cds and I even tried my XP Pro CD. I have tried it on 2 different HDs. I tried cleaning one of the XP Home cds and that didn't help. I can kind of coax it along switching between Home and Pro cds whenever it gets an error. I don't want to do that because it will probably take forever and I have no idea what kind of result I will get (maybe XP Phrome :P) I can only imagine that it is a hardware problem but I don't know where to look. Its an OEM system so everything is integrated. Anyone have any ideas?
Matt Newman
Sonork: 100:11179
"Jokes should at least try to be intelligent - this is just toilet humor" - Heath Stewart
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Matt Newman wrote:
Anyone have any ideas?
You've already taken the CD, CD-ROM and HDD out of the problem equation. Only other easily swapped and tested item I can think of is IDE cables. Put another one in and test it again.
Other possibilities are RAM and the IDE ports on the motherboard itself. I mention RAM as I have had machines in the past that worked fine with Windows 9x and then fail with Linux. This I believe is due to memory being handled differently between the operating systems. Windows XP would be more demanding on memory (using every last bit). What OS was on there previously?
Michael Martin
Australia
"I personally love it because I can get as down and dirty as I want on the backend, while also being able to dabble with fun scripting and presentation games on the front end."
- Chris Maunder 15/07/2002
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I'm glad you responded as when you did, I was about to go out and buy a new motherboard. I swapped ram with another working machine. I never thought to try another IDE cable (Lord knows I have plenty of extra IDE cables  ) It was running XP before. I think it may be the IDE Controller though (of course like any good OEM machine its integrated). Even when it was new it never seemed to handle disk access very well. I originally wrote it off as Win ME but the problem still existed to a smaller degree when we upgraded it to XP. I'll try the IDE cable thing tomorrow morning and see if it resolves it.
[EDIT] I decided to sacrafice needed sleep to try it, but I didn't waste much. It did the same thing with known working IDE cables. Guess its off to buy the mobo, the wonderful mobo of ...
You know, I better just get some sleep [/EDIT]
btw I forgot how loud those old 5400 rpm 10.2 Gig HDs are. I have a barracuda IV (which is regarded as one of the quitest drives I guess, I didn't know that when I bought it) and I thought that thing was suspiciously loud after I silenced my cooling. With this old thing running I can't even hear my machine its kind of scary 
Matt Newman
Sonork: 100:11179
"Jokes should at least try to be intelligent - this is just toilet humor" - Heath Stewart
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Michael Martin wrote:
I mention RAM as I have had machines in the past that worked fine with Windows 9x and then fail with Linux.
Interesting. I have one machine that refuses to accept Windows of any flavor - it boots with a corrupt registry after a fresh install. But installing Linux works perfectly, even though Linux declares that there isn't enough RAM to work. Gremlins exist, and they live inside dusty old PCs.
"Welcome to Arizona!
Drive Nice - We're Armed..."
- Proposed Sign at CA/AZ Border
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We use a mixture of Win98/2K/XP here at work.
I'm concerned that the security updates are not being done (most people just ignore the auto update dialog).
I would like to download all the patches to my server, and then get the PCs to automatically get the correct one locally.
I've downloaded the patch list (mssecure.xml) and I could write a package to do the new updates during login, but I thought there might be something already done.
I've seen the package from MS (a sub-contractor actually), but it only supports 2K or XP.
Does anyone know of such a package, or perhaps would be willing to help write one?
Cheers
Neil
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It sounds like you need Software Update Services[^].
SUS is basically a Windows Update server that you install on your domain somewhere. It accesses Microsoft's Windows Update and tells you when new updates become available. You then assign the updates to workstations.
Your workstations still run the automatic update software, but now they pull the updates from your local server as configured, rather than from the Windows Update website. You can also schedule installations to occur at specific times.
Unfortunately this still only works in a Windows 2k, XP, 2003 environment - there isn't an automatic update component for Win98.
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That's exactly my point. SUS is not for win98.
Is anyone interested in testing a Win98 solution?
Neil
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Hi all.. I'm having a big problem.. And Hope someone can help me.
The OS on my labtop is Window 2000.
I turn on the computer and the user name is " Po Po", which is in the group of administrators.
Whenever I haven't use the computer for long time, it turn off and asking me to enter the password like " this computer is locked by Administrator. please enter the password to unlock the computer" something like it.. But I dont' know the password.. so everytime I got that message requesting the password, I restart the computer.
Last night after working on my Laptop, I went to Control Panel and open the Users and Passwords. Inside of Users for this computer window, I found 3 users; Administrator, guest, and Po Po.
I tried to reset the password for "Po Po" but I couldn't since I dont' know the old password. There is no password for either Administrator or guest..
Then I deleted Po Po. So I don't have to login as this user but Administrator. I was thinking of able to click on Cancel button when the computer restart if I login as Administrator because there is no password for Administrator.
And I restart the computer..
The login window pops up..
I typed in "Administrator" as User and I click OK button . The cancel button is still gray (disable).
