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Hello, Im considering completely reinstalling windows on my machine. I have the upgrade version of windows XP professional. Is there an option to completely reformat and reinstall the upgrade version, or do I have to find/reinstall the older version first ( windows 98 uck...). Also, I have 3 hard drives- will it just reformat the c: drive or all of them. Any words of advice before I byte the bullet?
thanks
steve
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Don't take this at 100% truth but I think you can install clean if you have the 98 CD where you just need to insert it and verify that you have it. Okay yep thats it, I found this on the web...
Boot to the CD-ROM drive, if your computer will boot to the CD-ROM drive (make it the first boot device and try). It will boot to Setup. If a previous version of Windows is not on the hard disk drive, it will ask you to insert a CD from qualifying version of Windows to verify before continuing the installation. I don’t know if your previous version of Windows will work. I have heard that Windows 95 cannot be upgraded to Windows XP; however, the qualifying products listed when I did it (several times) were:
“Please insert your Windows NT 3.51 Workstation, Windows NT 4.0 Workstation, Windows 2000 Professional, Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows Millennium CD into your CD-ROM drive.”
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The upgrade version doesn't mean you have to install it over another OS. It just means you have to have the media for another OS, to verify that you own it (or at least borrowed it from someone  ). The installer will ask for the CD at some point.
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Michael Dunn wrote:
to verify that you own it (or at least borrowed it from someone )
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All you have to do is boot off the XP CD and it will check for a previous version before you get a chance to format. After it checks the install goes on like normal. It will also work if you have a valid windows CD (oem restore cds don't work)
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Like all my friends tell me, before you make any major changes, Backup EVERYTHING. But in this case you should make an image of you machine before you start.
Best of luck, operating system overhalls are not for the faint of heart.
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I have a friend that is trying to allow access to resouces to his XP Pro box. However for some reason whenever someone tries connecting to his computer the username box is greyed out and in it is \\LIGHT\Guest (LIGHT is the computer netbios name) Has anyone seen this before and/or know how to fix this. I have gone through the local security settings and found nothing out of the ordinary. Its a fairly fresh install (latest updates around the board) and some software installed. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Matt Newman
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Has he got that stupid simplified sharing enabled, the one that installs by default? I ran into that on the first XP network I built. Unless you disable that crud and create local user accounts and passwords on each machine, all access to shares is done using the Guest account. Since the account is usually disabled, this rarely works.
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Roger Wright wrote:
Has he got that stupid simplified sharing enabled, the one that installs by default? I ran into that on the first XP network I built. Unless you disable that crud and create local user accounts and passwords on each machine, all access to shares is done using the Guest account. Since the account is usually disabled, this rarely works.
Probably as it was a fresh install of windows. Hes in a class right now, I'll check with him when he gets back.
Matt Newman
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Hi, need help!!
Does anybody know how to grab the data stream that goes to
the graphics card from windows and then on to a projector for example, or even how this works????
I presume that the data stream is going to come from the
windows desktop through win32.
Any ideas or links greatly appreciated!!
Cheers,
/Shane.
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Do you mean between windows and the driver or between the driver and the actually physical system? Working between windows and the driver shouldn't betoo difficult, but working driver level would probably be pretty complex. A better question is what are you using it for?.
Matt Newman
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Thanks for responding guys,
I mean between windows and the driver, basically instead of the data stream going to a graphics card on the same PC I want to stream it to another PC where it goes through the graphics card on that PC and then on to a projector.
The application I'm trying to do this with is PowerPoint so even if I can get the data stream that is going to windows from PowerPoint it may help me.
Maybe this is impossible, if so any ideas why it can't be done??
Cheers
/Shane.
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This seems theoretically possible, but PowerPoint may have some sort of an api (albiet probably undocumented) I'll do some checking between classes and give you an update on what I've found.
Matt Newman
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Thanks Matt,
Any help at all would be great or even just point me in the right direction. Done alot of searching on this and not much success.
/Shane.
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After a day of unbelievable crap ( i may whine about it later )
I've finally got win xp up and running with only one minor problem and that is that it wont recognise the nvidia gefoprce 4 graphics card.
The install instructions for the geforce say that you change the display adapter ( basically ) but according to windows xp I dont have any display adapters on my system.
Further more if I run the geforce setup program I find that when I load it up windows says I've not installed it so there's no chance to switch to it.
Anyone know how to force win xp to accept it?
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Geez... You're the second person who's reported this in the past 24 hours! The other is a teacher at the local college I was chatting with last night, and he teaches computers! Wacky...
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Cool! Thanks for the link!
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You know its weird, I have been having similar problems. I had this problem with my capture card during my last install, I also had some weird problems with my Radeon doing something similar. I had to install that hardware after windows install (obvioulsy a little harder with video card  )
Matt Newman
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I have an ActiveX control that works fine with my asp web application on Windows NT 4.0 servers and workstations. However, when moving the asp web application to Windows 2000, the control stops working.
Internally, the control has to make Tuxedo connection to a backend server. Tuxedo is an old BEA middle-ware product that is based on TCP socket. The problem is that the socket connection always fails within my asp web application. However, the same control works fine on Windows 2000 machines if it is used outside of the asp web application.
What I would like to know is, is there any setting in IIS (on Windows 2000) that will prevent socket connections to be established from asp web applications to other servers.
Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
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I think that you need to check your application configuration options.
In ISM,
Right click the name of your site/application choose "properties",
Choose "Home Directory" Tab,
under the "Application Settings" area, "Execute Permissions",
change the drop down to "Scripts Only" and see if that helps, if not change to "scripts and executables" and see if that helps.
You might want to restart IIS after each change to be sure that the new setting gets effected. Let me know what if this helps.
- sage
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Is it possible to set up network profiles within XP Home for one network device? I am open to using 1 profile with account a and another for account b. Heres the story. My dad, a GM Mechanic, had to buy a laptop computer as per GM's wishes so he can wirelessly access technical information. So I convinced him that he should get a Wireless router at home so he could surf at home wirelessly too. The person his employer has administering the whole system knows nothing. They are using a linksys Wirless AP/Router and a static IP network. The problem is they have the AP/Router DHCP server running only its a different IP range !. So I can't set up the computer to use a static alternate configuration because there is a DHCP server and it won't default to it. If I set it to static he can't use wireless at home because of the DHCP server in the home AP/Router.
Anyone have any ideas? I'm stuck 
Matt Newman
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