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We have a set of teachers laptops, that we have reinstalled Windows XP Pro Sp3 on, and joined the laptops to the domain, and moved the laptops into the correct OU. But when staff take thier laptops home, they can nolonger logon to thier accounts, because the domain is unavailable. They used to be able to, and i am no aware of any changes to the Group Policies that would stop them. I am really stuck on this, can anyone help? Thank you.

I recently had a HD failure and had installed a new 320 GB SATA drive and reinstalled XP Home SP3. I created several restore points on day one as I slowly rebuild what I had. However today, 3 days later I do not have a previous restore point? I have enabled restore points to C drive only, but at it's maximum it's only showing 36629 MB. My HD has 290 GB free. Help is appreciated.

Comcast is our internet provider and recently changed its email server to smartzone.We cannot retreive email as the folloeing message occurs " serv 32 casued an invalid page fault in modulemsncrt.dill at 017f:7800c9d3. We did not have this problem until the server downladed the email program. Solutions? is this incompatability with windows 98?

Hi I've copied a batch file script that I found on the web to force ntbackup to use a removable external USB hard drive. However, the ntbackup stops with the message "the media is not blank - do you want to overwrite?" or something to that effect. Since the script runs late at night, the backup doesn't run. Thanks in advance for the help. Here's the script: rsm.exe refresh /LF"external USB" sleep 30 for /f "Tokens=1-4 Delims=/ " %%i in ('date /t') do set dt=%%i-%%j-%%k-%%l for /f "Tokens=1" %%i in ('time /t') do set tm=-%%i set tm=%tm::=-% set dtt=%dt%%tm% C:\WINNT\system32\NTBACKUP.EXE backup "@C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Setting…

Hi – we build gaming machines here, many of which contain ruggedised PC’s running XP Embedded. We’re now upgrading our hardware, and my employer is willing to let me have several unused motherboards for very little. The boards have XP Embedded licences and COA with them, and I’d like to build them into PC’s, but the Embedded build we use is pretty minimal, so I’d like to put full XP Pro on them. If this is legit (my very limited understanding is that XPe can be built pretty much any way you like, up to a full XP Pro build), any tips as to how I might go about preparing an image or install CD? More of a hobby, ie for learning, than anything else really.…

After a recent hard drive formatting and reinstalling my programs, the last couple of days I'm getting some sort of message about Program Change ereg32.exe, apparently located at: D:\EREG\ereg32.exe It's giving me 3 choices: Keep Settings Delete Settings Block Program The last one being if I don't know what to do, so I've been choosing that one for now. But each time I turn on the computer I get the message again. I googled the ereg32.exe, but the only definitive answer I got was one where someone had it on the E drive (someone's CD rom, I think) and they were told to delete , and since my D is my CD rom, I'm wondering if that's the advi…

I have an ACER portable computer. I very recently upgraded to XP home service pack 3. The default language is Greek. Since then, most of the time I cannot switch from one language to the other (Greek and English), neither from the keyboard nor by using the tool bar menu. Some times the languages do change but this is not reflected on the tool bar. Is it possible for someone to help me on this?

I wanted to make the text on my Inspiron 1520 Windows XP (I running Windows 6.0) just a little bit larger, so I used the Accessibility Wizard. Instead of increase my font size a bit much, it is 10 times larger. I tried a number of times to re-do the Wizard but it would go back to my original settings. I cannot even see 1/3 of an article on my screen. It deleted my background (which I can reload) but I don't know why it disappeared. When I turn my computer on, click on IE, everything looks normal until instead of the page with my background and the icons I use, I have a complete white page with the icons I use. The icons are of normal size but when I cl…

hi all: Now I try to disable the shut down command for the Guest user?

