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RE: xp vista network You can start by using two GPOs, one for Vista and one for XP and use WMI filtering to apply the policies. Scott Arnold "Aleks Kleyn" wrote: > i have windows xp and windows vista in common network. in the beginning I > change net work protocol on windows xp as microsoft advised. As result > windows xp was able to see windows vista pc. After one of changes on windows > Vista windows XP cannot see windows Vista. Is it possible to change > something in security, policy or network setting to allow windows XP to see > windows Vista. > Thank you > > -- > > Aleks Kleyn > http://www.geocitie…

For some time the Physical memory was running at 98% with 1GB memory installed, I have managed to upgrade the memory to 2GB and the Physical memory was running between 35 - 55% now a week later it is back up to 98% and the Store.exe is using 982,000.00KB Can this be fixed? It's 3am and the load on the server is minimal in the building. Cheers

I have been receiving the following error message on my Windows Storage Server 2003 R2 many, many times every morning this week: "Faulting application localagent.exe, version 0.0.0.0, faulting module localagent.exe, version 0.0.0.0, fault address 0x00029b2f." I purchased a HP Proliant DL100 G2 about a year ago, and up until now it has been working just fine. It has been in production for over 7 months and this has not been an issue until just this past Monday morning. Over the weekend I made a number of changes, and now the process localagent.exe is throwing alot of errors into the application event log that aren't very helpful. I also get numerous pop-u…

Hi all, Since applying SP4, I have been unable to receive faxes. Fax Service shuts down shortly after starting regardless of whether it is set to manual or auto. Does anyone know if SP4 "broke" this function? Thx, Neil

Hello. I have a need to rotate (replace) the WPA encryption key on about 50 laptops. Is there an easier way than logging into each machine remotely and replacing the WPA key? I currently do not use a radius server for wireless access. I noticed somone linked to this utility in another message. http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/wireless_key.html Will this work for replacing keys? Thank for any info. Doug D

I would like to clone a XP ghost image to another set of hardware. Of course, there is bsod after the image restored. I would like to know how to fix the drivers for it, eg. making a script similar to fixscsi script for VM. Thanks!

Can someone please explain I have a pictures folder which I minimised with the box second from top right. When I reduced the width, instead of all the pictures remaining visible with a scroll bar, some pictures went off the screen The normal behaviour is this Maximised |--------------------Visible on screen------------------| | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 |11 12 13 14 15 etc Minimise |--Visible on screen--|-Scroll bar-| | 1 2 3 4 5|---------------| | 6 7 8 9 10|---------------| |11 12 13 14 15|---------------| etc What happened was this |-Visible on scre…

We have a w2k3 domain. We have over 100 dhcp scopes on this one server. We want to know how to get a detailed list of all of the scope settings on this box for each scope. We need to submit a report of each scope setting. Does anyone know of an easy way to get this information. Thanks in advance

I have a laptop - actually 2 and a desktop, but this story is about Averatec. I decided to replace my 60GB drive with a 160GB drive. Since there were a few wierd things happening with the old system I chose to clean install the new one. --- XP SP3 Everything went fine, system is installed, let me test this sleep function. It would not go to sleep. Well, that was a simple solution, it can't go to sleep if the video driver is not installed. So I installed it and the rest of the drivers. Great, now it sleeps -- IT JUST DOESN'T WAKE UP. After MANY DAYS of reinstalls and searching, and running Seagate's tools, I ran SpinRite. Seems like the new drive has a s…

I have a microsoft wireless transceiver for bluetooth 2.o that controls my mouse and keyboard. It plugs into my USB port. I can only assume the ms XP driver has been corupted. I have removed and loaded the software several times, but it will not install the wireless radio for bluetooth. Everything I have read says that it is included in the xp sp2. I have sp3, so it will not re-install the sp2 pack, which includes this driver. Any clue as to how and where to get this driver for re-installation? I have tried a new transciever 3rd party, but it does not install the microsoft ones I need for my original ms transceiver, and it "goes to sleep" …

Hi all. I'm using Windows Ntbackup to backup my data (system state and office documents) on DLT and Ultrium (with windows 2000 server and windows server 2003) and all my test restores are always working perfectly. Today, browsing the Internet I found this article: http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/New-Improved-NTBACKUP-Program.html where the author write: "My point is that NTBACKUP has never been completely reliable. You can use it to back up a system, but if you ever have to restore anything other than a few individual files, you never know what you are going to get." Do you agree with this article or do you think that windows ntb…

Hi, Is it perfectly safe to install Windows patches via Remote Desktop for Administration in Windows 2003? What about regular applications? Should one always use the console switch? Thanks, Jamie

Hi, I was getting browser error 8021 and 8032 in my system log and then my Windows 2003 std sp2 server would lose communication and have to be rebooted. Not sure if it's related, but when I later tested with browstat status from that machine I would get (on average) 10 successful results and then a result with the line above (the master browser it was using was also the domain master). I moved the FSMO roles to another DC and then ran browstat status and received successful results from the new Domain Master Browser every time (I ran it at least a couple hundred times.) My questions: 1. Do you think the 8021 and 8032 errors and the browstat error were …

