Legacy Operating Systems

Hi all, Im having a funny few minutes. In order for my logon batch amnd small vbs program to run at logon and for the GPO to enforce desktop wallpaper images, they must be in an accessible shared folder. My worry is; what is to stop a savvy user from finding those shares and altering the wallpaper or logon scripts/vbs..? Is it possible to secure these files from general domain users access but still leave them available during logon..? Thanks all, I couldnt find any answers online so far. Rolf

Installed a flatbed scanner succesfully on XP-Pro but the "safely remove hardware" icon is now stuck in my task bar. I've set it to be hidden but would like to know where to go \ what to do to remove it entirely since the newly installed hardware is working fine. Ideas or suggestions?? Thanks in adavance dc

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Where [or what folder(s)] are the old compressed files, that you see with disk cleanup/cleanmgr, stored at on win2k3? -- NuBee

Hello All, We are running Windows 2003 SP1 32 and 64bit. We are running into an issue when a specific server ( 64 bit, active node of a sql cluster ) is accessed remotely through perfmon to check any Logical Disk properties, certain disks show as "HarddiskVolume6". When checking these properties locally through perform, they show correctly. I have checked another cluster active node setup identically and it works properly. I have checked perfmon from either 32 or 64 bit machines with the same result. Has anyone seen this before? Thanks in advance!!!

I am going to build a workstation for my daughter, who is a design student and is going to run only design programs such as 3D Maxx, which takes advantage of the 64-bit architecture. I am fairly familiar with XP Pro 32-bit,as we have 5 installs in the family, but I am not familiar with the 64-bit program. Are there any tricks I should be aware of for an install? Particular quirks of the 64-bit version? Is there a website that I should know about if problems arise or is this newsgroup likely to provide all that I would need? Just trying to be prepared... Thanks Ken K

Ever since Sunday September 6th, 2008, my computer has had a problem with the date and time displayed in the task bar. Whenever I turn on the computer, the date would reset to December 31, 2000, and the time would reset to a time that\s approximately 3 hours later than the actual time. After I readjusted the date and time to the correct ones, and I restart again, the time would be fine. However, if I turn on the computer the next day, the time would revert to the December 31, 2000 date and the corresponding wrong time. When this is the case, as I turn on my computer, the first screen would be accompanied by a beep sound and this weird "America *something*…

Greetings!!! I have one server with MS 2003 stnd edition with Terminal Service running. As I am using 60 Thin Client system who are connecting to my server. I purchased MS office 2007 professional edition OEM. It got installed, but when i open word or excel it says this Microsoft office version will not run on terminal server. Then i found on internet, it says that only volume license ms office will work on terminal server. But when i contacted my dealer he said i will have to buy minimum 5 volume license. But as i will install only on server and all the thin client system will access from that, then why should i buy 5 volume license, it will be a costl…

I am Running 3 machines with XP Pro I am tring to access the desktop thru the LAN. I am tring to change the user names on all 3 computer to be the same. When I change the name of the Computer Administrator user the file under Documents and Settings is still the old name and I can't rename it. WHY? When I create a new folder with the new name and copy all the files I can it seems to work. WHY? Thanks for the help fran99

Does anyone have a script whereby the My Music folder is omitted from the Folder Redirection policy. I found a vbscript: ' Variable Initilisations Set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") Set objNetwork = CreateObject("WScript.Network") strUsername = objNetwork.UserName sUser = objNetwork.username strUserName = objNetwork.UserName strRegKey = "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Ex plorer\User Shell Folders\My Music" strRedirectionPath = "%USERPROFILE%\Personal Data\My Music" ' Write the new Favorites path objShell.RegWrite strRegKey, strRedirectionPath ' Variable Destruction Set objShell = Nothing Set objNetwork = Nothing When I log i…

I am using NLB on 5 hosts runing 2003 Terminal Server. The only way I can get a reliable connection to the VIP is to configure them in Unicast mode. According to MS documentation I should be able to use nlb mgr (gui) to manage the cluster, from a host outside of the cluster but it does not work. When I connect to VIP with nlb mgr, 3 of the hosts are "unreachable" according to nlb mgr. These hosts are available via ping, rdp, tracert, etc. I have enabled "Remote Connections" in nlb mgr, I have configured DCOM to allow the udp connection - still does not work. Any ideas.

I have a windows 2003 domain controller that is running dhcp if I rename the server from server x02 to say x05 any issues with DHCP service? will all the desktops\laptops continue to get their info from the renamed sever?

