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no need if u do'nt have a cd-rw few steps. 1) always to test any operating system remeber to test before implementing in a production enviorment 2) use tools to create iso image for ex- UltraISO,ISOMagic etc. 3) to test iso image use tools such as Virtual PC 2004 SP1 from Microsoft or other alternative could be VMWare Workstation 5.0. 4) When u use these tools u might or i can say if some problem arises can be found 5)with the ur time of formating the entire system + Trial and error policy.

1) Apply security policies in case of Nt mach like 2000 , XP Pro through secpol.msc 2) Keep good antivirus sofware and keep the Singnatures up to date 3) Install Anti-Spyware Tools that detect Hijack's entery in registry forex spware blaster from www.javacoolsoftware.com, Trojan Scan, Spy sweeper 3.02, Ad-aware from Lavasoft 4) Keep complex passwords so that one could not guess it easily.

You might be using the classic interface (plain look) of windows. The way to get back is start > settings > taskbar & menu click on that menu bar. after invoking. Select startmenu tab from the box. click on startmenu radio button that's it. look at the pic.

please try this . You have Windows XP service pack 1 on yur machine. here is the desc Update for Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) 2.0 and WinHTTP 5.1 (KB842773) and download it from here http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...&DisplayLang=en

you have to change the value of Autopartition to 1 i presume .

No need to worry have has some patitence . No need to take much trouble and please do refer to this article www.microsoft.com/kb and type this number in box Q307545

Volume lic copy X1APVOL_EN > PROFFESIONAL EDITION OEM copy X1APOEM_EN " " ' Retial copy X1APRETL_EN " " " " Home edition X1AHOEM_EN > OEM COPY Home edition volume licen > X1AHVOL_EN HOME edition retail copy > X1AHRETL_EN

Volume lic copy X1APVOL_EN > PROFFESIONAL EDITION OEM copy X1APOEM_EN " " ' Retial copy X1ARETL_EN " " " " Home edition X1AHOEM_EN > OEM COPY Home edition volume licen > X1AHVOL_EN HOME edition retail copy > X1AHRETL_EN

please refer to ref.chm of Microsoft Windows Deployment tools Latest version of xpsp2 deployment tools selction networking > mstcpip_parameters > global parameters > DNS suffix search order

why do'nt you try alcohol 52% software . It can copy from damaged disk . dwn from www.alcohol-soft.com

experience counts and hands on ;-) keep on fiddling with server and worksattion both to find it's depth

www.webroot.com > spy sweeper 3.0 latest version www.spybot.com > spybot 1.3 excellent but takes liitle time . www.moosoft.com > trojan removal utility

B) windows xp service pack 2 for network and it professionals is about hefty 272 mb in size huge ever released by ms . It has combined fixes for home edition asnd professional You find this by extracting the exe and get the folder i386 \ip and \ic ip > for professional ic > for home edition now if you want you can express installer for windows xp by autmatic updates now now but on 25th august 1.60 mb exp installer + 70mb of files > windows xp home 1.60 mb exp insatller + 90mb of files > windows xp professional

look for following logs created by windows xp setupact.log setuperr.log setupapi.log but first of all besides all of this before setting up windows xp . One must run this command satrt > run <cd drive letter > say d:\i386\winnt32.exe /checkupgradeonly switch to find compability issues.

how come its like that . I'm even using the Windows XP professional SP2 slipstreamed version . I get the toolbar look at the picture.