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Dear: I made a domain policy on my domain. Our DC is Windows server 2003.the policy is unify the all clients' wallpaper. but only if the client is windows xp, it is OK, if client is windows 2000, it don't work. i did not think of why. look forward to your reply. best regards carsem

Dear: I made a domain policy on my domain. Our DC is Windows server 2003.the policy is unify the all clients' wallpaper. but only if the client is windows xp, it is OK, if client is windows 2000, it don't work. i did not think of why. look forward to your reply. best regards carsem

Dear: I made a domain policy on my domain. Our DC is Windows server 2003.the policy is unify the all clients' wallpaper. but only if the client is windows xp, it is OK, if client is windows 2000, it don't work. i did not think of why. look forward to your reply. best regards carsem

Dear: I made a domain policy on my domain. Our DC is Windows server 2003.the policy is unify the all clients' wallpaper. but only if the client is windows xp, it is OK, if client is windows 2000, it don't work. i did not think of why. look forward to your reply. best regards carsem

Hi everybody, It seems that I cannot reinstall a particular program, Google Earth. I could not obtain a solution on the Google Earth forums, Whilst on this NG, I always get good advice. My PC, XP-SP2, is pretty stable and well maintained. Here is my problem : I tried to install the new Google Earth V 4.3., but things didn't go well. As a result, The previous version (V 4.2) has been removed (so it seemed at first) but I cannot reinstall it, nor can I install the new version. If I try to reinstall V4.2 I get an error message indicating (in French) something like "the configuration data are corrupted". If I try to install V4.3, then I get the "erro…

Recently I reinstalled MS XP after the computer was in a position where it didn't allow me to do anything (crash). After reinstallation I am not able to access the Internet. Anny Suggestions?

Hi All, I'm having serious start up problems with my PC after it tried to install Service Pack 3 for XP. Towards the end of the installation, lots of windows errors came up saying it could not read from memory address xx xx xxx etc... Anyway, whateverI did the errors would not go away so I hard-rebooted the machine. Upon it starting up again, there was no familiar post sound, although it did go through the BIOS screen start and onto the Windows loading screen. But, what what seemed like a long time on the windows screen it went to a screen saying "cannot find autochk installed" ... then went to a Blue Screen of Death for what seemed like a tenth of a…

I was wondering if anyone can point me in the right direction for software or a technique that enables resetting/cleaning the index.dat file from Content.IE5 on WinME I have tried looking at Winfile.exe option but it offers no visual access to 'Temporary Internet Files' folder so that I can rename it - and hence be replaced on Restart ? Is it true that 'smaller is better' regarding index.dat and performance ? Thanks for any help in this matter Jake

Ok, so I don't have the disks that came with my system, because I lost them during a move. I want to be able to restore my Windows XP to factory settings with a cleared Hard Drive (C:) like brand new. If this helps heres my system information: eMachines T3025 Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Version 2002 Service Pack 3 AMD Athlon[tm] XP 3000+ 2.17 GHz, 448 MB of RAM

Hey I am still having the same problems with my power save settings. I set my monitor to shut off after 5 minutes and sometimes it doesn't work. I thought I had narrowed it down to some programs, but the problem keeps coming back. I got down to 21 processes and it still happened. Could it be the video card drivers? AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6000+ DirectX Version 4.09.00.0904 NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Driver 6.14.11.7519

Windows automatic update software / site keeps offering me this upgrade (Security Update for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 (KB948109)). I keep installing it but it keeps coming back and tryig to reinstall. . Please let me know if you know how to hide this update, or get rid of it. Thanks. Operating System: WindowsXP Professional on a Dell platform

Hello Newsgroups, I have redirected the My Documents, My Music, My Pictures, and My Videos to folders on other discs, and changed their respective names slightly. To Documents, Music, Pictures, and Videos. Generally 'C:\' being the system and application disc, the redirection is as follows; D:\Users\[iT'S ME]\Documents D:\Users\[iT'S ME]\Music D:\Users\[iT'S ME]\Pictures E:\Users\[iT'S ME]\Videos Using a very clever tool, 'Shell Object Editor', from http://www.tropictech.de, I am able to display these Special/Shell folders in Explorer as Folders (as in not shortcuts). The folder list is displayed as; Desktop -Documents -My Computer -My Networ…

