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When I start my computer it has about 300 megs in use. But after a while Task Manager says it has 800 to 900 megs in use, which is more that I have so it uses virtual memory and slows down. But if I look at the processes tab it only adds up to about 120 megs. I do have show processes from all users selected. What could be using the rest of the memory? How can I chase it down? Thanks, Chas

I had a cpu failure and replaced the both MB and CPU, with newer items. I had no opportunity to load the new MB and its appurtenant drivers. After assembling the MB, CPU and attaching the hard drive, I booted up and was taken to the page with the option of safe mode, last successful load, and t he other two options. Even with safe mode, the computer simply rebooted. I attempting to repair the OS program following the procedure outlined on http://www.windowsreinstall.com/winxppro/installxpcdrepair/indexfullpage.htm the computer has an endless loop of rebooting at the conclusion of part 3 and before part 4 (when it is copys files and does a reboot on …

Running XP Pro SP3. When I double click a .UDL file to change the ADO database connection properties I now get the error "Foo.udl is not a valid Win32 application". This has alway worked in the past, although it has been several months since the last time I edited a UDL. What must I reinstall or configure to get this working again? -- ..Bill.

Hi all I have clicked on Delete all to clear history, cookies etc and now I cant access some sites!! But the funny thing is that at work I can access all sites! @ work Internet is accessed trough a proxy What can I do??

According to Microsoft documentation, Terminal Server Licensing servers use RPC port 135 and a dynamic port over 1024. Regarding the dynamic port, can someone tell me: 1) Is there a registry option we can use to place the dynamic port on a specific fixed TCP port? If yes, what are the details of that? 2) Is anyone here technical enough with the terminal server licensing protocol that they can tell me the UUID of the requested service associated with the dynamic port? -- Will

Hi folks I wan tto set up a policy so that, when users log in, they automatically have set up 2 network paths. I believe his can be done in policies but can't find the place. Can I get some help please?

I have a computer with two hard drives. Can I use ghost to create an image of ny C: Drive, then install that image to the other drive (J: Drive) Then boot to J: Drive? Will this cause any issues? It seems like it might. I want to streamline the J: Drive for games only, I do not want them on my C: Drive don't want to load anymore programs than I need for business. If this is okay and will not cause any issues, how do I boot to the other Drive? Thanks in advance I will also post in XP Help and Support

First I noticed that the single click on the mouse was no longer an option, maybe 3 days ago. When I went to the control panel, the mouse Icon was gone, actually the entire part of the interface that let me get to the windows display, to set the wallpaper and change the pixels on the monitor was gone as well. I've taken the registry back two days but would like to know if this is a probable solution before taking the registry back further. I've just lost beaucoup time because of another problem. Thank-you, Molly

1 of my existing 4 hard drives (not OS drive, data only) no longer appears in My Computer or Disk Management. The missing drive is a WD500gb SATA on an installed SATA card. Both are recognized by the Bios upon bootup. Both are recognized in the device manager and their properties state that they are working properly. The drive is found by Add Remove Hardware and is listed as working properly. And the Data Lifeguard Tools finds the drive and states that it is working properly. No other programs can see the drive. I have uninstalled the drive from Device Manager and upon rebooting it is automatically displayed there and it's properties state that it is w…

For no obvious reason, my Windows 98 computer wil not start up.. It freezes on the first black screen with white writing stating that the "Dos key is installed" and "Mode select code page function is completed". The only way I can get rid of this is to press the restart button after which I can choose to start in Safe Mode. I have then tried to disable all applications one at a time to find the problem to no avail. Any one any ideas please.

I have 180 PCs and i run a Script with NET TIME to check the time sync and for my surprise there is 15 minutes difference (see distribution table below) The Script runs in 3 minutes and i´m puzzled because AD is working fine but there is a Default Domain Policy for block Logins when clocks are not synchronized (5 minutes?!) I´ve followed the article and my PC have a 3 minutes difference between my PC clock and Atomic CLock http://support.microsoft.com/kb/816042 How to configure an authoritative time server in Windows Server 2003 Distribution Table TIME - Ammount 09:27 1 09:28 4 09:29 4 09:30 10 09:31 7 09:32 9 09:33 11 09:34 11 …

I have a DNS server on my local area network that a friend of mine set up for me. I want to remove it because the computer its on is an older one and if it craps out on me we have no internet the way he set it up Any help towards getting this thing removed is greatly appreciated

I am looking for a script / utility that would allow us to take ownership of orphaned files or folders on the server?

