Legacy Operating Systems

I have a three week old install of win 2003 Enterprise on a 19 gig partition. There are few programs installed on it(symantec endpoint, sp2, .net framework 2.0, java runtime, and the rest on D: where SQL 2000, syspro, and office 2003 are installed. up until a few days ago there was at least 5 gigs left on C:. i remoted on today and found that there is only 550mb left. I had this issue with two other servers recently and had to rebuild the system drives becuase i could not find what was taking up the drive space. I checked and cleared the event logs, temp files, and ran a diagnostic for larg files but none were found-HELP! This is my SQL server and would re…

We have a TestLab and we'd like to install Windows 2003 Standard on one of our servers for a 30day test Run alongside some software that we are testing. Do we need to purchase a specific license to do this or can we just download a trial copy and use it for the 30 days?

Hi I don't know if this is the correct place to post my message but here goes :-) The last couple of weeks we have started encountering a problem with some of our clients. Sometimes when they want to open a Excel document they get an error from Excel telling that the document is already opened by the same user. The user have normally used the exact same document earlier the same day so it should be fine. The only solution I have found is to make a copy of the file and then restart the server which isn't very usefull. If I check which files are open on the server the locked file is not on the list. Any idea? /Lasse

Have been using MSNBC news as my homepage for quite a few years. Thats MS as in MicroSoft. W98 didn't seem to care too much for their new and improved website a while back and any vid from that site would/will freeze this computer and are avoided like the plague. No problem with vids on other news sites. But there has been an odd intermittent problem of late. MSNBC.com site will open just fine when I get there from the desktop IE icon but "internet explorer cannot open the site..." if I try to go there ('Home') from some other site AND if I'm on their site and click on any news story and then go back to the main site page via the 'Home' or 'Back' button I'l…

I am just wondering to install new fonts into XP is not simple as copy the whole files into Windows folder or need other procedures?

Several files with names like CA6Z8TYN with attribute HSA and size 0 kB have appeared on my drive. Unable to delete them. Attrib -H -S CA6Z8TYN simply gets File not found. They foul up backups as XP ain’t smart enough to ask „Do you want to skip this file?“ but just grinds the copy to a standstill. How to get rid of them?

If your XP SP3 computer has no WindowsXP cds but only factory Recovery CDs with no Recovery Console how would one go about rewriting the MBR if it was somehow damaged other than reinstalling Windows or an image of the Windows drive?Aren't there floppy discs that can do this? My laptop has a floppy drive.

I got a set of discs from a friend who burned them for me . It's a series I wanted . She sent them to me and I can't play them or view them in windows explorer. Although my cd-dvd drive is about four yrs old it still plays games and music cds. Was wondering if the discs she sent were ripped in a different format that my drive can't read. I have Win DVD and windows media player, and neither of these recongizes the disc. they don't auto-play.

I recently had a major crash and lost my WinMediaPlayer plugins. I am looking for a visulation one that I think was called STIX. It generated stick images that danced and animated to the sound of the music. I have done a google and Microsoft Up date search but have not been able to find it. Can anyone here help me out. Thanks

If I select plain view when composing a message like this one, this is what I see (bold text) in the compose window. If I select rich text, the font is normal but I am unable to send the message. Also, how can I change the font size when viewing anything in MS Windows XP. Except for here, all windows programs, the font is so small that I can hardly read it.

hi, i had to reinstall win-xp due to memory (ram) failure, as all the files became corrrupted. now, that i have reinstalled win-xp, i need to update it sp-x? fixes. i have already installed sp1. do I need to install sp2 then sp3 or can i jump to sp3 and forget about sp2? also, can i download these, sp2/3 from microsoft.com website? thanks for reply/s. s

I have been trying to find some Restore point that works but am finding that none of them do. I have at least 1 1/2 months of Restore points available and have not been able to find one that will work. So I'm stuck. Any reason why this is happening? I have previously been able to Restore w/o problems but had not done so in several months, so I'm not sure why this is happening now.