Hi, I've got a client who is running Windows 2003 Server SP2, they have recently brought a 1TB Maxtor Basics External USB 2 drive that they use for backups. If you plug the drive in, Windows sees the drive and it seems to work fine. However, if you reboot the server, Windows will only see the drive as 43gb, and keeps asking to format the drive. The only way to get Windows to recognise the drive properly is to disconnect the USB cable wait a few seconds, then plug it in again. This is a bit of a pain, especially if you are trying to work remotely. I've tried updating the drivers, but it seems to be using the standard microsoft USB hard disk drivers, so doesn't …

Hi All What is the different betwen System and User variable ? if define PATH in System and User session. The varaible just follow User Session setting.

I would like to retrieve all of our network's PC's serial numbers and PC names and output it into a spreadsheet. Does anyone have any idea how this can be done? I've also a list of all the PC names so is there a way to read these names and output the serial together with the name to a file?

Is there a maximum number of Outlook rules you can have?

I'm sorry this is such a mundane and simple question. But every time my laptop fires up, it gives me messages about wireless network availability and connections, antivirus update status, and sundry other things, all with the little balloons from the icons on the right end of the Taskbar. They take a long time to go away - just about as long as it takes to "X" out each and every one!! Is there one simple setting that will turn all these off? Ed

Hi, I am aware of 256 characters path limit in naming a file, but can you help me how to limit the path for file naming to 240 characters only? is there a way to limit that in registry editor or is there a way to group policy (if so, pls. show me), we are using windows xp pro as our client pc and windows server 2003 std edtn R2 as our server. your help is very much appreciated Thanks, James

Hello! I've installed 64-bit Vista SP1 on PC with motherboard ASUS M2V: http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?modelmenu=2&model=1171&l1=3&l2=101&l3=305 OS works OK (PC has 3GB of DDR2), but there are two problems: 1) Both Nero 7.11.10 and Nero 8.3.6 do not recognize SATA optical drive (Optiarc AD-7173S) which is connected to the VIA Serial ATA controller (0591). I can normally copy data from it. It also works OK on dual boot Windows XP SP3. BTW, I've also installed ImgBurn and when starting it returns: I/O Error! Device [0:0:0] (F:) (ATA) CDB: 12 00 00 00 60 00 Interpretation: Inquiry Reason: The parameter is incorrect. I…

I'm not extremely familiar with PC's but my boss is looking into backing up her files on her computer and I have no idea how! She has windows XP.. how do I go about doing this? Do i need to buy software or is there something i can dowload?

Plan to install the windows terminal service on one of the windows 2000 server. Would like to know do we need to purchase any licenses . the client pc running windows 2000 and window xp

Followed Microsoft automatic update procedure and installed SP3 and then Iexplore 7, now every time I run windows explore it crashes when I try to change folders. Seems to be a common problem when I googled it, but I can not seem to find a fix other than uninstall back to SP2, seems a bit drastic as I have no other issues. Any known fix for this problem Windows xp Home edition.

is it safe to uninstall old Win.Xp updates. When i go to Add/Remove program i have some from 2006

I seem to remember that the registry key IdleWinStationPoolCount handled the idle sessions, so that i could have idle sessions and still have the ability to connect while under Terminal Services Remote administration mode. It does not seem to be the same on windows 2003. How can I change this in server 2003?

I am not able to access my Windows XP. When I start Windows XP ( during booting ), for a 'flash' of a moment a blue screen comes on which something is written, but I am not able to see what is written there. After this the system restarts. I wanted to repair Windows XP ( assuming that some system file might have gone missing which was causing this behaviour ), but the setup fails everytime stating that some file is missing or corrupted and asks me to press enter to continue. When I press enter it says setup failed press enter to restart. And then I have to restart again. I used lens cleaner assuming that probably dirt and dust might be prohibiti…