Legacy Operating Systems

Please adjust your clock and or Timezone, you are posting in the future. It seems to me like the limit is set pretty high. Usually when you get a Registry Size Limit warning an increase of 1MB is sufficient. If you set this limit too high it may cause problems with the way the memory pools are allocated, it's a long complicated story, suffice to say that you should not go crazy with the Registry Size Limit. What is the current size of your registry? Please do not use registry cleaners on your Windows 2000 installation! These cleaners do more harm than good, you have worked long and hard to set your machine to your liking and to have it purr like a k…

Hi I am using Windows Xp on a Sony Viao. I burned a cd about a month ago using iTunes and ever since then when I insert a normal CD or DVD in the drive to try and play them or rip them they do not show up in any way. I have looked in my computer directly, in iTunes and WMP etc but the CD or DVD never show up the drive just show as empty. If I insert a blank CD or DVD my PC does register this. However when I try and burn something onto the DVD via any software application it always fails. Any help greatly appreciated as it means I cannot rip cds onto my PC at the moment or install any software that comes on a disc.

I am getting a new PC with Vista on it. What is the best way to move my email addresses and my bookmarks to it.? Thanks, (jbrown15@hvc.rr.com)

When I select "All Programs" in the Start menu, the list of programs all appear in one column. This remains true even as new programs are added; that now I have to point to up and down arrows and scroll throught the list. In an earlier PC, I remember that the All Programs list would appear in two panes, not just one, making it easier to see all programs and quickly select any in the list. How do I restore this feature?

I keep getting a popup window that says Netscape Connect:wwm.exe-Entry Point Not Found The procedure entry point SetupDiSetSelectedDevice could not be located in the dynamic link library SETUPAPI.dll Can anyone help me out with these? This first showed up after my computer had the Trojan horse virus last week. The virus has been removed.This has been popping up ever since. I don't know what to do. PLEASE, SOMEBODY,ANYBODY HELP ME!!!! ASAP THANKS

I can no longer customize the icons. When I click the drop down to select "Never Show" or another change, nothing happens. I don't get the dropdown enabling me to select a different display of any of the icons. Windows XP Service Pack 3 Any fix? Thanks, Steve L.

Hello, I am having a strange problem. I have an XP box on my network. When I start it up, it gets to the login screen correctly and I can log in with no issues. The problem comes in where after I log in, the desktop background image loads up, but none of the desktop icons, start bar or system tray. If I CTRL + ALT + DEL and go to Task Manager, I can run any program by selecting File > Run. I can run software, the browser, etc. Interestingly enough, I cannot run Explorer.exe. It says the program can't be found. I have tried to run the repair feature from the XP disk (not the repair console, but the one that repairs the existing installation) with no …

Hello, I have recently upgraded my xp pro to sp3. Since then, i am unable to acces the internet and get a Dns error message in IE6. I've tried repairing the connections but without succes. My laptop is still able to acces the internet, so that meanes my router and modem are functioning properly. I have swithed off my firewall (McAfee) and set the security settings to the minimum. My hardware seems to function ok. By using the commandpompt, config all, i get the following information: Windows IP Configuration Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : ilja Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . : Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown …

Somehow the font that describes the taskbar icons (like 'home', back, forward, etc) has been changed to a very fancy/illegible font. How do I change it back?

Is there any side/bad effect on the system if I register the same .ocx file more than once? eg. regsvr32 /s c:\myDir\ocx\grid32.ocx for 3 times or whatever.

When I navigate to a folder that contains photos, in thumbnail view, only some of the thumbnails are displayed, whereas they used to all be displayed. Now, some of the photos show no icon at all, and some show a generic photo icon but not the thumbnail. I am sure that these are all photos, because if I double click on any of them, they open in my default photo viewing software. Any ideas ? Thanks, Mike

When I run sfc /scannow, I get: Windows File Protection could not initiate a scan of protected system files. The specific error code is 0x000006ba [RPC server is unavailable.] any suggestions as to how to fix this???

