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    Program Files, My Documents, on diffrent HDDs?

    Thanks torandson. The Unattended Install sounds like the way to go! One last question. You recomend a FAT 16 boot partition with the bootloader and DOS 6.2. Is there any reason to prefer DOS 6.2 and FAT 16 over DOS 7 and FAT 32? I think I have DOS 6.2 tucked away somewhere, but have never used...
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    Install XP from HDD?

    hanks linney. That makes sence, install from CD first, then copy the install files, then hack the registry to point to them.
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    Program Files, My Documents, on diffrent HDDs?

    No, no, I don't want to "Move" 'My Documents'! I want to tell XP where to find it. A little rooting around in a Win2k registry has turned up the key [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\InetStp] and a value of "ProgramFilesPath"="C:\\Program Files" It seems a fair bet that this is the key I...
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    Program Files, My Documents, on diffrent HDDs?

    Isn't there just some simple reg hack to set this up???
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    Program Files, My Documents, on diffrent HDDs?

    Quote: "Program files need to see the OS because of dll association." DLL and other dependencys are handled by the registry, apps don't need to be on the same drive!
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    Install XP from HDD?

    Been using Win98 SE for years, just about to install XP Pro on my new PC. With Win98 I always used to copy the win98 directory from the install CD on to the HDD, then run setup from the HDD. That way I never needed to insert the Windows install CD when installing new hardware, or adding Windows...
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    Program Files, My Documents, on diffrent HDDs?

    Been using Win98 SE for years, just about to install XP Pro on my new PC. What I want to do is have 3 HDD's, one with the OS, one for applications, and one for data. By default an application usually installs to the 'Program Files' directory on the system drive, and the default save path for...
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    Lost functions from context menu!

    How do I check if the "Server service" is running?
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    Setup Problem, Win2k Advanced Server.

    I am new to networking. I want to learn how to set up a server based network. I already have a peer to peer network with 4 Win2k Pro PC's. I have just installed Win2k Advanced Server on on an Athlon T-Bird 1.1 GHz, with a 20 GB HDD partitioned with a 16.6 GB NTFS primary partition (C:), and a...
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    Lost functions from context menu!

    Lost functions from context menu! When right clicking a folder the "Sharing..." and "Properties" items on my context menu are still there but they do nothing. When I click them the context menu just dissapears, "Properties" still seems to work for files but not for folders. It's like this on...
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    Automatic logon

    Thanks jimp56. That solved my problem. Now the logon box pops up. A couple of minor corrections were necessary in my case, the "WindowsNT" part of the key had a space in it, so it was actually "Windows NT": [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon] And the...
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    Automatic logon

    I'm an old fossil who has been using win98 SE for years, but I have no experience with 2k Pro. I recently bought a second hand PC with 2k Pro. I created an account for myself as an administrator, but the system automaticly boots into an account for the old user (also an administrator). How can...
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    Problem after format of Hard drive

    Windows 98 will offten ask for the installation disk when installing new hardware. Unless you have a very small HDD, it is a good idea to copy the 'win98' folder which contains the Windows installation files rfom the CD to your HDD. Your "computere guy" may already have done this. Use the 'Find'...
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    Random Reboot Problem

    My first thought with a reboot problem would be a heat issue, but it sounds like you have that covered. My second thought would be bad RAM. Third would be power supply, but you have that covered too.
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    Drive not ready Insert BOOT diskette in A:

    If your getting the message "Drive not ready Insert BOOT diskette in A: Press any key when ready.", then I am sorry to say there is a good chance that important files no longer exist on your HDD, or that the HDD its self has failed. Check that the IDE and power cables are properly connected to...
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    Drive not ready Insert BOOT diskette in A:

    First thing I would do is to verify that the "C:\WINDOWS" directory exists, after booting from the floppy, at the DOS prompt enter; C: cd \windows If you get a message saying "Invalid directory" or any other error, then its time to start thinking about reinstalling Windows. This assumes that...
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    Mad Mouse Disease.

    To the best of my memory these are standard mouse drivers that came with Win98, the phisical mouse is a Microsoft PS2 mouse. Devic Manager identifies the drivers as VMM32.VXD, MSMOUSE.VXD, MOUSE.DRV.
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    Mad Mouse Disease.

    The problem does not seem to occur in safe mode, or under Win2k (which I have on a seperate partition). This strongly sugests that the problem is not hardware related. I am still at a loss for how to troubleshoot this problem. The system has been running for about a year with no major...
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    Mad Mouse Disease.

    Thanks for the replies. The mouse is ps2, I have run PC-Cillin with latest pattern and AddAware and , I haven't detected any viri or spyware, I also have the ZoneAlarm firewall running. The problem also happens off-line so it is not someone else remotely controlling the PC, though I suspected...
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    Mad Mouse Disease.

    OS Windows 98 se, CPU Athlon Thunderbird 1066 MHz, Motherboard Gigabyte GA-7VA, Chipset VIA VT8366(A)/8367 Apollo KT266(A)/KT333, System Memory 256 MB. My PC seems to have caught mad mouse disease, after using the PC for a few minutes moving the mouse seems to cause random events, these...

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