Legacy Operating Systems

I have a Win 2003R2 terminal server, that I have locked down a little to much. Because of the Group Policy setting "Prevent access to drives on my computer", users are not able to edit the content of Quick Launch, so that it can contain Word and Excel. Now I dont want to remove the setting, because I dont want users to have access to the drives. But what can I do to "create" the right Quick Launch bar, with the icons that I want in. I should mention that they use roaming profiles. Best regards Jesper DK

Hi, When I export My Computer/HK_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE to Registry Hive File it locks my system for 6 - 7 minutes. I have a Dell Latitude D830, 2 GB memory, and XP Pro SP3. I tried exporting again on another Latitude D830, 2 GB memory, and XP Pro SP2, same time length. Running the export on a Dell Optiplex 745, 2GB memory, and XP Pro SP2 it took 2 minutes. What is going on? Thanks, -- JP

Hi all - we are currently using an aging (and failing!) PXE server in conjunction with Ghost to deploy our desktop & laptop images for new builds. I want a solution whereby i only need one base image for laptops and one for desktops, which i know i can achieve using Acronis using the universal restore add-on. However, can you also integrate Windows deployement services with acronis images? or does WDS only like certain types of images? Any help appreciated ! thanks, colin.

Hi, I'm wondering if anyone out there knows of any acknowledged problems between Windows XP SP2 and SP3 and M-Audio's flagship Firewire 1814 (external soundcard). The bottom line is the card was working beautifully for 3 months then suddenly I'm getting disconnects - so much so that I now have a $500 piece of kit that I can't use. I can install the driver, click on the M-Audio Control panel to adjust my settings, then I play an MP3 via WMP. It could be OK for 5 minutes or sometimes even up to a couple of hours, then it will disconnect. Here's what I've tried so far: Disabling my onboard soundcard Disabling the 1394 net adapter Trying all the M-Audio dri…

I have been asked to investigate a Windows server. The server is unknown to me but is 2003. The client suspects rogue user activity. The user was a support technician with administrator privileges. The activity occurred some weeks ago. I have few details but the activity included, but was not necessarily limited to, a large number of outbound e-mails generated automatically by a program. The client has firewall, anti virus and anti spam software installed but I do not know which programs. Please can anyone suggest ... .... any post incident strategies for finding or tracing rogue activity .... utilities that verify the integrity of System files a…

I have a Dell Dimension 8200 computer with windows XP Pro (SP3) and current MS Security Updates installed. When I see informative information about Vista usage and operations, I save these files to my current computer for future use. I should note that I have NAV 2006, BoClean, SpywareBlaster, Adaware SE Plus, and ZoneAlarm installed on my computer Unfortunately I am seeing something not noted before when saving files from the internet. The problem file icon is similar to the icon of io.sys and msdos.sys files in the root directory of the windows XP Pro. The problem files have either the .htm or mht extensions. These files cannot be moved, deleted,…

In my backup scripts for Windows 2003 server we use rsm eject /LF"Library_id" /Astart and it ejects the tapoe all the time. When I send the same in Windows XP it says Additional arguments required. I have no idea what additional arguments are required. It is an HP USB DAT 72 Tape Drive, and it works perfectly on a Windows 2003 server, but not on Windows XP. I even tried the Guid and changing the command to /LG"GUID" but it still says additional arguments required. Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Cheers

Was searching for some specific photos and found them easily then I looked further and it displayed 8,000 more that are stored in here. I could identify a lot of them from at least 5 yrs. ago. Many were Logos, icons (even for back-n-forth arrows), smiley faces, gambling logos, stationery sample swatches available, some pics from old e-mail attachments & forwards, images from Kodak's order forms and sample pics from their software to order on line , as well as Picassa, & Wal-Mart photo services for orders, albums, etc. icons from everywhere for navigation. There are more but I think I gave you the jist of the question. If any of the symbols/icons h…

I found a great backup script at http://www.infoshop.co.uk/products/infoshop/scripts/bn-backup.htm. I have to hard code the GUID for each tape, no problem there. But another web article I was reading said that sometimes just the tape GUID was not enough. But a logical GUID maybe required. If I format the tape myself using RSM, then is there usually only one partition (unless I set the format differently) so I only really need the tape GUID and not the logical GUID? Thanks,

Gurus, Running Windows XP Pro SP3 on a 2GB RAM laptop. After boot and I login and once the desktop settles down, Task Manager reports I have 1.5 GB RAM available. This means the OS itself is using up 512MB RAM. I have already set to manual startup as many "unneeded" programs and services as possible. Looking in Task Manager, I pretty much see the minimum amount of processes that I can cut it down to. What else can I "tweak" on the system that will allow me to eke out more overall available RAM? -- Spin

I need to record a video of some windows media player visualizations, anyone ever did something like this and/or know how do that? Thanks to everyone.