But it didn't let me into the OS.. I'm keep getting the message saying "the user or password is incorrect.. "
I have important documents saved in my c:\. I dont' want to format my harddrive and reintall Window 2000. I dont' have the backup for those documents.
Is there anyway to crash the password to login to Win 2000 without reinstalling it???
Thank You
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Just did a quick google and came up with:-
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win2000/r1050428859[^]
From post in XP forum. Use the second portion of this if you do not have access to the internet on another machine or cannot get the disks the first part talks about. There is a boot disk you can download at: http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html that will let you reset the password of any account on NT4, Windows2000 or XP. Just follow all the default settings which are for the admin account. Used it many times with great success. I also made a bootable CD image you can download from http://www.onecomputerguy.com/software/ntpassword.iso Bob Cerelli http://www.onecomputerguy.com
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants. - Isaac Newton 1676
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I just installed a DSL line for a lady who also has a dialup account; she wants to keep it as a backup service. Win98 is supposed to support this, hence the setting 'Dial only if Network Connection not Available.' I've never tried this before - most customers can't wait to abandon their dalup connections once the DSL service is available - but clicked the option and hoped for the best. It doesn't work. I disconnected the DSL line then tried to search for a website (CP coincidentally), and all Win98 could do is report a DNS error. It dutifully search for my settings, looked for a proxy (not in use) then failed without even attempting to dial the default dialup connection. Has anyone ever seen this work? Is there a fix?
BTW - The ISP is Sprint, and their setup software forces you to set up an Earthlink account, then fails to create a dialup connection for it. 
"Welcome to Arizona!
Drive Nice - We're Armed..."
- Proposed Sign at CA/AZ Border
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When I dial up my connection, I get the following event in my system log:
The IPSEC Services service terminated with the following error: <br />
The attempted operation is not supported for the type of object referenced.
Has anyone seen this. Searches on the net have proved fruitless for a solution.
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I wanted to try out one of those starter kits on the asp.net website, but it told me I had to download MSDN...
So I did....
and when I click on the 'setup.exe' it comes up with a message box that say...
"A strong SA password is required for security reasons.
Please use SAPWD switch to supply the same. Refer to
readme for more details. Setup will now exit."
I checked the readme, but of course there's nothing there...
What is the solution???
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It sounds like you need a strong SA password for security reasons.
Paul 
Garfield.Bark();<br />
---Configuration: garfield - Win32 Deworm---<br />
C:\garfield.cpp(9) : error C2039: 'Bark' : is not a member of 'CCat'<br />
modified 18-Jul-18 11:59am.
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No kidding! To the original poster, in the setup.ini file, add
SAPWD=somepassword and run setup again. Read the README file (HTML file) for instructions about installing and customing the installation process. In practice, always read the README files for information before installing or compiling anything, unless you know previous what you're doing exactly.
-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
Version: 3.21
GCS/G/MU d- s: a- C++++ UL@ P++(+++) L+(--) E--- W+++ N++ o+ K? w++++ O- M(+) V? PS-- PE Y++ PGP++ t++@ 5 X+++ R+@ tv+ b(-)>b++ DI++++ D+ G e++>+++ h---* r+++ y+++
-----END GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
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We have a program that was written using Visual Basic, which has been working fine for 2 years on Win95/98/Me/NT4/NT2000. It does work properly when run on XP as anyone other than the adminstrator. The program generates a tab delimited file which stores user defined information as to how the software is to carry out some of its' taskes. How ever on XP when the user saves the data it is not saved, because the user does not have write pemission, in the directory where the program is located.
How do I stop XP security from denying our software the right to update its' own data file.
INTP
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XP and secure??? kewl...
Don't try it, just do it!
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By default, users (i.e. accounts that are part of the Users group) are not allowed to write into the Program Files folder.
You could make your users into Power Users (who do have permission), or you could change the permissions on the directory or, ideally, just the file so that the Users group has permission to write to this file.
XP doesn't show the old security tab in the Properties box by default (when not connected to a domain) - to get it back, see http://www2.goldfisch.at/knowledge/241[^].
User preferences should really be stored in the registry or in the user's Local Settings or Application Data folders.
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Thanks!
The problem is that the User may be anyone that purchases our hardware (directly of indirectly). We (may) have no control of the End User and most of them may not even realize the file actualy exist. All the End User will know is that it did not save their information. The file could conceivably contain several hundred entries.
INTP
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Hmm, in that case it sounds like a job for your setup tool. See the documentation for the SetNamedSecurityInfo function.
Good coverage of security APIs in Programming Server-Side Applications for Windows 2000[^] and also in Programming Windows Security[^].
Specifically you need to give at least write access to the Users group. You'll need to look up the Security Identifier (SID) for the Users group on the local computer (see LookupAccountName). However, your customer's administrator could potentially have renamed the Users group, in which case this won't work. A well-known SID such as the Authenticated Users or Interactive SID might work better.
Please tell me you're not using the Package and Deployment Wizard  - it's rather painful to add a custom install step, IIRC.
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