Recent content by millervt

thanks..i do know I have to edit boot.ini, so I can avoid the annoying "which version of windows do you want to boot" (for now, the default is the right one, so it wasn't an issue). But just to be clear - are you saying that there are 0% required system files in the old windows directory, now...

This is a followup to an earlier thread...for various reasons involving a new MB installation, I ended up with my new, current version of windows installed to c:\windows1. My original install is to C;\windows. After I pull anything useful from that directory, is it safe to delete it? I'm...

yeah, if there is no foolproof way to migrate apps, i'd just as soon reload them - it takes longer to futz and find out later it isn't working because of some glitch in the migration than to just reload the darn thing to start with.

I assume, by the way, there is no easy way to move my applications from one install of xp to the other? Obviously I can move data easily enough...

well, I have the original pc still availble (would take a few minutes to reconnect to the various cables and such), so I can try that later today when I have a few minutes of consecutive time. that assumes it will boot successfully in the old system...

I bought a new motherboard/cpu (ecs gf8200 if that makes a difference) to upgrade my failing dell 4600C. I first booted the new machine with a random old harddrive I had around, and it kinda booted, but I got a blue screen of death. But it did boot successfully through POST, which was my real...

Recently my friend's sony viao crashed hard. Blue screen of death no matter what they tried (normal boot, safe mode, etc). They asked for my help, since i'm reasonably proficient at fixing simpler things and figuring out what is wrong and how best to fix it, and usually can save them time and...

I have a 17" princeton LCD (senergy 714) that is just out of warranty when it started failing - the screen would intermittantly fail to synch after being on for awhile. Turning it off and waiting awhile restored it, now it refuses to synch at all. (by "refusing to synch" I mean that the image...

I recently got a barebones kit that included the PC CHips A13G+ GEforce6100 motherboard, along with 1 GB of slow pc4200 memory. I want to upgrade the memory, but I get confused when I go to newegg and find all kinds of nearly-identical 1GB offerings (I'm looking at 2X1GB of dual channel PC6400...

thanks for the thought of changing the time in BIOS..which is also wrong, but I can change it to the right date (not sure if it will keep up with the right date tomorrow...)..but in windows, it refuses to change the date from the BIOS date. So I can set it to today, march 13th, in the BIOS, and...

Ever since the DST change, my PC is always on March 10th, roughly around midnight. I can't change it...I open up the clock, and make the time correct, but when I click APPLY (or OK) it just reverts back to march 10th, 11:45Pm or so. I tried applying the latest DST patch from microsoft, says it...

We have a PC that is shared between the parents and some teens. We (the parents) use the internet all the time for the usual useful purposes (buying online for example), but we've had nothing but troubles with the teens abusing it (visiting inappropriate sites, staying up all night chatting...

I'm trying to set up a small home network for a friend (the usual, I got drafted to help....sigh...). Their main PC is a new winxp machine that connects to the net via dsl, and has their printer attached to it. Their older PC is a gateway essential 450, circa 1999, with win98SE. They want to...