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I need to automate those 2 tasks : 1-Distribute number of files inside 1 directory to subdirectories created each one include only 1000 file. All of them named 1,2,3...etc. 2-compare names of files inside 2 directories and see the different of files . Please help . Thanks in advance .

Hi everyone, Has anyone experienced any problems with remote desktop connection 6.1 client not working after installing XP SP3? Note 6.x was not installed before the upgrade. When I try to connect to any other machine, PC or server, I get the error "Remote Desktop Connection has encountered a problem and needs to close..." When i check the details it mentions the appname mstsc.exe (obviously) and the modname mstscax.dll. Any ideas anyone? Thanks in advance. Darren

Previous Windows Server 2003 Web Edition CDs we have installed had the volume label NRMWOEM_EN, which corresponds to Web Edition 32-bit OEM. This is according to the Microsoft KB 889713: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/889713 Last week we purchased a license for Windows Server 2003 Web Edition 32-bit from an outfit online that has great feedback named Royal Discount. What they shipped us is a CD that has the label CRMWOEM_EN. Can someone please identify what is the C in that label? The license does not appear to be compatible with virtual machines built with the other volume label, so this is why we want to understand what we bought in mo…

hi.. i try to ghost an image of my xp sp3, i use administrator account to setup the pc, wallpaper, program setting, chinese input methods, after that i copy the administrator profile to default user with everyone full control right. then i use sysprep with mini setup and sysprep.ini to shut the pc. however, after that i reboot the pc.... use administrator to login again, all the input methods, program setting, background....are gone. i read some advice through the web such as adding [unattended] UpdateServerProfileDirectory=1 to sysprep.ini, still no use. can any support staff help me to solve this problem ???? urgent...thx for your help. ps: i…

I don't really know where to go for this solution, so I thought I'd ask here first because I know most of you have dealt with just about everything!! I have an older Dell Latitude laptop (one external standard monitor port, no DVI). I know I can hook up one external monitor. Is there a cheap and easy way to hook up two flat screen monitors that will display the same thing? I've seen add-on boxes costing over $1400! WIll a simple splitter cable work? Ed

I am having a problem with some users logging into server 2003 from a remote desktop. I have had 2 users try to login and they just get a black screen. If they login at the server it works or if I login at their desktop I can login and get the remote desktop. I have checked the RDP settings and checked the accounts at the server. If I make them a new server login it works. I am using this workaround for now. Thanks for any help.

Hi all, I have three PC computers running XPP SP3. All of them have the same config in terms of remote desktop authorization. One of the three PCs, say "A", was part of a WS2003 network. I took that machine off this network and created a new one with "B" and "C", an ADSL box and a hub. I can connect from A to B and C via the remote Desktop application, but I cannot connect from B or C to A. I immediately get an error message saying that either the Administrator denied access (which is obviously not the case), or a network error occurred during connection. There are no messages in any system event logfiles. The three PCs have an account password. A…

How can i find out why it is now taking so long to load my desktop? It use to take only a few secodns and now it is taking about 2 min. and I have not loaded any new software or hardware. Thank You Mark.

After I installed SP3 on my SP Pro in my desktop my Outlook Express does not connect to the servers and I get an error message. Socket Error 10061 Error number 0x800CCC0E. I used the Microsoft chat but the technician could not help me. I googled the error and the suggestion was that two ports were closed; Port 25 and Port 110. Any suggestions? Earlier I installed SP3 on my laptop with no problem. -- dwaing If you can read you can learn anything for there are those who are smarter than you who can write, however not everyone who can write is smarter than you.

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I have bought 5 new 2008 servers to replace my 2003 servers. I installed a USR external modem and enabled Dialup networking Route & Remote access. All went well, no errors, Routing & remote access for dialup running ok. Modem shows ok, did a test dial out, OK. Modems will not answer on any of the 5 servers, AA light blinks but thats it. Is there something new in 2008 server I am missing, just to get the modem to answer? I'll worry about authentication later.. I had no problems with this on 2003 servers / same modems. I even tried a diff modem on one. Thanks BUC

I got game CD "X" in the cd drive; it's already installed and I'm sure I disabled autoplay on the drive. But everytime I start the comp up the game goes to the setup/install procedure.. How can I stop this?

I have a XP machine when it reboots the explorer.exe file will not run. If I go to task manager and browse to the file in the windows directory it is there, but if i try and run it I get the error message saying, "Windows cannot find 'C:\windows\explorer.exe'. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again. To search for a file, click the start button, and then click search." This system was hot with a virus, but I think I have removed them all. I also ran a registry cleaner and it found 187 errors and fixed that as well. I think there still is something wrong in the registry and that is why explorer will not run. Anyone have any id…

