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Remove FilterHello all. just registered on here to ask a question please. Just supporting someone who has currently a basic Windows server 2003 for AD and DHCP server roles for all workstations and has Microsoft Exchange 2010 installed for their Outlook Web Access for offsite email access. What the question and …
Hi all, My trouble started out when I couldn't get an internet connection at all and I got the error "dependency service or group failed to start". I went through the following steps: Reset winsock reset tcp/ip Reinstalled winsock Reinstalled TCP/IP Then I was just getting the Local Access Only …
When i right click on main desktop page, there was always the option of new folder.... new text document... new word 2007 document... but since last several weels, every options is available but not the "new text document". any idea where it has gone ?
Win XP update error 0x8024400A when requesting express updates. I have done a system recovery of HP Pavilion a1410n, which only updates to SP2. All seems to be working well without updates. When asking for an express update from Microsoft update site,the following error occurs, 0x8024400a. Words are, **"Website encountered …
I have a home network with a laptop (wireless) and a PC (wired), both connect to the internet through a DSL 2-wire gateway from Qwest. My PC has developed a problem connecting to the internet from a browser. I can get e-mail and my programs update automatically, but cannot connect …
http://picpaste.com/pics/B25egV2k.1344417640.jpg This is one on thousands of folders like this. If I uncheck the "read only" box and the apply, it goes straight back to being checked when I next open the propities. See, its not hidden. Please any help?
I can access all websites with no problem- except for one. I need this site for my work. The problem is intermittent- sometimes I can get in, other times (nearly always at the moment) I get a message that IE cannot find the site. I also use Mozilla Firefox and …
Hello, I just got A new Hp Pavilion g7 with 6 gig mem, over 500 meg harddrive...I download Firefox from downloads.com andI have been tring to download Adobe Flash Player from there site and it will get to 7% and stall out. I have turned off the firewall.I run avg …
I have had Windows Vista Home Premium for five or six years. Unfortunately it is behaving very badly and very slowly. I want to re-install but cannot find the original installation disc. I do have the Product Key Code which is labelled on the back of the tower system. The …
Sorry to bother this forum, but I don't know who else to ask. Please redirect me to a more appropriate forum if needed. I've had a website for my wife for the last 12 years. She is an artist. I registered her domain name through Network Solutions. Her site has …
Hey guys. We have an internal web server on our domain. When we try to access it over HTTPS in our web browsers, it is not trusted. We get the standard "There is a problem with this website's security certificate" error. How can I get this site trusted by all …
I'm looking into a possibility of using Windows Server 2003 to manage computers Power Schemes through Group Policy. We have many computers that are out in use and need to stay on 24/7 basically. I have had issues where somehow the users are able to change the power settings on …
I am looking for a way to use MS 2003 Excel with dropdown menus to display a list of information. I have one year of data collected and am looking to have it setup to display a sected month's collected data by day. If possible could this compile a table …
Hi My pc spec intel pentium dual core G620 Asus p8h61-MLX board 4GB Ram 500 GB Hitachi Sata Windows XP SP3 My problem is, i just installed a circuit simulation programme. At the sam time a little programme called pc monitor (something which scan the pc) was installed without my …
Hi All, I seem to be able to connect to https web pages but not http pages. I must be missing a setting somewhere that got out of whack, but I'll be darned if I can find it. My pc (the main computer for the home network) seems unaffected. I …
when i work in internet my computer works in internet but it does not work in other programs how i can solve this problem thanks
Hi all My pc spec- intel g620 processor, asus P8H61-MLX board, 4GB ram, Windows XP SP3. I can't wake up my pc from sleep mode. Sometimes it restarts after i press arrow keys . And sometimes processor fan starts working and pc still being in sleep mode. Anyhow i need …
Sorry to be so out of date but I am upgrading and compling (Quick64) some GWbasic programs to run on 64bit machines. I need to find the presence or absence of a file. In a batch file it would program something like this ..., but I want this to execute …
Dear friends, I'm trying to "Write" Chrome-OS.img to a USB flash which is of size 4GB, Booting Chrome OS from a USB flash. I'm using "win32diskimager-binary" to do that. The problem is when I try to "Write" the image, this error message appears: (Writing to a physical device can corrupt …
My Pentium D computer cant start windows xp normal mode, only in safe mode. I changed the IDE drive and i tried to setup windows xp but it still reboots after trying to get into windows. windows 7 dvd wont even start setup.
Hello, anyone can suggest some tried apps which have reminders and/or to-do options available to use with Windows 7 64 bit?
Hi guys! I have a problem I can't resolve. My brother compressed the System Reserved drive in his Acer Aspire laptop. then the problem occur. APEJU IS COMPRESSED CRT + ALT + DELETE to restart. there. Anyone knows how to fix? thanks !
hi all, I work on visual studio 12 express with asp.net mvc4 web + telerik contolers. we have share our code using svn but run project on own visual studeio server which starts when run the project. Everything worked fine but after updating code fewdays back after one of my …
Hi guys, Came across few materials about win azure and wcf services for cloud computing. If anyone working on this platform and technology, can u please share your experience on: i) Performance (comparison to clustering) ii) Manageability (deployment) iii) Scalability (when the server farm expands) Thank you in advance, would …
Hello everyone, I would like to mention that i am not a Windows Vista user anymore since Windows 7 is out, But while i used to be with Windows Vista i never had any problems with it til yesterday... The problem i am having is with, is the Task Sheduler …
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Please how do i really hide the system reserved partition in windows 7 without any harm to my system. And i want to know what hiding a Drive's letter imply. Please!
