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Good Day: Every 3rd time I attempt to open the 'Add/Remove' programs screen, it freezes. When I try to 'close' it, an error message says 'Error: This page cannot be closed. If it is being debugged, please resume it or close the debugger first.' Any ideas?

Using XP Pro SP3 and Office 2003 Professional Having issues on websites where I can't copy text from the browser to a Word Document. When I do this, the document freezes permanently. Not sure if this happens all websites. I believe, as in the link below, that the website is protected from user's copying the text. Link: http://wiki.monticello.org/mediawiki/index.php/Sale_to_Library_of_Congress If I'm correct, is there a work around....other than straight typing of everything? I'm wondering if a feature in Word can be turned off ... such as turning off an "Embedded Objects". I tried a Word Forum, but I get no responses. Thanks in advance for your an…

This is the real, actual Leonard Grey. To everyone: For the last few days, you have had to endure an endless back-and-forth between myself and Nick/Mick/Mike Murphy, who has been impersonating me. Murphy has been posting to these newsgroups in my name. These phony posts have been, at best, ridiculous and, at worst, revolting. His goal is to make me look bad. I am receiving this treatment for coming to the defense of a regular here whose ethnic background was being cruelly insulted by Murphy. I have been posting to these newsgroups for some time now. (I do not normally post to the windowsxp.general group, and I won't any longer after this post.) Th…

When trying to view a webpage, in the lower right hand corner is a message saying: Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a000d' Type mismatch: 'returnHTMLStripped' /include/footer/footer.asp, line 47 Anyone out there explain to me what it means and how to correct it; hopefully simply as I am not computer savy. -- Jo Buckner

....XP Home ed. SP3 I have 2 printers - Epson C82 and R300. Recently, I'm occasionally getting 2 system tray icons for the R300 i.e. 3 icons for two printers ! HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run seems to contain the "normal" two entries, for the two printers. HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run contained a key similar to that (below), for the R300, and I deleted it. C:\WINDOWS\System32\spool\DRIVERS\W32X86\3\E_S10IC2.EXE /P23 "EPSON Stylus C82 Series" /O6 "USB002" /M "Stylus C82" C:\WINDOWS\System32\spool\DRIVERS\W32X86\3\E_S4I0F2.EXE /P30 "EPSON Stylus Photo R300 Series" /O6 "USB001" /M "Stylus Photo R300" ....…

My both Domain controller having Critical Issues. I ran Netdiag and DCdiag but I don't see any serious issue. When I ran DCDIAG /test:dns , it tell me I have broken delegation and there are many other issues are loged into Event Logs of Both DC1 and DC2 and all Memeber servers and Workstations. Please guide me proper path to tackle these issues. If I have to use my 2 free support calls I will. Here are the Netdiag and Dcdiag. ================================================ C:\>Netdiag ......................................... Computer Name: DC1 DNS Host Name: dc1.Domain.com System info : Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 (Build…

I since a couple of weeks, I have the problem that COM+ seems to be broekn on my machine (Windows XP professional SP3). The symptoms are that many features no longer work, for instance MSI based installs, windows update, defragmenting a disk, many features in computer management ... In cases where there is an error log from an application, it always results in error 80040154 Today, I used the tool dcomcnfg.exe and open the "component services" branch and select "Computers", it crashes and leaves the following error in the application event log: <<<<<<<<<< The run-time environment has detected an inconsistency in its internal sta…

WinXP Pro SP3 Office 2003 SP3 I have an older system that I'm using for a variety of situations. I need to find out if my 1GB memory is too low as well as any other input you'd deem appropriate. Totals: 16550 Threads: 759 Processes: 65 ********** Physical Memory Total 1047532 Available: 287448 System Cache: 371752 ************ Commit Charge Total 605192 Limit 2518580 Peak 728084 ************ Kernal Memory Total 75068 Paged 51080 Non-paged 23984 ************* CPU Usage 7% at this time PF Usage 590MB at this time Ideally, I'd like to know how to read these numbers and also determine if too much paging is being performed. If I could …

Not sure what it is called which is why I am asking it this way. In XP, when you open Notebook (as an example) and click on File/Open the window that open has a panel on the left that shows "My Computer", "My Documents", etc. as shortcuts that you can click on. How can I add a folder to this list or change what is in it. Thanks, Jeff

My 2-yr old HP laptop has a blurred and incorrect color (greenish) screen from time to time. It seems when I boot up the Windows, it works fine but after an hour or so the problem appears. If I switch off and use it next day, it works fine but repeat the problem after 1 hour. Can someone give me a guidance if the issue comes from hardware or software before I send to repair centre. Thanks, Scott

A new release for Java is available. http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp There is still no x64 IE support so the file you want to download is jre-6u10-windows-i586-p.exe that will take care of the Java thing in IE 32-bit. Release notes here: http://java.sun.com/javase/6/webnotes/ReleaseNotes.html Don't forget to uninstall your previous version of Java first! Carlos

When I double click a desktop folder, it opens in a view that shows the Folders Navigation pane on the left and the folders on the right - ie the classic Windows Explorer style. Is there any way to make the double click open it without showing the nav pane om the left? It can be done by right clicking the folder and selecting "Open" rather than "Explore" from the context menu, but how to make the double click do this? donwb

