Legacy Operating Systems

I integrated the Service Pack 3 to a Windows XP with SP2, but problems occured when I was logging, sometimes when I started the PC and typed the password on the Welcome screen, it says that "A problem has prevented the activating...error code xxxxx", I forgot the details. So I must reboot the computer then F8 to boot the Safe Mode, then reboot the computer again to normal mode, that message disappears.What is this??? And there's another problem. I attempt to install the Cumulative Security Update for IE7(KB950759), it says successfully installed in the automatic updates, but when I reboot the machine, it prompts this again, I download the KB950759 and tri…

I want to verify that XP machines running IE 6 have this fix installed: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929874/ How do I check this?

Every time I boot up my laptop, which is running Windows XP Home Edition, after a shut down, a new profile is created. How do I stop this and have the system use just one?

I have done about 9+ installations of XP pro over the years. I am prone to radical solutions to otherwise simple problems. In any case, the last few times I had to activate over the phone with some nice people in India. Is there a limit to how many times I can do this? I have my hologram key sticker. Thanks Doonie -- ~ every 100 years, all new people ~

I want to install XP Pro over an existing XP Media version. I have my hologram sticker with the key for Pro but only a cd copy of the OS with SP2. What is the process to boot, reformat c: and install XP Pro? Thanks Doonie -- ~ every 100 years, all new people ~

We change several client devices (upgrades after hardware failures). My windows server 2003 issued new tokens for the "new" devices but it does not issue tokens for OLD devices that attemps to open a TS remoote session... because now all CALs are allocated, partially by "old" and "new" devices. How can I retire old devices from the licence database? or Let old known devices have a temporary CAL? Thx

Following SP2, the bootscreen removed home and pro from the screen. Anyone know the philosophy behind this?

Trying to help a friend with her Dell Dimension 3000 machine. It would not boot. I installed that hard drive into another machine as a Slave and it was recognized. XP's Disk Management showed the drive to be partitioned (or at least split) into 3 sections. The first simply shows 39 Meg Healthy, the second shows (C:) 70 GB (System) Healthy. I don't recall exactly what the third section showed but it did (and does) show 4.17 GB. I did delete that third section. Now with that HD back in the original machine, it will boot after being prompted to press F1 - Primary Drive 1 not found. I tried several things with that 3rd section, but nothing eliminates that prom…

Hello Everyone, I've used a script to map a network printer from an old print server called Server1 (ie. \\server1\printer) onto the XP workstation. I've recently created a new print server (Server2) and mapped the network printer (ie. \\server2\printer) onto the same XP workstation. When I attempt to remove the old print driver from Server1 using a script the command fails because Server1 is no longer active on the network. Is there a way to force the network printer connection to be deleted? I've tried the following commands: rundll32 printui.dll PrintUIEntry /dn /n\\server1\printer removeprinterconnection in a VBS script with the force delete o…

What version of Windows Vista allow you to do an indexed search on data on networked drives ? I am running Windows Vista 64 Home Premium on a Quad Core machine, and when I attempt to add a networked drive to the list of indexed locations, it doesn't let me. In the HELP, Troubleshooting Problems with Searching, it says: TOPIC I can't add a network location to the index. Only files and folders located on your computer can be added to the index. This means that network locations will be searched more slowly than files on your computer. In other words, it doesn't index the network drives...it has to search in real time when you make the request. Do …

I am trying to set up Terminal Services on a Windows 2008 server. I have it working just fine except everytime I launch an application from a client I get the annoying message listed below. I tried adding the url under trusted sites, but that did not fix the issue. A website wants to start a remote connection. The publisher of this remote connection cannot be identified. Publisher: Unknown publisher Type: Program Remote Computer: Servername.domain.local Any Idea how to stop this message from popping up? Thanks

Hi All, My office PC's username I changed to `Trish' but still the c:\Documents and settings\user\ is not changed to c:\Documents and settings\Trish\. Because of this problem `Briefcase' could not synchronize. Any solution of this? Thanks for any replies. Trish

