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Hi to all, on a pc (win XP Pro SP3) i have this problem: when i right-click on desktop or in explorer, and the i have to click "new" to create a new folder, the system freezes for almost a minute, on every attempt to do the same operation i have the same problem (only the "new folder" task....other task on right click like "open with".."search"..etc has no problems) Thanks to all bye Luca

I was on computer today and went to shutdown computer when I was done. The computer shutdown then restart requesting information as if I had reformatted the computer. It asked for name and company then product key code which is back of CD package. I bought this computer used and didn't receive any of the software discs for it. How do I go about getting a new product code or retreiving my old one? Any help that anyone could give would be greatly appreciated. Have a great day!

I have noted that MS dont list Windows Server 2008 as being a possible host for Virtual server 2005. Anyone know if it will work as a host for Virtual server 2005?

I have a HP server with four 500GB hard drives. I completely re-did the arrays we would have two arrays: 1. two hard drives are raid 1+0: 100GB is partitioned as C drive and the other 400+GB is partitioned as E drive 2. two hard drives are raid 0 and partitioned as F drive When file comparing two files on the F drives, it works, regardless of the file size. When I do it on C or E, the file compare works for file size under 1GB, but fails if it's over 1GB. We had this problem with the previous install of the OS. We've replaced several hardware stuff like CPU, memory, controller. We even did hard drive diagnostics and didn't find any issues. what…

Hi folks i encountered very strange behavior of Perfmon on Server 2008: when i create Data Collector Set and one of the counters is: Processeor\%Processor time, this counter is silently not recorded. I happen to collect 60 counters and only this one is not there. What could be the problem?

problem with an user profile: Is there any way to restore it? When I try to log on a warning appears: 'It is impossible to load the user profile' [my error is in Italian]. In User Profiles under Status for profile with problem I read 'Backup' and not 'Local' like others. -- Lily2009

Hi. Our Win XP PCs print to the IP [address] port of our network printers, but in order to create a new port locally and add a printer, the user requires admin rights [which most don't have]. Therefore we have to log them out and then we log in. Is there such thing as a MSC applet for printers? This way I can either go in remotely (as most MSC applets allow) or at the PC changing the MMC authority to the local admin. Thanks

Whenevery I send/recieve in Outlook i get the following error. Task 'RSS Feeds' reported error (0xE3004005) : 'Synchronization to RSS Feed:"http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=121315" has failed. Outlook cannot process the RSS content from http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=121315. The link may not point to a valid RSS source.' What can I do?

Hi folks, I have used the MMC Terminal Services snap-in (%SystemRoot%\system32\tscmmc.msc /s) on my XP Pro machine to access several of our servers for administrative functions. It was very handy to have a list of servers down the left side of the MMC. When I would click on one of the entries it would connect to that server and open up that desktop in the right MMC panel. However, after installing XP SP3 the MMC now gives me an error (see attachment). If I accept the "Ignore Error" option it opens up the MMC, my servers are still listed on the left but clickon them has not effect. Any ideas or suggestions? By the way this has happened to two XP …

Each time a node joins (after reboot or new node) our nlb cluster, some (about 10 or twenty out of 200-300 in total) active rdp sessions to other cluster members are disconnected. The nlb cluster consists of 8 servers serving 300 rdp clients, most of them wyse thin clients. Balanced traffic is only TCP 3389. All servers are Windows Server 2003 Entrise Edition with SP2. Session redirection is achieved via windows session directory. Did anyone else notice this effect or is there a known solution? Best regards Andi

I am trying to encrypt a file and or document, but when I get to the "Advnaced Attribues" box to check "encrypt contents to secure data" it is not avaialbile (lilght grey instead of black)..............I know this may seem very minor to experts on computers but I simply can't figure it out and have to send a document encrypted via email............................any help is appreciated. thanks -- colton

When typing on my laptop, whatever I type started appearing backwards. For instance, if I typed "katekelly", it would appear "ylleketak". If I typed a sentence, the entire sentence would appear backwards. I recently loaded a bunch of music into the media center. It loaded my entire documents file. I started deleting stuff that wasn't music related when I noticed it was asking if I wanted to delete it from my "PC". I thought it was just deleting from the media center. I'm new with computers and not really sure what I'm doing. -- Thanks, Kate

Is there anything on a local machines policy that would block it from getting info on a NTP server? We have our Cisco switch that serves as a time server, some clients have the correct time, some do not.......... so I'm looking into why some do not have the correct local time

...the IE7 view is changed so I cannot find stuff, the ergonomics... the placement of the home page icon is giving me carpal tunnel. And I have yet to find my Outlook Express icon on the IE 7 Homepage. Again, Microsoft's evolution incorporating change for the sake of change, has negatively affected my quality of life. As to XP and Vista? 2K was working fine but MagicJack decided to collude with Microsoft and designed their unit to only work on registered, legal MS XP and newer. If only I was techie enough to partition my HD and dual boot with Linux ....pushing applicatins toward Linux We owe MS nothing for their evolution. In the past I booted Wi…

