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Since I installed SP3 on my Windows XP SP2 desktop, I've been seeing intermittent and ANNOYING slowdowns of my computer. I'll click a link on IE, or select a menu item from a program, and the mouse cursor will turn to an hourglass while my computer slows. Sysinternal's Process Explorer shows me instances of the program VERCLSID.EXE popping up, slowing my computer. I don't where the hell this program came from - I think it's from SP3 - but it's annoying the living hell out of me. NO, I did NOT install KB908531, this must be a part of SP3. How do I stop this damned program? Do I need to uninstall SP3???

The USB ports on one Windows 2003 Server are not working, and in Device Manager under USB Controllers and Devices it says ''Unknown Device (along with entries for Root Hub and something else). On an identical server (hardware and software should all be the same) where the USB ports are working the entry reads 'USB Composite Device Driver' instead of 'Unknown Device.'' Where or how exactly can we either get this specific driver or fix this USB issue? We tried to delete the device and have Windows reinstall it, as well as tried to copy the entire drivers/inf folder from the server that is working to reinstall the driver on the server with no USB functiona…

My Computer screen keeps going into Sleep Mode. My power save settings are all correct. The monitor is working fine. So not sure what to try next. One week ago, I installed "Luxor by Mumbo Jumbo" Seems like the problem started then. I have since unistalled Luxor, but the problem is still there. Screen just goes blank for a few seconds, then comes back, then blank, then back... then after awhile, screen goes blank and indicates it is in the powersave mode. pressing a key or moving a mouse does nothing... Only thing I can do is hit the power buttone and reboot. Help Please!

The computer had the "standby" option in power options. Had to format/reinstall XP and now that option is missing. How do I make it appear ? Thanks Frank

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On my current Win2003 web server, it is on an isolated segment of the network. We use NAT to connect to the file share on that server. I am attempting to replace that server with a Win2008 server. I can not get the folder share to work on that server. I have configured the security, firewall, etc. the same as the Win2003 server but can not get it to work. I am wondering if something new has been added to Win2008 like maybe it is using new TCP or UDP port then before. Any ideas?

I need Windows XP Service pack 1 specifically. Can I buy it from Microsoft? Where can I get it? Thanks ps I don't want to get into the whole why I need it thing just looking for a simple answer

I have found several Microsoft KB articles saying that SQL Server is not supported on Windows Server 2003 Terminal Server application server (KB 327270). This article appears to be specific to SQL Server Failover Clustering on Microsoft Windows Server 2003-based server clusters where the Windows Server 2003-based server clusters have Terminal Server installed on the cluster. Is there an official stance about installing SQL 2005 on a Terminal Server? My experience has been that SQL significantly degrades performance when it is installed on a TS. Thanks!

I have a laptop computer. Running WindowsXP, SP3, all updates current. Yesterday I installed 2 plugins for paintShop Pro, and began using the program as well as the newly installed plugins. Late last night I shut the computer off and went to bed. This afternoon I came home, and turned the computer on. It booted up to the logon screen where you type in your password, But, as I type my password, the cursor does not move, and "no text" is entered. I can not log onto the computer, so I can not do a restore or get into Safe Mode or anything. Seems I am locked out. I also have an external drive that has all my backups on it, but here again, I am locked out of …

I am doing a large file server upgrade. I will be migrating hundreds of shares from a Windows 2000 server to a Windows 2003 server (SP2). Is it possible to merge or import the Windows 2000 Lanmanager Shares registry key in to the Windows 2003 registry? This is the registry location for shares and their security. If not, what is the best way to create or migrate shares w/ security intact. I can migrate the data w/ NTFS permissions just fine. I would like to know the most efficient and safest way to migrate or create new shares. Thank you in advance - JT

I have set a startup script using group policy, the script install the antivirus from a share. On a portable PC with windows XP all works fine when the network cable is plugged, but when I boot it with the network cable unplugged it's stuck for 90 seconds saying "Running startup script...". The others PCs in the domain do not have this problem. I've tried to debug the problem enabling the "Run startup scripts visible" policy. When the network cable is plugged the script window appers. When the network cable is unplugged the script window does not appear. Anyone have any idea? Thanks in advance.

Having challenges with Quota system because our "common folder" and user drive are on the same volume. Symantec Mail Security, Exchange Data files and our Accounting System is also installed on this volume. Plan: Backup that Volume Purchase Partition Magic (or some other form of partitioning software) Partition the drive into two seperate volume. Has anoyone done this before - I've had no problems on XP Workstations - but have never attempted on a SBS Server with RAID 5. One more note - Windows OS on Seperate Mirrored drives.

