Legacy Operating Systems

Apologies ahead of time, but I need help on what should be a simple problem. I have four machines: 2 Win98 and 2 WinXP. All works to connect to my ISP, but the IE6 on one of the WinXP's, but then suddenly worked for one session, then quit again. It dials, makes connection, confirms me to my ISP, announces that the connection is made with a little balloon, but then stops and will not download the welcome page? The IE6 promptly sequences through everything until it's time to get the page, then...nothing, no data transfer, just an hour glass. I can't even activate the View Source. Have to stop IE, but then the 'can't show this page' screen is the same as …

I am using wbadmin to backup my Windows Server 2008 server using a scheduled task. Everything works great as far as the backup is concerned. I want to have the server attach the log file and email it to me when the backup is completed. Where is the backup log file? I can’t find it anywhere and I cannot find the answer on the net. So my question is, where is the backup log file? Thanks

We get the below errors every 5 minutes. What database is it refering to and how could I correct it. Soure: ESENT Categoty: Database Page Cache Event ID: 404 services (268) Stnchronous read page checksum error -1018 ((1:85 1:85) (0-880873) (0-926341)) occurred. Please restore the database from a previous backup. Source: SceCli Category: None Event ID: 1202 Security policies are propagated with warning. 0x4b8 : An extended error has occurred.

Re: Large Hard Drives Twanny, http://biosagentplus.com/?PHPSESSID=pl3d2de210ir8mav7k8tr8e2s2 This place wants to sell you the whole chip (hard to repalce if soldered in for those that are not technicians) At any rate I got the binary from them with s/w that also installs and backups your old file. I had already used my own method to backup the file which I am glad I did. http://www.esupport.com I did the boot from floppy flash and my PC would no longer go into post. I had to unsolder my eprom, installed a socket, use the UV eprom eraser at my job and I manually put my old file back on in the prgrammer at work. http://www.esupport.com never did make t…

I've tried to set up file synchronizing between my desktop (XP pro) and my laptop (MCE) on a home wireless network. As far as I can see I've done it correctly and when I log on and log off and both computers are on it shows the sync window and says it was successful but when I check the folders on each computer new files haven't been added and existing ones are not updated. The same happens if I do a manual sync from either computer. What am I doing wrong?

Hi all, Yesterday I posted a question regarding a problem I have. I have an app that I am attempting to run as a service using srvany on a Win2003 PC with SP1. The service seems to start, but the app is no where to be seen. Through help from another group I also tried it with nssm with the same results. I now suspect that the app is not running as a service due to some security policy. Where can I look at this to find out for sure? Is there any documentation that I can read to delve deeper into this subject? Thanks! Saga --

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Dear Friends, I'm wondering what it means when someone claim that a font is fully Unicode compatible or "This font supports Unicode"? Does it mean the font has glyph for all Unicode characters like ArialUni.TTF? I'm working with a series of Persian(Farsi) fonts and I'm getting very confused. Please Help me!! Afshar Mohebbi http://afsharm.blogspot.com/

Is there a way I can limit the size of the users home directories? Thanks... B

Hello All, With a growing demand for Windows System Professionals, we are pleased to announce a new weekend batch of “Windows Internals and Device Drivers” for working professionals and Engineers. Course Highlights: Windows Internals - It includes topics related to key components of system like - Thread scheduling, I/O, memory management, - Windows Security - Debugging using Win Dbg to explore windows internals. Windows Device Driver It deals with important driver-building and designing mechanisms - Windows Driver Model and development - PnP Concepts - Storage Stack - Device Driver building, debugging, writing installer. - Synchronization, Inte…

Hello, Sometimes i always got blue screen on my windows.. im very sad -_- and untill now i can not repair. Please open my screen shoot http://piload.com/files/show/iyguzzymoyzywtaxtnn2.jpg thanks and waiting your reply soon Regards, Anton

RE: ramdrive I was also interested in setting up a ramdrive. Not to increase the performance but to allow the hard drive to spin down and save power. I have a laptop with XP and want to just run one small application. Is there a way in Windows to create a ram drive, put that app on the ram drive and keep windows from accessing the hard drive so it can spin down? I see so many other ramdrive applications but it makes me nervous to install software from someone I don't know. If Microsoft had a solution that would be better. thank so much! -Peter

All, I am getting this error on my W2k3 SP2 box. Any idea on how to get rid of it? "Automatic certificate enrollment for local system failed to enroll for one Domain Controller certificate (0x80070005). Access is denied."

