Wait for your computer to restart. After the computer finishes formatting, it will restart into the user options setup window. Make sure that you don't press any keys until you arrive at the user options setup window. Part 3. Click Next. It's in the bottom-right corner of the window. You can also click Customize Enter your name, then click Next.
Your name goes in the "Name" text field. You can also add a business name in the "Organization" section. Enter your product key, then click Next. Type the character key that you retrieved earlier into the "Product Key" boxes. Add a password, then click Next. Type your preferred password into the "Administrator password" and "Confirm password" text fields at the bottom of the window.
You can also change your computer's name in the text field at the top of the window. Set a date and time zone, then click Next. Click the "Date" drop-down box, select the current date, and then repeat with the "Time" and "Time Zone" boxes. Check the "Typical Settings" box, then click Next. This will cause Windows XP to install using default settings. Check the "No" box. It's at the top of the window.
If your computer is part of a workgroup, you'll instead check the "Yes" box and enter your workgroup's address in the text box. This will complete the installation setup process, at which point Windows XP will resume installing. You may have to wait for 30 minutes or so before the installation finishes.
It might be on a sticker on the bottom of your laptop if that's what you're using. Yes No. Not Helpful 13 Helpful Unless you keep a backup copy of your i folder, you can't. Ubuntu allows you to dual-boot your computer, which keeps both XP and Ubuntu. Not Helpful 4 Helpful 9. I found an old XP computer. I want to factory reset it.
How can I do that without knowing the admin password? Try to reintall the OS completely. Insert a official CD or dowload and make one. Then just install Windows normally. Not Helpful 0 Helpful 1. What can I do if my computer won't boot up, shows Windows, then shuts down and tries to start up again, then loops?
Repeatedly hit F8 on your keyboard during boot up, than select system repair. If you can't, contact your system manufacturer for a repair CD.
Or, if you have to product code, download from the Microsoft website. Not Helpful 9 Helpful 3. Boot into the Windows XP installation, get to the partitions, then format the drive. Just make sure you backed up all files. Not Helpful 0 Helpful 0.
However, at the minimum RAM, Vista will be quite laggy. You might want to consider upgrading your RAM to its maximum amount, which should be quite inexpensive on an older machine; if the processor is at least 1 GHz, you could then run Windows 7. What to do in that case? Simply doubleclicking it in Windows explorer should do the trick. Go into the cds directory and into wxphome or wxppro; it doesn't matter which directory, followed by the files directory.
Drag the "w2ksect. Don't get creative and place it in some other directory. If you have not downloaded ImgBurn, get it now and install it. You will find it listed on thefreecountry.
The version of ImgBurn I used to create this guide was 2. My cursory test of a later version, 2. Therefore, you should avoid 2. Either use the earlier version or get a version later than 2. Do not add or delete anything from the file. A dialog box will open.
If you can't find a "Load Project" item on the File menu, it means you did not carry out the previous step. Go back and do it. Click the "Labels" tab on the right side of the screen. Change the label in the ISO field to one of the following, depending on what type of bootable setup CD you're making. This step is probably optional if you can't be bothered. I seem to recall having entered a wrong label in the past without having the Windows installer fail on me.
Finally, click the "Write" icon at the bottom of the window. To find out which picture the "Write" button is there are no visual cues, even as to which picture actually represents a button , hover your mouse over the pictures near the bottom of the window and wait for the tooltip to appear. When you hover your mouse over the correct picture, a tooltip will appear with the text "Write". Note: depending on your version of ImgBurn, your icon may read "Build" instead of "Write".
A dialog box will probably pop up saying something like "You've only selected 1 folder! Return to that paragraph and complete the step before continuing.
At this point, the bootable Windows setup disk will be created. Voila, if all goes well, the Windows installer starts up and you're on the way to reinstalling your system. If you encounter any problems, you've probably missed a step somewhere. Missed steps account for the majority of the problems encountered by those who try this out. All rights reserved. Do you find this article useful? You can learn of new articles and scripts that are published on howtohaven.
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There are at least a few reasons why you might need a bootable Windows Setup disc: Very often, people want to reinstall a system to remove the crap that comes preinstalled on their system. The manufacturer typically installs tons of demo and trial software, toolbars and other junk that clutter up your system and slow it down.
Uninstalling these programs takes a lot of time, and even when it is done, there are still residual pieces of the previous installation littered across your hard disk and the registry. In such a situation, it is useful to reinstall a pristine copy of Windows, load the drivers and only the software you actually want to use.
Another possible reason is that you've used your system for some time, and it's become incredibly sluggish and cluttered. You want to reinstall and start from scratch. To simplify the process, you want to integrate slipstream all the Windows hotfixes, device drivers, applications, etc, into your Windows install disk, so that when you finish running the Windows installer, your system is good to go, without the need to wait a few hours for Windows Update to catch up with the last few years' worth of Windows Update.
After creates same, it would not hurt to test each to be sure you can boot on them. You don't have to "do" anything - just be sure they work. The Windows Setup Press 'R' to enter the Recovery Console. Ravinath P. Hi AnnaVest,. In reply to Ravinath P's post on August 27, Why don't you try your own advice and links to KB articles and see if you can create a bootable backup CD and check.
Let us know what you discover!
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