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Earlier today, whilst AVG did an update, XP's automatic update "Gold Shield" appeared briefly in my system tray, and obviously downloaded something because when I go to Shut Down, there are options to Shut Down with, or without, installing the Windows updates ! ...and the "gold shield" has disappeared from system tray. Just out of curiosity where are the XP updates, and how would one find them to signal XP to install them - i.e. what determines when the "gold shield" appears in system tray ? ...I guess that, if I shut down without installing them on the way out form this session, the Gold Shield will appear during my next Windows session. ? rega…

I have 2 desktop PC that I want to synchronize (For source code sharing between the two) Is it possible to use briefcases to synchronize the two using a USB Key? Note that the Source folders are not the same place on the two computers... On my home PC and work PC, my sources are located on MyDocuments of different users that I log on to. How can I do that?

Hi, I installed XPSP3 on my system leaving 100MB free at the end of the disk. I start XP, run disk management, select the empty part of the drive, tell it to create a primary partition, and format it fat32. XP thinks everything is great. I copy files to the drive and reboot with a windows 98 boot disk. The boot disk only see the fat16 filenames. Thislongfilename.txt became Thislo~1.txt Did I do something wrong? How do I get my long filenames back? Thanks,

Hi Can anyone tell me how I can check the version of jet loaded on my computer OS:- XP Pro SP 3 Ron

Using XP Pro (with latest upgrades) on high end laptop connected to a docking station that has an external VGA 22" monitor connect to it. When I watch a video from a website, on the laptop screen you see what you would expect, but on the external monitor, the video will fill my external monitor screen 100%. I normally use windows meda player. In skype, for example, if on a video conference call, the laptop will be as expected but the external monitor will be to 100% sized videos rapidly flashing back and forth between each other. It's very annoying to have video in full screen because you loose your mouse and you're unable to to see the program . D…

Hi, I have encountered this error msg. Time service has not been able to synchronise the system time for 86400 sec because none of the time providers has been able to provide a usable time stamp. The system clock is unsynchronized How to resolve above problem. Possible to provide a guide to resolve it. Thanks. Victor

HI. I have a server 2003 R2 standalone DC with SP1 that we installed updates onto last night (about 25 updates). Now it seems to have some kind of problem with serving files. I have already gone into the Windows folder and one by one in proper order used "spuninst.exe" to remove each update. Didn't reboot between the uninstalls. Maybe I should have. Question:Should I restore the system state from the time before the updates were installed? I have a USB hard drive (actually two) with system state backups. I sure hope USB is supported during system state restores. Do I need to use Active Directory restore mode for this? Here is more info that led me to b…

My hdd is divided into C: & E: partitions with D: been the DVD RW. Apart from the folders that I created in E: also, there are RECYCLER folder and System Volume Information. Getting very annoyed that it always starts to chkdsk E: upon reboot. There is no schedule to run the chkdsk and I just dont know how to stop it from checking each time when we boot. Comptemplating to reformat E; but do not know whether its safe to do so because of the presence of RECYCLER/SVI folders. Anyone can advice and with thanks

I have a user that has a "roaming profile" which he can basically go to any computer and log in. Works great! issue is that the icons on his desktop he can't move around. I have tried making sure his settings are not to put them in date order, snap to grid or anything like that and the settings dont stay. They change back to the grid layout. How can I fix this?

I want to connect to my broadband line when I switch on the computer and log in. At list I want it to prompt me to put my password in it. I believe I should put the .exe file in one of the startup folders. Which one and how?

We have 300 computers and soon we will change part of them, but we have problem to choose graphic card for the new ones. What we can gain buing more advanced card? We had AGP Matrox milennium with 32MB RAM. I tested some new ATI and NVidia card with 512 MB RAM, both with DDR, DDR2 and DDR3 and I do not see the difference besides that the last ones get more hot and need better cooling. What is all about this stupid mess with graphic cards? Who need faster one than those with AGP contact. I tested also some cards at my home computer with PCIexpressx16 and I really do not see any difference in speed compared to the AGP cards. At work people are using W…

If I select "save password" in my RDP connection...and then I change my password, will the connection fail or will it know that I changed my password and update the connection automatically? -- Thanks!

