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I was having all kinds of active directory issues, so I finally demoted our windows 2000 server. we have a windows 2003 server that has all the FSMO roles and is global catalog server. several other servers are member servers only. dcpromo didnt work initially, so I had to force it, then followed the instructions for cleaing up metadata. I did all of that, but when I went to add the server back, it could not be added because it alread existed. the only place I can still find a reference to the server is in Active Directory Users and Computers under Domain Controllers, I attempt to delete it it tells me the object is a containter and contains othr ob…

Using latest Windows XP Pro SP3 with all latest updates... If there is a better forum for this question, please advise. For my home network, I have 3 computers peer to peer networked via Gigahertz speed and everthing works fine at that speed. All current cable is Cat 5e most running short distances, but some running long distances (i.e. 100 feet). I went to buy a new ethernet cable, and the boxes of the Cat 5e cables said for a 10/100 network, where as the boxes of the Cat 6 cable said 10/100/1000. I found this confusing and contrary to my understanding...therein lies the question. What is the difference between the two (cat 5e and cat6)? Can you …

Hi! Everbody, Have a question: I have a windows Server 2003 R2 cd and I want to make a ".WIM" image out of it. I want to do this so that I can add the ".WIM" image to my WDS on Windows server 2008 and deploy when required. I see a lot of people talking about converting their ".RIS" image to ".WIM" on the internet. This is my first time using the WDS so I dont have any ".RIS" images. Guidance in achieving my goal is deeply appreciated. Thank you Regards Ven

I am logging into an XP pro SP2 machine as an admin and everything in IE7 is fine - log in as another user with limited access and for all the world it is as if the web is now CSS disabled... the layout is correct on all pages - but no colour and no background images that are controlled by css. Changing the users privaledges to admin has no effect. I have looked at all IE7 tweaks but cannot correct this. Any ideas would be appreciated.

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How do I reduce the programs that load at boot to cut down on the time it takes to boot? I realize many are necessary to run but as I have loaded netw applications ,some set the system to load at boot. An example is Palm. I have 16 icons in the system tray and would like to reduce to 8. I can run "msconfig" and get to the System Configuration Utility, click on Start Up Tab and remove the check on the programs I don't want to load. I then click Apply and OK and re- boot and they come back and load. What am I missing? I have Windows XP with SP3 and all updates. Laptop with 1 Meg RAM. I hope some one can clue me as to what I am missing! -- wadebarg

Almost all the available docs are very old and relate to Windows 2000 server. I am trying to setup a cross realm trust using AES as the cipher to protect the cross realm keys. Has anyone done this successfully? I would appreciate any insight that could be provided. I have followed every older how-to with no success. I'm offering up a small prize to anyone who can assist me on this project. Blake

I just completed a fresh install of WinXP Tablet from a cd w/ SP2 slipstreamed in. All went well. Did the first couple of sets of updates, including the SP3 update. Good. Then installed Office 2007 and did the update, which installed Microsoft Update (the newer, nicer version). Now the computer is telling me it needs to Turn Off to install 22 updates. I do it & it looks like the updates are installing (get the "don't turn off your computer" message). Computer seems to finish; turn it back on. Trying to do the next round of updates fails (one of the updates is for IE7) - the "turn off" button again having the little icon that it needs to fin…

Hello, I have a few users that awhile back their Microsoft Document imaging stopped working. I researched for a fix and found a post that said to replace the new MSPSCAN.EXE withe the one in the temp folder under system32 I believe. out of Four users this has worked for 2 users. The other users are having trouble saving the scan. When they save the scanned image it gives an error that "Microsoft Document imaging has encountered an error and needs to close" I look at the error report and it is referencing the mspview.exe. I tried also replacing this file and it still errors. Is there anyone that has encountered this issues and found a fix?

When I boot XP pro I'm getting a dos screen which says: RTING MSDOS. I checked with the ISP because I just switched providers and they said the this was a video card problem??? I'm not so sure. The only thing that's changed is the ISP all I did was reboot the box. Has anyone ever seen this before?

Hi, What we need to do is to hook up 2 monitors to 1 computer. The monitors will be in different rooms, so we do not want to stretch the desktop, but we want to have the same desktop on 2 screens....... So, 2 separate monitors displaying the same image. I know I've seen lots of documentation on this, but they all seem to focus on stretching the desktop, which is not what we want. I'm assuming I'll need a video card with dual outputs? Do the monitors need to be the same? How is this done? Thank you!