Hi does anyone know any screen recorder which can be integrated with .Net ????? or else how to pass parameters to open the particular recording application when the .Net application opens ?????? Pls let me know if any of ul have any idea about this..... Rgds Nimantha

My "other" PC, (XP Home ed. SP3, Asrock AliveNF6G/VSTA/M/ASR|x2 6000 cpu | 2x1gb OCZ PC2 200mhz 4-4-4-12), ....I chose Standby, and, (unlike putting my "main" PC in standby, where hd's power down but, psu and fans keep running), after just a couple of seconds it powered almost right down ! ...much like "hibernate" but, without the hiberfil.sys progress bar as the RAM snapshot is written to hard disk. Obviously RAM contents are maintained in this "Standby" state... It would only awake from that 'Standby' state by a mouse left-click, (which is fine), but, LAN connection to router would not recover until a reboot. I checked to make sure that "Allow thi…

Hi All, Am having Windows XP SP3 system..not able to get display on that ..checked by changing the RAM also..there is no beep sound coming..i doubt that the problem with the Motherboard only..what you all are suggesting me..need assistance

I tried to uninstall Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007 in: 'Add or Remove Programs' panel and by inserting the disk and activated the radio button next to 'Remove'. Both attempts to uninstall were unsuccessful. Message:

I recently noticed that remote desktop no longer works on a machine of mine. I had not changed the configuration. All machines on the lan operate fine with the exception of this one. The ports are listening: TCP 0.0.0.0:135 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING TCP 0.0.0.0:445 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING TCP 0.0.0.0:3389 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING but I cannot telnet to them or ping the machine any longer. Where should I being troubleshooting?

I know this has been answered a million times but I just swapped to 64 and cannot remember how to get id of the welcome screen after resume from standby or sleep..Thanks in advance for your help

Hi Is there any 3rd party applications that will allow me to remotely connect to WindowsXP machine via HTTPS (SSL) like TS Gateway in Win2k8? I have a WindowsXP machine behind SOHO firewall that has blocked VPN (PPTP,IPSec) ports, so the only way to connect to this computer is via HTTPS? I'm looking for some kind of service that will be installed on this WinXP box, so that I could connect via HTTPS to it from outside anytime? Any ideas how to do this? Regards,Miha

I have a problem with XP that at first I thought was a memory issue but now I'm not sure. What happens is after using XP for a while I can't open any new programs or new tabs in a browser or even right click on the desktop. Attempting these things will give no response. If I close one or two programs then things return to normal for a short while, until the issue returns and I need to close more programs. This continues until the only option left is to restart, which fixes the problem for a few hours. At first I though XP was failing to clear its memory which become full over time. However, the system resources are mostly free and I tried using a shortcut to …

I can no longer pull up or Certificate Authority WebSite and it is not even in the ISS anymore. I tried pointing a new website to \windows\system32\certsrv, but no luck. I found the default.asp file for it, but it says certificate services are not running, but they are and on the local machine I can open CA from Administrator. What do I need to do to get the web portion running again? TIA, Darrin

I have win XP SP3 and a Verbatim external hard disk (1TB). During backup to the drive or transfering of many files it "hangs" and say "Can't find the file...". I can then still see the drive in explorer but the volume name is gone and the size reporting 0 Byte. And it is unaccessible. When I restart it it works again. Single file transfers is generally ok, but not many. ....and...it works quite alright in a Vista laptop so the drive itself is ok. Solutions?

I realize that this is slightly off topic, but does anyone know what type of format Windows uses when using a TV Tuner card while connecting to normal cable TV via coaxial cable? I am looking at buying a TV Tuner card, but it states that it only supports NTSC video format only.

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I'm probably going to start some heated discussions (I may want to talk about politics instead) but I'm interested to read about anyone's experiences with enterprise (not stand-alone please) anti-virus solutions from Norton, Sophos, Mcaffee, etc. Thanks, ~alan

Thanks Alan. Sammy

Thanks JS and Mike. Sammy

I have Windows xp home. My internet provider will provide me with another vendors antispyware.First I have to remove Bit Defender 9 Antispyware. I went to the control panel and add or remove programs. When I tried to remove Bit Defender I get an error message #2753 cannot remove program. I didn't know where to post this question but I thought Windows XP user might have run into this problem before and solved it. Help! Thank you. John