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How to Install Windows XP (Page 5/7)

Posted: September 10, 2002
Written by: Dan "Tweak Monkey" Kennedy

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Tweak Tip!With all this copying, it'd be wise to defragment your hard drive after installation.

After some automatic copying, the setup program should ask you about regional and language options. These only apply if you’re outside the United States, do not use a standard keyboard, or do not speak English. If this does not relate to you, click Next to continue.

Here you have the option to enter a name and organization. This will be used for many Windows programs, but is not very important. You can enter your first name and leave organization blank for now.

At the next screen, you will be prompted to enter that oh-so-important CD-key, which is located on the back of the sleeve or it should be packed with the license agreement. Enter it carefully (if you make a typo it will not work, but you can return and correct it). The letters will automatically be capitalized. After you’ve entered this, it will ask for a name for your PC. Again, this is not very important and if you want, you can just click next. We generally use the same name we used for Windows, or if we’re on a network we’ll follow it with a number. Once this has completed, you can set the administrator password. If you do not want to do this now, you can do it later. Finally, you’ll set the time, date, and time zone.

Choose Your Own Networking Adventure

Tweak Tip!XP does a surprisingly good job managing your network automatically.

Most users prefer typical network settings, but for the tweakers out there, "custom" is definitely the option you want. You’ll most likely want to remove QoS (choose "Uninstall"), because few programs take advantage of it, and you might want to install IPX if you play older network games. To do this, choose Install, Protocol, Add, NW Link IPX/SPX then click OK. If you have share files or printers over a LAN, you’ll want File and Printer sharing. Click next when you’re done here.

Now, choose a name for your workgroup or enter the known network workgroup to which this PC will belong. If you know the Domain you’ll be part of (if you don’t know what this means, skip it) enter it. Otherwise, choose Next. At this point you should have another short break, and when this is completed, your PC will reboot again.

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