I'm trying to add a bunch of contacts with external e-mail addresses to my distribution group. Upon adding the contact's SMTP address and clicking apply, I get the following error message after a brief delay: An Exchange Server could not be found in the domain. Check if the Microsoft System …
I have nine files with extension **abc.z01** to **abc.z09** How to join them? winrar,winzip and 7zip fails to join or extract them
Hey all. First time poster. I work in IT for a relatively small company. Recently my boss asked me to look into software deployment applications. Things like [URL="http://63.150.169.70/Products/msi-studio/docs/msi-studio-datasheet.pdf"]MSI Studio[/URL]. The idea is this. When we get a new computer, setting it up can take more time than we'd like. Lots …
I'm running exchange 2003 on Server 2003. From my workstation's command prompt, if I enter "telnet (myserver.domain.local) 25" the screen hangs for a second and then reverts back to the original prompt screen. I can't even do "telnet localhost 25" from the exchange server itself. Now keep in mind, everyone's …
can anybbody suggest some browsers which are both userfriendly and consume less physical memory...
I run Win 7 Home Premium. All of a sudden I got a problem with upstarting browsers. The browser processes start for a second, then disappear. Browsers (windows) do not start. Here is detail description. I have 2 browsers: firefox and IE. When I start my computer and try to …
Recently, i went to go do the IPconfig In CMD... it came up and said this... C:usersColtenipconfig 'ipconfig' is not recongnized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. Then it creates a new line. Its like my classpath/Path or somthing is messed up.. All help Greatly …
About a month ago i had problems accessing my admin accounts. It all started when i was tinkering with the CMD commands involving both my admin accounts in them. The command i entered for both was the command to change the password of the accounts, that is: net user Admin …
my internet connection is working but i am not able to sign in any messenger and not able to play online multiplayers games. I am facing this problem from last 3 days. I am using a wireless connection.
Hi!! Just new to this website and there is lots of very useful information. Its great! I am having some problems with my hotmail, after i put my address and password and hit go, it goes into a white page. I dont know why, please help! I can do everything …
Hi, Actually I am not familiar with Exchange server environment so i have a qn. Can we convert ost file into pst using outlook inbuilt import/export option while disconnecting to Exchange Server. I mean If I am not connected to Exchange so i will be not able to read ost …
Greetings, I have a Toshiba Satellite Laptop running Windows7. Upon start-up, it goes to "Windows Error Recovery". I have tried F8 to start in Safe Mode, Safe Mode with Networking, Same Mode with Command Prompt, and it goes to "Loading Windows Files" and scolls for two seconds and stops, then …
I am attempting to boot a machine with windows 7 installed into safe mode but the option does not appear to be there. The only options availible are "start windows normally" and "Repair your Computer." The machine boots fine otherwise but I need to access safe mode for other printer …
When using Remote assistance in windows 7 it shows a list(albeit a small one) of past addresses(ip or computername) that you have logged into. Problem is it is numeric/alphabetic order. Is there a registry setting I can change so it will show me this History in chronological order? TIA.
I have 326 email addresses that I would like to add to a distribution group. Basically, from Outlook, I want to type the name of the group, say "research", and have my message automatically go out to all 326 e-mail addresses. I also need it to be blind, meaningch recipient …
Hi guys, I've got a strange, potientally easy problem with Outllok 2003/exhange 2003. When you click on reply, it opens up the message okay but it changes the font size to a stupidly small size. When you highlight the text, the font size says its 11 but its not. When …
Hello,, I am not sure if this whether is this a correct page to post my question.Sorry if i am wrong. Anyways, I am trying to use this 7zip software which i have made a batch script and integrate the script with it. I tried to make all the files …
Hi peeps, I wonder if you can help me. My sis's got an asus notebook F50SL Series which is now unusable, very sluggish and she can't run anything on it anymore. I was wondering if it would be a good idea to format it and install xp on it. At …
This is my first post in this forum. Suppose there is a web page with url : www.somesite.com/pages/1 I can save this page easily using Ctrl+s within a second. But my question is if there are say,600 web pages starting from www.somesite.com/pages/1 to www.somesite.com/pages/600 and I want to save all …
Hello, I recently activated the hibernate option on my computer, but found out that the Hiberfil.sys file takes around 2-3GB of space on the hard-disk. Why is that so?
I got a new gaming pc yesterday, and it was working fine. The next day I hit the power button and it started to boot, and shuts of again after about 5 seconds, then turns back on and shuts off after 5 seconds, repeat. (until I turn off the master …
how to: make windows think I have a HP computer while I have a thoshiba? I have some Legal windows7 dvd's but can onley juse them win I have a HP(than I must not enter key) or windows recognize a HP computer but I don't now how to do that. …
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