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Hi, We have a problem on one of our Domain Controllers which is running windows 2003 R2 server (SP2) The server almost ran out of disk space I have managed to free up enough disk space to give us some breathing room, but the MAJOR problem we have is Windows Explorer is reporting that there is only 602MB free on the 8GB System © drive. But if you run chkdsk it reports that 4314608 KB is available (i.e. 4GB of space) Does anyone know how we can get the windows to recognise that we have 4GB of free space and not 602MB If we do a dir /a /s it reports that 4,029,885,992 bytes are used and that 631,287,808 bytes are free The drive is formatted w…

All of a sudden my printer has disappeared from my computer. I can't reinstall it. All I get is an error message: "Print spooler service is not running."

I reformatted the HD and reinstalled XPHome/Sp2 this morning. How do I remove the MS-Messenger thing that refuses to die? I can't even exit it. Unchecking it in msconfig doesn't work. PLEASE... how do I remove it from my PC?

Hi all, Anyone use diskpart to create another partition? Thank you.

I hope somebody in here can assist as I am tearing my hair out. We have three servers A B and C. All are running Windows Server 2003. We use RRAS to setup demand dial between the servers to enable "private" communication between them as opposed to the Internet facing network traffic on the single network card in each. Each server has it's own private (192.168) subnet on the demand dial interface. This has worked fine for a couple of years but now we are going to introduce a fourth server (Lets call it D) running Windows server 2008. I have added the server role to get RRAS installed and configured. I have added a Demand Dial link on the server to connect…

this is on a XP system using office 2007 : : > I have an issue with one of our new computers. It is a Dell P4 1gb ram, 2.8 : > ghz and is on a network. For the last couple weeks the client is complaining : > that it takes a long time to open windws explorer, once in it is then slow : > for the first few folders clicked and then seems ok. It actually takes about : > 40-60 seconds to open explorer. As i mentioned it is a new machine so : > shouldnt have much crap on it to bog it down. I have 2 other machines : > exactly the same that dont seem to have this issue. Any ideas on how to fix : > this or what to look for? : >

Hello, I've recently run into an issue with a client who is running Windows Server 2008 as a Terminal Server. What is occurring, is the print spooler service is stopping, with no errors or warnings. Restarting the spooler service allows printing to continue. The client is accessing a Foxpro based program, and we are using Remote Application for the remote users, rather than a full desktop. The server is up-to-date on Windows updates. Other clients, connecting to an identical Terminal Server, running the same application, in the same office, have no problems with the print spooler stopping. Any thoughts? Thank you, Jason A.

Is there a cloning program, such as Acronis True Image or Norton Ghost, that will clone a laptop hard drive to a USB hard drive using a CD disk, or do they require a floppy drive? I'm very familiar with Drive Image, which runs in Caldera DOS, but I don't know how to make a USB drive visible in DOS. I've ordered a Lenovo r61 for a college student, with XP Pro, and after I decrapify it, add SP-3, Avast and ZA, etc, I'd like to make a clone. TIA

I have a PC with a dvd-rom, which the dvd region has never been set in. Whenever I attempt to actually set it to Region 1 (USA), It tells me I don't have the privileges, I am in the administrator group. Also, I have attempted with and without the movie present in the drive. Can anybody here help me with this issue?

Hello...in XP Home SP2, when I try to use the Windows key+E to bring up Windows Explorer, I get the following error message: "This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Please contact your system administrator." Other logo key combos seem to work ok, like the +R for run. Is there a registry adjustment I can make that will resolve this? TIA for any assistance that can be offered!

I change my logon pref using TweakUI to allow auto logon to my account. It seems to work once or twice then when I reboot it is gone and I am back to clicking me on the logon screen. it is doing that on two computers. same OS (XP Pro) and other s/w.

Hi, We are using roaming profiles, win xp on clients and windows 2003 on the server. I have a user who complains that the user's settings are not retained - when somebody else uses their computer. For example the resolution is affected. Is their anyway to lock down those settings so a default is used.

This is a minor but irritating little fault that has cropped up on my wife's PC. I reinstalled Windows XP on the machine about a month ago to give it a larger hard drive and tidy up the crud. All has been well and it updated to SP3 satisfactorily some three weeks ago. Now, it has suddenly lost the little left pointing chevron at the left side of the system tray that allows you to open the tray wider to display the inactive icons. Any ideas how to get the chevron back please? -- Keith Willcocks (If you can't laugh at life, it ain't worth living)

We ran into a situation with a customer and we're trying to figure out the best way to get them sorted out. They had a crash over labor day weekend and both of their servers went down. Their former IT guy wasn't doing everything above board and we're not sure exactly how the crash happened. They didn't actually have any Windows Server software on hand. Their old IT guy had set everything up for them and he is out of the country. Being labor day weekend the only thing we had access to was an MSDN copy of Server 2003. We used this to create the OS for the host server and also a VM server that acts as domain controller. Neither of which were activated.…

XP SP2 machine that cannot access removable media (cd/dvd, usb, etc..). The user is a member of the local admin's group, and the admin group when logging onto the domain. There are no default domain causing the issue (other users are fine) and nothing I find in the local secuirty policy causing this behavior. When inserting a cd, it says "Administrator has .....access denied" something along those lines. When I click run > e:\ I get an access denied error. Please help...thank you!

