Legacy Operating Systems

I am running a Windows 2003 server standard edition. Each time i boot when explorer loads it causes a fault and is restarted, this is in a loop, have started in safe mode and ran virus, spyware, trojan software and nothing found, have copied in explorer.exe from cd still the same, have ran chkdsk /F option have also ran the scf /scannow option, still the same. All is ok in safe mode as no drivers etc are loaded, was not present when the error first occurred but was drafted in a few days later, have been told that nothing was done to cause the error, they first noticed something wrong when they could no longer log into the server........I believed them....…

Hi there, I've upgraded my server, win2003 SP2, with 5GB of ram, and i've edited the boot.ini file and added the /PAE option. Then i've rebooted but even with the /PAE option the server is only showing 4GB, i'm sure that it has 5GB. Anyone knows if i have to do anything else? Thanks

I cannot find any ms group related to networking. Any thoughts? Below is the message I posted few days ago to windowsxp.basics group to no response ============ My Windows shows duplicate computer as part of my home network. How to remove it from the list? Also, I have only one workgroup (Home), but on the list there are 2 workgroups: Home and Workgroup. How to remove the Workgroup group from the list? Thanks, Jack

Friend has pc with XP Home. Was fine 4 days ago but now only boots to safe mode. Ni restore points available except 4 years ago. Where should I start? TIA

I don't want to have any color behind the text under my desktop icons and folders. I can't seem to find a way to do this. Can anyone offer help? Thank you, Valerie

Something is changing the reg key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Zones\3\1803 from the desried value of 0 to 3 which prevents IE Downloads. I have a GPO that should be setting this key value to 0 but the only way i can achieve this is by using the command gpupdate /force /target:user. A logoff/logon or reboot does not overwrite the registry setting. Is this a bug ? Ideally i'd like to identify what is changing the key in the first place, any pointers on how to achieve this would also be much appreciated.

I used to have 3 external USB hard drives permanentaly connected to my computer and I had one USB drive that I would connect off and on. I am intending to consolidate all my external drives and have 'ejected' all of them. I also went into Disk Mgmt and disabled them. However, My computer and also Disk Mgmt. still lists "G, H, I, J" drive. If I add another drive, it shows up as K or later. Oh, I also went into the registry to delete the references there. How can I get rid of G, H, I, J and free them up for re-use ? Thanks,

Hi, We are in the process of sysprepping a bunch of computers and they are also added automatically to our domain in the sysprep process. I would like to use the username and password of another user account than domain administrator in sysprep for security reasons. Which are the minimum group membership such a sysprep add-to-domain account needs? Regular user accounts can only add their computer to the domain a limited number of times, and in our case sysprep will run 100+ times. Thanks for a quick hint on this. regards jake

Recently had to replace a firewire hard drive external enclosure. The original, I simply turned it on while in XP, ran my imaging software and let it verify the image when done. All was normal, no problems. Set for quick removal in device manager by XP. The replacement, keeps bringing up a bogus new hardware found. Never finds any driver including internet. I tried removing the hard drive entry and the SBP entry in device manager. After reboot, I turn the firewire enclosure on, and it does the same thing all over again. Hard disk and SBP entries are there, same bogus new hardware. Image file verification fails everytime on that hard drive when de…

Hi all, I'm having problems using my tape drive under 2008 server in conjunction with backup exec. I'm trying to determine the reason why things aren't working, and I'd normally diagnose this by using ntbackup in 2003, and see if I could at least see the tape drives there. Being that 2008 doesn't have ntbackup, is there a way that I can check whether my tape drive is working with no issues?

need help with my friends computer. what it is they have managed to get a bad virus on it even though they have got AVG on it. (it seem to be working in conection with the AVG so have been told that i need to re-boot it) the virus has put an icon on the desk top that says "window xp anti-virus 2008" now i have got the copmuter in safe mode and have sorted out all the stuff that they want to keep. like all there pictures (size 207mb?) and music (1.33gb?). but what i need to know is how do i get these files to disk or a stick as i need to do it while the computer is still in safe mode (cant do anything with the computer out of safe mode) if i c…

Anybody have any ideas why I only have three tabs in Display in Control Panel? They are Themes,Appearance and Settings. I appear to have lost Screensaver and Desktop. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks. -- Marg

