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? It may be in a hidden file. Search for winnt in My Computer. You can always change this later once you're logged in to Windows XP. Select Next. The Windows XP repair installation will now finalize. The Welcome to Microsoft Windows screen appears next, informing you that the next few minutes will be spent setting up your computer.
Registration with Microsoft is optional, but if you'd like to do that now, choose Yes, I'd like to register with Microsoft now , select Next , and follow the instructions to register. Otherwise, choose No, not at this time , and select Next. If you registered with your previous Windows XP installation that you are now repairing, you may not see this screen. If this is the case, just proceed to the next step. In this step, setup wants to know the names of the users who will use Windows XP so it can set up individual accounts for each user.
You must enter at least one name, but can enter up to five here. More users can be entered from within Windows XP after the repair installation is complete. After entering the account name s , select Next to continue. We're almost there! All the necessary files are installed and all the necessary settings are configured. Select Finish to proceed to Windows XP. Windows XP is now loading. This may take a minute or two depending on your computer's speed. This completes the final step of reinstalling Windows XP!
The first step after reinstalling Windows XP is to proceed to Windows Update to install all the latest updates and fixes from Microsoft. The repair installation restored the original system files, so any updates that you installed prior to this repair installation—including all service packs and other patches —are no longer installed. This is a necessary step to ensure that your repaired installation of Windows XP is secure and up to date.
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Create a personalised ads profile. Select personalised ads. Apply market research to generate audience insights. Measure content performance. Develop and improve products. List of Partners vendors. By Tim Fisher. Tim Fisher. Tim Fisher has more than 30 years' of professional technology experience. I have not set up microsoft outlook since 5 years ago and no longer remember how to do that. But I anticipate I will need to get isp codes or use smtp or something like that?
I'll have to google search for the aol configuration too. Using wifi and speed test. How do I download now and them get them to the proper place on my internal drive after the operating system installation. Is it somehow a simple copy and paste somewhere or does the operating system look and find it on the external hard drive to place the files in the right place?
The download options are run, save and cancel. If i click on save now can it go to the extrnal hard drive for use later?
I am guessing that this is a lot diffrent than the word, excel, powerpoint, adobe files etc which is a copy and paste to my documents? And the same for the drivers, the updated drivers could be downloaded somehow to the external drive and then somehow go to the right place after operating system installation? How do i find each driver that is old to make sure it seeks a new driver that is on the external drive? Where are all the drivers populated to go through the process?
Do I somehow skip this step by not installing the drivers on the dll cd and somehow install drivers from the external drive the first time. How do I do this? I use windows xp sp3 and I have a disk from dell that is a reinstallation cd Microsoft windows xp home edition service pack 2: Also I have microsoft office and if I have any problems with it I reinsert the cd and it enables repairs.
This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. In reply to Daavee's post on November 2, In reply to needhelpwithwindowsxp's post on November 4, Please indicated the steps and pitfalls and fail safe methods as per the first entry.
Thank you. There is never a need to activate Windows since it's already and perpetually activated. PA Bear already provided good instructions in one of the other threads you began.
Here is the link he provided again:. You should definitely have everything you need to successfully reinstall Windows and upgrade it saved to your external hard drive first, including your SP3 standalone executable, IE8 installation file, antivirus installation file, all your drivers, etc. Make sure you have everything handy before you format your drive!!!!
You are making things more confusing about using the word Repair. By all means, copy your data to an external drive. Then copy it back whenever you'd like. Backing up "program files" like those belonging to Microsoft Office won't work. You will need to reinstall all your programs. You can Google for more information or post to an AOL user forum. As far as the data you do want to save, only you know the answer to this.
Yes, most will likely be in your My Documents folder, but you may have saved files to any old place on your hard drive. Just go through every folder and see what you want to save.
If you're not sure, copy every single file you have! In reply to Daavee's post on November 7, Currently I am backing up my documents and desktop but I will need to learn how to backup files of contacts within microsoft outlook, aol etc 2 run a malware scan on the external hard drive.
I will try to keep it as simple as possible. Service packs SP are actually the updates of their respective programs. SP3 is nothing but just an update of Windows having the latest security and maintenance features. So SP3 can be installed ie.
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