Is there any support for this? I am trying to use version 3.1, and it is failing, I suspect it is because the cab file gets to large (I have over 300 printers). I know because after the cab is created, I can't mauanlly extract some files, while I can others. Not sure where to bring this up, in case there is a fix, or a feature for 3.2 Since it is not working, does anyone know how to backup or migrate printers? manually??

HI, i had to reinstall Win Xp on my system once i done that it told me i need to Activate windows but by the time i got my new internet Connection it was over 30 days and i cant get into my computer unless i activate. Now running a Wireless internet and even when i plug it in it wont detect it so i can activate online, is there a way i can get into the computer to activate it??? cant do it in safe mode internet wont connect so i have no idea thanks for your help

Hi, as written in Hauppauge WinTV HVR-4000 thread I have problems listening to tv and FM radio analog channels, audio is bad and jerky. I would like to check what software is involved in the audio processing, as the same problem does not happen with digital tv and radio channels. I see I can use gspot ffshow and a lot of codec- related tools fon my xp x64 but all seem oriented at multimedia avi- wav files, how can I analyze the the audio data stream from the pci board and drivers? Note that that board has no audio cable, all the video and audio data flows through pci and is filtered and decoded by software. I had a similar bad-audio experience when I insta…

When XP started I always say some icons in the system tray portion of the taskbar. Particularly Norton Ghost, Norton Internet Security and a couple of others. I no longer see these. The system tray is empty. I do not know what changed this. I am not absolving myself as it is possible I did something but I do not know what. My real concern is that these programs are not running. Is that possible? How do I correct this? Thanks for any and all advice.

Dear friend, Few days ago I faced blue screen with following error message: A problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer. IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL If this is the first time you have seen this stop error screen, restart yoyur computer. If this screen appears again, follow these steps: Check to make sure any new hardware of software is properly installed. If this is new installation, ask your hardware or software manufaturer for any Windows updates you maight need. If problem continue, disable or remove any newly installed hardware or software. Disable BIOS memeroy option such as caching or sha…

Is it possible to schedule a defragmentation on xp machines where users only have Power user permission ?

I have installed Windows 2003 server on a new Dell 2900. This machine has a raid 5 config of 500 gig. I took the default c: partition size of 12 gig when I installed. This machine will be run Terminal server and also act as a file server. I have now realize with Program Files and Document and Settings folders on this partition we'll have immediate problem. I'm either going to have to resize the C: partition *or* reconfigure the system with these folders on a new drive. There isn't a lot of information on this subject available. How are the real world admins doing this? My gut reaction is to simply divide the array right in two 250 gig volumes, …

When I wipe my disk with sdelete http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897443.aspx XP SP3 deletes all but one restore point, apparently when the disk starts to fill up. How can I configure to keep the restore points?

Re: Server 2003 add user problem Hi I am having issues with adding new user to my work server!! I have never dealt with servers before and my boss gave me this server to work with but when i try to add new user it gives me *error* sayign DNS is not registered!! So I followed dcdiag/v and it failed connectivity test so ran netdiag /fix and this is wat i get : Doing initial required tests Testing server: Default-First-Site-Name\PBSERVER Starting test: Connectivity * Active Directory LDAP Services Check The host afed4542-62e3-4db3-912c-5a73b2a3862e._msdcs.pbsc.local could n ot be resolved to an IP address. Check the DNS server, DHCP, server name, etc Al…

Hi, I have an HP Pavilion a820n, which has a mother board: Motherboard manufacturer's name: ASUS PTGD1-LA HP/Compaq name: Goldfish-GL8E OS: Windows XP home. CPU:3.20 GHz, Intel Pentium 4 HT processors Memory: 2.5 G I would like to replace the on-board video. The strang thing is that even though I set video to PCI from on-board, the on-board video output still has signal out. The video card, on the other hand, has not signal out. I had test that video card on other machine. BTW, I first uninstall the video display driver first before I change the BIOS setttings. Anyone can help me out? Thanks in advance

Hi, hoping this is in the right catagory, ok, when a program puts a shortcut on the desktop, if I go to delete it by right clicking or even just highlighting & hitting delete on the keyboard the computer just stops responding, get a message saying 'windows explorer has stopped working' & that it is trying to find a solution which it doesnt, just goes blank then comes back to desktop like its reloading. (if I put something on the desktop I can delete it, just seems to be shortcuts, even ones I have put on) hope you can understand what I am saying & that you are able to help. Thanks -- F.E.N.D

When I try to run a scan disc, as the computer reboots I get a message stating that my 'C' drive is NTSF and the scan disc can not proceed. This is new as I never had a problem running scan disc in the past. I don't know what happened. Any ideas and how can I fix it? -- jj