Legacy Operating Systems

Hi, I have a windows 2003 server domain controller which has DHCP installed. I see their is a backup option - under what circumstances would somebody do a backup of the DHCP server? Thanks

My old XP desktop started getting a BSOD just about the time I got a new laptop. Which was good timing, but I've decided I need to figure out how to resurrect the thing. I'm not having any luck tracking down the cause. Symptoms: system powers up, goes through the Windows splash screen, then BSOD's just before it would display the login page. BSOD says it is an INTERNAL_POWER_ERROR, ***STOP: 000000A0 (0x00000101, 0x00000007, 0xBA517764, 0x00000000). (And naturally some of the later numbers change each time.) I can run the system in "safe mode with networking" but it's not usable in that state. Googling on INTERNAL_POWER_ERROR didn't get me any…

I recently had to replace my hard drive and reload WindowsXPpro. I have a Westinghouse L1975LW wide screen monitor (1440x900), but now I can't find that setting in the screen resolution section. I don't recall having any software for the monitor, and I cant find any drivers on the Westinghouse website. Any ideas? Stu

Which folders are best suited for compression? You know, when you right-click a folder, select Properties, Advanced, and check the box "Compress contents to save disk space" For example, I would guess that C:\WINDOWS\Installer is a good choice. A good read, but lacking: Should I Use Windows File Compression? http://www.lockergnome.com/windows/2006/07/04/should-i-use-windows-file-compression/ ju.c

I am developing a specialised system which uses a satellite phone for internet access. The phone itself is buggy and does strange things, and the satellite connection is even less reliable, dropping the connection after a few minutes on average. I am finding that the built-in Windows dialler is not really suitable. It doesn't properly detect that the connection has been dropped, and gets itself confused if the connection has not been dropped but the application is asking for data, and I sometimes get what looks like multiple instances of the dialler, and then nothing works at all. Also the satellite provider occassionally fails to complete the DHCP proces…

I just installed SP3 last night and now my hard drive is nearly full. My PC is older and I have limited space. Are there any files left over from the update I can safely delete to recoop some space. There are a lot of log, pf, query, bmp, gif, etc files. Altogether they add up to a lot of space. Thanks

About 3 weeks ago (may 2008) I found that one of our pc's had lost its usb functionality. Xp pro, installed and running for 3 years. It has a ps/2 keyboard, ms usb optical mouse and occasionally has 2 different types of samsung flash based mp3 players connected. After much fiddling I declared the usb controller dead (pc was 8 years old) and swapped monitor, keyboards, mouse etc to another box running xp pro fresh install. 3 weeks later I have the very same problem on this box. That particular box had run xp pro for 3 years without a hitch with a gaming usb keyboard and gaming usb mouse and a usb external drive with no problems. The symptoms (identical o…

Every time the machine is restarted, a "you must restart to continue update" message comes up. No matter how many times it is restarted, the message reappears. Machine & all applications work okay anyway. How do I get rid of the reacurring message?

Re: Corrupted interface in windows xp Security Center [X-post to WinXP General] Was this behavior seen before you installed SP3? Is the machine currently fully patched at Windows Update? *Can* you successfully install any updates offered at Windows Update? -- ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002 AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net DTS-L http://dts-l.net/ Roberto wrote: > I have just finished building a new PC and installed windows xp > professional, then installed SP3. > > When I open security centre to adjust the settings everything is there, > but > the colours are w…

Hi all just a question for a friend of mine he was installing service pack three when Avast anti virus found something allow or not allow he denied it and since then is unable to get on the internet. i told him to try a roll back which he is now doing and i am waiting for a reply. wondered if anyone on here has had a similar problem. Regards. -- DEFENDER01

I have a keyboard that has the extra buttons on the left side for Cut, Copy, Paste. They have worked for 3 years and now they have stoped working. Ctrl X, C, V are still working. Any suggesting on how to get them working again?

When I right click on the desktop and click Properties, my desktop tab is missing. How can I get it back? -- Jim Kreutzer

I have an accounting program that must use .NET Framework 2.0. The program as worked for several years on my XP Pro machine. Now it will not load. Event viewer as it is a .NET Framework 2.0 Error. However I cannot install the dotnetfx.exe says it is the wrong verson. Where do I start to resolve this issue.

