Legacy Operating Systems

I recently installed Windows Server 2008 Enterprise (x64) for my laptop and it just started randomly shutting off. I wanted to investigate a few things: CPU temp and device drivers. No errors are getting logged against the Event Viewer, but when I try to go to Device Manager, i get the error: MMC cannot open the file c:\windows\system32\devmgmt.msc There is KB for XP addressing this and that didn't fix anything for me. Is there another reason I can't go to the device manager? Thanks, Abe

Hello... I have a user running Win XP sp2. Whenever she double clicks My Computer (or accesses it from Start - My Computer) all drives are displayed properly. Then when she double clicks the Shared Network drive, her My Documents folder is displayed instead. The only work around is for her to display the folders on the left, and then navigate to the shared drive. I right-clicked on it and chose Properties. It says that it's the I: drive (out network share). I was going to do System Restore, but she told me "it's always been like that." I'm wondering if its a Registry entry or what I could do to fix it other than using recovery disks. Any help is gre…

Dear All, We are trying to reduce the size of roaming profiles to improve our log on times. 1st. We are initialy trying to remove unnessary files from our Default Profile, that is used when a user logs on for the first time. It's presently 5.5mb, which seems a lot. a file list is included below, my question is what can be deleted cause it's not required? 2nd. I believe we can restrict or exculde files or directorys being included in the roaming profiles. Presently our users profiles can be anywhere between 6-25mb. I think this can be done in Group Policy, can any point me to any help on this subject, and again sugest files/directorys that can b…

This issue has been always happened to me after using a Tweak/Optimization program, this is something that i cannot solve, something that i have never encountered, if i could just talk to bill gates about this issue (lol joking :D) or some one, i would appreciate it :) Here's a picture of what happens - http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff56/KisKAs/wtf-1.jpg -- I Like Windows XP (lol)

I am confused!!! I have attempted to determine an appropriate External HDD by reading many posts on many forums and am now frozen. People talk about: The drive dozing off? Drive not working with W2003 (eg Western Digital and Seagate websites say their drives are not compatible with W2003) etc etc Can anyone recommend a rock solid Ext HDD for small office, simple W2003 environment, will use BACK utility supplied with 2003, small amount of data (30GB). -- Regards Tom

Hello, I tary share MS Office 2007 from Windows Server 2003. How it happenes? How to share office 2007 from Server 2003 to client desktops? What I must write to Run-window. Earlier it was setup.exe /a. -- Simo

My son created an account in XP. I want to eliminate it. I do not know the password he used and do not want to wait until he gives it to me. How can I eliminate a user account without the pass word

Hello, When I connect a Flash Drive or an SD card into my computer, the AutoPlay feature does not work anymore. I right-click on each device in "My Computer" and choose "Properties" and then "Autoplay" tab. Somehow it's always set to Music files but I choose Mixed Content and choose to always prompt me for action (which I've always done anyway). But when I exit, insert an external device, and check Properties again, it's set back to Music and the Autoplay feature still doesn't work. The only external device that works with Autoplay is my external hard drive connected via USB. Any advice or suggestions on how to fix it? Thanks! -K -- In t…

Sorry for the repost. I orignaly posted this to the wrong newsgroup. During an application installation i'm receiving an error 1931. The Windows Installer service cannot update the system file C:\Winnt\system32\MSCPXL32.DLL becuase the file is protected by Windows. You may need to update your operating system for the program to work correctly. How can I resolve this error during install? Apparently the application is trying to update this file and is being blocked from doing so? I checked rights and that sort of thing and everything seems normal to me. If I click ok the install finishes and everything appears to work correctly but I would really lik…

Re: Starting Up Computer (Programs that load automatically) Hi, Normally when getting rid of startup menu items I just remove them from MSConfig, through Start/Run, but when I execute the command it is returning nothing. It looks like I do not HAVE MsConfig on this PC. I do have a MSconfig file in the C:\i386 folder, but it appears to be called msconfig._ex so I am not sure whether this file is corrupt or what. It is a Dell Windows XP Home Edition. Any idea's? Tracey

Re: Starting Up Computer (Programs that load automatically) Hi, Normally when getting rid of startup menu items I just remove them from MSConfig, through Start/Run, but when I execute the command it is returning nothing. It looks like I do not HAVE MsConfig on this PC. I do have a MSconfig file in the C:\i386 folder, but it appears to be called msconfig._ex so I am not sure whether this file is corrupt or what. It is a Dell Windows XP Home Edition. Any idea's? Tracey

I recently added a new dc that is also the new global catalog server. I was unable to demote the old dc using the dcpromo. I have 2 main problems: 1. Clients are not using the new active directory server, for example i am unable to share documents, cannot add users because I cannot find the ad when trying to change permissions, etc. 2. Clients are also not using the new dns server (which is also the new dc/global catalog server) to access the internet. I know this because everytime I unplug the old dc from the network no one is able to access the internet and they all have the new dns server added to their nic settings as the primary dns server. …

