Legacy Operating Systems

Sometimes Autoplay opens a CD in a small folder, in non-explorer mode. (no folder tree) Is there a way to make it open maximized, and in explorer mode? Thank you. ju.c

I have a portable USB drive plugged in to the computer and I want to remove it. Despite having no applications open, when I go to the Safely Remove Hardware icon and select this drive a warning box comes up saying The device 'Generic volume' cannot be stopped right now. Try stopping the device again later. Can anyone suggest what background programmes might be using the USB drive and preventing it being stopped? I already tried exiting a spyware filter but it didn't help. Grateful for ideas.

How do I set where windows explorer starts?

I login (as adminstrator) then it halts for a while and says "preparing network connections" and a little later it says "your logged out" and the login windows appears again. Have anyone any clue why I get rejected over and over again? I repared XP and it worked for one day and then it started again

Hi: I have a friend who has a Sony desktop running Windows Home XP SP2. He has 20GB of HD space on C:\ and 60GB on D:\ and his problem is C:\ is almost full and D:\ has practically nothing. I purchased Norton Partition Magic 8.05 in an effort to merge the D:\ drive with the C:\ drive, as this was the most recommended software. Has anyone used this to merge partitions successfully? What concerns me is that I read a posting about the prior version 8.01 with someone trying to merge partitions and they lost everything in the process. Any comments and/or suggestions will be appreciated. Thanks

I have one of these multi card readers in a 3.5" bay and connected directly to the motherboard (ASUS P4PE) via internal USB header: http://www.opti-ups.com/UCR54IN1B.htm It shows up in Windows XP (SP2 Home) as four separate drives (F, G, H, I) even when there are no memory cards in the reader. If I insert a card into one of the four slots (SD slot) then the "drive" (H) mounts the "volume" that is the SD card. The problem is when I do a "safely remove", it removes ALL of the the "drives" and it will not see any cards that are inserted after that until the next reboot. This happens regardless of which method of "safely remove" I use - the single left click…

Is possible to run a .bat file on Windows XP without showing its window? Thanks to everyone!

We've run across an issue with non-admin users on Windows XP and USB devices. We've found that when we plug in, say a USB camera, install the software as an admin and then have the non-admin user login, the device works fine. We're getting calls now from users that after they power down and backup, they are being asked to install the software again. I'm wondering if anyone is seeing this behavoir. I've seen some posts out there that may offer some clues. Once post mentioned that maybe the non-admin user rebooted and then plugged the USB device into another USB port where it would be required to have the software installed again. It is inferred that is …

I was wondering how i could find a copy of the Windows 98 SE Installation CD for free. Can one of you send me a disc image or tell me a website or somthing. thanks.

Re: How to extend C drive on Windows 2003 Server You may find that there is not enough free space on a certain partition. For example, you want to enlarge C: drive, which usually is Windows system drive. EASEUS Partition Manager Personal lets you free enlarge or reduce a partition in Windows 2000/XP/2003 Server(Only Server Edition) without destroying data easily. For more:http://www.partition-tool.com/easeus-partition-manager/help/resizing-and-moving-partition.htm -- subinleo ------------------------------------------------------------------------ subinleo's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/member.php?u=52707 View this thread: http://forums.techare…

Hi. I do not think that the old autoexec.bat concept work with Windows 2003 Server. So how do I now implement a command to execute automatically when the server is restarted, and without having to log into the server??? I have a need to always and automatically have the server run a "ROUTE ADD" statement from the commmand line. Thanks, Manny

Backups for Exchange 2007 on Windows 2003 SP2 server: Both with Symantec and NTbackups, both the Volume Shadow Copy Service and MS Shadow Copy Provider stop after completing a 'successful' backup - without any errors recorded in the event logs. VSS previously ran continuously on the server (i.e. continued to run after a backup had finished). I take it the point youre making ins that VSS stops after a backup and then restarts.. It now stops after the backup finishes...and does not restart. Unless MS designed VSS to be restarted after each backup (i.e. daily), (which I suspect they didn't), I see this as a problem.. Previous versions are not currenlty used i…

Hello Mr. Blake, in my 8/19/08 thread "IE7 Ready for Prime Time", I got a blank screen and error warning: Java Script: Void (0). Did you respond with anything that could be causing this error? I have had this come up a few other times and I am at a loss as to what to make of it. Any clues would be appreciated. Thanks, -- Gregory

....in a CMD box I type:- ipconfig /all > c:\documents and Settings\Richard\ipconfig.txt ....and it never arrives there ! any clues ? TIA regards, Richard

