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1. OLD XP COMPUTER IS ASKING TO REGISTER WINDOWS HOW TO
2. OLD XP COMPUTER IS ASKING TO REGISTER WINDOWS INSTALL
3. OLD XP COMPUTER IS ASKING TO REGISTER WINDOWS DRIVERS
4. OLD XP COMPUTER IS ASKING TO REGISTER WINDOWS DRIVER
5. OLD XP COMPUTER IS ASKING TO REGISTER WINDOWS ARCHIVE

The archive contains the taskbar texture, the wallpaper and the Start button to be used with Classic Shell. Download the following archive: Download Classic Shell XP suiteĮxtract all its files to any folder you like.

OLD XP COMPUTER IS ASKING TO REGISTER WINDOWS INSTALL

Install Classic Shell you downloaded earlier and do the following.

To proceed, you need to download Classic Shell 4.2.7 from its official web site (use the red button 'Download Beta'):Īfter that, you need to prepare Windows 10 for a better XP look and feel. The user can change the taskbar text color, change the color to make it different from the title bar color, change its transparency or set a background image or texture for the Windows taskbar.Īs of this writing, only the beta version 4.2.7 of Classis Shell allows doing this. Recently, its developer implemented the ability to skin the taskbar in Windows 10 and earlier versions of Windows too.

OLD XP COMPUTER IS ASKING TO REGISTER WINDOWS HOW TO

Today, we will see how to skin Windows 10's taskbar to give it a Windows XP appearance without using patches or themes.Īll we need is everyone's favorite Start menu replacement and system enhancement tool, Classic Shell. The appearance can be changed to some extent using UxStyle and third party themes, but in Windows 10, Microsoft prevents the taskbar from being skinned using visual styles (themes). Users who remember and like the appearance of Windows XP might not be very impressed by the default look of Windows 10. Either use an external drive and unplug it when you are online, or use a second computer for the Internet and transfer files from it after you download them.RECOMMENDED: Click here to fix Windows issues and optimize system performance I have tens of thousands of songs, hundreds of videos and music videos, hundreds of games, thousands of downloads, website design files, several custom boot disks, thousands of pictures, ebooks, documents and backup files and it was not funny when I didn't have access to important files.Īlso here is a simple way to keep all your data safe from being hacked. You can carry the drive anywhere and share files with your friends on their computers, MP3 players and cell phone that have USB connections. Rest assured I transferred them to the external FAT32 drive as soon as I got XP going. With this recent issue, I had to use my old computer with Win 98 and didn't have access to the NTFS drive that my files were on. I also suggest to format the drive in FAT32 so you can access the drive from DOS or older Windows versions, like 95, 98 and ME. You can get a external drive case for less than $20, or more if you need other options with it, and get a 500GB drive for $99, or find a 500GB external drive with case for the same price. Then you can reinstall the software into the old folder and your files will still be there. For example, Winamp and all the skins I have downloaded over the years, several website design software, games and saved data, etc.

I even install all the programs that I use a lot that have backup files I need to an extra drive, so that it will still have the info when I have to format the OS partition and reinstall XP.

OLD XP COMPUTER IS ASKING TO REGISTER WINDOWS DRIVER

You can keep your music, videos, documents, downloads, website design files, boot disk images, device driver downloads, etc on it and never lose it.

OLD XP COMPUTER IS ASKING TO REGISTER WINDOWS DRIVERS

After the install, I enabled the Onboard Controllers, installed the drivers from the mobo CD and it has worked great! I am heading out to get a chipset fan right now to see if my Abit board is fine and will install XP.Īlso, for those of you who aren't too computer savvy, one way to back up your data without worries is use a separate hard drive, preferably an external USB/Firewire drive. I disabled the Onboard LAN and USB Controllers in the BIOS and in less than 10 minutes XP was installing. After he gave up, I took the case into my room and had an idea. One of my housemates who is a computer tech was also stumped after a couple hours as I did some more research. I bought a new mobo cause I had noticed the chipset fan went out on the Abit board, and thought maybe the chipset was overheating. I used several boot disks, tested the memory, CPU, videocard, changed out almost all the components. I have installed XP over 10 times on this machine without problems, except when I had a USB device hooked into the computer it would give me a BSOD. I tried two different CD's and even the setup floppies, which hang up on the 6th disk. I had a virus and zeroed out the drive, since two days before I had performed the bi-annual clean install that I do every 6 months, there wasn't much to lose doing it over. I recently had an issue with the Win XP CD hanging at "Setup is starting Windows" on the Abit N7FS that I have had since 2003.