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I have a web app that causes IE 6 use a lot of memory over time. I'm trying to isolate what part of my web app is causing the leaking, so I've been working on creating small HTML pages that represent certain aspects of my app and seeing if they cause the IE process size to grow. The problem is that I have created a trivial page --- a page with a a body, text inside the body (about 25k of plain text for what that's worth) and that's all. When I do refresh on this page repeatedly and observe Windows Task Manager I see the Mem Usage grow from 55793K to 128588K over about a half hour. I have used windows update to make sure IE6 has the current fixes. …

I asked a question earlier about installing Server Standard 64-bit, but no one told me if I can use the same license for both editions. Second, is there a way to run more than 4gb of ram on the 32-bit version. It seems pretty arbitrary that the enterprise version can use /PAE and Standard can't. Is there some sort of 3rd party software that can do this? I don't need all the extra stuff that enterprise comes with, nor do I want to pay that much for it. Thanks for your time! Tom

hi, i have windows vista, can i download just the outlook on here, windows mail is horrible, no auto complete

I'm a small business owner which makes me the System Administrator of my web and database servers. In the past I've given contractors Administrative rights when they used the machines, but now I'm starting to use developers from other countries and they are logging in via the WAN. My question is there a way to give a contractor access to the machine to create SQL databases, websites, create directories, change file permissions, etc. without being an administrator, and even blocking access to files I don't want them to? I thought Power Users would be best, but I've been told thats a no-no. Sincerely, Hugh

I am trying to install an updated videodriver. I downloaded it from the manufacturer's web page; uninstalled the current one through the Device Manager that asks me to restart the computer when it finishes. Problem is that when it restarts it tells me that it encountered new hardware and before it gives me a chance to go into the 'Add new hardware' in the ControlPanel, it finds its own, which is an old one and I am unable to install the newer version. Help! Thank you JB

i have win xp pro on laptop. i have all files on server and it will not synchronize the offline files. on the server side it has permissions set for full access. on the laptop i can access the files on the server but when it tries to sync it says access denied on the server. why is this? access id not denied anywhere but through sync? i can access anything and everything and have full rights . i can delete etc.. but when i travel and come back it will not sync my files. it tells me i need to and i get connected to network through my lan cable in office then it says for each individual file that access is denied. can anyone point me in the right directio…

hi,, has been a while.... recently i got msg from spybot to instal version 160, but after the prelimarys while installing, i noticed lots of 'wing-dings and chinese or korean stuff',,,, i cancelled immediately. i d/loaded it from a different site, and while installing, noticed the same at the same congfig dialogue box......? (also noticed something about the author saying it is dedicated to the 'best girl in the world' or similar,, of which i had to tick 'i agree'. am i misssing something? is there a scam going down? i am not in the habit of allowing stuff i dont understand to be on my puter. i even got to the point of installing 25% …

I recently purchased a fully sealed retail box of Windows XP Pro from a seller online only to find out that it is a UK-version, although made in the US. (E85-02667) I've doublechecked the COA and everything looks legitimate according to the Microsoft "How to Tell" website, including the holographic ribbon under the port hole. I have not opened up the package yet to look at the CD but the box is sealed, so I'm assuming it's fine. What I need to know however is will this UK-version work on my US-made computer? There is very little documentation online to support this although someone did say it would work but that the UK had many programming differences. …

Dell Dimention Windows XP Pro SP2 320 gig hdd. Has 999 day history. Has anyone seen a history that long?

Hello experts. A little while ago, I accidentally created a 'New Folder' on the desktop only. Now I can't delete it as it says it is a system file that Windows needs. Clearly it doesn't as it doesn't appear via search anywhere else (with hidden files displayed). How do I get rid of it? ###thanks

I’m trying to access an ftp site that I know is good through an Internet connection that is also good. But after I correctly enter the username and password for the site, I get the message “Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage.” Does anyone know what could be causing this problem?

I receive the following message everytime I start my computer RUNDLL Error loading C:\WINDOWS\system32\mkscbnan.dll The specified module could not be found.