What rights do I need to remotely read an eventlog on a Windows 2003 server that I currently have no admin rights to? -- Arne Garvander Certified Geek Professional Data Dude

When booting XP is listed twice as boot option. I would like to remove 1. How do I do this without wiping out harddisk and reinstalling? Thanks in advance for any help.

I have a client using Windows XP Pro SP3. He is connected to a Windows SBS 2003 server domain. The user is using Offline files for a mapped drive on his laptop. There are 2 folders that wont synchronize. I have tried deleting the offline files cache, and resyncing the appropriate files and folders. However the 2 folders still won't synchronize. Can you tell me how I can fix this? Thanks Jim

I'm having a problem installing HP printer driver on a TS to which I'm connecting remotely. Basically when I start the .exe driver file downloaded from HP's website it tells me that I have to use 16bit colour display to run this driver. Why on earth do I need 16bit colour depth to install a bloody driver in the first place?! Anyway, I set up my remote desktop connection to use 16bit colour space just to find out that when I'm connected it gives me 256 colours only. Eventually I extracted the .exe with winrar but now I've got another problem. There are plenty of .inf files in there and I've got no idea which one should I use. Any help on this? Cheers yaro

I have a volume on SAN with 6 disks. How can I tell if the value is too high? This is RAID 5. Thanks.

I am able to enable or disable usb controller through device manager... Can I do it through program(vb) or registry?

its_my_dime <its_my_dime@yahoo.com.spam (hold the .spam)> wrote: > I can't get into some websites (like Morningstar) and others won't > take my username-password. > > Laptop on same router works on these sites. > > Have deleted everything through IE TOOLS including passwords, cookies, > history and temp files. > > Any other thoughts, please. Please fix your system date; you're posting from the future. That may have something to do with it!

Ok, I have read all the threads about CredSSP and XP clients, and have even tested the change sucessfully. My issue is a little broader, however: I have 4,000+ users, with a mix of XP and Vista (probably) that need to access , consistently, a 4 server farm that consists of 2 physical servers and 2 VMs under Hyper-V (these are on another server). All 4 are Windows Server 2008. This is working just fine using a CoyotePoint Equalizer as a hardware load balancer. However, these servers are in a Windows 2003 domain, and we have no plans to change that in the near future. I have no control over the bulk of the remote users, as they are home systems or belo…

Hallo, Sinds een week of 2 zijn meerdere xp pro systemen heel erg traag geworden bij opstarten. Het hele opstart proces duurt wel tot 15 minuten. Opstarten van applicaties en installatie van software is tergend langzaam. Update van 40MB duurde meer dan 60 minuten, ophalen van internet slechts 12 minuten. Meerdere scans laten zien dat er geen ongewenste software actief is, dit is ook te zien aan de router. Er is geen netwerkactiviteit. De installatie is volledig up to date met de laatste patches. De PC is een std xp pro installatie met office 2003. Verder draait Norman Virus Control en is de firewall actief. Met de sysinternals tools kan ik geen vreem…

Hi all, I have a question someone might have an answer to. I have a Compaq desktop (4yrs old) running XP sp2 (has now been updated to SP3). At boot up a couple of days ago I got the message "Master Boot Record Error". I hit "enter" and booted up as normal, there were no obvious problems, everything worked ok as it normally does. After looking through the comments on this site and trying some of the suggestions therein, I decide to do a new install. I've found in the past it's good to get rid of all the crap and re-install. After the re-install I got exactly the same message. So I thought I'd try another drive, well I did and got exactly the same error.…

Hi, I am creating an Windows 2008 domain with 600 users. I would like to know if anyone knows a script to add those users to 50 Security Groups previously created. Thanks for while. Luiz

XP is so much better than Vista. Why don't Microsoft just scrap the whole Vista fiasco and stay with XP? IMHO XP is the best OS on the market. Superior to all others. All replies welcome.

Hi guys, We're in the middle of a migration from a Win2K forest to a Win2K3 forest and I'm having fun with Group Policies. We use GPO to deploy Office 2000 to clients, this is a machine assigned application. I have migrated the policy using GPMC but software deployments do not work from a workstation in the new domain trying to receive the source installation files form a machine in the old domain. I have even tried this with a new policy created in the new domain using MSI source files from the old domain. I guess my question is, initially simple; is it possible to deploy machine assigned software via Group Policy in a multi-forest environment? The fo…