I am having issues with several Windows Server 2003 servers running sp2. Currently we have IE7 installed on 3 test servers, and things appear ok when you RDP to the server or the console. The issue arrises when you use an RDP published app, or publish IE7 on citrix. It will launch seamlessly on the users desktop, and they can work like normal, except when they type in a UNC path in the address bar. now this can be, \\server\share or c:\ or d:\ or a mapped drive like n:\ or u:\. when they do this they get an error. Address Bar c:\(or what ever the path is) is currently unavailable. the odd thing is it pops the path you typed in, in a windows explorer win…

Dear Ross, I cannot really suggest any programs that will speed up Internet Explorer. From my experience, programs that claim to speed up your Internet connection simply don't. I can, however, suggest the following: * Delete your temporary Internet files every couple of days. A full Temporary Internet Files folder will significantly reduce your browsing speed, as well as causing a few other problems * On the Advanced tab of Internet Explorer's Options dialog, in the Multimedia section, uncheck anything you don't need IE to load on a Web page. For example, if you uncheck 'Play sounds in webpages', IE won't bother downloading them. This will speed thing…

Last Sunday (10/26/2008) all my Windows XP SP3 and Windows 2003 Server SP2 got their date changed back one hour. Any idea why? How do I repair this problem? I've already read and gone through the following thread and it's not working for me. http://www.windowskb.com/Uwe/Forum.aspx/windowsxp/264794/Windows-XP-SP3-handles-Daylight-Savings-Time-end-incorrectly When I apply the patch to both 2003 sever or XP SP3, I got the following error: Update cannot be installed as a newer or same timezone update has already been installed on the system Any help is much appreciated.

RDP fails with "This computer can't connect to the remote computer" with no Terminal Services error indication Has anyone else experienced the following problem with a Remote Desktop Connection to a Windows Server 2003 SE SP2 with all current High Priority and Optional updates applied? Any suggestions? The following is displayed in a critical error pop-up dialog box: Remote Desktop Disconnected This computer can't connect to the remote computer. The connection was lost due to a network error. Try connecting again. If the problem continues, contact your network administrator or technical support. The error occurs regardless if the conn…

Hi, I'm testing with a ts 2008 server and remote app. A customer uses an online (internet) application (via local pc)in which he can select a ms-word document. If it is selected than the contents of the document must be displayed in the remote app ms-word application. Is this possible? I did read something about making this connection via a msi file but don't know if this is correct. Thx. Ramon

Hi group, does anyone know or have some documents, links, ressources how the tsadvertise feature exactly works? I was wondering because I enabled the registry key (according to KB281307) on all of our servers that we access using RDP and now I am able to see all servers in my RDP-client. Of course that's what I wanted. But for interesst I'd like to know why I also see servers in other network segments. So it is for sure no broadcast mechanism. But how does it work instead? tia for your help Greetings, Marco

I have a pci tv card , twinhan, but ive never mamanged to run any software except the original install disk ... now .. when i view sky news on ch82 , the pog locks and shuts down , sending a error report as well If I download the latest drivers etc from the web site .. everything installs and works .. but the audio and video are slow , juddery , and prone to periods of lock up .... Any one any ideas . appart from ditch the card .. ?? the system is a intel P4 3.2 Ghz , pf21-ext m-board - 250 mb pci-ext navidia video card ... 2 ghz ram ... not sure if its dual core .. shows as 2 cpus on the device driver list ... winxp-pro all the other prog's run fi…

I have an MSI 7345 mobo and all I want to do is install Server 2008 onto it with two SATA drives... hopefully in RAID. Does SATA Drivers need to selected and installed in order to work? D.Morales

I've got a domain with two W2008 domain controllers and AD replication seems to be broken, I'm seeing the following log errors:- The DFS Replication service encountered an error communicating with partner SERVERNAME for replication group Domain System Volume. Partner DNS address: servername.domain.com Optional data if available: Partner WINS Address: servername Partner IP Address: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx The service will retry the connection periodically. Additional Information: Error: 1753 (There are no more endpoints available from the endpoint mapper.) Connection ID: C1447DFA-1EFB-4D08-B15C-FE28ABC82864 Replication Group ID: 92BA06E1-B8E5-4D2D-96F3-E4…

hello i use a server 2008 TSE and i test the new feature easy print it works, but i have some questions about - can i regulate the bandwith using by easy print like thinprint and how ? - is there a dedicate port for easy print (i want to prior thoses data) thanks

How can DEP be turned off in Windows 2008 ? Windows 2008 doesn't let me install Adobe Reader 9... Juan -----------------------