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I have an unhandled exception occuring in a component in my application pop up window that comes up every time I run windows, does anyone know what to do to fix this error??

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/889320/en-us makes a reference to a hotfix which I have tried in vain to get from MS. I was wondering if anyone ever received it? I was wondering if anyone ever applied it? I was wondering if anyone could prove that it actually exists?

When WinXP finishes a download, the downloading dialog displays "Download Complete" and gives the name of the host from which the file was downloaded, e.g., "www.blahblah.com". THE QUESTION: Is there any log file maintained or other way to determine the exact address or URL from which the file was downloaded? (Why do I ask? I am using a "friendly" tool provided by a vendor in which I click on needed data files from a list presented as a Flash (!) item in a browser. It downloads only a single file at a time, it takes forever to get everything I need, and it's prone to human error as I spend hours in this zombie-like ritual. I want to automate thi…

My screensaver is being deactivated by too sensitive a mouse movement. How do I decrease the sensitivity setting? I seem to remember being able to do this before, but it may have been on a different Windows platform.

I have a windows 2003 terminal server Clients have issues using HP printers to print locally. What are the best methods of testing printing since the print jobs appear to go into outre space. Thank you Leonard

We have our users configured in active directory with their home directories mapped to \\server\share\username using drive letter P:. We are using the proile tab of the users' properties. We use the Home folder section of the profile tab as follows: Connect P: to \\server\share\username We also have each users my documents redirected to the P:\My Documents. When the user browses to the \\server\share, they get access denied if they try to access another user's home folder, so we have confirmed the permissions are correct. We have found 2 users in the past few weeks whose My Documents have redirected to another user's My documents and they could …

Windows server 2003 printing problem - dialog box on console must beclicked to resume priting I have a Win 2003 Server Standard box that I am using as a print server. There are around 50 network printers that are connected to queues on this server. All our users connect to qhared queues on the server rather than directly to the printers via IP. The problem I am having is when there is some type of communication problem with certain printers. I get a call saying users can't print and when I remote in to the server everyting looks fine except that there are several jobs in the queue waiting. When I walk to the server room and log on to the machine directly, th…

I have been able to make regular backups via an external sata drive, but lately I've lost my access to the drive. the bios says it's there, but windows takes forever to boot when the drive is connected, not sure why, it usually doesn't take that long, I think one of the recent windows updates has messed up my sata drivers, has anybody else experienced this? Fortunetly the drive is also USB, it just takes loads longer to access the data.

Can someone provide a direct link to the page which allows me to d/l this patch for Windows 2000 Server SP4? I can't seem to find it. Thanks. -- George Hester _________________________________

Hi Trying to install Adobe Reader 9 but Windows is telling me Error 1714 cannot open patch and verify the older version, so I cannot delete old file and read any pdf documents. Can anyone help -- T

I upgraded from win2k to winxp and have this in the startup: tscupgrd.exe What is it and what is it for. Thanks

Can anyone please advice, if it is possible to that any temp file, which gets created while accessing internet explorer, will not be deleted as soon as I close it that page. example: open any youtube video.. it will be created in temp folder, but when I close internet explorer.. it will delete. I can't copy or move it from temp folder, because it is being getting used there. Note: Youtube video is just a example Please advice. Thanks Steve

i got a new computer and it must have something slightly different with the software because i am trying to email a picture from 'my pictures' normally another window will open with my outlook express email and i just enter the email address and hit send. now this does not happen! nothing happens! what do i do? thankyou! -- bemonty

I had a Missing/Corrupt Profile under Windows XP. I fixed the issue, but I would like to understand why this might occur so I can prevent it from occurring again. I checked the machine for virii, etc., (clean), performed a disk check (no issues), etc. I have been running XP for several years on various machines and this is the first time I had this issue. THanks