I need more help from the pros! I attempted to perform a Backup of my system. I went to Programs, selected Accessories, then System Tools and I couldn't find Backup. System Restore appeared along with other options, but the Backup option was missing? I just recently performed the latest Windows Update without any errors. How can System Restore be an option, and not have Backup as an option? Has this in someway been deleted? I didn't delete it... not knowingly, anyway! Do you have a suggestion? Your help will be greatly appreciated, needless to say. Thanks -- Patrick

one of my server which was running Windows 2003 Server w/ Sp2 crashed due to hard drive problem. The server had a 120gig HD which was partition into two. 1st partition was 30gig which was Windows installed and 2nd partition was unallocated. After rebooting with Windows 2003 CD and went into recovery, I cannot see the directory listing when issuing "dir". I get an error about an error occurred during directory enumeration. I ran chkdsk /p and it indicates another error. What I found out was there is NO free space available on the 1st partition. When I ran Windows 2003 setup, it does see the partition but it indicates it is in "raw" filesystem. I download…

We have about 300 users who are using windows profiles. All of the accounts are working except 2 users. When these two log in in creates their files under the documents and settings, but their desktop and favorites are empty. In another place on the c drive it creates these exact same 2 files with the data in them. Their desktop and favorites are copied to the server ok. We have checked security and delete their accounts in active directory and recreated them and it still happens. Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated. thanks al

I've had pc for about 4 years. have two hard drives. both are almost full. Running Internet Explorer, Firefox, Spy Sweeper, AVG 7.5, AdAware personal, System Mechanic, Adobe Reader a) one for Firefox, b) one for Internet Explorer. Not an expert, but know a little bit about pcs. Willing to learn more... Can anyone tell me if there's a conflict with above programs and how to identify & fix problems such as: 1) When shutdown windows, it crashes and I get "blue screen"- Have to turn pc off/on to restart. 2) Cannot start in safe mode 3) Date and time has to be reset everytime I start pc 4) Cannot use System Restore Thanks for your assistance. Don

I was working in a word document that I opened from an e-mail attachment. Instead of clicking "Save As" to save it, I clicked the disk icon in the upper left corner. Now I can't find the document. I've searched by date and key word, looked in all my document folders and hidden folders. Is there any way to find this document?

I got a window saying SP3 was ready to install with warnings to close all programs and backup my system. Trouble is, it didn't say how to restart the install Wizard after the backup. Also, this took me by surprise and I have no idea what SP3 will do. Changes? Remove functionality? Enhance functionality? I went to a Windows page, http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=68c48dad-bc34-40be-8d85-6bb4f56f5110&displaylang=en, and couldn't really find any good material on what's actually being done. Does anyone have a good reference to SP3 and what it does? Thanks much, Mike

We purchased 8 identical XP workstations around August last year and deployed them in September through November last year. Each machine is running identical software. We had 2 reboots in September, one in November, and 2 in February, on different machines. Then on June 12 we started having frequent random reboots. They seem hardware rather than software related because the machine doesn't log anything going down, only coming back up. The two error messages we are getting are: Error code 8086 with all parameters 0s or error code 100000d1 with parameters 28, 2, 0 and f7b51be7. Each minidump always refers to kmixer.sys. We are only using on-board audi…

Good day, I'm using a Dell Inspirion E1505 with Windows XP Media Center 2005 installed on it. After a number of virus and trojana attacked my system, I decided to repair it using the CD that came with the system. However, during the repair, I got the following error messages: - shmgrate.exe: The procedure entry point Get RequestedRuntimeVersion could not be located in the dynamic link library WININET.dll - ngen.exe: The procedure entry point InternetGetSecurityInfoByURLW could not be located in the dynamic link library mscoree.dll - .NET Framework Initialization Error: C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\mscorwks.dll could not be loaded Please…

I've a legal copy of Windows XP with Service Pack 3. I recently bought a 320Gb Maxtor PATA HDD. My BIOS recognizes 320Gb, so Linux and Plan 9 Operating Systems, but for some extrange reason, Windows XP SP3, only 128Gb. I created EnableBigLba Key (It didn`t exist), DWORD, Value 1 in: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\atapi\Parameters Rebooted the machine, but had no effect. When I open Administrative tools->Equipment Management->Disk Management I see always a 128Gb Disk instead the real, 320 Gb. The same with Partition Magic and other partitioning tools. My XP is in Spanish. First I installed XP, then upgraded to SP1, later …

Re: How to enable FireFox to download more than one file at a time ?? On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:46:14 -0700 (PDT), lb <ldbrw@my-dejanews.com> wrote: >This is a Windows 98 group. None of us here can use Firefox 3.X. We >are stuck with FF2.X. Someone with more than 1 computer may know >though. You may try opening another browser window to the same site >and try from there. Also, right click on the link and open. > Are you saying that FF3 no longer supports Win98? I thought mozilla intended to support all versions of Windows as well as Linux and Mac. Sounds like they are going down the tubes too. I also heard that FF3 has a lot of b…

Should I get rid of brndlog? Each user has a version of this text file in the application data - Microsoft files - I don't understand its function.

Hi, I have two NICs in my Windows XP box, one wireless. I would like to have each attached to a different network and then specify traffic uses which NIC. For example, I want all SSH traffic traffic to go on NIC 1 and all web surfing traffic to go on NIC 2. Is there a way to do this in Windows XP? Thanks. Kevin