How can I allow a user to change their display settings (dpi) without making them an administrator on the local machine.

For GPs I thought I'd let the group know but unfortunately I've already dispensed with the program and now I can't find the post it was recommended in. At any rate: I think the recommended program to remove invalid windows file/folder names was wininvdel. I tried it (unsuccessfully, unfortunatly) on a file I've had problems with deleting for ages. Then when I went to uninstall it, there was no entry in Add/Remove Programs for it. As it turns out it's a file written in VB6 so to uninstall it you have to go to Program Files/PurgeIE and run the uninst000.exe file from there. I recognized it because I'm also a VB6 developer. It DOES properly unins…

Windows 2008 sp1 AD is on a separate 2008 server Installed terminal services, everything looks fine Added group to TS gateway policies “domain”\TS TS is a group I created in AD where to put users who can login to terminal services. First I added users to TS, tried to log in – connection refused. Added the user to TS and Remote Desktop group same thing. The error is The connection was denied because the user account is not authorized for remote login What am I missing?

'mInstalled XP SP3 and now get an Error Message at Boot "Could not locate a valid definitions file. Please go to Program Options and click "update definitions" to download a definitions file." I cannot locate Program Options in windows. I sure it's there, but I cannot find. I click OK when I get this error message, and all appeares to work OK but I assume something needs to be corrected. Please advise where to find and step by step directions. Also what does this file do and relate too? Have XP Professional on a laptop with 1 meg RAM. -- wadebarg

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how to run windows xp from a CD-ROM,not from a hard disk. NOTE:-- not how to boot from CD.

I'm tring to capture some perf counters in to a SQL2005 DB (Win2003 sp2 "Srv A") from a remote server (Win2003 sp2 "SrvB). I can get the Counter log set up on SrvA, but when I try to start the logging to get the counter from Srv B, the counter log will not start. I have it set up to run as an admin on the server and even tried to get it started by collecting only processor counters (I have serveral I need to capture). I've tried saving the data in a binary, text, and SQL DB, but it just will not start. I can run it all on the local machine, but Srv B is having I/O issues I need to track down, so I want to run the perf counters from Srv A. Any help wo…

Today, using Disc Cleanup, I noticed a category that I have never seen before: Debug Dump Files. I am not having any problems with my computer, but haven't a clue what these are. I'm afraid when I went to the support area of Microsoft web site, it was over my head as I have not created these files, at least not on purpose. What are they and should I allow Disc Cleanup to erase them?

After a major crash Windows server 2003 service pack 2, I restored using ASR. Now, when booting server, mmc shows net logon "shutting down" After about 15 minutes, message "a service failed to start", then I can manually start service. I have re-appled service pack. Ran SFC. Defragging hdd causes blue screen of death. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. -- thanks to all

I just installed Window XP Professional on my home computer - now I am not able to use the CD drive. I can hear the that CD is is working but I think the drive is not mapped. I tried to map drive that displayed the dialog box with list of drives but the folder section is blank. What should I tyupe in that section to map the drive?

Mouse pointer often shows the hourglass icon, signifying something, like system waiting for some action to fulfill. This when nothing is in process. Why does this happen, how to correct? Suggestions much appreciated.

We have purchased a new internal modem and installed it in a Windows 2003 server, and installed the fax services. Everything seems to be working well but we are not able to fax to most of the numbers we have tried. We have 3 local faxes. We can successfully fax to 1 of the 3. One of the others gives an error "there was no answer" at the other end. The other one keeps saying "busy". We are able to successfully fax to one fax number. We have done this 3 times with no problems. Our modem is a nexxtech brand modem. We have played with the settings and we have not been able to see any changes. Can someone please help. thanks already, tom

how to run windows xp from a CD-ROM,not from a hard disk. NOTE:-- not how to boot from CD.

Hi Folks Problems opening a database application through a Windows Terminal Services window. The application records its database path in an initialisation file normally written to \windows (windir) Traditionally (for remote users accessing the application on the TS through their TS client window) this file is copied to each remote users' \windows folders on the Terminal Server computer The application starts but fails to connect to the database recorded in the *.ini - An error message is displayed in the Terminal Services window as follows Error 75 (path) This is clearly a result of the initialisation file not being detected. Or I may be …