Hi, I have an xp machine unfortunately after installing a new program or driver ( i don't know which) windows won't boot fully.I have no idea what this program was, sorry! I can't access windows via safemode as all I get is a black screen. Windows loads a bit further when I select Last Known Good configuration .It gets to the point where "windows is loading ...please wait"and then I get the following error: "The problem seems to be caused by the following file: mrxdav.sys DRIVER_UNLOADED_WITHOUT_CANNCELLING_PENDING_OPERATIONS TECHNICAL INFO: *** STOP: 0x000000CE ( 0xBA5E75A8, 0x00000000, 0xBA5E75A8, 0x00000000) mrxdav.sys Please note …

Hi, I have a Dell PowerEdge 2950 with six 450GB SAS discs forming a RAID 10 array of 1.2 TB. I'm running Windows Server 2003 R2 with SP1. I need some software that will create an image of the system on an external disc that I can later use for complete system recovery. I've found Acronis True Image Echo Server for Windows. It's ~$600 and seems like it might do what I need. I'm not very price sensitive, but if I can get something that will do basically the same thing for less, I'd like to consider it. Do you know of any other software I should consider? What if I added the need to make incremental backups to this requirement? Would that push me to a di…

I scanned my PC with Rescuer & of course I had 1000+errors that need to be fixed, for a price of course. My PC has some problems I am sure as its very sluggish, freezes from time to time. Very annoying to say the least. Should I pay the $30.00 & buy this or is there a free one out there also. I regularly "clean" out my PC but is this enough? Need your opinion. Gail

i have a fairly robust dell optiplex gx520 PC -2GB RAM, ....works fine..but on an intermittent basis when i click the mailbox icon on the menu bar in AOL 9.1 to open mail ...computer shuts off and reboots... i have tried registry program fixes...and reinstalling AOL 9.1...is there any one out there who could give me a sense of what causes this reboot??.. i dont have this problem with any other program...only AOL 9.1....i would contact AOL , but they are no longer supporting their product...of course the obvious answer is to not use the clunky product..but i had been using if for a while and had no problems...computer is virus free...and has a big hard d…

Is there anyway of changing XP (SP2) so that the Open and Save As dialogs open with a Details view as the default view? Perhaps there's something I can change in the registry? TIA, David

hi all been having issues with my computer.after logging in comp would shut down and restart.went into safe mode, start up folder and narrowed it down to amd-dc-opt (amd dual core optomizer)which i disabled.things seem fine for now but how did this problem occur it had me quite worried and how can i fix the problem as disabelling it does not seem to be a fix.any help appreciated.thanks in advance.

After all of my tray icons have loaded, the search toolbar is a bit small. Is there any way to make it larger?

Win2000 pro, upon boot up, it goes to a blue screen with a window in the center stating, Windows error, need to install antivirus program and shows two different names of a virus or a trojan. It also locks up the system. Went into safe mode and the window does not appear. Any help would be appreciated.

I plan to do some testing which will require a baseline (clean install of Windows XP with SP2) image that I can restore to an newly formatted partition multiple times. I have Norton Ghost but thought I'd try True Image (the 15 day free trial version). Question is, does the trial version allow you to create a True Image boot CD than can be used to restore a partition from a baseline image file stored on another partition. If the trial version does have this feature any tips on creating the boot CD would be helpful. JS

could some one please tell me how can I find what folder the form data (form password) are stored in ?

Hi there, I wonder if some kind soul could help please? I have a bunch of computers on my home network with various usernames such as Administrator, Admin and some using my own name. As I use RDP to zoom around my network both locally & remotely I would like to standardise on the username to make it easy to remember which computer has which username. For example my MediaCenter PC was originally setup with a default account of Administrator and all of my program settings, preferences, folders etc are defined as such. Now if I setup a new user (my name for example) I am going to lose all kinds of things as detailed above including probably the…

I scheduled a check disk from within XP, it freezes on the 4th part at 66%. I have tried a repair which runs but then on the reboot, it runs check disk again... and freezes at 66%. How can i cancel check disk before windows loads. From the command prompt chkntfs is not a valid program. I can not open in safe mode. Thanks in advance.