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| | My question is pretty simple..."how do you distribute window updates and Outlook 2003 updates to the many desktops in my group"? Pete... |
| | i have a classic VAIO SR7k notebook with a bad PCMCIA slot which has prohibited me from using the SONY PCMCIA CDROM drive. this means that i can't use the SONY system restore CDs since windows 2000 bios only recongized the SONY PCMCIA CDROM. bad SONY. i have an external … |
| | I keep getting the popup "#msntb_toolbar_full_name#". I click "OK" and then I get to wherever I was going. I can't figure out how to get rid of this. ANY ideas?:o |
| | Our cable broadband works fine on our other computers (through our router). However, on this computer (HP laptop running XP Pro - and my daughter's laptop (also HP on XP)) whenever returning to the computer after a period of 5 or 10 minutes, after opening Internet Explorer (or if I … |
| | [quote=antioed;157768]To be as general as the question posed, the answer is yes. Starting a built-in service such as Terminal Services on Windows XP that advertises a port will open the port the service advertises (TS is 3389)...stopping the service will close connections to that port since nothing's listening on the … |
| | I am really in a sort of hell here. I cannot get my 3 month old Toshiba notebook to shutdown/restart normally, and I have lost almost all functionality. It hung up on the process DLACTRLW.EXE which has to do with writing to the optical drive. I cannot get this "process" …  |
| | Hi All, I bought a new system with the following configurations Pentium D 2.66 Ghz Intel D102 GGC2 250 GB HD(segate). DDR2 512 MB RAM I try to install Windows XP with SP2.....I did the partion and it copies the files after that the system Restarted and it shows the … |
| | Hello all, recently I stopped automatic updates because I was trying to fix a slow boot problem. I still wanted updates so thought I had better do it manually, but when I clicked on Internet Explorer, all I got was the browser window but no activity, no home page, no … |
| | hello everyone thanks for reading, welll here is my problem: 1. put in Win xp pro cd to renistall partioned the disk 2. booted up gave me a "unmountable_boot_volume" message 3. ran chkdsk /p still didnt work what should i do? any input would help thanks guys email me at …  |
| | in my desktop i use the normal login screen (welcome) .when i click turn off the hibernate option is not been displayed. but when i use the other method to login i get the hibernate option at the same time in my laptop when i use normal login (welcome screen) … |
| | hi there guys and girls, Just clearing some stuff off my hard drive and was checking how much free space I had. It was saying I used 20g as you can see from the pic. (first picture) However I couldn't think where this 20g had gone so I went in … |
| | Need Some help, \windows\system32\config\system MISSING or CORRUPT, i only have xp home Is it Possible to repair it without formatting?????????:idea: :idea: :idea: :cheesy:  |
| | I'm new to this so I don't know where to post this or anything. My computer started lagging one day then my virus scanner wouldn't load. I have tried many virus scanners, but they all give me an error. The one I have now is saying On Access scanner failed … |
| | Hello, I came across these folders in my Tempory Internet Files\Content. IE5 46FKHVL4, AAXWV45H, P62TTSQQ. Z7YOJJP5. Do I delete the folders or just what is in them? Also the History has a folder called History.IE5 do I delete that folder also? |
| | I have a Sony Vaio with a 120 gig C/D drive. The C drive only has 13 gigs for programs, etc. D is full but I can move stuff over to a 300 gig Maxtor external. The problem is, there's nothing to delete on C and I'm at times under … |
| | Hi. I correctly uninstalled Norton Anti-virus and restarted my computer but am encountering problems. Whenever I open a word document or any MS office document Windows trys to reinstall Norton and gives error messages saying it cannot be completed. I can close about 4-5 error messages and only then will …  |
| | [COLOR=black]I've already done quite a bit of research on this problem and have eliminated most of the obvious causes.[/COLOR] [COLOR=black][/COLOR] [COLOR=black]Here's the setup. I'm running Exchange 2000 on a Windows 2000 server in a fully native mode Win2K active directory environment. Things have worked flawlessly for the offline address book … |
| | i'm using xp sp2 i have the welcome screen in my login but when i log off the tiurn off button is shown as [B]turn off sd[/B] my login name is not sd & i do not have any login named sd how to change this to [B]turn off[/B] & … |
| | Hey does anyone know how to install this eval copy (iso image) of serer 2003?? I am having the hardest time running this. It says app not supported by win32 :mad:  |
| | okay, i have a copy of windows xp and a hard drive with windows already on it but because windows craps out after a while (and its being crap right now) i need to reinstall it. The last time i loaded it on it was easy, this time i cant … |
| | I am getting the following message everytime I try to install activesync!!! It says: "Microsoft visual basic C++ runtime error library and the error message says E://companionapp.exe/ program terminated unexpectedly contact system administrator" Help please.......tried changing the startup settings did not work. Merci beau coup!!!!!!!!! BTW the computer runs on … |
| | I am having wuite a problem with Windows 2000 laptop. I reinstalled Windows 2000 after another unfixable error, and now its stable and good... but i dont know why the DVD decoder is not on my computer. It played DVD's perfectly fine before, and after the reinstallation... there is nothing. … |
| | hi....i installed activeX controller to install games then suddenly my laptop screen turn to sideways...until now. please anybody can help me? |
| | Somebody help this rookie out please! I rebuilt my computer and reloaded windows xp home edition on it and now I have no stanby option?? what did I do wrong or how can I fix this?? i tried reloading the program 2 times and its still the same thing!! |
| | When i open a video of something and it is a .wmv file or the video is opened in Windows media player the colours are different to what they should be. i cant get a pic to show but the colours are brighter and more faded than they should be. … |
