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Good Morning, After some experimentations, I found that my environnement variable "clientName" has been changed. Last week, this variable had given me the ComputerName for the client who connects with the TS, but now, it gives me "localhost". So, my problem is that I would like to find a mean that retreives the compute client name or its ip ? Someone plz help me ?!?

I am worried. Bye, Skybuck.

I am running windows 2008 server as a terminal server. I just reformatted it. When I first set it up found a check box that would allow the administrator to surfe the internet with all the warnings. Now I can't find that check box. Could someone lead me to it please? Thank you.

Is there a list of possible causes for the Active Desktop Recovery? We are getting this on a number of our domain pc's. We use active desktop via group policy to deploy our standard desktop backgrounds so i can't turn it off but i was wondering what causes the problem. I have searched some forums and there are some laughable comments and solutions on there. Is this caused by a file corruption? We have a reg fix that fixes the problem by resetting the DeskHtmlVersion key to 0 but i'm not sure what that does exactly. Anyone any idea what the true cause of the problem is? cheers Craig

I am no longer able to highlite a link when hovering over it with my mouse. Appreciate any info on recovering this feature. Thanks in advance. franktee

Hello, I'm having a problem remoting my 2003 server after I have changed the server IP Address using Remote Desktop. I was able to remote the server by ip address prior to the IP Change but am no longer able to do so. The DNS record of the server with old IP Address has been removed... Anyone heard of this before.

I've got a HP Compaq tc4200 tablet. Somehow did a keystroke combo that caused all my drop down menus to start scrolling like maniacs. Anyone know how to stop the insanity :-) Thanks!

Reformatted the other day. Everything seems OK except I have no sound whatsoever. I have a dell dimension 3000 XP. When I go into Device Manager there are some yellow Question Marks next to the 'Other Devices'. Namely. 1. Ethernet controller(though I could not connect my modem via Ethernet when i tried months ago so perhaps that's why?) 2.Multimedia Audio Controller. 3. PCI Modem (which I presume onl;y apples to dial up) I am guessing that No 2 would be the sound? I did save all my drivers with something called 'Drivermax' but haven't a clue what driver is what when I look in the saved folder. Is there a simple way of identifyind and downloading the re…

This morning we were greeted by a blue screen Stop: 0x00000024 (0x00190203, 0x82f2a828, 0x00000000) on start up. I tried to start in Safe mode, safe mode with CMD prompt etc. Everything ends in the same blue screen. Tried a DOS boost disk to run a chkdsk with no success. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated

Hi, I have Win2k3 small business edition and a couple of questions: Does the standard Win2k3 sb include some terminal services license (2, 3) ? Is possible with terminal services to restrict some users to use only a certain application and not all the installed apps ? Thank you.

Hi there I can no longer use Help and support feature in XP x64 none of the links on the left hand side work, using SP2. Do I need to re install windows? Thanks for your help

Out of curiosity, does running disk defragmenter reduce the life of a hard drive? How often should disk defragmenter be run? Thanks...

I have an application for which I have to create a file association on each computer where I use it. I go to the "File Types" dialogue box. Click "New" Type the file extension Click on the advanced settings Click "New" in the actions area Type "open" Type "<path>.exe" "%1" OK back to Windows Explorer On computer A, every file with the file extension opens in the program requested when I double click on it in Windows Explorer or click on a hyperlink in Word or Excel. On computer B, the program opens, but without opening the file on which I double clicked. Both computers have identical file assocations set up, as detailed above. Does anybody…

I have a gaming PC with win xp sp2 that has had problems at startup for about a year now. It will hang at the splash screen and the blue scroll will just roll on, and until recently, I would get the message "Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device" after it scrolled for about 15-30 minutes. I can alway get into safe mode. I recently enabled the /bootlog switch so I could see the ntbtlog.txt file, it is over 6 meg in size. Two other PC's I use, an emachine running XP SP2, and a Vista PC PC at work. Both of those ntbtlog files are about 27K in size. Why would my gaming PC ntbtlog file be so much bigger? I see A LOT of dupli…

Win XP Home help and support seems to offer a way to remove previous point, but my restore wizard doesn't show the way, offer the option. I'd like to keep the last 2 or 3 points, and remove the rest, which is clutter and lengthens virus scan time.

I created 3 accounts along with my administrator account. Now, I can't see or log in to my administrator account. I have only one limited - user account that I can log in to - and of course, I can't update my software, etc. as a result. How do I solve this problem? / get back my administrator account? I find this strange / never knew this problem could occur. I still use my original administrator password to login through the limited user account.

Re: ** DVD / CD-ROM drive disappeared ** gud evening..kindy help me.. i did install a windows royale after i noticed my cd-dvd rom disappears all the time when i upgraded to windows xp sp3...now I couldn't even open my cd-dvd rom after i installed the windows royale... hope to see a message from you... tnks a lot jayson

I have a TS 2008 64 bit server, I need to install a 32 bit app to be available for the remote users. I obviously cannot install it on the 64 bit server, is there a way, if i create a virtual 32bit server on hyper-v and then install the 32bit app, can i make that available to the remote users. sorry if i am not clear, but i hope you get the idea :) tim

http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/8819/bluescreentk0.th.jpg why i always receive this error (The system has recovered from a serious error.) . i receive this error in ibm thinkpad x300 notebook.

Hi, If I am not using Veritas Backup can I stop all the Backup Exec services from running?

Did anyone else have a strange install experience with today's Windows Update "Search 4.0 for Windows Vista x64-based Systems (KB940157)?" After the required reboot, my computer remained active in the config screen mode reading "Updating - 97% - Do not turn off your computer" for about 5 hours until I couldn't wait any longer and just turned it off and restarted. All seems fine now and Windows reports the update as successful - but how does one test for this? I realize that the new search engine has to index all files which takes time, but I thought this was done in the background while Windows functioned normally (not pre-boot). I do have many hard disks,…

Hello: My interface is IIS 7 although that could be irrelevant here I have 2 Servers 2008 64 bit in IIS 7, I try connecting to server 2, and either use server 2's local administrator's account or a domain wide administrative account, and every time I get this message: Could not connect to the specified computer Details: Unable to connect to the remote server RPC is started What and where should i look to resolve this. Thanks Terry

I have am IBM laptop runing XP Pro SP2. I purchased a new battery for it and everything was running fine then the laptop locked up. I tried everything I knew to get it to reboot but was unsuccessful. I let it set for several hours and It never shutdown. I removed the battery, let set for about an hour then replaced the battery. Since then the batter meter shows 0% charge in one place and battery life as unknown in another. I installed SP3 and tis did not help. I found a hotfix on the Microsoft Web site that was described as a fix for this problem but It would not install on SP3. Thanks in advance, Bill Mahaffey

Hi All Currently I have a customer with a sbs2003 with 40 users. They have a supplier who needs to install 2 2003 servers to run various apps etc. Can we add these extra servers to an sbs domain or what are my alternatives. Site does not really want to pay for a new 2003 std with separate exchange 2003 due to costs. Many thanks Glenn

Here's the problem.... We have one 2003 domain spread over multiple physical sites. Each site is connected to the main site by WAN links and has a local domain controller. The main office site has an Exchange server which hosts all client mailboxes, including the ones for the remote site users. The problem we have is with password synchronization timing. For example, if a user's password expires and they have to change it on their client, and they are in the home site where the Exchange server is located, there are no issues. BUT!... if a user at one of the remote sites changes their password, the synchronization is such in AD across the remote link…