I need to clear my computer of everything and re-install my windows, but the cd that came with my (out of date) computer is broken and I no longer have the CD-Key. How can I get the CD-Key from my computer now, and Is it possible to download the information that was on the CD on to another CD?

We are running Windows XP. For some reasons, when we press CTRL+ ALT+ Del at the same time, the Windows Task Manager is displayed. Do you have any suggestions on how to fix this problem? Thanks.

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Is it possible in any way shape, form or fashion to map a network share without using drive letters? Our company merged with another company and we use some of the same drive letters for our department shares. Without completely changing everyone's environment, can this be done? We looked at Windows Mount Points but the directories had to be empty. Domain = Win2003 FileServers = Win2003

I just installed SP3 on an XP Pro SP2 machine then rebooted (twice). All went well except that Diskeeper 9 gives an error message about a snap-in problem when I try to run an analysis. I get an option to continue (as well as inform Microsoft, etc.) and continuing works in the sense that I can do the analysis and defrag my disks. Has anyone else seen this problem? Diskeeper Corporation has no updates posted on their site and I don't know if this is their or Microsoft's problem. Anyone have a clue as to what is going on? TIA -- Jeff Barnett

Attempting to install XP x64 on a new computer I just built. I have created the RAID array using the onboard RAID controller and it is listed as 'healthy' during bootup. Windows Setup loads all the necessary files, then crashes before it can enter the installation screen. I get a BSOD with the following error "STOP: 0x0000007B (etc), (etc),(etc)" I understand this to be an error due to an inaccessible boot device. So, I try again this time hitting 'F6' to install third party RAID drivers. Setup tells me it will "load support for the following devices: none" I hit 'S' to specify drivers and it tells me it cannot find a floppy drive installed on my ma…

What is the equalvilent registry value for MaxUserPort (which is considered in Windows Server 2003) under Windows Server 2008?

I am receiving a NTP Server did not respond, w32time event ID 11. I have searched the support site and found the error but did not locate how I can remedy this situation. I am running Windows Server 2000, service pack 4 with all the latest Microsoft updates. This is a domain controller (one of three, two of the domain controllers are windows 2000 and one is 2003). Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. -- Bruce

I am running XP. I have tried to install iTunes on my computer so I can use a nano. However, I tunes cannot find the "My Music" folder because windows has changed the name to "Donovan's Music." I cannot change the folder name back to "My Music," since it is a special folder. To get around this, I followed iTunes instructions and created a new user on my computer, named it "Musicman," and sure enough there was a "My Music" folder under that user that allowed me to sync to the nano. However, the next time I accessed iTunes, it would not open because the "My Music" folder had been renamed "Musicman's Music," and could not be changed back. I bought a rem…

September brings us a new release of ATI drivers (graphics and mobo chipsets) for all OSs. Choose your version here: http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx Can't wait? Ok, display drivers for Vista x64 here: http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx?p=vista64/common-vista64 Carlos

My operating system is Vista Ultimate 64X I don't know what happened but I lost the Restore function and also the Snipping Tool option that was listed in the Accessories folder. I attempted to do a restore and found it missing in the folder so I typed rstrui in Search and was able to perform the restore to a date prior to this happening. After the restore, it is still missing, as is the Snipping tool. How can I restore them both to be included in the Accessories/ System Tools folder? Jack

Hi Folks; I'm troubleshooting a problem with my laptop's hard drive not going to sleep after 5 minutes. To that end I broke out Process Monitor to take a look at what is accessing the hard drive. What I'm finding is repeated attempts to CreateFile; C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Provisioning\store.xml that results in a NAME NOT FOUND error or NAME COLLISION. I actually created a store.xml file in that directory thinking that would make it go away - it hasn't. Does anyone know why svchost.exe is continually trying to create a file called store.xml and how can I stop it? Thanks! Dave

We have a terminal server used by our external employees for their accounting information and email. It is used by roughly 50 different users. We have it set so TS redirects their local printers to the server. In the last week or two we have noticed that just about every user has at least three copies of their local printers, all listed under different session numbers. I need to figure out a permanent solution to get rid of the excess printers so our users don't get confused as to which printer is the real one.