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when I open windows explorer it just hangs with a partial window. I have to us Task manager to close it down. I use a link with the following explorer /e, /n, d:\ in the command line. If I take out the switches it works fine without a folders pane. If I click FOLDERS on the toolbar it hangs again If I open it with the orignal link in the start menu everything works fine. I'm puzzled.

Recently the most recent app used goes to the end of the Task Switcher (ALT+TAB) window on my screen instead of the #1 or #2 position. I either have to use ALT+SHIFT+TAB to get to it, or ALT+TAB through all the running apps to get to the last one. Is this correctable? Thanks. -- ed

I have a fundamental question that is not directly answered anywhere, hence I seek your help. I wish to understand the idea behind the design. My intention is to learn. This is how I (as a newbie) would expect DFS to be designed. (Assume a Domain environment) A DFS service runs on the DC/member servers. The namespace and other configuration is replicated among these servers. The service will listen to requests from clients and answer them by looking up its data. (a) As per the MS implementation, an empty physical directory structure is created to represent the namespace. Why was this unusual data representation chosen? (b) Why does Active Directory(AD) d…

After installing Windows Service Pack 3, I receive this message daily. Windows-No Disk Exception Processing Message C 0000013 Parameters 75b6bf7c 75b6bf7c 75b6bf7c Can anyone help? Thank you. Jeff

So what's the fix for the mmc snap-in for diskeeper version 8.0459 after installing SP3? One google search result said to reinstall. Another was to invoke mmc via cmd, and open file to invoke application name for snap-in. Nothing in diskeeper.com support FAQs. App still defrags, just can't open it a 2nd time in same windows session. IE opens instead????????? -- Dave

3 or 4 couple of weeks ago, I dug around this horrid HP J6410 XP driver to set it for A4 - to solve a problem with paper size i.e. the defaults set in it were for American "Letter" sized paper, and invoicing software print-out was out of position. To correct that, I set A4 paper size in 3 places, (in the HP driver), in "Printing Preferences" and "Properties." Yesterday, after abandoning the idea of "transplanting" an aged XP Home platform onto significantly different and newer hardware, e.g. http://www.theeldergeek.com/replace_motherboard.htm I took the "preferred," but, more time consuming, route of a fresh XP install, adn reinstalling EVERYTHING :-(…

Hi there, I have been trying in vain to do a file-by-file copy of a complete hard disk to a directory on my server as I wish to take a machine off-line for good but want to keep a complete backup of its files in a non-compressed format. This sounds good in theory but in practice of during the copy process an error occurs (something that I would class as non-critical) the whole copy process aborts. Is there an easy way to do a complete file copy from one machine to another (I am even thinking of the old XCopy days from MS-DOS here). -- Thanks & regards, -pp-

Had great trouble connecting to the lavasoft downloads web site today.. Managed to download the latested definitions (0108) from majorgeeks.com After extracting and putting core.awwdef into c:\Program Files\lavasoft\Adaware as instructed on their web site for manual download loads Ad-aware didn't pick up the latest definitions file (in fact there wasn't an old one in their either !!!)..... Looks like its duff gen on their site as to where to put the definitions files...it actually goes to c:\Documents and setting\All users\Application Data\lavasoft\ad-aware\ Update now picked up ok. (Windows xp home by the way) As I'm on the free version of ad-aware they m…

I would like to know why the image on my screen vibrates. Here's the details: I have a new monitor and a new computer with XP Pro. When I play games, sometimes the image on the screen will vibrate. This only happens with games, but it happens with lots of games. Some examples: The windows games Freecell, Hearts, Solitaire and Spider Solitaire and also a backgammon game that I bought separately. Some history: The same thing happened with my previous computer - which is why I bought a new one. The previous computer had XP Home. When installing the new computer, I backed up all of my data and scanned it for viruses before putting it on the new computer.…

Have an HP laptop Pavillion ZV5120 that keeps getting a BSOD "Machine Check Exception - Stop: 0x0000009c (0x00000000,0x8054DA70,0xA2000000,0x84010400). Anyone have a clue what's creating this error, and/or guide me in the right direction to find an answer? I've checked numerous places including this newsgroup area, but no luckl yet.

Why am I getting v11. in front of www. ? I have to delete it each time I want auto remember previous items called up.

