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Issue: Generally performance ok on x64, all drivers up to date as are patches. When running 32bit applications such as IE or even mpsreports the cpu utilisation jumps to almost 50% making everything very poor. This obviously has issues for a lot of applications. Any thoughts? Thanks TC

I know someone with a W98 PC who uses Telix (an old DOS programme) to send data over a dial-up modem. He has asked me if this will work on XP. Is XP likely to block the serial port communications?

Hi there The company that i have just joined have purchased terminal services license two years later. Now that license is going to expire on 30th Nov. Please guide me with the procedure of how to renew or further extand the license. thanks in advance Bishan Kumar

Have a problem with TS logon. 2003 server, I can RDC into the server with any account other than the built in Administrator account. When I RDC into server with this account, it allows me to log in, then get a blank desktop. This will stay this way for a little while and then auto log me out. I have tried logging with a second connection to no avail. I can use Ctrl-Shift-End and bring up Taskmgr, nothing else is running. Cannot see the taskbar or any icons? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Hi, I am trying to map a drive on Windows 2008 server, which fails with "System error 53 has occured" The command I am using is net use z: \\sharepoint.mycompany.org\tsis When I run the same command on my XP workstation it works - can anyone explain why or what I need to do to sort this. I do have User Access Control turned off. -- Regards, Ian.

Re: Second Drive Not Recognized in Win98 Hi Mike, If you post this issue in microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion you will find more help. Let's see if a cross-post goes through, you'll need to pick up that group if you aren't already pulling it [monitoring] -- MEB http://peoplescounsel.org a Peoples' counsel _ _ ~~ "mikesmith" <mikesmith@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:71926BD7-7769-432E-8531-10441CEEDDBC@microsoft.com... | | | "philo" wrote: | | > | > "Peggy A" <PeggyA@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message | > news:B060872C-5BCE-4C11-9A0F-5AB9F898F2D4@microsoft.com... | > > I am trying to help…

Good Day, How do i backup IIS using software such as Veritas? What folders need to be selected to get a full backup? Thanks BTW It has been posted in an IIS news group but ive not had an answer.

Error returned while creating the volume shadow copy:0x8007000e. Symptom is exactly as described in hotfix 907875. However as SP2 already included fixes for 907875, cannot apply it any more. Not able to follow workaround solution as no boot.ini file can be found. Re-registered the vss services only work for two days and failed again. Server configuration: Intel Xeon 3GHz 1GB memory hard disk 150GB, only using 30GB of it maximum page file size set to 4GB Any suggestion?

Is there a script that I could use to find the system time and reduce it by 16 minutes and display it in a MSGBOX as "The current time is..." I don't have the rights to change the time on the computer so this seems like the best way.

Is there some way i can force a group of users on the domain to have their password expire in 2 weeks without changing the Domain policy and affecting other users. The reason for this is that, for some time we have had a group of users that passwords never expire, now we want to enforce password expiry along with the rest of the domain. However, i do not want to wait for the 180 days before they have to change it. i also do not want to set 'change password at next logon' as these particular users are mobile PDA users and have access to a network PC only occasionally. So once 'change password at next logon' is set, and their device queries our mail serv…

how to repair/check windows Date/Time settings? I am not sure it works correctly, at least it has displayed previous date. thanks.

I've never seen this in any OS before. Daily cold boot. Noticed during the day, time of day in the System Tray is 24 hour format. This is a change, Checked in Time Adjust screen, Time of day is correct as 12 hour format, Time Zone is correct, Day/month/year all OK. I used a util to check time, my system time is accurate. So the system reads 12 hour format, yet displays as 24 hour format. Advice? ms

Installed SP3, now getting "Generic Host Process for Win32 Services has encountered a problem" message My daughter has a laptop, and a non-admin user account on it. I take it every month or so and log on as administrator to take care of some basic maintenance. It was running XP SP2 and AVG 8. When I logged in, the first updates it asked me to install were the ones from the 9/14 Windows Update, seven in all. After the required restart, it pushed SP3 to me (I'd had a problem related to a corrupted installation file installing this previously). This installed fine and quickly, and then the computer restarted. No big deal, I've installed three other SP3…