I have a Dell with standard SATA HD (no RAID). I just did a clean install of XP Pro and installed the Recovery Console. Computer boots fine into Windows, but when I try to access the RC I get a BSOD: Unmountable__Boot_Volume 0x000000ED (Ox8A7D34A0, 0xC000014F, 0x00000000, 0x00000000) Any ideas on how to get RC to work?

Hello Group: Windows XP Pro SP3, all updates This seems peculiar. I added a program which as usual appeared at the end of my list in Start|Programs. I right clicked on one of the programs to sort them by name, but the context menu has disappeared. It's peculiar because the right click context menue is working fine for any other file or folder in Windows Explorer. I ran ShellExView and found nothing peculiar there in terms of disabled items, except perhaps this: There are four items named "column handler" under "type". All four have identical description, size and version numbers but different CLSIDs. Three of the four are disabled. There are no other Mic…

Please help, I tried to install Kb953838 Kb929969 many times and it does not install; I click on install and it just disapears; later on it shows up on the system tray ready to be installed again, and I click install and the same thing again and again. It does not give any error; what to I have to do to have these patches installed. I reviewed some tips from the internet, most of them talk about error they are getting when installing these KBs. Thank you

We recently upgraded to our GL application (Microsoft Navision), and the application is being run from a Windows 2008 terminal server environment. When my users try to update an existing excel worksheet from the published application, the process runs, and then just stalls without completing (no error message). However, if I allow them to log in to the Remote Desktop of the Windows 2008 Terminal server, and run Nav within that environment, the process completes. My first inclincation is to disable UAC, but I like the idea of keeping that feature if possible. Any insight would be greatly appreciated. thanks, Steve

I have office 2000 that includes Access installed on a terminal server. I wanted to upgrade to 2003 or at least install just Access 2003 on it but I heard that there is a problem of comparability or that there is a specific 2003 application for terminal server. Any thoughts on that? Thanks

Hi, I hope this isn't too redundant. I have a situation where a customer has a client/server app running on desktop and Server 2003. Performance is OK on desktops, poor on most notebooks and really sucks over vpn links and even a dedicated T1. THe temporary fix has been to let 2 remote users RDP in to the server. This works great. The problem is that we have used the 'Remote Administration' (default) mode. Thus we are limited to two sessions. Is there a way of getting more sessions WITHOUT doing anything drastic. There is no issue with purchasing licenses if that's all it takes. Changing TS to Application more may not be an option because a software…

Windows server 2003 XP Pro Clients with 1 or 2 Windows 2K pro clients Hi there, I need to set up a message of the day & I don't want to spend any money! I know that I could use Domain Security policy and create a crude Title & Message there but this has to be something that an end user would be able to change so it cuts that one out. I have currently created a folder on a global share & that contains a Word document which can be saved as an html file. I've also created a shortcut to go into All Users/Start Menu/Program Files/StartUp to run the html file. Basically it works OK & apart from making the IE shortcut do a few things (no navigatio…

Hi, I want to make uses computers monitors go into standby after 20mins if idle, is this possible via a GPO? We have XP users and AD 2003. Thanks

sir, We have installed 40 nos of ms-office 2007. but there are no shortcut bar present. so pls give us suggestion for the same. OR any utility for the same pls revert back urgently. Kalpesh K. Turde 9 8 6 7 7 0 5 5 7 9

(Please note: This isn't a job for UPHClean. It's not a problem with users logging off.) Does anybody know how a user hive can remain loaded in HKEY_USERS even AFTER a Windows reboot (and before users have logged on)? A program running with admin privilege, a spyware scanner, directly loads all the user hives into HKEY_USERS to check registry settings for spyware. Occasionally it fails to unload the hives, and users logging on get the "Windows cannot load the locally stored profile" message. A reboot normally frees up the hives. But I am hearing scattered reports--which I haven't witnessed personally--that user hives are still loaded into HKEY_USE…

I was unable to install TurboTax on my Windows XP machine and it turned out to be caused by a third party application: MacDrive. MacDrive by Mediafour allows Windows users to read Apple disks but also unknowingly defaults all drives on the machine to be Apple, if a dual format Apple/Windows disk is introduced. This only occasionally causes a problem, but is unlikely to be found, since it generally occurs some months AFTER installation of MacDrive. I went through all the Windows support debugging of checking my Registry autorun settings and updating all my Windows installers. None of this helped. I only found out the culprit was MacDrive when I re-forma…

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I have a vendor that is trying to tell me that they need Admin permissions on the Windows 2003 server to perform the following actions. They also thought they needed it for file creation and registry editing, which they don't, but I'm unfamiliar with the following and can't find much online. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks! 1. Global System Objects (mutex, events) creation/read/write, used by Inter Process Communication: - Conversion engine - Database remote storage - Database lock/synchronization management - DW licensing management - Full Text Search (indexing service) management 2. Shared Memory creation/read/write (used by Inter Process Commu…