Re: XP Pro w/ Sp2 OEM

"DM" <themusgravefamily@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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To be honest,

I bought this PC back in 02. It is an HP 360n Pavilion. I don't know what
OS came on it. I think I have the recovery disk. over the years, it got
viruses and spyware. A friend (super trained programmer), over a vacation,
copied my files and reformatted the machine and reloaded. I don't know if
he loaded XP pro from my recovery disk or if he imaged my PC with his XP
pro.

Long story short, I became an additional duty Client Support Administrator
at work and applied similar settings to the security policy and other
settings (I.e. login message after Ctl/Alt/Del). Once I got things showing
up like I liked, I started looking at the rights and took rights away from
everyone except administrator, system, and my personal user. I think some
of the goofy looking users (long alpha numeric w/ @...) I took out were
important. Also, I took out power users and backup users groups. Now when
I start the computer and log in, it takes a minute or two to register and
show the desktop. The start/task bar never shows. Most programs dont run.
Drag and drop dont work and right click and send to dont work from
transfering files to an external disk to get them off the computer to my
new computer. The place to go and start running the background programs
won't let me do anything. The security policy won't let me, signed in as
administrator, grant permissions back to everyone and so on and so on.

Yea, dumb. I know but I learned what was what.

Also, try this. Start the machine, attached to the network, and go to
another system on the same net. Right-click on My Computer, choose Manage.
Choose Action, connect to another computer. Enter the computer name, and
note the new name in brackets. You may now be able to alter the permissions
and the policies.

Alternately, remove the disk from your system, copy your data files off (or
make an image) to another system, put it back and run the recovery CD.
Copy your data back when done.

HTH
-pk



"thecreator" <thecreator@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi DM,

Do you since have your Windows XP Pro Disk? What is your Manufacturer,
Brand and Model Number of your Computer?


--
thecreator

"DM" <themusgravefamily@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I want to purchase XP Pro w/ SP2 from someone on eBay. They claim it is
"Brand New! Genuine from Microsoft! w/ TECH Support"

The only thing is it is an OEM version.

I've never bought an operating system by it's self without being
preinstalled before. Will this OEM version work for me? What are the
limitations on OEM versions?

I am replacing my current XP Pro operating system with a new one because
I locked the system up by playing with the security policy. Yea, dumb
but I was learning and got carried away.

Thanks in advance!





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