I want to log onto Yahoo.com but Yahoo replies my browser does not accept cookies. How do I enable them? I have found a program on my CPU (Analogue) which has a list of cookies from sites I have been to, but does not contain Yahoo.com. Analogue has three sections, the centre one has all the cookie sites I have been to B4, but need to be accepted or blocked by transferring them into either the left or right column. But what I need to know is how to get the first cookie if they (Yahoo) says my CPU is not enabled to accept cookies? TIA

I have an old Quantum Go120A laptop hard drive that I want to install in a 2.5" external case and hook up to my desktop to copy off all the old data and then wipe clean. Device Manager recognizes and correctly identifies the hard drive, but unfortunately it doesn't show up in My Computer, Explorer or Disk Management. Further, the "Device Status" box on its property sheet in Device Manager says "This device is working properly." How can I get my system to recognize this drive so I can access the data one last time?

It Does'ent appear in AD/REMOVE IN Control panel, + When one tries to Delete folder , no go . Help.jim

We are using a windows sbs 2003 server. We are backing up to multiple external usb drives that we rotate in and out. YES, the usb drives are formatted with NTFS. There are approx 400GB of free space on each drive. We are using Nova Backup to accomplish the backups. We are backing up approx 40gb. The issue we are having is that when Nova does the backup, it creates several smaller files opposed to just one large backup file. The files are approx 4gb each so I initially thought the external drives were formatted in FAT16 or FAT32 but that isnt the case. I cannot find any setting in Nova Backup that allows you to set it to create just one large file. …

I have my display set to "Windows Classic" with a 'teal' background. . . . . dull, I suppose, but I like it. But about once a week or so, when I turn the computer on, the display has changed to "Windows XP". This never occurred until about 6 months ago. Can anyone tell me what's it causing this, and/or how to fix it. I know how to RESET it--but I'd like to know the way to keep it from happening at all. Thank you for your help. Judy

I sold my computer and removed the hard drive from it. However, I baught a new computer with seperate version of XP. I also added the 'old' hardrive as I have a lot of documents on it. However I am unable to retrieve the documents under the 'mydocuments' folder. Is this possible without booting from this drive?

Everything is fine. Then the images on web pages stop downloading. Everything else downloads, but no images. When I reboot, I get a warning of a program not responding. No name on the program. After reboot, everything is fine for a while and it happens again. Any ideas?

What extra I will get besides better DFS raising my domain to Windows 2008 functional level. Is it worth all efforts? I just need to have Distributed File System. I need to have files on 4 different servers. I want DFS to synchronize files from all this 4 servers to one,from which I will make backup. Can I do this in Windows 2003 functional level? Interesting new future in Windows 2008 DFS is Storage Reports Management. Can I have it in Windows 2003 functional level? What else can I gain moving to Windows 2008 functional level? MarcusB

Hi all, anyone know what this means? Timed out sending notification of target device change to window of "WndClass_CWinDrivesNotifyerHelperWindow" Event ID: 257. Double clicking on this entry tells me this: Explanation The specified program is taking too long to respond to notifications about the device. This can decrease system performance. User Action Restart the program. If this does not improve the response time, consider upgrading to a newer version of the program. Well it would be nice to KNOW what program, and device its talking about. Altho, its possible Nero maybe the culprit. I've seen a few sites, that s…

Hello all: Here's the deal. We got a new server with Windows 2003 x64 Standard. It has only 12GB for the OS partition w/only 4 left. We have 200+GB of unallocated space that I would like to extend this partition onto (at least 8 more GBs). I know this can be done with diskpart but since this is the system partition, needs to be done from the command line (i.e. boot into DOS). However, to do so requires a boot disk with the proper RAID drivers (this is a Dell PowerEdge with a PERC 5/i). We do not have a floppy and I have tried creating a boot CD with the drivers slipstreamed, but that failed. My next resort was to use the Windows Automated I…

In all windows 2003 servers we have possibility to use two parallel remote desktop connection plus one console connection. (mstsc /v:XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX /console) On all our new Windows 2008 Enterprise servers we can only have one remote desktop connection, and it seems that it is the same as console connection. Should we activate some services to have the same possibilities in windows 2008? Regards MarcusB

So I have two VMs in VirtualPC. (But I don't think the fact that they're VMs matters.) On both of them - Windows 98 SE and Windows 95 - I installed NTLMv2, and tried to connect to my host PC (Windows XP Pro SP3). The problem: It only worked *once*. The first time I clicked on my host PC (inside the virtual PC's "Network Neighbourhood"), it opened - it showed all the shares, I could even browse them. Then I closed the window, and it stopped working. Now every time I try to open my host PC from the virtual one, it says: [X] \\THINK is not accessible. This device does not exist on the network. BUT the host PC says that the login was successful: -----B…

We have network with 10 windows servers and 2 windows 2003 domain controlers. Domain is in Windows 2003 native mode. We want to go to Windows 2008 native mode to have such services like new DFS service etc.. What is the best and simplest way to move to Windows 2008 native mode. We will buy new hardware for some servers but the old will remain for some time. Our domain controlers are also DNS and DHCP servers and they need to ramain on the same IP number. How to start and go on with the process? MarcusB