Legacy Operating Systems

At work I use a networked PC and like to keep a copy of my work on a USB Stick. This requires me to remember to save any changes to 2 locations. Is there any way to set it up to safe to the server and to my USB stick?

I replaced my motherboard and I tried reinstalling my OS using the original CD. I copies the install file to the drive and reboots, then the splash screen appears, then I get Inaccessable_boot_device Stop 0x0000007E (0xC0000005) (0xBA9E8750) (0xBACCB42C) (0xBACCB128) What do I need to do to clear this. This is on a Compaq machine running XP pro. Usually doing a reinstall (upgrade) works to fix this, but not this time. I can get in using safe mode, so if anyone knows what files I need to delete or reg entries I need to delete to make this stop, that would be great. I'm guessing it is looking for the SCSI drive that is no loger there. I'm on an SA…

Sto Hiya :) Why is there a charge associated with online Windows XP Support since it is still part of the 'acfive life cycle of products?' Also, how do I remove 'Windows Picture and Fax Viewer?' If that is not possible, how do I make' FastStone Picture Viewer' my default viewer? Regards

I have Google set as my home page. When I open it, it doesn't remember my "preferences"; i.e., open search results in new window, don't suggest resultsas I am typing, etc. Also, I belong to a forum, and I always check "remember me" when I log in.....it doesn't. Any suggestions?

My apologies if you see this post more than once, since I'm not quite sure which group to post it in, so I'll post it in a few that might be relevant. For the last 3 days or so, I've had a message window appear when I boot up Windows (XP SP3). It says "Outlook Express. To free up disk space, Outlook Express can compact messages. This may take up to a few minutes." And then the OK or Cancel buttons. I have always clicked Cancel. Here's the weird thing -- I run Office Outlook (2003), NOT Outlook Express! I've never run Outlook Express -- not on this Windows installation anyway. Just in case this was an echo from Office Outlook, I compacted all my Outlook …

I would like to add a program to the taskbar, and simultaneously leave the icon on the desktop. How?

Hello All, I think after my 10 plus years in Infrastructure Support/Development I have come across my first proper DLL hell scenario. Whilst a solution does sort of exist (disabling Windows File Protection), I thought if I post here Microsoft will pick up the issue and deal with it (rather then me paying the £££'s on there pay-per-support incident line, to be told what I already know and then have to wait for a fix). BTW MS do provide free support for XP SP3 until March 2009, but only if the install fails or kills your computer, not for something 'minor' like this....... Here it goes: If you visit the MS update site with a XP SP2/IE 6 PC you will …

Hi I have a Windows 2008 x64 system, and I'm trying to use a Sony SDZ-120 SAIT tape drive. I've downloaded the correct driver (http://sony.storagesupport.com/node/464). But when I try to install the driver in Device Manager, I get the error, "Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupt or missing (Code 39)". I asked Sony technical support about this, and they said the error message means that is a problem in the Registry. I Google'd 'code 39', and found several KBs on how to fix a 'code 39' problem with DVD/CD drives. But I can't find anything about 'code 39' and tape drives. The instructions in the KBs fo…

Hi: Does anyone have any recommendations for the best "Voice To Text" freeware? I am trying to find this software for a person that has physical restrictions. Thanks

I'm one of those people that uses keyboards that can swap Caps and Ctl or I remap the keys in software. When I do this on a shared computer, I get evil looks, or worse. It just occured to me that a quiet beep tone whenever the CapsLock key changes state wouldn't confuse the unwary and would warn me me whenever I was using a shared machine. An upward tone would indicate CAPS on and a downward beep would indicate CAPS going off. Has anyone written this for any OS? -- Al Dykes News is something someone wants to suppress, everything else is advertising. - Lord Northcliffe, publisher of the Daily Mail

My PC as it boots up shows a blue screen after the Windows Xp welcome screen (with the blue bars scrolling)...it never gets to the logon screen. If the machine is set to restart after an error, the blue screen flashes quickly (too fast to read) and it then restarts. It will work fine in safe mode. The message on the BSOD is: "A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to protect damage to your computer. SESSION3_INITIALIZATION_FAILED If this is the first time you've seen this stop error screen, restart your computer. If this screen appears again, follow these steps: Check to make sure any new hardware or software is properly i…

I have win xp pro with 3 HD 1- C and D - IDE 2- E and F - IDE 3- I SATA I can access all of my HD but my icons for E and I are kind of like "unknown file" - not a typical HD icon what happened and how can I fix it? thanks

I had recently installed an application that needed the computer to restart. When re-booting I got a window asking for my user name and password (which I forgot both). My settings were on automatic. How can I resolve this issue?

