XP Forgets Settings

[Scott M.]

I just swapped out an ailing motherboard for a new one.
Now when I boot XP and login, it does not remember any of
my theme, color or taskbar settings.

I reinstalled (in-place upgrade) XP to rediscover and
reinstall all of the components and device drivers to see
if that would help. It didn't.

Any ideas?

 

[dglock]

i don't know what an "in place ugrade" means.
did you do a repair install?
if not try that.
don

 

[Guest]

The key is preparation of the old system before taking out the old motherboard
There is a SYSPREP tool on the XP CD
You may need to extract files from the Windows XP CD, files are located at CD:\SUPPORT\TOOLS\ in a cab file called DEPLOY.CAB. The files are Sysprep.exe and Setupcl.exe
With the old motherboard still intact
You run sysprep and "RESEAL" Windows XP
Then you put the new board in, and it re-activates Windows XP and populates the device manager list
You do need to re-activate with the same key-code, and if you exhaust that number of activations, it will prompt you to cal
Microsoft and you get a new release key at no cost from them over the phone
If you have hardware conflicts with the new motherboard and any device, you will have extensive problems noticeable by memory dumps
For detailed info. go to
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;q302577