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WHen the scanner wizard cant detect my camera automatically"I know with XP there is a fix on Kellys corner for this, but what about for ME. I like it in XP when i can plug in my camera and my pictures start downloading at my choosing in the scanner wizard. But, on ME, I plug camera in and nothing shows but i am able to find it as a removable drive on MY computer>DCIM>100. Too many steps that I dont like. If its possible to have it like XP, please let me know. thnks

Re: Modem removed - unavailable device sgopus wrote: >I would imagine your missing the driver for your modem that matches XP. >The downgrade may not have installed it . look on the cd for drivers and >modem. and see if it will install manually The downgrade comprises a "Rescue & Recovery" CD and five "Product Recovery" CDs. Don't think I've got much chance of finding drivers, let alone installing them, but thanks all the same! Martyn -- Martyn Tindall Leeds, England, United Kingdom

My USB External HDD has been working fine up until this point. When I try to access the drive in My Computer I get the message: [Windows Explorer] F:\ is not accessible. The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable. When I look at the drives 'General Properties' it says that the File System is RAW and that Used space, Free space, and Capacity are all 0 bytes. In Disk Management, it says I have a Volume: (F:), Layout: Partition, Type: Basic, File System: 'blank', Status: Healthy, Capacity: 465.76GB, Free Space: 465.76GB, % Free: 100%. I had been using the 'Optimize for performance' write caching setting. Could this be the cause for the corru…

I'm building a new DC for our network that will replace an older machine. This machine will host FSMO,GC and DNS for the network. It's a Dell server in a RAID-1 array with a PERC 6/i SCSI controller. I've already run dcpromo on the machine and noticed the event logs warning about the write caching. This dis kcontroller does have battery backup on it so I believe I'm ok to leave this enabled? What does eveyone think in general about this? I want the the event logs clean as a whistle before I continue moving roles or at least know that I have a server in optimal condition. Should I disable write caching or not? Thanks

I have a Win 2008 server that will host a front application that has an Oracle database backend. Prior to Win 2008, I would install the Oracle client and all would be good. I installed the Oracle client on the 2008 Server and got no errors. However when I go to "Create new data source", Oracle is not an option as it would be on 2003. Any suggestions on what I am missing. We are trying to move forward with 2008 deployments and would prefer not have to revert back to 2003. Thanks -- ccoates

my taskbar is stuck at double height. I can make it taller but not down to standard height.

I want to use a host file to restrict ALL internet accect from my PC EXCEPT for specifically defined addressess. Can anyone help me with what would that host file look like? -- Thank You

I am running Windows XP Pro with sp3. I have multiple copies of Wininet.dll on my computer, in various sub-directories. From the System32 directory, the IE7 directory, to individual program sub-directories. Many of them are different sizes, from 460kb to 1800kb, with different creation dates. First, can I delete all of them and replace them with the latest version as indicated by the most recent date of the .dll file? Second, I have a program (RemoveII Pro by Incodesolutions) that will not download the latest updates to the data file. In contacting their technical support, their response was that the Wininet drivers were busy or corrupted. They sai…

Hello, I've gotten an error code doing a backup of Windows Server 2008. I've spent about 30 minutes trying every imaginable search of Microsoft's site, but can't find an explanation. Any one know where I should look? The full message is: "Backup started at {long string of numbers} failed as Volume Shadow Copy. Operation failed for backup volume with the following error code: 2155348001". I do backups daily, but only get this message occassionally. Thanks

Is there any way to automatically delete items in a particular folder that are older than, say two weeks?

Why are these unwanted characters displayed? Here is an example: I sent an email to myself with a "-" (minus sign) in the title. When I read the email subject lines on my provider's server using Firefox. the - is displayed as these three characters: –. This is just one example. Other characters can be transformed. The occurrence of this problem is intermittent for me and thus I cannot necessarily repeat it at any one time. I think this issue widespread. I did a Google search on – and got 141,000,000 hits. What causes this and how can it be prevented? Stan Hilliard

Hello I just recently installed IE7 on my WinXP Home laptop. Everytime I launch IE ever since it was installed it loads: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=74005 But then i get a error page cannot be found webpage. I am connected to the internet and i have changed my homepage. Any other website i type in works. I would just like to get rid of the default startup page and use my homepage. Any Ideas? Thank you Peter

