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Re: WinXP 32 or 64 with Adobe and other gfx software? "Liam" <news@celticbear.com> wrote in message news:eb8d2262-9bc7-4b11-8842-511c4db85819@i24g2000prf.googlegroups.com > As I understand, XP 32bit doesn't handle 4GB RAM very > well (or at all). It's only partially a software or XP problem, as hardware (mainly the motherboard) determines how efficiently > 3 GB of RAM is used. There is a 64 bit version of XP. I've seen systems that exploit up to 3.6 GB of the installed 4 GB of RAM. While any loss represents less than ideal operation, losing only 10% is pretty easy to excuse. > But I also understand if we use XP 64 > bit we'd…

I'm in the hurricane affected area of La. and my main PC is dead. I want to move the 350 gig hard drive to an older win2k sp4 machine. Will win 2k sp4 "see" this size drive? Thanks

When I shut down my computer, the machine goes through its regular procedures, but right before it normally turns off, a blue screen appears saying something to the effect of "Unmountable Boot Volume". I ran chkdsk /r as I have read elsewhere on the internet, but the problem occurs so intermittently that I can't tell if that really does anything.

Would anyone know why I get this error when trying to install the .NET 3.5 SP1 on Windows 2003 server? I've already tried to unreg and re-reg the msxml3.dll and that didn't help. Any other suggestions to get this installed? Event Type: Error Event Source: MsiInstaller Event Category: None Event ID: 10005 Date: 9/7/2008 Time: 9:43:42 AM User: AGWEB1\agweb1 Computer: AGWEB1 Description: Product: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 -- Error 25541.Failed to open XML file C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\CONFIG\web_mediumtrust.config, system error: -2147024786 For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/f…

I have read many posts about changing from Vista to XP-Pro on different Toshiba laptops, however I've tried most suggestions to no avail. I'm looking to see if anyone can point me in the right direction so I can get back the use of my USB flashdrive? Most of the drivers came back once I went to Driver Detective but I still have several that unidentified. I've been to Tohiba's website and downloaded an earlier version for the USB driverer and it will not install on my system. The items not working properly is 1) power management settings to let the computer hibernate or sleep 2) USB connection to see a flashdrive 3) the good clear display settings. …

Re: XP disable services I thought I was in msconfig startup when I used disable all and when I pressed the botton, to my horror, I was in services. When I tried to stop or cancel I turned the computer off and when It rebooted IO lost many programs as well as the internet. I tried to go back to restore but no other restore was availiable to me but this last date. "Fuzzy Logic" wrote: > "=?Utf-8?B?QnJpYW4=?=" <Brian@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in > news:5FAB4C5E-76BF-4D39-84D2-FDA2B63E5E69@microsoft.com: > > > I want to disable as many services as possible within XP. Can anyone > > provide advice what services can safel…

Re: XP disable services "Fuzzy Logic" wrote: > "=?Utf-8?B?QnJpYW4=?=" <Brian@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in > news:5FAB4C5E-76BF-4D39-84D2-FDA2B63E5E69@microsoft.com: > > > I want to disable as many services as possible within XP. Can anyone > > provide advice what services can safely disabled. What would the minimal > > set of service that I can runn with? > > > > The PC I am using will not be connected to a network, It will have a CD > > drive an IrDA interface and keyboard/mouse connected over USB. > > > > TiA, > > B > > http://www.beemerworld.com/tips/servicesxp.ht…

I no longer have Comcast as my internet provider. In my device manager under Network adapters I have 2 instances of the RCA USB Cable Modem - Packet scheduler Miniport with exclaimation marks on them. I tried to uninstall them but I get the message-"Failed to uninstall the device- The device may be required to boot up the computer". Comcast is no help on this problem. They say to contact Microsoft. Microsoft say's " Sorry, not our program" and want to charge me. My point to Comcast is that their cable modem and program installed the device so they can jolly well help me uninstall it, but I'm met with a brick wall. "We don't do registry stuff. We just help…

How to export the list of newsgroups in my current PC for msnews,microsoft.com to another PC?

First off, I'm running XP Home SP3. I've installed no screen saver or wallpaper manager programs. For some reason, my computer has started listing all of the hundreds of images in the "My Pictures" folder whenever I try to select a new wallpaper. It seems that this tendency started after I installed SP3. I *abhore* this new way of Windows doing things. Not only that, but whenever I click on "Browse" to select another folder to select wallpaper from, the default folder location is.... "My Pictures". GAAACK!! I'm already aware of the registry hack for changing the default wallpaper folder; supposedly you should be able to go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFT…

I have a user that had Offline files synch set up for his home drive. We switched server location of the home drives. Obviuosly this broke the synch for him. When we turn offline file synch off, it does sych again until a reboot occurs. It will remap him to the old drive and break the synch. Is there a way to clear the cache somehow to correct this?