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I am thinking of installing xpsp3. I have read most of this forum. Is it compatable with Office 2000? I use Microsoft Office 2000, IE6 and currently xpsp2/ Thanks

About a year and a half ago, I built an amd dual core system, and when vista came out, I installed windows xp pro 64 bit, and vista home premium 64 bit in a dual boot. Everything was fine for a long time. About a month ago I used the screen print option to capture a scrren shot in vista, and it froze up on me, and I had to use the power button to shut down. Now vista freezes up on me all the time, and I have to shut down useing the power button. The xp pro 64 bit on the dual boot works fine, so I am guessing that it is a vista problem. I now have all my parts to build an amd quad core system, but I want to make sure vista is not going to fubar on my new sy…

I see that Office Depot has the HP MediaSmart with 500 gig for $600.00 which seems reasonable. I'd like to network 5 PCs, 3 with Vista and 2 with XP and printer. But in reading some of the reviews I see that HP doesn't support printers and one has to go through a bunch of steps which I don't want to take to get a printer. In another review I see that if you try to use two drives for redundancy it can lose files! But the complaints were from early this year and maybe MSFT and HPQ have solved the problem. So, does anyone have a suggestion for a plug and play server to handle 5 PCs, a printer, and access the Web that's easy to setup and reliable with o…

RE: Deleting Account you can sign in under admin and deactivate the account. "jsch10463" wrote: > My son created an account in XP. I want to eliminate it. I do not know the > password he used and do not want to wait until he gives it to me. > How can I eliminate a user account without the pass word

All of a sudden the appearance of all the icons in my start menu changed. For instance, instead of the Internet Explorer icon looking like a blue e, it looked like a blank box. Similar for Microsoft Word, etc. What's causing this, and how can I fix it?

I'm suffering from very slow startup. I'm not sure if this is the cause of it, but I have a ton of errors during startup caused by SideBySide, errors 32 and 59. Event Type: Error Event Source: SideBySide Event Category: None Event ID: 32 Date: 1/13/2008 Time: 9:33:55 PM User: N/A Computer: LT6 Description: Dependent Assembly Microsoft.VC80.MFCLOC could not be found and Last Error was The referenced assembly is not installed on your system. For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp. Event Type: Error Event Source: SideBySide Event Category: None Event ID: 59 Date: 1/13/2008 Time: …

I created a brand new domain and started with a reformatted hard drive for Windows 2003 standard server. Just about everything has gone exactly as planned, but i have started getting repeated 1054 error posts that the domain controller cannot be found and group policy processing has been terminated. Essentially, there are no other errors posted to event logs, and this one happens about every 5 minutes for a while, stops, then resumes some hours later (not predictable when). DNS looks fine, and netdiag reports no problems. The only thing i can add is that on this same box until a few weeks ago a SBS 2003 os copy was running and started having the same…

I've 2 Windows 2003 standard servers which were cloned to VM ESX server. Found that after cloning, when I login, it shows the message that the Windows needs to be activated. I tried to change the product key, but failed. Checked in the servers in production environment, they are with OEM licence. So, I still can't login the 2 cloned servers successfully. Please help.

I know Raid 1 uses 2 identical disks and stores the data identically on each one. I also only want to talk about hardware raid. I have a very simple W2003 setup with 5 users on Terminal Services. I want to upgrade my 3YO IBM X206 with a new server that has hardware raid and 2 drives. The new server has cold-swap drives feature. (I cannot get any technical person from IBM to talk to me - go figure) So what happens when a drive fails? Does the W2003 know about? Does it issue a message? Does it stop working altogether until whatever is done? Should I purchase a 3rd IDENTICAL drive so when one fails it can take over? Does it takeover automatically? or do …

RE: "DWWin.exe failed" when shutting down Hi for some reason or the other everytime i login my msn messenger on my laptop it is not allowing me to chat with none of my contacts. It keeps shutting down and if i login again the same thing happens and it is very frustrating. A message comes up asking me if I want to "close the program" or "check online for a solution and close the program". It also says that messenger is not working but if i use another computer msn messenger is working. The thing is this is about a week going to weeks that it has stopped working. I really need some help. Thanks

If you do a new Win2K install and first delete any existing partitions, you need to reboot after that to avoid unexpected drive letters. Does anyone know if the same is true for XP?

As a computer newbie short on knowledge I went through quite a wrestling match to remove NIS 2007 after 4 prolonged, frustrating attempts to renew a Norton subscription and download a large upgrade failed. I'm very confident all traces of Norton have been finally purged from my registry. After clumsily reviving my computer in safe mode I now can connect to the Internet ONLY WITHOUT AN ANTIVIRUS PROGRAM. It's not my firewall settings or , at least I 'm completely stumped as to how it could be. I've installed with apparent success trend Micro Intern et security.AFTER RECEIVING CONGRATULATIONS FOR SUCCESSFUL INSTALLATION my internet connection is LOST!! …