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Buy the OEM version. At worst you can pick it up for 150, plus be requred to buy a hard drive to be compliant with the "new" pc requirments. So 150+100 for a nice 120GB hard drive is 250 CHeaper then the Retail Version

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Or the best way to do it is disable the server service. Then it automatically disables them for you. BTW when you do this it also will disable computer browser service.

Use MMC to manage shares Disable them from there.

tried flushing dns cache on the clients?

IF you use removable drive bays you can.

I have some issues with XP can you be more specific

I had the same issue, and when I set my default browser to the one I used the most, it would open that brower respectively.

I have both versions. I bought the Beta 2 Kit and I am an official tester, and got the technical refresh. It may not allow you to update unless you are an official tester

Do you have the technical refresh or the original Beta2?

http://officebeta.microsoft.com/officeupdate/ I submitted a bug about the crashing of Outlook Doesn't do it since the update

You do need a decoder onbaord unless you have an HDTV with VGA or DVI inputs

This isn't the future for most of us Too expexsive and propietary. I think you will see NOS's that are modular You basically install only whats needed for your orgaization and nothing more. So instead of having a server with everything installed you your web server you only have the web server part, and everything else removed. And so on with other services. THe day of having a Server be all things at once is coming to an end though, unless your a small business.

Not encrypted?

Saw Pirates of the Carribbean over the weekend. Johnny Depp is the most underated actor ever. Was a fun movie to watch. I'll probably buy that one. I was expecting Orlando Bloom to break out the bow and arrow.

THats one of the issues with using .msi installers Can you not do an upgrade?

try using the one one ATI's website.

Are you installing anything else, like Direct X?

It will most likely work unless you are switching to a controller which XP does not recognize natively

It can be done. Better to do a fresh install, but if you don't want to go through then give it a shot

I tried there last beta and it was awful. Caused hella crashes. SO I'll wait till it comes out

I have done so when upgrading most of my components. I use Drive Image 2002, or you can put the hard drive into the new machine, let it detect all the drivers and such then do a backup with the new hardware

Nope You can add cmd line installations with intel drivers and such, but you have to newer SATA and SCSI controllers via floppy

I can tell a big difference between Rambus and my new setup. Runs everything zippier.

I'd try to reaplly SP1. IF that doesn't work you have have to use the ASR from the boot disk to retore original files. and reinstall all updates