I'll admit I'm a bit of a newbie, but I'm hoping someone can help with this. I'm trying to protect parent folders from accidental deletion, which I've done, however I can't seem to stop the content of these folders being deleted, despite receiving an access denied error. Here's the basic layout: PARENT FOLDER -> SUBFOLDER->FILES If I grant DELETE permissions (on subfolders & files only) on the PARENT, and then try to delete it, I receive the appropriate error, but all content is lost. Is there a way to ensure that if access is denied for the top most folder, that it won't propogate to subfolders and files? I know one solution would be…

Hia folks I-m having a total brain lock... I simply cannot remember how to, in Windows 2003, we set up DHCP exclusion zones in IP families... and I-m in a remote location, with no manuals Can anyone give me a heads up please...

I have a laptop Dell 600M with WinXP and with all updates. I have set the Power save to turn off display after 15 minutes and goto a screen saver after 2 minutes. The problem is the display won't go to sleep. I have tried several things. I reinstalled the wireless card drivers and the screen saver worked once and only once. I uninstalled SP3 and again the screen saver worked once. Then not again. Do I need to reinstall Windows? Or any other ideas?

Greetings, I am having problems running backups on an HP StorageWorks 1/8 Autoloader. The backup fails when it tries to load the tape. We are running Server 2003 sp1. We have a copy of Backup Exec v8 that is installed. This version of BackupExec does not support our Autoloader. I have tried to uninstall BackupExec but it fails with a "uninst.iso is corrupted or not valid" error. When I put a new tape into the Autoloader and try to run a test backup, it recognizes that it is a new tape and tries to use it. After this part I watched the tape drive load and unload the tape several times before ntbackup started complaining about the wait time. E…

I had an application lock up today within my remote desktop (It was Vista, while my computer was XP). I hit Ctl-Alt-Delete and got my computer's list of programs, which included the remote desktop program. So I could have killed the remote desktop, which I didn't need to do - but I didn't see how to kill that locked up program. What are my options.

My HD`crashed so I have to install a new one. I just installed the original Windows XP Home SP1 on my new HD. When it asked me to Activate Windows I clicked on "remind me later" I went to activate it and when I went to the System Tools folder there is no activation icon there. I tried to do a Windows Update and it wont until I activate it. Is there a "Run" command to launch the Windows Activation?

I am using an OEM version of Windows XP on a Dell PC which is about 4 years old. I recently rebooted and I now am receiving a blue screen with the message Unmountable_Boot_Drive. I no longer have the original OEM disks of Windows XP, however, I have Windows XP disks from another computer. I have tried booting from the setup disks and when I get the setup screen I have the choices of hitting the R key for repair or the enter key to resetup XP, however, nothing happens when I hit either the R key or the enter Key. Any suggestions how I can work around this. I have searched through Google and there are several posts about this problem, however, they…

When is microsoft going to make a OS only on 64-bit computing not 32-bit i am waiting for that to happening, Microsoft need to stop making 32-bit and start on nexts gen-computing 64-bit and they to give the Companys the new software to start working on 64-bit software projects when is microsoft going to do this. everybody is tire of 32-bit windows and want the new 64-bit windows we can not wait

I would like to make an email address that is not associated with a user but forwards to a users mailbox. the public from outside my organization need to be able to send to this address.

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Looking for a way to find out when was the last time somebody was logged onto a computer over the enterprise. We need the count of desktops which have been logged onto. We don't need the user count, we are looking for desktop count.

Re: Outlook Mail Send the same problem is happening with my outlook mail. any suggestions "Tom Willett" wrote: > Have you asked the experts in the Outlook newsgroups? > > ? > "Os" <Os@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:BAA93D71-D772-45B4-BFEA-B907291D7E82@microsoft.com... > > After I SEND an E mail from an Outlook E mail Message , the mail rests in > > my > > OUTBOX and will not be sent until I select the SENT/RECIEVE button . I > > have > > gone to Tools and checked the appropriate box for auto sending yet the > > mail > > remains unsent. > > >

Can anyone advise me on what support pack I need to install and run to complete the following commands KB: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/916926 I am getting alot of Event 4407,4112 and 4163 and I am trying to reset the msdct log following KB, but cmd does not recognized some of the commands. Thanks to those that reply.