I have a Compaq Presario 1155 preloaded with Win XP SP2. I would like to download and install SP3. When I go to Windows Update, after signing in EULA, the download does NOT start. No ERROR msgs appear! What is the reason & a solution? Thanking you Capt K Ripendran

My Sony Windows XP Media Edition crashed a few months ago .. luckily I had all my important documents, photos, etc backed up on a WD exterior hard drive. In August I got a new Dell Inspiron 530 Desktop running Windows XP Professional. Unfortunately I did not copy all the important info from the exterior hard drive to this new Dell. Last week, I went to open up the exterior hard drive and this message came on screen - 'The Disk in Drive F is not formatted. Do you want to format it now'- Long story short, took the exterior hard drive to my trusted computer guy who ran it all weekend trying to recover the data . He had no luck - could not recover anything. Sh…

I'm currently running SP2 with all current updates. I'm about to update to SP 3 (through Windows Update) and thought I'd ask advice about anything I should do in preparation for the update. I will be making a disc image using Acronis before the update. I use BitDefender as an AV program. Should I disable it during the update? I assume I should keep the BD firewall activated during install. Any other tips or advice appreciated.

Can anyone recommend SATA or USB controllers that have good drivers for Windows NT? I need to get information off a failing old server and would like to have a way to image the existing hard drives to something portable. -- Will

Hi, We have a Dell computer with Windows XP on it. I am going to be selling this computer as my son no longer uses it. I am too good with computers but I would like to get everything off of the computer before selling it. Could anyone tell me what to do? Thanks so much, Val

In Control Panel, under Printers and Faxes, I show an Epson Printer, which is inactive. I tried to delete it. In the status column it shows as "deleting" but it is not deleting it. After I deleted it, and rebooted and Windows XP found and installed the printer, the same printer shows as "Epson Printer Copy 1" in Printers and Faxes. How can I get rid of the printer that shows as "deleting" but is not deleting itself. -- Walter http://www.rationality.net -

Since installing sp3 i've been having a very long, 15-20 minute - boot time. I've uninstalled sp3 and still have the problem. I have a dell 600m laptop. now the boot time is very long - other than that the computer still runs fine, no other problems. I've been just letting it go - i'ts been several weeks, I searched the net for solutions with no result. Can anyone help with a solution to rid the laptop of the long boot time? Is there a registry or system file I can edit or fix to to get back to the short boot time. I've already done a system restore and last known good but to no avail. Am I the only one that's had this problem? Surely there is something so…

I have installed a 2nd hard drive to boot into Win 95, but so far I have found no way to install the 95 on the new drive. Pc always boots into the C drive with XP. Have tried a partition manager but that only made the 2nd drive disappear from the system. If I change the BIOS to boot from a CD drive the Win95 will start, but I get a message that it can only work from MS DOS. How can I manage this dual boot?

after DL and installing the SP3, (from auto update) , it prompt me to "restart", however the computer just hang there, blank screen, machine humming.... after 1/2 hour, i manually shuts it down (by press the power button) now, I can not get it to start. machine will be on, and fan will be turning, (all led lights is on), but screen its blank, USB mouse and Keyboard is not activated, i try to unplug and replug USB mouse and Keyboard to different port, power off and power on few times, again, the computer just showing blank screen.. it didn't even reach the BIOS... please help intel base, Dell XPS

My computer used to take about 2 seconds consistently in the light blue "welcome" screen for the past 2 years or so. Sometimes, it used to take about 6 seconds. And this mainly occured when my internet was down. So I knew that when the "welcome" screen took longer my internet was most likely down. Recently, after a few windows automatic updates, a service pack 3 install or I am not sure if when my DVD burner stalled the "welcome" screen is taking longer than usual, about 6 seconds. However, my internet is working fine. From your experience, what is the typical time it takes for the "welcome" screen to go through? Does taking longer at the "welcome…

I installed SP3 of the M/S site after receiving an auto update. The PC will now not load Windows. It just goes into the "Select last good copy etc." I used the CD and carried out a repair but now it gets as far as the marching ants and goes into a "re-start". One time I had the blue screen and the error message: 0X0000007B(OXF78D663C, OXC 0000034,OX00000000, OX00000000) Any help gratefully received.

While working on my Thinkpad with XP Pro this morning, something caused the machine to stop, then throw a blue screen. I've been trying to change settings, and unload software, including my anti-virus all day so here's the question. Is there anything new attacking Mozilla Firefox or Thunderbird on XP lately? Whatever is causing this has scrambled several files requiring reinstall of software, but my Antivirus stuff blows up halfway thru a scan. rsl

I was in a hurry and shut my computer off manually. When I came home to restart my computer, I noe get a, " we apolagize for the inconvienence, windows did'nt start successfully". I have tried all of the modes, and nothing is working. Has my hard drive crashed, loosing all of my data? What can I do? Respectfully, Mike W.