Hi, In the very fast moving IT Industry, there is a need for the people to keep a note of what is happening in the field, what are the latest Jobs available and in which technologies they are available and what companies and also in which cities. And also when applying for Jobs, it is obvious for people to look for Interview Questions in their Technologies and if they are able to find it all at one place, then they can concentrate on studying or doing R&D further on those questions and answers available. And for a better pay pack people are always in a mood of doing certification and at that time they are on a lookout for certification material an…

Hi, In the very fast moving IT Industry, there is a need for the people to keep a note of what is happening in the field, what are the latest Jobs available and in which technologies they are available and what companies and also in which cities. And also when applying for Jobs, it is obvious for people to look for Interview Questions in their Technologies and if they are able to find it all at one place, then they can concentrate on studying or doing R&D further on those questions and answers available. And for a better pay pack people are always in a mood of doing certification and at that time they are on a lookout for certification material an…

Is there a way I can use the generic label to change to system directory in XP? eg. by default the system directory will be c:\windows\system32 At command prompt cd c:\windows\system32 What if some OS they are installed say c:\winNT\system32?

I tried to download a program that would enable me to save videos, but Windows says: "Windows cannot open this file. File : video_downloadhelper-3.2-fx.xpi " and then it goes on to say that I have to go to the web or select the program from a list. These are difficult things to do. What could be the solution? TIA

We have deployed Navision (MS Application) via TS 2008 . All client printers are using the Easy Print driver. Quite often, when users try to print from this published remote application to the redirected printer, they send the job to the printer, but the printer does not produce any output. If I watch their session, it doesn't appear that the job ever reaches the que of the client created printer. To resolve, I have been having them close their application and reopen, and that has mostly worked, but I am looking for resolution. I do not see any errors in the Event viewer related to this. Thank you, steve

I would like to find out what user folders/files have not been modified in the past year or so to do some clean up on my servers. How can I go about doing this? Is the best way to do a windows search based on accessed date and do a date range?

I am trying to us the Terminal Server Printer Driver Redirection Wizard to help resolve printer redirection in Server 2008. When I run the Wizard I get an error "Error 6: Terminal Server Printer Driver Redirection Wizard encountered a problem with the WMI subsystem on the server. I have checked and the WMI Service is running. Does any one know why this Wizard will not run.

Hi All, I'm not sure where I should post this, so please let me know where I can/should redirect if necessary. Here is my problem: We have a incomming faxes routed to e-mail via a fax server. Somehow, phone lines got crossed and incomming faxing went down. When the phone company rectified the problem, incomming faxes are now only coming in via hard copy on the fax machine. I've been staring at the configuration settings of the fax server but having never done this before, not really sure what I should be checking for. Would appreciate anyone help in pointing me to the right direction getting this resolved. Thanks! Keith

I have a Fat32 disk I want to place into a USB enclosure and clone my XP disk. Can I format the enclosed disk to ntfs using disk management? I've researched a little but I want to be very sure, hence, I'm asking here. TIA. -- Semper Fi

AVG 8 seemed to have gone a bit Italian on me. The annoying information bar at the bottom (which you can only hide after it opens with the interface) was advertising some game called Shark Shooter and it was in Italian! It updated itself today in the normal way. Has AVG itself become a victim of some spammer/hacker? Chose to update again and was told no updates were available. Closed it and re-opened and this time there is the normal option to upgrade to Internet security.

Where did it go? I can't find it anywhere, even after uninstall and reinstall. It supposed to be a windows component. Thank you.

Ok, the system was working fine and then the next morning I booted it up and a screen came up and said that windows could not start due to windows\system32\config\system was corrupted. I tried recovery console and that did not show my windows installation. It did not even prompt me for a password. I tried running chkdsk and that didn't work. If I try md test it fails with access denied. Then I tried rebooting and going into windows install, pressed f8 and then I wanted to try to repair the installation. However that option was not given to me and it showed that I had an unpartitioned drive. I could only create a partition. I don't want to lose my stuff on…

Windows 2003 domain. Introduced the first Windows 2008 ent. 64bit server into my domain. This is just a Windows 2008 member server that I'm using for Virtualization with Hyper-V. I purchased a volume license copy of Windows 2008 Enterprise 64bit w/ Hyper-V. Server has been up for about 2 months now and i just noticed event ID 122293 recently and this event ID is beining generated daily for a couple of weeks. We don't forsee growing with Windows 2008 server for a while and Vista computers. So I don't think I need KMS and just want to clear up this alert. What do I need to do? Event ID: 12293 Description: Publishing the Key Management Service (KMS…