Legacy Operating Systems

my win32 file went corrupt and a friend of mine got windows xp with sp2 reinstalled on my desktop but now there is no audio device or sound card found...this is a dell 4700 ... Im not sure what driver i should update to or reinstall... would downloading sp3 take care of this problem?... as you can see i know very little about a computer.. your help will be greatly appreciated!

Within the last day, my computer has booted with all my shortcuts grayed out on my desktop. This is also true for the panes of any windows that I open. Upon minimizing or closing these windows, my entire desktop, startup menu, basically everything becomes gray. It's responding slowly when this happens. My drivers are all up to date and I havn't installed anything recently that I think could make this happen. Help would be much appreciated.

Is there a way to check what's taking licenses? When I get to Admin tools>Licensing on an 2003SBS server it just tels me how many are installed and what's the maximum usage. I've got 10 licenses and only 9 computers including the server so I would like to find out why the maximum usage is 11. Thanks yaro

Hi, one question about TS Session Broken, from Windows 2008: - If I have 5 users connect in a Server from the Farm, and that server loose connection or is down, the users will be forwarder automatically to another server from the Farm or they will must reconnect in another server? Thanks. Luiz

Hi: I'm running WinXP Home Ed, SP3. My pc has its own CD Burning software (Roxio) and works fine. But for simple tasks, like storing a file in a CD/CDRW I like using windows built in burning capabilities (Send to->CD). It also works fine, but I have noted that when I add files to a CD that already has some files, the newly added files are stored but burning wizard ends with an error: An error occurred when burning CD, delete files, store for later, or expulse CD?. However files are correctly stored... I can add more files to the cd and again the same error, but files are OK. So what's happening?

FF bug? Using FF to print the following URL ... http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc300143(printer).aspx to "Adobe PDF" printer results in only 1 page printed. There should be two or more pages. Internet Explorer successfully prints to "Adobe PDF" printer.

I updated my computer with the SP3 update today, and I accidently forgot to remove my flashdrive, since I had to backup my computer on it. I noticed it was still in the computer by the time the cleanup had started, since I had many other things going on at that time. When I restarted my computer and went to open some files on my flashdrive, I noticed they were gone, deleted. I know for a fact that the files were on the flash drive before the cleanup. I could have dealt with one or two missing files, since that happens sometimes if a program isn't closed properly, or the wrong button is pushed. But I have at least ten missing files, along with things that h…

Hello, I have a problem with my windows XP. My windows 2000 server working fine with some warnings for the driver files that is understandable . I have installed windows 2000 server after XP and now whenever I am trying to boot XP,I am getting a black screen with an error message "Windows 2000 could not start because of the file is missing or corrupt:\windows\system32\config\systemd startup options for windows 2000,press F8. I tried to copy the NTLDR and NTDETECT.COM from the actual XP Cd in to the WINNT folder.Still no luck!!! is there anyway I can boot both the system instead of removing the XP and 2000 and change the order of installing o.s? …

Environment: Server: Windows 2003 Workstations: Windows XP SP2 I have roaming profiles setup, and all user accounts have a login script to xcopy files to their local machine. My issue is, I editted the login script to "REM" (without the quotes) the xcopy statement, but the xcopy still seems to try to xcopy these files locally. I'm assuming the issue is with the roaming profiles. Any ideas how to resolve this? I would like to stop the xcopy ... i even deleted the statement and it still tries to copy the files locally after a restart. Thanks in advance.

I’m sorry about taking so long to respond to Andrew E’s advice to me about my problem(Yet another “No Sound” problem on 8/8/2008), but there’s too much stuff at home & work distracting me. Uninstalling & reinstalling everything under ‘Sound, Video, and Game Controllers’ in the device manager gave the following results: Video & Audio Codecs, Legacy Audio & Video Capture Device, and Media Control Devices - these drivers disappeared and wouldn’t come back; Realtek AC’97 Audio driver - the device manager says that the driver is enabled but not functioning properly. Further probing into the AC’97 properties turned up the message that a WMD d…

My Windows XP Windows Explorer cannot display the the hidden files/folders. The Windows Explorer do not allow me to change the settings from Tools --> Option --> View --> Unhide the hidden files, it is no changes even Apply and OK button pressed. Please help.... thanks. Billy

I have had problems with Windows XP Pro64 not being compatible with my software. So much so that my nephew installed a virtual system on my computer so I can run these programs using Win 98. I am thinking about buying a MP3 player as I want to listen to audiobooks that I have downloaded (music also). I know absolutely nothing about MP3 players. My questions is: am I going to have problems downloading audiobooks, music, and videos if I am running Windows XP Pro 64?