Yesterday I bought a new eMachine at Wal-Mart for $298, with XP Home preinstalled. After getting it configured and loading some programs I wanted to get some info on the machine, so I loaded the Aida SysInfo utility and while poking around in it noticed that the OS key looked familiar. I went to my list of machines/keys on my other computers and found the SAME key in use on one of my old (5 Year) eMachines that I sold about a year ago! I read both keys at least five times to make sure I wasn't hallucinating. What the hell? What are the odds of M$ doing that accidentally, and on top of that, the chances an individual would ever catch it? How the hell can t…

Wiindows explorer always opens in 'My Documents'. I want it to open in 'My Computer'. How do I change the default opening folder? Thanks

When save -as is opened the folder that the current file is from does not open. It opens the last folder that I saved an item to. Any ideas how to change. It always worked before, something changed can't find the correction

Running XP, SP3. Someone reset the UPS time to 15 seconds until reboot. Because the system can't find the UPS, it immediately shuts down. I have about 10 seconds to get to Control Panel and Power Managment before it shuts down. I tried with a boot from CD app, but it will not allow me to run any applicatons (like for power mgmt). Does anyone have a suggestion?

On my one system that has 98se on it when I use a pic for wallpaper that is in portrait size (Taller then wide) Windows stretches the width so it fills the whle screen but the height stays the same. My second system which also has 98se shows it in portrait size with blank space on side of it. How and where would I find / change the setting for the first system that stretches it so it shows it as is like my second system? TIA

Hi I am unable to join my Vista business machine to a windows 2003 domain using netbios name, FQDN is fine. Netbios resolution is working as I can browse the domain and use net use to map network drive on all DCs within the domain. Also, all Windows XP machines can join to the domain with netbios name. Netbios over tcpip is enabled and IPV6/local firewall is disabled. All client machines are on the same subnet. No WINS is used on the network. The error message is: An attempt to resolve the DNS name of a DC in the domain being joined has failed. Please verify this client is configured to reach a DNS server that can resolve DNS names in the target do…

Hi Group, I started to do a windows xp repair from the cd. It called for an intel chipset file which I cant find, even at intel. I've done several hard shut downs in an attempt to get out of setup. I just want to boot back to desktop but it just keeps booting back into setup. How can I boot back to to desktop? Any ideas would be appreciated. Bob

When I go to display, I have no screensaver tab. It was suggested that I use the registry and "restore all tabs" I can access the registry but where do I go once I am there?? Thanks

Normally my W2000/SP4 custom desktop runs fine. It was built with SP4 installed 3 years ago, no patches since then, daily browsing (DUN) with Firefox and Xnews newsreader since then, never *had* problems until about 6 weeks ago. I don't use MS software except for the OS, no commercial software, usually small noinstall freeware utilities, has always been very troublefree. 6 weeks ago, on daily cold boot, worked fine one day, installed nothing, don't use registry cleaners, etc. The next day, DUN was normal, Firefox opened normally, but it was not browsing. I disabled the firewall, no help, I checked seveal things, everything seemed normal. I changed…

I am running Windows Server Server 2008 Enterprise edition. I was testing the performance alert feature in Reliability and Performance monitor. I was able to create the data collector set, started the task, and created some activities to trigger the alert. However, no data was collected in my data collector set. At the same time I was able to create a performance counter data collector set and it worked as expected. Your help is greatly appreciated. -- Frank

I am running Windows Server 2008 x64. I want me server to take an action from a batch file if the processor time gets above some threshold. I set up a data collector set in Reliability and Performance, and set an alert task to kick of the batch file. I also set it to write an alert to the Application Event Log. Neither of these work. If I set a Perf Mon or trace, they operate as expected. However, when I add Alert, the Alert Action and Alert Taks both fail. Interestingly, if there is no Alert Action, the data collector set stops (it will start, then immediately stop with no error.) This does exactly the same thing on two different servers. It lo…

RE: Exception Processing Message c00000a3 Parameters 75b6bf9c 4 75b6bf (exception processing massage c0000013 Parameters 75b6bf7c 4 75b6bf7c 75b6bf7c) This comes up every time it seems that my system is being challenged or over extended. I found that my ( CD-ROM ), (CD-RW): drivers were crowded in (driver detail) by other drivers from another application. I then found a driver that was some how pulling the resources from my cd drivers and giving the memory to the application. (C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\cbidf2k.old ) This is the driver and it's path, I found that this driver was loaded at the same time as the application I found dragging my system reco…