Hi, I recently got a new PC, with XP (SP3) pre-installed. After changing the configuration using TweakUI I have a slight problem. The PC shop had my system installed so if I turn it on no login screen or window is shown. That is broken now. The first time I started XP after messing with TweakUI I had a window where I was instructed to choose an account to log in with. But no account was shown! I solved that, but now I have a window where I need to enter a password. But that is not necessary. How do I solve this (In TweakUI? I'm at work, and I see that if you start TweakUI you can change the Logon. If you open Logon you have an Autologon where you can…

Using latest Windows XP Pro SP3 with all latest updates... If there is a better forum for this question, please advise. I use the PowerToy Tweak UI to skip the logon screen when you start windows (it is a simple checkbox). It has worked fine in the past, but now the check box unchecks it self every now and then, causing the logon screen to reappear, and I cannot figure out why. I reinstalled the PowerToy, but that did not correct the problem. The PowerToy URL is: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx Any idea what the problem is? Is there another more dependable way to set windows to skip the logon screen for a p…

I have 2003 TS. I have configured idle & disconnect time to 30 minutes using GPO. For laptop power consumption I set the laptops to go to sleep after 10 minutes. As soon as the laptops go to sleep the server ends the session and when the user goes to log back onto the TS a new session is created. I would like for these sessions to disconnect not end. The WLAN driver does not turn off when the laptop sleeps.

In xp pro it seams that the computernamen en account name changed place, first comu name than accout name. I can not start any program then by changing from actual user to this user. Can anybody give a solution how to overcome this sudden pprblem? Thanks

I downloaded the Diagnostic to a diskette but nothing happens! All I get is a black screen and nothing moving. Is this meant for XP SP3? http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp Thank you JB

Every time I try to restore to an earlier date, I get a message that it was unable to restorew to the chosen date (point). I removed all existing points and created one for the installation of AOL - I typed in "AOL" since the date didn't work. It still was unable to restore to the selected date (point). Is there a way to set a restore point that will work? -- aag

I have Windows XP SP2. When I do a search for a phrase, my results show the folder name that I am searching under the 'Name' column istead of the file name that is found. I just type in the word and do a browse to a specific folder... nothing special. I have checked some other PCs here and it works fine on others. Any help would be appreciated. Jennifer

I have created some batch scripts which run as scheduled tasks on one of our servers. There are 2 scripts for each day, one of which backs up to a file for the onsite backup, the other of which backs up to the server's tape drive for the offsite backup. The onsite backup script works fine, using the following command: c:\windows\system32\ntbackup.exe backup "@C:\Backup Scripts\onsite.bks" /n "Tuesday morpork onsite set created %morporkdate% at %morporktime%" /d "Tuesday morpork onsite set created %morporkdate% at %morporktime%" /v:yes /r:no /rs:no /hc:off /m normal /j "Tuesday morpork onsite" /l:s /f "M:\Tuesday.bkf" where %morporkdate% and %morpork…

Hello. I´m looking for a way, of my users logon in three different locations (each one with it´s own DC), getting the home folder setting, from the logonserver of that DC. For example: DC1 DC2 DC3 \\DC1\BigShare\users\user1 \\DC2\BigShare\users\user1 \\DC3\BigShare\users\user1 Only the DC part i need that change. For instance, let´s say one user move from DC1 to DC2, he doesn´t need to change anything, nor me :) I tried to setup DFS... but even using DFS-R (From W2K3 R2), it´s really slowdown the access. When i changed to \\DC1, it returned to the normal speed. I still use logonscripts, so that´s i way, i thought... but searching thro…

have this problem under xp pro and sp3. I have run virus scans, spyware scans and done this in safe mode and normal. The error information is below and I have SP3 on my Dell notebook szAppName:svchost.ext szAppVer5.1.2600.5512 szModName:rpcess.dll C:\Docum~1\LannyR~1\Locals~1\Temp4268.dir00\svchost.exe.mdmp C:\Docum~1\......................................................\appcompat.txt Any ideas on what to do? The problem occurs when coming out of hibernation on a docking station all the time. It sometimes occurs coming out of hibernation during the day coming out of hibernation. I don't remember whether this problem occured with SP2 but wa…

Hi, Is there anyway to set up Windows to open programs and folders to their maximum size by default ? I use Outlook Express and if I open a mail it always come up not-maximized. Same with Internet Explorer and some Windows Explorer folders. I'm sure there's a way to do it but I don't know where to look. Thanks, Jennifer.

It seems the floppy drive A is not working. I get "No ID address mark was found on the floppy disk" whenever I put a floppy in. This problem was discovered when I did a FULL BACKUP using the BACKUP utiliyt in W2003. So, does BACKUP have to use the floppy or can it write its files to CD. OR is there a good backup utility on the market that does not cost $1000 just becasue it's used on a server. (the server is a very simple setup and has 5 users on 1 app thru Terminal Services). I am loath to open the guts of the server and install another floppy - or am I being too cautious? OR Is there a setting on W2003 to tell it to use the floppy or something like…