Hi All, Somehow i seem to have lost the function to Copy and paste in XP and all applications, word, excell, etc. I cant use the right hand mouse to copy and past neither can i use Cntl & C. Not sure of how to get over this one. Any help would be greatly appreciated. -- Flinty

My computer is very slow, and the drive is always working. Also, I haven't figured out how to quickly get my old Search function. So I tried uninstalling Windows Search 4.0. I got a message listing a whole bunch of upgrades that may not work correctly, so I chickened out. How can I stop it from indexing all the time? How can I get the old Search function easier to start? -- "In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found, than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace to the legislature, and not to the executive department." - James Madison

Hello, I have a Windows 2003 TS License server in place for my Citrix PS(Xen) 4.5 farm. All my users login to the farm from WYSE 1125's and S10's. I have a good number of licenses that are issued to devices that are no longer around causing me to be currently out of TS CALS. I know they will re-enter the available pool when they expire. The expiration dates are spread out over the next 3 months. I would like to get these licenses back know instead of waiting. The only way I can do this is by resetting up my TS Lic server. My main concern with this is what affect will that have on all my currently valid issued licenses to my WYSE units? Will they s…

Hi: Does anyone have an answer as to how to stop desktop icons from blinking or resetting? Sometimes when I open or close a screen some of my icons will revert back to a generic icon and then after a few seconds or so reset back to the correct icon. It more of an annoyance than anything to have to wait for a varying number of them to reset. I have tried changing my monitor screen refresh rate, but that has not prevented the above problem. Thanks, ColTom2

We inherited a client that is running a terminal server with 16 Device CALS. The server has an application on it that is accessed by most users in the office. I am worried that we will encounter issues soon for the following two reasons: 1. While most users take their work laptop home with them, a few workers may try to VPN and RDP to the server from their home computer. Based on my understanding of the licensing, we will need to purchase additional CALS for them because it is a new device. 2. As IT Support for the office, we have 2 or 3 techs that may have to remote to the server from time to time for administration support. I noticed that the…

I have a 2003 domain and 2 2008 terminal servers. Right now, we are using 3 different servers for licensing. I want to set up one of my domain controllers as the license server so servers and clients can detect it. Can I install 2008 TS licenses on a 2003 server? If so, how?

hello, I have the problem, that I couldn't start the certsrv service. I get events 7024 in system event protocoll The Certificate Services service terminated with service-specific error 2147746132 (0x80040154). and event 10016 The application-specific permission settings do not grant Local Launch permission for the COM Server application with CLSID {D99E6E74-FC88-11D0-B498-00A0C90312F3} to the user STUDENTS\administrator SID (S-1-5-21-484763869-507921405-1417001333-500). This security permission can be modified using the Component Services administrative tool. The knowledgebase entry http://support.microsoft.com/kb/246208 did not work, because i…

Sometimes when I try to open folders or do other tasks on my computer, I get the message access denied and can not continue. It's my computer and wonder what I can do to fix this problem?? I am the system administrator, so why does it do this?? Please help me with this, thank you.

I used to think I was computer literate until my SP3 update on my SOTEC laptop presented a problem. Of course, I didn't think to ever create a backup of my files, I've only created restore points... nice egg on my face now. My computer is about 6 years old. Upon restart after installation of XP SP3, the screen says that the \windows\inf\biosinfo.inf is missing or corrupt. The screen also says to attempt to repair this file by starting Windows Setup using the original Setup CD-ROM, but my computer only came with Recovery CD's. I don't want to perform a Recovery until I know there are no other options. I can edit the bios and even save it, but that d…

I am using vista on a laptop which i have just purchased. -- westwardho

I have figured out how to do a section break (Word 2007)so I can change a header on say page 5 but not on pages 1-4. However, even though I created a section break at the top of page 6 (so my changes would not affect page 6 and so forth) it changed those headers to what my page 5 header had been changed to. I did try and unlink page 6 from page 5 so it didn't say Link to previous section. I had to change my header on pg. 6 back to what it needed to be and then link the previous sections from pg 7 and on.... I need to know how to make changes on only individual headers (this is a very long document where I will need to have different revision dates in…

i have lost the "my computer" short cut from the start menu. how could i retrieve it thanks -- westwardho

I setup a Windows 2008 Enterprise server on DL360 G5 in February. I have experienced 5 times when I login it just stay at the "welcome" logo, with a continuosly circling circle on its left, and it remains like this for ever. Every time when I met with this problem, I have to force shutdown the server. Is there any idea how I can go about to resolve this problem?

I've just installed Search 4.0 and it was set to index my Outlook emails but Outlook kept crashing when I close it so I decided not to have my Outlook emails indexed. I deleted the search plugin in Outlook and have de-selected it in Windows Search settings, but every time I open the search settings, Outlook is back. How can I remove it from Windows search permanently? Thanks.