Here is some useful information on installing a network printer on a vista or windows 7 computer from xp, this also works if you are trying to connect to 32 bit version of windows from 64 bit and visa versa. The reason for using this method is so you can use a downloaded driver which may be customized rather than using the driver installed on the host computer. Using this method will also allow for the traditional prompt for driver by selecting the manufacturer and model.

If you have ever made a registry change that has caused your system to no longer boot, or changed your password and forgot it :-(, then this post will help a lot. In this post I will go over how to edit the registry from your bootable media (i.e. windows 7 full install disc).

Follow these steps:

1. power on the system and press the key required to enter a boot menu (i.e. esc, f9, f10, f11, f12, or del)

2. insert your windows 7 cd and select your disc drive as the "boot from" option

If you are having a problem with an error stating "not enough server storage is available to process the command." you may have a value in the registry for irpstacksize that is too low here are the instructions on how to resolve this:

Click Start and select Run
Type regedit
Expand the HKLM key to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Parameters
Select the DWORD Value IRPStackSize and choose edit
Input a Decimal Value between 15 and 48 (48 being more)
A Description of IRPStackSize from Microsoft:

registry icon A common issue between Microsoft Windows and Norton Security products is that during updates to Norton products or the removal of Norton products is that the registry entries for the disk drives becomes corrupt. To resolve this issue you must open the registry by pressing the windows key on your keyboard and the letter R key together then type regedit into the run field and click "ok" Once into the registry navigate to the following key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}

While attempting to login to Windows you receive the error: user profile service failed the login