I just downloaded Windows Desktop Search 4.0 The Details Title bar shows: Title Author Date Size Type Folder The old Search allowed you to right-click the bar and choose different fields like Attributes Comments etc. The old Search allowed you to re-arrange the order of the fields. How do I do this with WDS 4.0?? -- Gary''s Student - gsnu2007xx

The other day I tried to install a new printer, it was an HP Deskjet D4360. After it was installed and it told me to restart my computer I did, but when my computer was booting up again, it just stopped on the windows load screen with that blue bar thing moving by, it just stopped and wouldnt do anything. So than I was able to get on in safe mode and bring my computer back to a restore point and that helpped my computer. But now some webpages wont load on IE and others take a very long time for no reason, like google freezes my computer now and just random sites freeze me up. What could the problem be? I have a dell inspiron 5100 with windows xp with sp2.

I have a PC with 2 hard drives (C & E). I recently lost my C drive and had to replace and rebuild it. I am running XP Pro and I am unable to access my E drive. It shows a volume of 'Gateway II' and I am unable to assign a drive letter to this volume. I have approx 30gb of information on this drive. Does anyone have any ideas for me? -- Need desperate help

So I just installed a 500 gig external hard drive. If I copy my entire C drive onto it, can I actually restore all my apps and data onto a new C drive? thanks sharkman --

I have a box in the middle of my desktop that states, warning, your computer is infected with spyware....... There is no box to close it, and I can not click on it to delete it. I have changed the background, and it stays right in the middle of the screen. I have booted up in safe mode and it does not appear, however I can not find it, to remove it. I have run ad-aware and Symantec, and removed anything that was on the computer, but I can not get ride of this box. any suggestions?

Here's something I can't figure out: I bought a new laptop and am transferring files from the old one, through a USB external drive. For some of the files, the new machine says "The filename is too long or filename isn't valid" so the transfer is aborted. They're both XP machines (well, the old one is XP Home and the new one is XP Pro). If the name was fine on the old machine, why isn't it fine on the new one? Especially since in these cases the names aren't even that long. I'm guessing I have to set something on the new machine. Anybody offer any insights? Thanks! John

I am running XP with SP3 on a 160GB hard drive, of which I have used about 10GB. I have a 1.8G processor. I use Diskeeper 9 Professional to defrag. Until recently it would defrag in about 10 to 15 mins at the most. It has now slowed down to a crawl. I have tried using the built in XP defragger which completes very quickly. I have tried Diskeeper Lite and that too takes a long time. Even when I have just completed a defrag and run Diskeeper again it still then takes an age to complete. I have done a lot of Googling but can not come up with a solution. Any ideas would be appreciated. Daz

windows will not start,error message is,windows\system32\config\system,is missing or currupt

windows will not start,error messeage is windows\system32\config\system is missing or currupt.is there any way of fixing this problem without doing a repair from the disk.i have service pack 3 installed.i do have access to another hard drive on my pc that has a working windows.is there any way of useing that windows to eccess the windows on my other partition and fix the problem?

I had to install a new windos xp in a desktop that would not start and would not allow to use the recovery console. Now I have two operating systems: the new xp installation and the old xp installation, and every time I start up I have to chose which one I want to use to startup my comp. Apart from this, the old windows installation holds siginificant space in the disk (together with the program files that had been installed in that windows.) Now I would like to manually delete de old windows xp and the files related to that installation to recover the space in the disk. I am guessing that if I delete the old C:\windows directory, this will do p…

So, I set up the Default Domain Policy under Group Policy Management in Server Manager in Windows Server 2008 for Folder Redirection. The settings I chose were Basic (Redirect everyone's folder to the same location), and under Target Folder Location, "Create a folder for each user under the root path" was chosen. The Root Path is set as \ \SageRealtyDC.SageRealty.local\SageRealtyUsers. I set up SageRealtyUsers as a Share and gave Everyone Full Control. From most of what I read on the subject of Folder Redirection, this should create a folder in the SageRealtyUsers folder when the user logs in using this new policy for the first time, and copy the My Documents…

Hi I am running Win XP Home (SP 3). After re-installing my HP PSC 750 driver, I am constantly receiving Delayed Write Error messages. I cannot disable the write caching on the drive as it is "greyed" out on the Policies tab of the drive properties. I have also tried through the device manger, without success. Is there a way to desable this in the registry? I have looked at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System \CurrentControlSet\Services\Lanman server\Parameters which many sites recommend setting the value to 0. My question is what "item" in this registry setting must be set to 0? Am I on the right track to solve the problem? Do you have any other solutions? Than…

windows will not start,error message is,windows\system32\config\systems is missing or currupt.