Gurus, Running Windows XP Pro SP3 on a Sony Vaio laptop. The system has been running fine except for one little problem - when I try to use the "Undock Computer" option from the Start Menu nothing happens. It used to work fine - and present a dialog box indicating "Undock is complete" but now it doesn't do that anymore. Thoughts? -- Spin

I am having to backup my exchange 2007 server with windows backup on windows server 2003. I notice that ntbackup is able to see the e2k7 server and the information stores in it. And it is able to do a backup. What i am wondering is when i go to do a restore - on the restore and managed media tab. I see the both the information stores, the log files and mailbox database folder. But i don't see any catalog information on the right pane in that window(it just says no entries found when i click on either the log files folder or the mailbox database folder). Is this normal, or the way it should be. I am wondering if i need to install the exchange 2k7 management…

installing sbs 2003 from boot, hangs at the stage 'Windows is starting Setup', will not load past this point,

windows-xp I cannot put a address into my address book from an e-mail and an error comes up with this message.( subject) -- ja

My present drive, which is a old Maxtor 6G with Windows ME, will not allow me to download anything to the USB Micro drive attached to my system. In fact it is so corrupted I can no longer open files or navigate to my computer anymore. In an effort to move on, I grabbed one of three 40G hard drives I have that are the same model and attempted installed Windows XP on it. The install never completed. I tried the second drive and managed what I thought was a successful installation. When hooked up to my system it worked and even allowed internet access without me having to install anything more.That was a couple of months ago.(I put the old Maxtor back in becaus…

My computer, using WinXP Home, warned me I was short on space on Drive C. Investigation showed the normally hidden file Windows/Installer was 38.4GB with nearly 100 folders similar to this: {0EFDF2F9-836D-4EB7-A32D-038BD3F1FB2A} and several hundred msp, msi and mst files like: 1c43380.msp or 3fb10042.mst Can anyone tell me where these have come from and can I delete them? With thanks for any help, Eric Schurmann

Hi, We installed the critical update KB958644 on a Windows Server 2008 machine 2 days ago and have experienced a massive increase in CPU utilisation, apparently for the System process. Our performance monitor reports typically showed the web server running in the 5-15% CPU utilisation range for the whole day even under fairly heavy load. For the last 2 days, the CPU graph now looks like an earthquake has hit and we have had to reboot the server both days to reset the CPU to normal. Today, the graph was showing 90%+ CPU utilisation and we were not able to RDP to the box and all web sites were non-responsive so had to get the ISP to do a hard reboot. The grap…

I have brought my old Win 98 SE back to life for my grandsons (ages 5 & 6) to play their internet games (specifically http://www.totaldramaisland.com). I worked with MEB on the Win 98 Networking forum and he was very helpful. I have now performed my Windows Updates, installed IE6, Avast Antivirus, Kerio Personal Firewall. Installed Flash 9 (which shows up in Add/Remove programs as Adobe Flash Player ActiveX). Additionally, he suggested I install SUN JAVA. At the http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index_jdk5.jsp I found Jave SE Downloads-Previous Release_J2SE 5.0 I can find J2SE API V 1.5.0 Beta1, J2SE API V 1.5.0 Beta 2, and J2SE API V 1.5.0RC, but …

I'm very green to TS and this is my first TS deployment. I thought everything was good to go. I added our 10 licenses as per user CALs since we have 6 users that may jump between 12 different computers. The CALs are installed and I thought everything was good to go since everyone was connecting w/o a problem. Today I was told they are getting a message when they login that their license expires in 4 days. So I went to the Terminal Service Licensing window. Sure enough it shows a bunch of Temporary Licenses issued and 10 User CALs available. So how do I get these user CALs tied to a specific user and get them off the temp licenses?

I have an XP SP2 computer that is running Microsoft Works 7.0. When I amsaving a file in the Word Processor, I click on Save As, and the Save As Dialog box will open. In the filename field, there is a list of strange characters that I have never seen before. I go ahead and erase these characters and then type in a relevant filename. For example, I will call a file customerinfo.wps for example. Later on when I go to open the file in the Works Task Launcher, the file name is a single character, such as c.wps. If I click on it, the file is there. How is the filename getting changed all the time and how can i fix it? Thanks for any ideas. Jeff

Hello. I Have installed a new server 2008 as a Primary domain controller. The rest of the servers are 2003 server and all the clients are windows XP professional. I'm trying to deploy printers to the users with group policy. Each user will have only the printers that are defined in the policy. What is the best way to perform this? 1-Install the printer in this PDC, go to print management and deploy the printer to the correspondent policy? 2-Directly create a rule in the policy "user configuration-->preferences-->Printer" Both options are not working very well. With the second option i can install some printers, others are not installed. I…

Im running xp and have recently installed and uninstalled a few games and am currently having a lot of difficulty installing anything further if i double click on the .exe file the system does not respond. i thought restoring things using my xp cd thing would fix the problem but after the computer restarted it said it was missing file "ag3n1d7n.sys" from file "c:\$WIN_NT$.~BT\ag3n1d7n.sys" and cancels the setup any help with this problem would be greatly appreciated