Question I have a 30 GB HDD (Seagate) in an Athlon XP 2200+ running WXP Pro with 1.25 GB of RAM. All is well with the system except yesterday when I got a notice saying that I was running out of disk space (I've only got 10.8 GB on the drive). I went to "My Computer" and the HDD shows up as being only 12.1 GB. I then right clicked the HDD icon and the properties graphically showed the same thing -- only 1.2 GB of space left! I checked Disk Management and graphically (on the lower pane) it shows the drive to be 27.95 GB, (which is more in line with a 30GB HDD). It shows the partition is NTFS and "Healthy" with no unallocated space. However, on the u…

We have TS server running Window server 2003 R2, we also run MS Office 2000. We are having a problem where the user has excel open on there desktop and working quite happily and then suddenly excel with just disappear, no error message appear on screen, now error message are shown in the event log, infact there is no trace of anything having happened. Office 2000 is update with all available updates. Our user base run a mix of PC with MS RDP client and Thin Client Terminals. The disappearing Excel does not show any preference to PC or terminal, large multi page spreadsheet or a few rows on a single page. Any suggestions?? Tim

I have XP laptops set to synchronize with a server running W2K Server. After sp3, files that were created offline, failed to synchronize when they were connected. When the laptop was connected and online, these offline files disappeared. When the laptop was disconnected, the offline files reappeared. This has nothing to do with permissions and the failure occurred as a consequence of the updated (as did other problems such a further updates failing) Any ideas? -- Mark

Every time I try to open Internet Explorer, I get a windows Installer window that pops up saying "The feature you are trying to use is on a CD-Rom or other removable disk that is not available. Insert the microsoft office professional with frontpage disk and click OK" If I hit cancel a few times it goes away and internet explorer opens. Any ideas?

what do i type in the run comd. to get to windows registry.

Check the comment on the Malicious Software Removal Tool (MRT.exe). It is a standalone .exe file so all you need to do is delete it from C:\WINDOWS\System32\'MRT.exe' http://forums.techarena.in/security-virus/624248.htm ------------------------------------------ "Santander" <santander@microsoft.news> escribio en el mensaje news:%236ayIRyEJHA.680@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... > Need advice how to remove correctly the Windows Malicious Software Removal > Tool installed with automatic updates. (KB890830) > What files to delete and where? > > Many microsoft Windows users who downloaded this AntiSpyware program from > microsoft, or had i…

I have started feeling my way through putting a Terminal Server in place for our company. In a previous post I was referred to a book Brian Madden made available on his website and I've read most everything in it. However there are a couple of questions I have left. 1. Is there a 'Best Practices' method for connecting a client to the Terminal Server? I went through the process of setting up a VPN connection using my SonicWall Pro2040 but I'm not sure if VPN and an RDC session are the generally accepted way of doing things. Aside from the extensive security configured on the VPN is there a need for additional security measures (regarding data bein…

I tried searching Google but have forgotten how to find a topic that has been removed already from the Microsoft newsgroup servers. I am interested in reading the "OT Ping: thanatoid OT thread but it appears to have already been removed from the Microsoft Newsgroup Server because it was off topic. Thank you in advance for posting the Google Group Web Site where I can read this off-topic thread at my leisure.

Hi, I am trying to automate the building od student machines for the classroom using GHOST. So far, everything is working well, however I need to set the DCOM security settings on each machine individually. I have a batch file that is running to do various things after the ghost build, so I need to know how to add this in to the mix. I have a couple of components that I need to add a user in to the "Launch and Activation Permissions" on the "Security" tab as well as altering the username / password on the "Identity" tab. How do I do this from a batch file / command line? Many thanks, Paul

A friend worked on my computer while I was out. When I got home my computer won't start and it is in Safe MODE. Can I get out and start my computer without the startup disk and if so how? Thanks

Hi Dan I just came accross this item by accident. Has anyone ever brought this page to your attention before? http://www.albion.com/netiquette/corerules.html I'm not intending this to be a provocative post, so please just have a look through and tell me if it would have helped if you'd read it some years ago. Thanks. FYI ............. I wish someone had shown it to *me* years ago too! Dave --