Hi to all, i've a problem on my domain (Win2003 Server and XP clients): Often, if i ping a host it does not responds, but the IP that returns probably was previously and now no more working. Assumed that i know the correct IP of that host, if i ping the address with -a flag, it returns the correct hostname.... Example: 1) Ping p-crespi.alerva.local [192.168.15.115] con 32 byte di dati: ---> does not respond 2) Ping 192.168.15.83 -a --> It works and resolve P-CRESPIalerva.local.... Is it a DNS problem or a DHCP problem ? Thanks to everybody in advance Bye Luca

I have a PC and I finally tried to play a DVD in it but the region isn't set. I am an administrator, but each time I try to set the region (with or without the movie in the drive) it says I don't have the privileges. I also have full 5 changes left. Can anybody help with with this.

I lost (temporarily) IE, so I decided to do sfc /scannow. Soon after it started it asked for the disk for XP Professional SP3. Problem is that my system is XP Home and not Porfessional. Wen I inserted the Toshiba Recovery Disk in he drive, SFC told me it was the wrong one... Anyone knows what is going on? Is this a common problem? Thank you

After installing update computer just kept rebooting at at start-up. Removed patch and working again!

1)I'm the only user on this PC, the Administrator. I'm running XP Home Edition. When I go to the 'C:\Documents and Settings\Me\SendTo' folder there is only two items in it: 'Desktop (create shortcut)', and 'Mail Recipient'. But if I actually right-click an item and choose 'SendTo', I find there are 13 location shortcuts listed, including the defaults - all the others are partitions in my drive. I remember putting them there, but why do they show up on the right-click menu, and not in the actual 'SendTo' folder itself? The shortcuts are not hidden; I've checked (folder just says two items, none hidden), and they do work! They just seem to be absent from the folder.…

Hi, I set up a domain for my small network (first time). I added up some pc's to the domain without problems. Now I want to add up the printer and share it. I install the printer on the Domain controller server and then try to share it, but strangly the users can't find the printer on their local pc's. Anyone had this problem? What's the easy way to share this printer to everyone? Thanks.

Hello everyone, I am having a very strange XP reboot issue...I have XP SP3 and now whenever I need to reboot (I usually keep my machine on all the time) it starts back up...gets to the normal XP screen (with the moving bar) and then goes to a black screen and just stops. No error, no beeps, nothing. However, every so often it will actually boot up and then continue to work fine...until I need to reboot again. There's nothing in the Event Log and no other noticeable error....all data is good and all applications seem to work fine on boot up (when I can finally get it going again). If I hit F8 when booting, it seems to always be able to get into Safe M…

A colleage of minee added a monitoring program that when one of my terminal servers out of a farm of 8 using Windows NLB reaches 40 connections the monitor will drainstop the server until the active sesion level falls below 40 again. this causes the entire farm to converge each time a server is drained. My concern with this is (With supporting evidence,please) Does this affect the performance of the servers or the stabilty of them.

System 1 OS Windows XP Professional w/SP2 Compaq Presario Intel Pentium 4 2.4GHz 1GB RAM IP 192.168.1.101 SUBNET MASK 255.255.255.0 4 Hub Linksys Router w/Cable Modem Attached WORKGROUP Workgroup HOST NAME BASTARD NODE TYPE Hybrid IP Routing Enabled NO WINS Proxy Enabled NO Client for MS Networks checked File and Printer Sharing for MS Networks checked Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) checked (Also Symantec Network Security Intermediate File Driver, QoS Packet Scheduls are checked) System 2 OS Windows XP Home Edition SP2 HP Pavilion dv1000 Pentimum M 1.5GHz 1.28GB IP 192.168.1.100 SUBNET MASK 255.255.255.0 4 Hub Linksys Router w/Cable Modem Attach…

Most come here to share problems as I have on hundreds of occasions. today I wish to share a positive solution to a video problem, shifting and flickering especially after moving he mouse or using the scroll wheel. On a whim, I decided to switch to another mouse having a little newer technology - a laser mouse. Well guess what sports fans - no more shifty-nervous-jittery video for me, just a very crisp, brilliant, and sharp display. This is a very simple thing and often overlooked, I suppose, but it worked for me.