Apparently about 3 months ago somehow a folder called Binaries appeared was installed or appeared on C:/, with two files inside, one is called SoapVDir.exe, the other is a VB script file. The question is, what is their function, what or who installed it and can it be uninstalled without causing problems? BTW when I say who I mean what piece of software?(G) TIA ICU

I do a secondary backup each night to a USB Maxtor drive. These drives get switched out each day, using a different drive for each day of the week. This nightly backup job is scheduled to run at 2 AM each morning. Many times I'll come to work and find the job didn't run due to the follwing dialog box. Replace Data The requested media is not blank. It was created by another application. Do you want to continue? If I select Yes, the job starts. Is there a soft switch that can be added to the command line that automatically answers Yes if the dialog pops up? Thanks

I'm trying to solve one simple problem. On my WXP partition all printers stopped working (even PDF writer). I have HP local printer working fine on WIN98se, while the same printer on WXP won’t print although system detects it. When I perform the Print test page WXP tells me: “System cannot find the path specified”. Any suggestions? -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/

I received a Word archive through my hotmail account. I opened it without saving it to my hard disk. During the six hours that I was working on the document I did save it several times but never as 'save as'. When I finished I save the document again and closed it. Now I can't find it anymore. I opened the archive again from my hotmail to see where it was saving it to which is 'temporary files' but there is no register of the document that I have worked on. I have done a search on the whole hard disk for the name of the file that was sent to me but that didn't find anything either. Does anybody know if and how I can find the document again so I don't have …

Hello, I have a Dell Latitude laptop and I installed Service Pack 3 last night. This morning I turned the computer on and the display is messed up. The desktop image is small and centered on the monitor. I checked the display settings and everything seems to be as it was before the install. I tried decreasing screen resoulution but no luck. Any help is appreciated! Thanks

I recently installed a Windows 32-bit virtual machine on my Windows 64-bit OS machine. I have been getting some blue screen crashes (lots of blue screen and words that Windows has shut down to recover from a serious error) since then and I would like to know if it is the Windows 64-bit real machine or the Windows 32-bit virtual machine that has crashed. Since I have to physically re-boot, I assume it is the real machine. The technical information on the crash screen is as follows: win32k.sys STOP:0X00000050(0XFFFFFA802B611000, 0X0000000000000000,OXFFFFF97FFF,7F664,0X0000000000000000) WIN32K.SYS ADDRESS FFFFF9FFF17F664 BASE FFFFF97FFF000000 Datestamp 47e0…

Just thought I would let you guys know how the CX5500 Epson was going. No further problems, except one dialogue-box about a day after the printer started working. It was a "windows has detected new hardware and is searching for a driver". I clicked it off the screen, and no further problems. Has been printing for weeks OK. thks again,..Jason

When I shut down something named PML seems to hang for 3-5 minutes. The only indication of what is hanging when I close down is that "PML" appears in the blue title bar of a transparent window that remains on the screen until the computer shuts down. The window appears as a large dialog box in the upper left corner, the title bar and border lines of the box appear but you can see the desktop behind the box. I am assuming it is a driver or something that is trying to close. If anyone knows what is causing this or how to fix it I would appreciate the help.

I'm curious if anyone know of a way to filter files going to a shared folder on Server 2008? Is there a policy that will disallow MP3's for example??

Hi all, When I try to open a website, reciving this error: Warning: Unable to detect the correct version of Java Run-Time Environment(JRE) on your system. I have Java 2 Runtime Environment installed on my PC, what else could cause this error? Thanks in advance. Faram

I want to schedule my backups. Is OK to use an external USB drive for daily backup storage?

When looking at "Properties" of some installation files, at the bottom (under Attributes) there is additional information: Security: This file came from another computer and may be blocked to protect this computer. There is also an "unblock" button. For the life of me, I don't remember seeing this until recently. The installation program seems to work OK without clicking the "Unblock" button. However, I am wondering which program/feature is generating this info. Logic says that it is Windows firewall (which I have recently reverted back to from Comodo) but no warning dialogue appears when trying to run the program. Also, have recently installed SP…

When I boot up in XP, I am always asked for a password. I don't want that. How can I keep XP from asking me for a password? Bob Speck