I have just installed Windows XP Pro (SP2) on my computer. All the hardware drivers are installed and working normally. No other software has been installed yet. I'm hoping someone can shed some light on this. I went online and did my Windows updates a few times, installing SP3 and whatever patches were offerred. I also installed Microsoft Update. Now for some reason, when I do Windows Update, or try to run the MS Live Messenger installers, I'm told that the installations have failed. Right now the following updates are outstanding: KB928365 - NET security update .NET 1.1 SP1 KB951213 - Silverlight 1.0 install The Live Messenger installer puts th…

Hi All, Anyone know how soon SP3 is scheduled to roll out on the automatic updates? Many thanks, -T

I'm wondering if anyone else has ever seen this. I opened up Event Viewer on a Windows 2003 Standard Server and all icons in Event Viewer have a bright green border around them. Other than that, everything looks like it's working correctly, but I know that the green color is not normal. This is only happening on one of the two servers on the network. The second server does not have the green highlights. I've run a virus scan on the affected box and Symantec AntiVirus did not find anything. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, --David

Hello, I am running Windows 2003 R2 SP2 for my primary domain controller. I am getting this error: Event Type: Error Event Source: AutoEnrollment Event Category: None Event ID: 13 Date: 8/11/2008 Time: 1:47:11 AM User: N/A Computer: DC01 Description: Automatic certificate enrollment for local system failed to enroll for one Domain Controller certificate (0x80070005). Access is denied. My CA is on a domain controller from win2000 to windows 2003 R2 SP2. I have read that I need to add the Domain Controllers group to the CERTSVC_DCOM_ACCESS group and reboot. Has anyone had any experience with this or can confir…

Good Day All I need a hand if anyone can help me, we have a computer on our network that we use to run batch files on pastel accounting software, when the batch files run it sends emails out via the default smtp client (outlook express) to clients, now the problem we have been experiencing recently is that since an update of the system outlook express want to "to free up disk space, outlook express can compact messages" every hundred emails. now we usually leave this to run over a weekend or over night because there are thousand of customers that we need to mail invoices too. but every 100 this pops up and stalls the entire process. What i ask is Is ther…

Hallo All.. i need a suggest... i'm searching a good Mail server for ETRN service (Secondary mx server) ....support antivirus, antispam (Black list, ecc.) good support for etrn, i don't need support for pop3/imap. this product is for secondary server in many exchange server on internet i have seen many product..but i need a suggest from you, because, i don't know wich is the best..... Thanks for HELP! Roby - Italy

Greetings, group. I've got an annoying little problem with my Windows 2000 that keeps cropping up. Often, when coming back from stand-by, my system tray contains a little icon, a video terminal with a line descending and turning right, with a red X on the line. It looks like this: http://www.well.com/~lonewolf/system-tray.gif That's a 2x blowup of my system tray. All but one of the icons are known to me: Top Row: Power Settings Volume Control Nvidia Sound Settings Nvidia Video Settings Bottom Row: Epson Printer Settings English Input Method ***MYSTERY ICON*** Local Area Connection What the heck *IS* that mystery icon???…

Is it possible to copy the default administrator profile to another user with administrative rights? I have a 10 workstation network that was setup with each one logging in as the default administrator. I'd like to swap all the settings over to another user with administrative rights and then later downgrade this user to a "power user". Is this possible?

Everytime I boot up my computer the language toolbar appears in the taskbar. I remove it, but the next time I boot up, it's back again. How do I get it to quit coming back everytime I boot the computer.

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Friend has PC that on boot gets the folowing error: "Windows Protection Error While Initializing Device CONFIGMG" "You Need to restart your computer" "System Halted" Any ideas? TIA

I'd like to upgrade an existing server to 64-bit; I want to use more than 3.5 gigs of ram. (Without having to buy new software.) The current server is running on an OEM install on an HP server. If it's anything like XP, I would normally need an OEM install CD to match the key. I've upgraded Vista computers to 64-bit and used the same license key, will this work for Server? Anyone know where I'd get the software? Thanks for the help!

Version 3.4.6 is out. http://www.usb-over-network.com/usb-over-network-download.html :) Carlos