Great stuff Brad, that did the trick.

Now we are getting on with the XP repair.

Thanks

Hi Marin85, Thanks for your suggestion. We tried the repair option on an XP recovery disc but no matter what we did the machine would boot but the Windows Setup application on the CD could not see the SATA hard drive, whether we selected REPAIR or NEW INSTALL. If we boot using an Acronis Disk Direct...

HELP. A colleague of mines T60p XP machine went off for a video repair after we had removed the SATA harddrive. While the laptop was away for repair its harddrive was plugged in to a desktop XP machine to acess the files that were on the drive, not as the c: drive but just as a data drive. Some time...

Hi, I have a T60 runnig XP and normally use it with a bluetooth mouse. The problem is that the pointer speed for the trackpad is greatly different from that of the mouse. If I adjust it using the Control Panel>Mouse then the one pointer speed setting applies to both the mouse and the pad. How can I ...

Unfortunately I tried that one already and it didnt work. On investigating this more it seems that XP loads a default user locale before my own locale settings. This is the locale that is used for the logon stuff I have had a good search around and have come up with this :- http://support.microsoft....

Well the problem is that that password is then used throughout the organisation as network logon and email passwords etc. and would be a pain to change

Thanks anyway, I know it would work but its really a work around rather than a solution.

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