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A friend has Win XP SP3 Home. Machine is almost brand new [under 4 months old]. There is only one user account. Out of the blue, when my friend booted up, it got stuck at the "Welcome" screen [the one with the "Welcome" word at the center of the screen]. And it sat there for about 25-30 minutes until I arrived. Had to do a hard shutdown [hold the pwer button down]. Rebooted and everything was fine. No flags in the event log or anything. Gis

*posting here and in the DNS forum* DNS is causing my Domain Controller (Win2003R2) to hang on reboot. It freezes on "Preparing Network Connections". To determine it was DNS, I booted into Safe mode and disabled DHCP and DNS. The server booted normally and I was able to log in. I then enabled DHCP and rebooted server and the server booted normally. After I logged in, I then changed the DNS service to manual and started the service and it started successfully and my forward and reverse zones came up (active directory integrated) and all AD errors were cleared on this particular server (I have a total of 4 DCs among 3 different sites). Problems …

I have Auto-update set for "Notify me but let me choose when to download." A month or so ago, SP3 was offered and I didn't dl it right away, just left the shield sitting there. About two weeks ago, I decided I had the time to install it so I clicked on the "Download." The shield went away and I assumed the update would be available for installation shortly. But two weeks later it still hasn't shown up. Is it normal for the SP3 update to take so long to download? Reply-to address is real John

I opened a folder in Windows Explorer. Went to VIEW, FOLDER TYPES, VIEW, clicked on "Like current folder". (Which I have set to view as LIST). I also unchecked the View as Webpage before saving. In Windows explorer, they all view fine. However, I have a shortcut icon on my desktop for each of my partitions. (example) Drive C Drive D Drive E CDrom, Floppy A etc. when I click on them, and open any folders inside, the files are being seen as LARGE ICONS. WHY? (this is really irritating). Thanks Bobobobobobobobobobobobobobobobobobobobobobobobobobobobob -or just BOB.

XP Media Center, Version 2002, Service Pack 3 Dell Dimension E520 I'm having some intermittent problems with my mouse, and I'd like to re-install my mouse driver. I've tried updating it, but when it checks the Windows website it says I already have the latest driver. So I'd like to uninstall the driver first. Question: If I uninstall the mouse driver using the mouse control panel, will I be screwed (i.e. will the mouse stop entirely?)? If the mouse stops working entirely, how would I do anything? Thanks.

Hello After happily fileserving since before I can remember, my Win2003 server has decided it needs to be activated again. There have been no hardware changes. Every day or so for the last week, it won't let me logon until I activate. Sometimes it activates successfully; sometimes it says it is already activated, which, of course, it is. It frequently refuses to let me logon via remote desktop, although I can browse the file system.I have to reboot the machine to allow remote desktop. Then I get the activation thingy. Could the probs be related? Does anyone have any thoughts? Jen

My recent Installation of Win98 never runs Scandisk after a crash. Ideas?

Why is it when I do a Google search that everything is in foreign language? -- survivor

Can I change my dual boot Win90Se-Win2000Pro to a dual boot Win98SE-WinXP? The reason I'm asking is that some of my games and newer vid cards require XP as the minimum, as do other programs. If so, what are the steps? Perhaps I would be better off wiping my HDD (after creating an image by Ghost) and then proceeding????? If I do a format, which OS should be installed first? Hell, I am just considering this. :)

Where can I uncheck the box to get rid of the smart menus. Those arrows that hide little used menu items. Just got 20" wide screen so have all the room for full menus. Thanks Joe

I'm just wondering if it is possible to restore a back-up file using the command-line? Thanks, Edd Mahan

Re: SCW Error when applying security template I have also built a fresh Win2K3 Ent. server with SP2 and all the latest security patches. After uninstalling McAfee i was able to sucessfully apply my security template. Thanks for the great info!!! -- dhercules ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dhercules's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/dhercules.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/windows-server-help/739338.htm http://forums.techarena.in

We have a Hyper-V cluster setup on our HP Blades and when a Windows 2003 Hyper-V guests pings itself the results are all over the place. Not really a problem until you start using SCOM to check ping availability now our SCOM falsly reports on slow pings replies. And when a Windows 2008 Server guest pings itself it says reply from ::1 which to me says it's using IPv6 but I have IPv6 uncheked for all network connections.