| | I have encountered a problem booting up in Safe Mode. Trying to delete some pesky spyware .dlls, I tried booting up in Safe Mode. The computer booted up no problem, but after the 'Windows is starting up' screen, it went black, with a red rectangle from my LCD screen's interface … |
| | Everything was working fine, until I turned my screen off and went to get groceries (with the computer still running). I came back maybe an hour later and when I turned the screen back on, everything was sideways!! Instead of reading top to bottom, it goes from right side to … |
| | Recently I can only get my USB and flash card slots to work after I put a devise into the slot then reboot the computer. So, after I take pictures or want to use my flash drive, I have to place it into the slot, then reboot every time for … |
 | Same machine issues [B]also posted[/B] in Dead Machines. [COLOR=#0000ff]Press spacebar NOW to invoke Hardware Profile/Last Known Good Menu Windows NT could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: \WINNT\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM[/COLOR] [COLOR=dimgray]Boot error message after Dell screen. [B]GX1[/B] machine, 'spose to be [B]running 98[/B], purch. ebay for dirt cheap, … |
| | Okay so I am goinng to do a major upgrade to my computer. From P4 1.7 Gig with pc33 memory and agp video to a conroe with the latest memory and top of the line grahics card. Do you think I will be able to get win Xp to boot … |
| | Everything is working fine, with one annoying exception. My IE home page is NYTimes.com, and it opens correctly as home page or when accessed from address line by URL. Home page has many links, and when I click on these links, I get following message: "Microsoft Internet Explorer has encountered … |
| | I was reading an email about 3 days ago, when I noticed that Norton picked up a virus for me. So I ran my virus scan and it had picked up and deleted 3 of them. Woo Hoo. But now I notice when I start my machine, I get this … |
| | :mad: Okay, MY system was working fine up until about 4 days ago. I shut her down before heading to work just for a random shut down. And when I got home and powered it up I got a blue screen on boot up and then it took me to … |
| | :?: Trying to do a simple query of a list for thier IP's. The problem is the last echo of the variable (_IP) The parsing and seting of the variable seems to work fine Here's what I got: for /F %%i in (ServerList.txt) do ( set _IP= for /F "tokens=3" … |
 | Hey everyone, I'm still trying to get DNS setup correctly. I decided to pretty much start from scratch and use Microsoft's article 5171. I'm using MyCompany.com as our Domain and I put that in for the DNS as well. All of the other AD folders show up in my Forward … |
| | [B]Control panel would crash on opening it. Using registry and disc cleaners, I got it cleared up. However, when I created a 2nd user account, control panel now crashes again, but only when I open it in the 2nd account. No registry or other cleaner/tweaker has cleared it up. Any … |
| | when we boot the system in safe mode what are the files shown before booting the system?? ( a list of files is shown) i have some files in my startup list & when we boot using safe mode will those files be executed?? will drivers be loaded when v … |
 | I am very interested in running AIM Pro, which according to the aim.com website, is Windows XP x64 Edition compatible. However, the setup program throws back an error saying invalid operating system. Anyone have any ideas?  |
| | Has anyone had any problems running the latest version of PartitionMagic on Windows XP x64 edition? |
| | I dont know if this should belong under software or network security, but I am a little stumped at why I am missing the 'wireless networks' tab. This is a pentium machine xp pro SP1. I was trying to connect to the machine with software that will syncronize files in … |
 | Hi there,new here so please bear with me,I have a problem in that after replacing a faulty cd rom windows will not boot up,what I get on booting is a message saying one of your drives needs checking for consistency,I let it check and the message comes back no errors … |
| | This problem has been going on for a few days now. The list of actions is always the same, it goes as follows: Start up> connect to internet> after about 20 mins get an error saying generic host process enoutered a problem and needs to close> network connections stops responding, … |
| | when try to enter system restore get do not have sufficient security privileges do not know how to change it help would be appriciated |
| | [LEFT]Hi All, I'm a system administrator and trying to help one of our users with a pdf creation problem. She runs Windows 2000, has the full Adobe CS2 suite. She's trying to create a pdf in Word but gets the following error: ------- %%[ Error: invalidfont; OffendingCommand: findfont ]%% Stack: … |
| | Hi I am new to this forum, and not at all knowledgable about PC stuff. I am at my wits end trying to get rid of this error message. It first happened when I installed Symantect Winfax Pro (which incidentally didn't seem to instrall properly). I have uninstalled it and … |
| | I am trying to figure out why I can login as an admin and as a user, but when I try to login as a power user the system freezes. Any Ideas? Thanks Zero |
| | I have a problem with a Windows 2003 server that I have. We run a an application directly from the server which has worked great until yesterday, when we get a logon failure. What seems to be happening, is that in Local Security Settings -> User Rights Assignement, the setting … |
| | When I enter a partition and right click a folder or try to delete a folder, the explorer.exe process hangs for a few seconds, then drwtsn32.exe crashes and I can't do anything untill I Ctrl+Alt+Del and shut drwtsn32.exe off. Why is it happening? I just reinstalled Windows a week ago. |
| | I am always gettin g this small pop up windo stating WISE UNINSTALL ------------------------ could not open INSTALL. LOG file What the heck is this?????????????? i am so sick of it, but obviously if it keeps poping up, it must me missing, so what do i do??:sad: and yes i … |
| | Hi All, Im Mummabear, Carol to my friends. Dont know if ive done this right:mrgreen: but here goes. Can anyone help...since reformatting my pc my system is doing a strange thing. When I click on my local ddrives c,d or e,the windows search box comes up instead of the contents … |
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