Hardware

For the sake of XP installation continuity, we can use the default product key inside the XP CD.

You can find the product key by browsing:

<cd-rom drive letter>\i386\unattend.txt

At the bottom of the file, you will find the product key. One of the common product key is

CD87T-HFP4C-V7X7H-8VY68-W7D7M

After finishing the XP installation, you need to activate Windows and use the original product key of the computer.

I have Miscrosoft Office Standard 2007 where I installed to 3 Vista machines. The 2 machines were OK but the other machine keeps receiving a Configuration Wizard everytime he opens a doc & excel file. And I looked at the Event Viewer, I saw the warning "A provider, OffProv12, has been registered in the Windows Management Instrumentation namespace Root\MSAPPS12 to use the LocalSystem account. This account is privileged and the provider may cause a security violation if it does not correctly impersonate user requests."

I am not sure exactly what fixed the issue, I did not re-install Office 2007, what I did were the following:

1. Change the WMI -> Msapps12 & CIMV2 security by adding the local user account to have full access.
   To access your WMI, type wmimgmt.msc from Start Search. Once open right-click to WMI Control (Local) then select Properties.
   Right-click to CIMV2 & MSAPPS12 then click Security tab. Add the local user account (not the administrator) and designate it with full control.
   
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You might recieve this error "Not enough server storage is available to process the command" while trying to access a shared folder from Vista (server) using your XP (client) computer especially after installing an anti-virus software (Norton Internet Security).

To fix it, you have to increase the IRPStackSize in the registry of the computer you've been trying to access, which in this case is the Vista PC.

In your Vista PC, open regedit from the command prompt, then dp the following:

1. Navigate to the following key:
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Parameters
2. In the right pane, double-click the IRPStackSize value.
   
   NOTE: If the IRPStackSize value does not already exist, use the following procedure to create it:
   1. In the Parameters folder of the registry, right-click the right pane.
   2. Point to New, and then click DWord Value.
   3. Type IRPStackSize.
      
      IMPORTANT: Type "IRPStackSize" exactly as it is displayed because the value name is case-sensitive.
3. Change the Base to decimal.
4. In the Value Data box, type a value that is larger than the value that is listed.
   
   If you created the IRPStackSize value using the procedure described in step 2, the default value is 15. The computer automatically uses the default value of 0x0000000f (15), which we often find to be insufficient. It is recommended that you increase the value by 3, so try a decimal value of 18. The range is from 11 (0xb hexadecimal) through 50 (0x32 hexadecimal).
5. Close the Registry Editor.
6. Restart the computer.

You may try just to restart the Server service from "services.msc" rather not restarting the server, it may or may not work. It is recommended to restart the server after doing the above procedure.

You can find the Miscrosoft link here http://support.microsoft.com/kb/177078