Please note: I am not 100% sure of the details of this issue, however I thought I might post a message here. I recently gave a family member a microsoft wireless 6000 mouse with receiver. Installation was fine but when they reboot the machine it will not boot up (I don't know if it gets to POST but I would assume not) unless they unplug the mouse. Once the mouse is unplugged the machine boots up as normal. I'm not sure if they are using the USB plug or the PS2 plug... I don't have that information yet. I suggested that they try the PS2 plug instead of the USB, although on second thought, the USB plug would/should have 0 effect on boot, while the PS2 pl…

Hi masters, I have a new PC running Q6600 and P43 chipset motherboard. I also have a box set WinXP Pro which I used on my old PC (bought 2002). Now I want to use this pack to install into my new PC. Problem comes, when it loads all the drive for installation, blue screen appears. Then it held. My friend told me that it might because the old CD doesn't support new hardwares. What can I do? I tried to install it from another CD with SP2, but when I input the Product Key of the box set, it tells the Product Key is not valid. Please help! Thanks a lot@!! :( herman

Hi, Our server crashes almost Two times by day : the screen is grey and we can move the cursor. It doesn't respond to ctrl alt suppr but we can ping the server. No particular evt. Installing SP2 hasn't changed the problem. Any advice ? Hervé -

Hi. I removed the "Desktop" icon of the Quick Lauch bar , allowing us to reduce all current windows, and I can't retrieve it. Can any1 indicate me the correct procedure ?

I'm trying to create a document and linked to a websitethat allows people to add information to it, save it and have those changes reflected when the next person views the document. Any way to do that? I don't even know who to ask... Any ideas of how I can structure this or does it require something within the site rather than linked? I tried an excel spreadsheet but when attempting to save, it saves on my desktop, not the site. When I return to the linked version, it is unchanged.

my download manager keeps starting my files on a program I don't want them to use further more I can't hit my save or save later button.

Hello, I am unable to open any file with extension".ini" If I create any text file, type some text and save it with extension ".ini" and try to open it using notepad (or by double clicking), it gives following messege: "The file name, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect" But same file opens properly if I try to open using "Wordpad". What is wrong ? Is there any problem with Notepad setting ? I use windows XP professional, version2002, Service pack 2. Please reply. Thanks in advance. Lokee

I hope someone can help me on this one. I our Environment the homefolder is set within the userobject in AD. Now as we are an International organisation, people from all over are connecting to our datacenter using Citrix and Terminal Services. We saw that the mapping of the homefolder is decreasing the performance of the servers. To stop te mapping of the Homedrive which is set in the user profile, we created a local policy on the server to set the Terminal services home drive, as it overrules the home directory setting in the user object. I have tested this on one server and it is working as expected, now i was trying it on another server and there it…

I recently migrated an old XP system to a new one. The old XP system was able to login to the SBS server as a workgroup computer fine, but the new system couldn't access server shares due to authentication problem. so I tried to log the new system into the server with a domain logon which worked but is a different user id. The problem now is twofold. The migration wizared put all the files in the local logon folder (documents and settings/user1) where as the domain logon puts them in user@mydomain.local's folder. What is the best way to have the domain user take over these local user documents (.doc, .jpg etc). Also when logged onto the domain th…

Our users work exclusively through RDP. For some reason a handful of users were given local admin rights, so that they could send each other messages using Task Manager. I've discovered that sending messages using that message does require Local Admin rights. Is there a way to give users rights to send messages using Task Manager, without giving them local admin rights? TIA

Every time I try to access an access database file through terminal server with a regular user I get the following message: "Windows can not access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item." If I logon with account administrator I can access the database. If I place the user in the administrator group I can access the database but i do not want to do that. Any help would be appreciated.

We have windows 2003 SP1. Recently we are getting the below error message in the application log: Event ID: 1000 Source: Windows Product Activation An error occured while the wizard was checking the current windows product license. Error Code: 8 0x8007000e. I am definitely sure we have activated windows license. Does anyone know what else would cause this error message