I have users accessing the terminial servers in a 2003 AD domain from a trusted domain. None of the group policies from the domain of the TS has any affect on those trusted users. How do I get group policies to restrict the user's acess to the TS? I need to hide My Computer and the C: drive. I cannot rely on policies of the trusted domain to restrict the users. Dennis

I don't often use the media slots in my XP machine, so I don't know when the problem occurred, but I've just tried to view some photos on my SD (miniSD?) card and suddenly I can't see it (the card, I mean). So I went to Explore My Computer and noticed that, whereas I used to have drives D, E, F, G, H and I (or something) suddenly there are just two (C: and D: - the CD) If I put a pen drive into the USB port I get an E:. But putting a card into the SD port and nothing. nada. Anyone any ideas? Thanks Edward

Can the SUBST command be used on a startup script, or only a logon script? ie. Can these mappings be used remotely on the server, when no user has logged in? ss.

I'm seeing these 2 events in my Security Event log on a member server (non-DC) several times each second: ===== 1 ===== Event Type: Success Audit Event Source: Security Event Category: Object Access Event ID: 560 Date: 8/4/2008 Time: 12:26:53 PM User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM Computer: SERVER01 Description: Object Open: Object Server: Security Object Type: Key Object Name: \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\Eventlog\Security\Security Account Manager Handle ID: 492 Operation ID: {0,808503072} Process ID: 1656 Image File Name: C:\Program Files\BMC Software\CONTROL-M Links\NTAgent\WinNTAgService.exe Primary User Name: …

After every user logon my laptop with Windows XP SP3 displays the About Windows popup box (same popup box as if you would select Help/About Windows in Windows Explorer). I am not sure how I caused this to be happening. Could anyone please tell me how to get rid of this popup. It is quite annoying. Thanks...Michel.

I have a print server with a driver installed. The server is running as a cluster. I have changed one of the settings in Printing preferences to print duplex and this works fine from the server. When I have pulled the driver over to the clients the driver not not have the Duplex tick box ticked and does not print duplex. Does antbody know why the setting is not coming across to the clients?

When upload big files via FTP (Filezilla), I have been disconnected from remote server few times "Error: disconnected from server", then reconnected again (and one time do this manually). Can the FTP protocol provide full resume of downloads, without without lossing any byte of data, to keep full file integrity?

I have a user with a desktop that runs super warm. He doesn't like to close everything and shut down his computer so he's entering it into hibernation. The problem is that it takes several attempts to wake it up out of hibernation; it will come out eventually but only after several attempts. After doing some research, I found it could be related to graphics drivers which I am in the process of troubleshooting. In the meantime, can someone tell me what the option for "turning off hard drives" would do? Has anyone had problems with this? Also, if applicable: this is a remote user that VPNs in to the network. I suspect he probably just puts it in hibernati…

Hello. System: Win XP Media Centre Edition – Service Pack 3 Somehow, I picked up a variant of VirtuMonde; Symantec Anti-virus, Spybot Search & Destroy etc did not locate it; I discovered it by chance using Windows Sysinternals Process Explorer. I ran Vundo Fix 7.0.0.6 and it removed three traces of VirtuMonde, I then rebooted and ran Vundo Fix 7.0.0.6 again, this time it found nothing. However, I noticed that Automatic Update was disabled. Irrespective of how many so-called “fixes” I try, I cannot enable it via Services. When I set it to automatic and click start, I receive the following message: Could not start the Automatic Updates service on…

I have read the article "kbprint KB119256", in Microsoft KnowledgeBase, which explains how to setup a path and file name for a printer that basically has a FILE port type. I am wondering if it is possible to have the filename change dynamically. For example: append some sequence counter. The idea being that in a multiple-user network many users printing to the same printer would not overlay each others files. The prefix would be consistent: "\\server\path\fileXXXX.txt" where XXXX will be the result of some sequence counter generated by Windows automatically.

my desktop is upside down how do i correct this? -- pow8765

I have an odd problem. I recently updated my SAV from 10.0.0.359 to 10.1.6.6000 and I had no problems with the server install except for when I started updating my clients to the most recent version. My environment is XP Pro SP3 and Windows Server 2003 SP2. I updated my clients by logging into the SSC then did a client remote install, my problem lies in only some of the client that are running Server 2003 or XP with these problems 1. "Client remote Installation. The Server (Primary AV Server Name) is not hosting any compatible symantec antivirus (SAV) 64 bit installers for the 64 bit client (host name)" I got around this by logging onto the host in quest…