When asked to enter a workgroup, most users will want to select the first option, and leave the workgroup label as default. If you are in a corporate setting, you may need to specify a domain.
Again, check with your administrator. Windows will finalize the setup. This will take several minutes and requires no input from the user. Your computer will continue to boot from the hard drive and finish the Windows install.
Select OK to adjust screen resolution. Windows will attempt to automatically change the screen size to make reading easier.
Once the screen resets, you will be asked if you can read the new text box. If you can, click OK to continue. If you cannot, then hit Cancel or simply wait 20 seconds for the screen to revert to its original settings. Select Next to proceed with the installation. The Welcome to Microsoft Windows screen will appear once the screen changes are made.
This process will just take a couple minutes. Windows will attempt to check your network connectivity. If you are planning on setting this up later, you can skip this screen. Enter the names of your users. In this step, you can create separate logins for each of the users of your computer.
You must enter at least one name. You can enter up to five users on this screen, but more can be entered through the Control Panel after installing. After entering the names, click Finish to finalize the installation.
Windows will work for a few moments and then you will be greeted with your new desktop. Run Windows Update. This will download the latest system updates from Microsoft. These are very important, as the patch system vulnerabilities and stability issues. Install your drivers. Chances are you will need to install your drivers again now that the computer has been formatted. Depending on the devices you have attached to your computer, this could include your video card, your modem or network card, your sound, and more.
Method 3. Install from the recovery partition. Many computer manufacturers ship their computers with a partition on the hard drive that contains the Windows installation files. In order to access it, you will need to boot into the recovery partition. The most common key to enter the partition is F This will appear underneath the manufacturer log right after starting the computer. Install from within Windows. You will need to use a file called winnt This file is a Windows installer that can be run from inside Windows XP.
To find it, open the Start menu and click Search. Select "all Files and Folders" from the left frame. Enter "winnt Running winnt From this point, follow Step 3 in the above section. You will still need to enter a valid product key. Your data will be deleted as it would through a regular install.
Yes, Windows XP works great in However, Firefox, the only web browser that still supports it, will drop the support in After that, you will still be able to use the internet normally for a while, but eventually websites won't load properly on the outdated browser. Non-internet based programs Word, Excel, PowerPoint, games, etc.
Yes No. Not Helpful 1 Helpful 1. ClixTech Australia. Yes it does. After the format, the computer will start copying files. After that, the computer will reboot. After rebooting it is perfectly safe to remove the CD. If the computer says that a file could not be found, you will need to put the CD back in. Not Helpful 2 Helpful 0. Include your email address to get a message when this question is answered.
Make sure you have easy access to your Product key. Put all your device drivers on a thumb-drive so that you can install them all at once when you are finished with the Windows installation.
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How to. Click that menu item, make sure your USB stick is plugged into the port, and then give it the name of the source disk image, such as eeebuntu After about two minutes the necessary files were all copied to the USB memory stick. It is then a simple matter of removing the stick and plugging it into the eeePC. A menu to boot from either the hard drive or the USB stick will appear. Choose the stick and press Return. After a minute or two, the familiar Ubuntu-like startup menu will show up.
I picked the install option, but if you just want to kick the tires first, you can run Eeebuntu from the USB stick, just like a live CD.
Most Ubuntu installations default to formatting and installing the system across the whole disk. The eeePC has two main partitions, each of about 70 GB. I also selected to partition it with the ext4 format.
Click the forward button and the installation will start. After about 10 minutes the new installation will be completed and will ask you if you want to reboot. I simply re-logged in once and everything showed up normally. Most things that you might need to do work are included in Eeebuntu. Firefox 3. I might try out 3. Figure 1 shows a screen shot of the desktop, with several applications running.
Performance was very good for all the applications. I attribute the snappy performance to the Atom N processor and the extra gigabyte of memory that I installed. The X screen was sharp and easy to read.
It was completely usable and had no funny video hiccups. The Logitech mouse worked right out of the box, without any kind of configuration whatsoever. Once this is done press enter to continue again. Once the script has completed copy files a popup window asking if you would like to USB drive to be preferred boot drive U: select YES on this window. Now select yes to unmount the virtual drive. Ok we are done the hard part, close the usbprep8 window.
On the startup menu you have two options, select option number 2 for text mode setup. Make sure you delete ALL partitions and recreate a single partition or you will get the hal.
Once the text mode portion of setup is complete it will boot into the GUI mode you can press enter after the reboot if your too excited to wait the 30 seconds Once the GUI portion of setup is complete you will again have to boot into GUI mode this will complete the XP installation and you will end up at you XP desktop.
Once you can see your start menu it is safe to remove the usb stick and reboot your pc to make sure everything worked. It gives you access to the recovery console by booting into text mode setup, and it gives you the ability to run repair installations of XP if you have problems later on. I hope this worked out for you and please post feedback to the comments section.
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