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Hi,

I've just upgraded XP Pro SP2 to Vista Business. Other than having
Daemontools installed (stpd.sys problem) during the install, everything
seemed to go ok. Now that I've got it up and running, I have the following
problem:

One of my four users (the main account, my account) always gets a blue
screen of death when logging in with a message about MUP_FILE_SYSTEM error.
The desktop is never shown. All other users are ok and the system seems to
behave properly when they log in. When booting into safe mode, the problem
user can also login ok.

hey guys, hows it going.I've got abit of a problem with my internet sharing between my Main PC (XP Pro SP2) and my laptop (Vista Home Basic)I've been trying for the last 3 days to get the laptop onto my home network. After none of my normal...

I have a network with mixed wireless and wired LAN.
Amongst other things I have 3 Windows machines on the network:

Tim-Laptop - running Vista connected wirelessly
FionaHG - running XP Pro SP2 connected wired
Tim64FC - running XP Pro SP2 connected wired

All 3 machines have their workgroup set to RENUKAFARM
The wireless SSID (relevant as it appears in the network pictures below) is 33ChurchMeadow

I have downloaded and installed the network discovery service for XP recommended on the help to allow Vista to discover XP machines (on both XP machines).

I have an upgrade edition of Vista Ultimate edition. The problem I face is I am currently running XP Pro SP2, and my mobo has a built on Raid controller (HPT370/372). I ran the Vista Advisor and it says my HPT3xx is not compatible with Vista. I emailed the manufacturer and they state:
Hello,

We no longer develop for the individual HPT3x controllers.
You can try using the RR100 drivers (this card uses a similar controller), but we cannot guarantee it will work with your hardware.

Regards,

HighPoint Technologies, Inc

My question is, if I perform and "Upgrade", will this "Vista beta" driver work? Or should I perform a clean install to "TEST" this driver, and see if it does work.

Apologies in advance for the lengthy post.

I started out with one partition, c:, with XP Pro SP2. Then I created a new partition, onto which I installed Vista Ultimate. This installed the bootloader onto the active partition (c:). I also wanted to install linux, so I created an extended partition with two logical partitions on it, one for root and one for the swap file, onto which I installed Ubuntu 6.10. This installed Grub into the MBR. So I had Grub loading either Ubuntu or the Windows Vista bootloader, which in turn loaded XP or Vista.

I was not happy with this arrangement, so I deleted the partitions onto which Ubuntu and Vista had been installed, created a small partition at the beginning of the drive (before the XP partition), and followed the instructions at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=260772, which worked beautifully.

When I go to Start -> Help and Support I get an error Internet Explorer cannot download / from help. And am not able to view any Help screen at all...

I have XP Pro SP2 on this machine and Vista (I installed it on a second partition)...ran the setup through Windows, so Vista is on "drive" V: now.

Even in Vista everythings running under drive v: so I'm guessing Microsoft is not forcing us to use drive c: anymore.

What I want to know is, how do I get rid of XP Pro without messing up my system? It is currently on my c: drive. In the boot menu I have 2 options, so I don't want to damage this either. Also I want to resize my c: partition and mix it with v: so it will be just one big partition again.

All the applications I've installed went to v:\program files\

Am thinking of upgrading to Vista and was wondering if i purchase a home premium upgrade pack will i be legally able to upgrade 2 computers (desktop and laptop) that are currently both running legal copies of XP Pro SP2 with just one upgrade pack?

Cheers