Hi All, I need help shutting down a virtual machine running under virtual box. I am only including the Linux code as it might be of some help understanding what is going on. (And I know a lot of you are conversant in both, like I am.) If you don't understand the Linux stuff, please keep reading until you hit the XP stuff. Host: CentOS 5.2 Guest: XP-Pro-SP3 From a Crontab command, I am trying to turn off an XP virtual machine. I use this command: kdesu -u todd -c "/usr/bin/VBoxManage controlvm VirtualXP acpipowerbutton" It works, except, I get a prompt on the xp virtual machine stating "other people are logged onto this computer. Shutting do…

Re: Lost Desktop Background option due to Trojan.Desktophijack vir how do you update the registry file withn the file on 285 it is a reg file?? "Nepatsfan" wrote: > Go to this web site: > > http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm > > Download and run the registry edit on line 285, right hand side, > "Restore all display tabs". > > Once you've got the Desktop tab restored, click on the "Customize > Desktop" button. Click on the Web tab. Delete any entries other > than "My Current Home Page". > > -- > Nepatsfan > "Dave Beeze" <DaveBeeze@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in > message &g…

Here's my perspective: I use the internet almost exclusively to: 1. Check e-mail 2. Check facebook 3. Read/post in newsgroups 4. Browse info in trusted sites (wsj.com, wikipedia) 5. Watch youtube videos. 6. Occasionally download files. I figure firefox and gmail both have filters and warnings about "fake" sites and spam/phishing e-mails (1), I've not heard of any facebook attacks (2), newsgroups are simply http requests (3), I only click on links whose url make sense(4), and never heard of virus/trojan/spyware on youtube(5). As for (6), this is one place where I see a vulnerability. But most of my downloads are things like Eclipse plug-ins or files …

I want to make a folder and set a password to view. So that the other people of the same network who want to view the contents of folder should have to provide a password to view/open the files I tried but failed. Please advise Regards Irshad

Re: Lost Desktop Background option due to Trojan.Desktophijack vir "Nepatsfan" wrote: > Go to this web site: > > http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm > > Download and run the registry edit on line 285, right hand side, > "Restore all display tabs". > > Once you've got the Desktop tab restored, click on the "Customize > Desktop" button. Click on the Web tab. Delete any entries other > than "My Current Home Page". > > -- > Nepatsfan > "Dave Beeze" <DaveBeeze@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in > message > news:8963D543-23B5-4BC5-A576-5ECD9A0E2EE1@microsoft.com... > > My syste…

I want to create an ASR in case of problems when installing SP3. But it seems that ASR insists on copying pretty well the whole contents of my C drive. It certainly does all of "My Documents" and "Shared Documents", so I would need media capable of holding 50+ GB. This is fine if you have a tape drive or a spare HD installed, which I don't. But I already have full backups of my own data on DVD and USB drive. All I need from ASR is the system files. So, can I stop the ASR wizard backing up "My Documents" and "Shared Documents"? Or is there another way to be able to get the system working again if all goes wrong? What do other folks do? Personal d…

I REALLY hope someone can help me! I keep getting these error messages saying my "Computer is infected. Get an antivirus or spyware remover to clean it". And then I get redirected to a window advising me to purchase "Antivirus XP 2008". Has anyone else received these messages? Is this a genuine Microsoft product? I have Nod32 Antivirus. And I had been using Spybot regularly which was working really well but it has suddenly stopped working. Can anyone help me to get rid of these messages?

When I open a folder the the far left hand folders column no longer opens automatically. I have to click the folders icon on the task bar. How do I set it to default with the folders column upon openning? -- jj

After I did a clean re-install of XP, I found that I could no longer see any ICON for MS-DOS (I can still get to DOS thru the Run command); and the computer does not recognize some DOS commands (I can't format a floppy disk, for example). Can anyone point me in the right direction for an answer to this problem? As far as I can tell, the reinstall has shown no other problems. The missing Icon is not a huge problem, but I suspect its absence is related to the inability to run certain DOS command.

Subsequent to a dual-boot installation are USB ports (of Host) available to to Guest (WIN2K) ? Regards......TENTRILLION

I installed XP Professional x64 edition on my newly built AMD Athlon(tmm) 64 X 2 Dual Core processor 5600+ 2.90 GHz, 7.87 GB Ram . My problem appears to be many, it blanks my monitor screen, hangs or crashes, appears that it will not allow me to mulit taslk, problems in downloading and changing my URL address. Those are some of the many items that has occurred. With trying to solve this problem, I have replaced my motherboard(M2A-VM HDMI), processor, harddrive, memory stick (fm SUpertalent to Kingston), replaced my power supply. It appears to run just fine with only 2GB of RAM. At this point, I am strongly think that I have a problems with microsoft X…