A Desktop.ini file has appeared in My Recent Documents folder, but I don't know its original location, so I can't return it there, and I'm warned of dire consequences if I try to delete it. Can somebody tell me where its belongs? I run XP Pro/SP3, and here are the contents of the stray Desktop.ini file: [.ShellClassInfo] InfoTip=@Shell32.dll,-12692 IconFile=%SystemRoot%\system32\SHELL32.dll IconIndex=-21 LocalizedResourceName=@shell32.dll,-12691 *TimDaniels*

In the "Windows firewall" settings, the General tab, I have the firewall turned Off. In the security center, however, windows firewall is always On. How do I really turn windows firewall off?

Anyone know why a Winxp laptop would take an extremely long time to copy large image files over a VPN network link? i.e. broadband connection, 5 meg file, 15 minutes? the same thing happens when connecting to a VPN network outlook.pst file for mail. It could take up to 25 minutes to send and receive mail in outlook 2007. Every other request takes normal time. Even after the Mfgr. (Dell) replaced the processor and memory.

All of a sudden after always working before, my printer, which is not connected to my laptop, but our home pc, is not connected to my laptop. I can not find it using the add a printer wizard, and I no longer have the original printer install disc. I have tried numerous suggestions from other posts, and none have worked. My home pc printer is set up to share, the printer has a name, and my wireless connection is up and running. Any suggestions for getting my printer to work from my laptop?

When opening a file shortcut, excel opens a blank worksheet. The worksheet will eventually fill in if the resize button is clicked. Opening files from menu works but not from shortcut. I found a regedit procedure a while back that fixed it but after installing SP3 for XP it no longer works and I can't find the regedit again. Any help? Thanks

I have Windows 98. Went away for a week and came back to find none of my PROGRAMS are listed on my START MENU when I click PROGRAMS. My FAVORITES are gone also. How do I get them back onto my START MENU? My DDESKTOP icon has also disappeared from my tool bar next to the START button. How can I get it back there?

I know that desk.cpl opens the Display control panel, which one opens the Mouse control panel and what folder is it located in? Askin' because the computer for guests at my workplace needs for the mouse speed to be adjusted but the Control Panel menu has been deleted to keep guests from screwin' up the computer *which happened several times)

We've a very strange problem in one of our server, i.e. NIC ordering in windows 2003 server always got changed automatically when we reboot the server. We want the NIC to be in one particular order for our application to work. Id set the order by doing the following but still it chages on the reboot How to change the binding order of network adapters 1. Click Start, click Run, type ncpa.cpl , and then click OK. You can see the available connections in the LAN and High-Speed Internet section of the Network Connections window. 2. On the Advanced menu, click Advanced Settings, and then click the Adapters and Bindings tab. http://sup…

RE: cannot connect to internet through wireless network "SPEEDY36@gmail.com" wrote: > Ever since uninstalling ie7 we cannot get on interrnet on 1 computer. > the following is mnost of the error message. I reset the winsock > catalog, but keep getting the same error. Then I did system restore > back to ie7 but the screen is just blank when trying to sign on. > > This computer still works through the office network. > > Help! > > > > info Error attmpting to validate the Winsock base providers: 2 > error Not all base service provider entries could be found in the > winsock > catalog. A reset is needed. …

Hello all, Just ran my virus sweep and also use spysweeper here. Avast found Win 32 : Zbot-ALY [trj] in two places it seems : C: System Volume Information\restore and C:\documents and setting\myname\desktop XPAinstall . There's more info. per those two places but I don't know how to hijack this-or whatever-to leave it all here. Just wondering if someone can lead me to a good source ( thats free) to help clean this stuff totally off my computer. As of now, I only had the option -per avast- to put it in the virus chest , should I leave them there , delete them or what ? Thanks if you can help !

i'm charged with maintaining an application which has multiple listener services. the first service can be set to auto. subsequent services need to be passed a parameter to start. in 2003 i've used sc.exe to pass a parameter to a service on startup and this works fine. i could set it so that the services were started by the act of logging in. however, i'd like the services to come up automatically on restart without the need for user intervention, since that's what services are supposed to do. my question is, therefore, the one in the title: how can i start a service in windows server 2003 on machine restart and pass it a parameter? many tha…

I have an issue with file associations not being set for all users. I log in as local administrator and set Microsoft Document Imaging Veiwer to open ..tiff and .tif files. I check the box to always use this program to open this type of file. It works as it should for the local administrator. But when I log in as a different user that does not have admin privledges the file association does reflect the changes I made to use Microsoft Document Imaging viewer to open .tiff and .tif files. How can I set this so that all users on our computers will use the same program to open .tiff and .tif files? I feel like this is some sort of a permissions issue but I am …

I know I can use Media Player to burn media CD's. But what does Windows use to burn data CD's, non-Media Player CD's? Is there a way to keep the CD session open? -- Thanks, John