I bought a Dell Latitude C600 off of eBay a few months ago, and it worked out fine, until it somehow contracted a virus (I believe it might have been something left on by the previous owner, as he stated he didn't know too much about computers, and the fact I didn't get around to putting any type of virus protection on it.) I wanted to know if it was possible to format the hard drive without having the Windows 2000 disk, as he did not send this to me. I didn't have anything of importance on the computer, so I figure I'll just go ahead and start it over. So, how do I format the hard drive? Any help will be appreciated.

I just recently upgraded my wife's computer from Windows 2000 Professional to Windows XP Professional. When she had 2K she could change the icons lister under "Favorites" to the icons of her choice. Under XP, when she changes a "Favorites" icon it immediately reverts back. Is there a way to change this behaviour? Right now she's hating XP due to LOTS of little annoyances such as this. -- Posted via NewsDemon.com - Premium Uncensored Newsgroup Service ------->>>>>>http://www.NewsDemon.com<<<<<<------ Unlimited Access, Anonymous Accounts, Uncensored Broadband Access

Hi, I'm trying to deploy .NET 2.0 SP1 via group policy software installs, along with .NET 3.5. For .NET 3.5 to install successfully .NET 2.0 _SP1_ must be installed first. I have been able to deploy .NET 1.1 SP1, .NET 2.0 (non SP1) & .NET 3.0 (non SP1) via Group Policy without any problem. However, if I try and do the same for .NET 2.0 SP1, the install fails, the trouble is, I can't tell why. Usually an event log for 'Application Management' is created under the Application event log. However for this deploy, you can see it tries to get applied, on machine start up, but quickly disappears, and nothing appears in the event log to suggest why. I have do…

In the print-preview option of Windows Explorer, the default print size is “Shrink to Fit,” which often makes the print too small to read. How can I change the default size to “100%,” rather than having to do it manually all the time?

Win XP Pro, SP3 Is it possible to remove Outlook Express completely? I removed it with the control panel add/remove function and found that I was still getting this message every few days: -------------------------------------------------------------- Outlook Express: To Free-UP disk space, Outlook Express can compact messages This may take up to a few minutes OK Cancel -------------------------------------------------------------- I found the "Compact Check Count" registry item and set it to decimal 0 which should make the above function cease, but I'm annoyed that I had to of course. Is there a way to COMPLETELY remove the Contents of the p…

We have an old server sbs win2k; it has it's own domain. We have a 2003 server with it's own domain. When remoting desktop from home, after typing IP address it goes to the new server. How can I connect directly to the old server from home? Still be able to keep connecting to the new one also. thank you. Nereida

Hello, I have a win 2003 standard edition server that is accessed via Remote Desktop by several users running XP on their individual workstations. One of the work stations has an HP USB printer attached, and shared to all other users. The printer works perfectly when used from the work stations. The server has the driver installed for this printer as well (win 2003 version from the HP website.) All users have remote desktop configured to forward the printer. when a user prints from an application on the server, the first print works properly, and then a print job labeled "Remote Desktop Redirected Printer Doc" is sent repeatedly and soon there are thousa…

good day, we have a windows 2003 server that is not booting. i have tried to repair the installation folder to no avail, i have a solution for my problem but it can only be resolved in the recovery console. my problem is that i dont have the administrator's password (though my account has administrative rights), i wanted to find out how i can log in to the recovery console without the administrators password. Regards, Collin -- Regards, Collin

Hello all. I've noticed that right after upgrading XP to SP3, ntbackup has stopped backing up my scheduled task for Outlook Express' dbx files, even though the task exits with the success code 0x0. Upon closer examination with some test files, it appears that ntbackup will NOT load the 'Load Selections' if they are BELOW the path: C:\Documents and Settings\Username\Local Settings\Application Data \Identities\Registry Stuff\ Any files loaded and 'Save Selections' in the path: C:\Documents and Settings\Username\Local Settings\Application Data \Identities\Registry Stuff\Microsoft\Outlook Express\ does NOT load when you reload the selections using 'Load Se…

Can anyone recommend a good anti-virus, firewall and anti malware program for Server 2003? It need not be all-in-one. I tried to install Norton Anti-virus 2008, but it wouldn't work. I was unaware that I couldn't use this. TIA, K Miller

Hi All :) Over the last few weeks, we have had an issue whereby one of our servers (it's a DC, which hosts apps and also a fileserver) exhibits the following symptoms, seemingly at random: - The application client on workstations will stop responding, eventually giving an error relating to it not being able to access files on a UNC path (\\server\appshare\system\blahblahetc) which is mapped to the apps drive, or an error stating that another user has exclusive access to a certain file. - The filesharing drive (which is mapped to a folder hosted on a completely different logical partition) also stops responding and crashes explorer if you try to access…

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Lately I've noticed a lot of hard disk activity on my HP laptop running XP Pro SP2. Looking at the process list shows something called System Idle Process running with a CPU value of from 83 to 94. Any idea what's going on here? Jeff

I've got a Win XP Pro laptop with USB 1.1 ports. But every time I plug in a USB Flash key, I get the "This device can perform faster if you connect it to a high speed USB 2.0 port" balloon tip. How do I suppress this particular balloon tip? Thanks!!!