Hi I'd like to know what Windows XP (x86) and Windows XP (x64) are? I use Windows XP, but I don't know which one I use. How do I know? Thank you. Mike

Hello support, We have a Windows Server 2003 x64 system that at seemingly random intevals (anywhere from 5 to 10 hours apart) reaches 100% CPU usage and locks up. The system is running in a virtual environment (Citrix XenServer) with another Windows Server 2003 guest that have no problem at the time of the incident. There are no logs in the virtual host to suggest a problem, aside from a restart taking place which must be manually initiated, the Windows Server does not restart on its own. The system was configured with 4x vCPUs and 2gb RAM. The host has 4 CPUs (Intel Xeon 3Ghz) and 4Gb RAM. The only entry in the Windows Event Log that suggests a …

I have a 999 day browser history on a dell dimention e521 win xp pro sp2 320gig harddrive. Has anyone heard of such a large history? One person told me "besides all that temp data eats up a horrendous amount of space overtime." 46 weeks takes up 17 gigs. big deal!

I have several "freeware" utilities that I would like to transfer to a friend's computer. These are no longer available from the original website. We both have XP home with SP2. Can we do it via a flash drive or CD? How do we copy and then install the programs on the second computer. Any help appreciated.

After uninstalling sp3 & finding my defrag not working and being advised to install WindowsXP-KB907265-x86-ENU.exe then getting this message: 'KB907265 Setup Error - The version of Windows you have installed does not match the update you are trying to install' I've since discovered I have MSXML 4.0 SP2 installed. Anyone have any idea what I do now please - thanks - A

I enter my password, get logged on and immediately logged off. Have tried safe mode and last known good config. Have tried power cycle too. XP home edition.

I have a PC running XP Pro SP2 that is only used to record video from security cameras. This box is a replacement for an older system that died due to hardware failure, and is only a few months old. I loaded a clean copy of XP Pro SP2 when I got it to get rid of all the extra apps that came on it. On several occasions, I found the box completely shutdown and powered off. Checking the event logs, 5 of the 7 shutdowns all happened at the EXACT same time...12:00:04 AM on 6/25/08, 7/2/08, 7/10/08, 7/23/08, and 7/30/08. The other 2 failed (6/16/08 and 7/31/08). I pasted the log entry from one of them below. There aren't any events for automatic updates, …

I have two computers; one of which is hooked up to dsl internet and just hooked up a wireless router. My other computer is an older Dell (2001 or so) and when I went to hook up the wireless adapter; it would not install because I needed to update the XP with a Hot Fix. How am I able to do this and not be hooked up to internet???? Help!!!!

How do I correct the mouse over text from appearing behind the taskbar?

I'm wondering what you guys think of the following Silverlight Remote Access Web page instead of the default that Microsoft provides? http://narenda.mvps.org/coolts/ I really like this and would love to implement this if it ever makes non-beta. I can't tell if its waiting on Silverlight 2.0 or is just a demo application. Opinions?

Re: Files and Settings Transfer Wizard Terrific advice Rodeo! I had the same problem, and installing the patch fixed it for me. Micrsoft should emphasize this more. Paddy_O "Rodeo" wrote: > Ok, I just used the wizard to back up my settings. Then reformated. When I > booted back into windows, I got this same error. I went to the windows > update site and re-installed all the undates that I had the first time. > During this I noticed a patch in the Software, Optional talking about this > settings and file transfer wizard and 32 vs 64 bit systems. After installing > this update, like I had on my old setup, I was ABLE TO GE…

Re: How to Destroy a Newsgroup in 5 easy steps... sitchin a real fukkin loser wrote: > How to Destroy a Newsgroup in 5 easy steps like I have tried to do. ------------------------------------------------ You're too stupid to accomplish that feat or to use Vista!...LOL! Fukkin loser!

Last year we upgraded a windows 2000 server to Windows Server 2003 R2 with SP2. We noticed recently, while trying to install Symantec Endpoint Protection 11, that IIS Admin and WWW Publishing services were not running. Attempting to run the services gave an error which amounted to missing files. I attempted an uninstall via Windows Components but when it asks for the Service Pack 2 disk it then says it can't find the needed files even though they are right there. I've tried every Windows Server R2 w/SP2 we have, I even downloaded the SP2 files extracted them and tried to no avail. The IIS Admin and WWW Publishing now no longer show up in the services. I've…

My wife has an old Dell Intel x86 system, Windows 98, 2nd edition version 4.10.2222A, 128MB RAM. Admittedly this is an almost extinct dinosaur, but it does what my wife needs to do. She's a prolific writer, but very, very few pieces longer than 5 pages in Word (articles). And she does lots of email with Outlook Express. Her applications just don't apply much pressure on the system. Over the past month she's had frequent "crashes" - I haven't observed a lot of them but I think it isn't the blue screen of death - I think the application crashes. It can be Word, Outlook Express. It sometimes takes "5 minutes" (perhaps a slight exageration) for a Word docum…