Errata

I looked up your discussion of searching for a word contained in files and you
mentioned that it would search all files. This isn't true - it only searches files
with a "registered search type" so files with extensions like ".c" will not be
searched. Try it out - rename a text file to ".c" and add an obscure word to it,
save it, and search for a file with that word.

Sorry I don't have a page number, etc - I looked it up in the book at a store.

Your book states: "Don't believe the Internet Chicken Littles who claim the
activation will shut down your PC if you upgrade the memory or another component. In
fact, you would have to replace four of the ten key compnents within a period of four
months--your basic hardware upgrade frenzy--before Windows XP stopped recognizing
your computer."

I had done a brand new fresh install to my new computer after I had fully upgraded it
to my requirements and then activated it in February 2002. I made no hardware
changes in the ensueing ten months. But when one of my 512 MB memory modules went
(momentarily) south, informing my BIOS that I had 512 MB total system memory, not
1024 MB, Windows XP told me that I had to re-activate and gave me three days to do
this. Of course, I simply reseated the memory module and gave myself 1024 MB again
and restored my original WPA.DBL to avoid two re-activations (one to 512 MB and the
other back to 1024 MB). Whether the activations would have been time consuming or
really annoying would have depended on how Microsoft responds to a 512 MB downgrade.
And then to a 512 MB upgrade.

And, in a general complaint, I wonder why no PC author that I know of points out
that the drive image file of one's originally shipped computer is a far cry from a
real Windows XP CD. I can't imagine willingly going back to my original, as shipped,
system drive after finally "shaping up" my system. And I can see the value of a
clean re-install--perhaps as with Windows 95, 98 and 98SE, the necessity of a
periodic clean install. I HAVE TO believe that authors also must have a need to re-
install Windows XP.

you state: after installing the new hard drive and installling Windows xp , copy the
Wpa.dbl and Wpa.bac files to exactly the same folder. Windows XP will be perfectly
content that its's running o a legitimate properly activated computer.

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I installed a new hard drive and copied the files in the folders as stated but
windows xp pop up window started prompting me activate the windows xp within 30 days.
I got the feelin that it did not work right.

CD Drive(D:) in top picture
CD Drive(E:) in bottom picture

You failed to list the page number.

I should perhaps start by explaining that although my maternal language is English,
my home is in predominantly French-speaking Brussels and my new PC has the French
version of Windows XP (just try writing French correctly on a PC with an English
keyboard and you'll soon see why). My copy of the book is the 1st. ed, May 2002.

Anyway, after reading your FAQ on p. 192 about the Clipboard viewer, I thought I'd
just copy the Win98 Clipboard viewer across from my old PC (C:WINDOWSclipbrd.exe -
only 18.3 k ) along with the associated help file C:WINDOWShelpclipbrd.clp . But,
I found to my surprise that my PC *already* had a file called:
C:WINDOWShelpclipbrd.clp (25 k). And when I clicked on it, I found that it was
supposed to provide help to what appears to be an upgraded version of the Clipboard
viewer, known in French as the "Gestionnaire de l'Album". But I could find nothing at
all about this in WinXP' built-in Help&Support Center - or anywhere else. Here, for
example, is a free translation of the Help on how to save the contents of the
Clipboard (Presse-papiers in French) as a file:

"1. In the Album Manager (Gestionnaire de l'Album), click on 'Local Album' in the
'Window' menu.
2. In the 'File' menu, click on 'Save as'.
3. In the 'Save in folder' zone, browse to the folder where you want to save the
file.
4. In the zone 'Filename', type the name of the file in which you want to save the
contents of the clipboard.
5. Click on 'Save'.
Note: by default, such files have the extension .clp "

So it looks to me as if MS was on its way to upgrading the clipboard viewer into a
more elaborate program that would enable users wanting to make the contents of the
clipboard on their PC conveniently available to other users to do so by saving it as
a file in a special folder known as the Album, but something unforeseen happened on
the way to the launch of WinXP. Certainly, I can use the Win98 clipboard viewer to
display the clipboard contents on my new PC, but when I try to use it to save them in
a file, nothing happens. Maybe one day a downloadable upgrade will solve this
problem...

In any case, I'd like to suggest that you have a look for yourself, and amend the FAQ
to cover this in the next edition/printing.

I have an external modem, utilising Dynalink. Windows XP will not recognise the
existance of this external modem unless the modem is switched on BEFORE starting the
computer. If the computer is already running and the modem is then switched on you
cannot connect to the internet as a message appears on the screen saying that there
is a connection error and the program does not recognise the existance of a modem.

I spent three days contacting my internet provider and computer supplier and was
finally advised of this problem when I contacted the store which supplied my modem.
The first question he asked was are you using Windows XP.

I can't find any mention of this problem and thought it might save other users from
going through the same problems I encountered.

Windows 2000 User Accounts Control panel;
The sugested file called: Controluserpasswords2 that we should type in the run
command to access the User Account Dialog box does not exits on the Windows XP
machine.

The upgrade edition CAN install Windows XP on a computer
with a newly reformated hard disk (a 'clean install'). When
the Windows XP upgrade installation program runs, it looks for
an older installation of windows (as you correctly say), but
if it doesn't find the key file(s) it is looking for, it will
ask you to place the Windows 9x/Me/W2K installation CD in the
CD drive, briefly read from the CD, then happily continue with
the installation.

This is information garnered from newsgroups, then confirmed by
my own installation of Windows XP Professional upgrade.

By the way, an extra bit of information for installing Windows
XP on PCs without a built-in CD drive, but that support an
external USB CD drive:

The Microsoft support site provides a program that can be
downloaded that will create a set of 6 diskettes that can be
used to start the installation of Windows XP (upgrade or full
- note that there are 2 versions of installation diskettes:
one for the Home Edition and one for the Professional Edition).
These diskettes install drivers for a number of devices,
including USB CD drives.

I have successfully installed Windows XP Professional upgrade,
using the setup diskettes and an IOMEGA Predator USB external
CD drive, to the newly formatted hard disk on my IBM Thinkpad
notebook computer. I placed my Windows 98SE CD in the drive
when asked for a previous version of Windows during
installation.