Legacy Operating Systems

Hello all, I have a problem with opening files in Front Page, but it seems to be connected to Explorer. When opeing a network directory with 30k+ .htm files, scrolling thru the directory is page-at-a-time, and each page takes 10-15 seconds to "find". The file names show up immediately, as well as all the details, but the icons are the standard unknown file type icon for 10-15 seconds, then turns into the correct icon for the file association, and you can scroll to the next page. Hoping someone can suggest something to cure this. I'm running mix of SP2 and SP3 machines, not all have Front Page loaded, all act the same. A software vendor had Vist…

I have a W2k3 SP1 server, which the users login via Terminal server. The My Documents folder is re-routed to another server. I need to stop the user from installing and running .exe files from they "My Documents". Upgrading to W2K3 R2 is not an option for now... Any ideas

Hello and Greetings, I'm having a particularly interesting problem installing SP3. The installation seems to go well until receiving a "Copy Error" message. It reads as follows: "An error occurred while copying file mmcfxcr.dll. Cannot copy file to destination directory. Click Retry to retry the operation or clock Cancel to" That it for the first message. I am allowed to browse for the file and can see it in the temp installation directory created during the install of SP3. It will not however allow me to get past the error. I extracted the file using the /x parameter, copied to the c:\windows\system32 directory manually and tried to use regsvr32 to re…

Hi all, I have a question to ask of you experts. I have Windows 2003 R2 CDs. Once you install Windows from scratch and you log into the machine for the first time the system will ask you to insert the 2nd CD from this install. If I disregard this message and continue on my marry way will there be issues with my install later due to the fact that this second CD was not inserted? Not related to R2 components. I'm wondering if there are essential files that are in CD2 that are necessary for Windows to operate properly. I know the 2nd CD from what many people have been saying is not needed and if you install Windows without it is like installing the old ve…

I have been trying to install this update for a couple of weeks...and it seems to install, but then gives me a message that it failed to install. I have never gotten a error number nor any reason for why it won't install. Today I went to this page: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8f588f7e-c4ed-42a0-b157-54b1eda60474&DisplayLang=en and tried to download it here. I followed instructions and it seemed to install, BUT, I got the error message (attached) this time. I haven't a clue what this means...except that I'm missing something! I hope it's nothing totally serious. Hope I've asked this question in the correct group.....my first …

On booting a PC with multiple OS (w2k and XP), the OS selection screen shows OK Then after showing that initial W2K window (logo on white background), a blew screen with white letters reading STOP: 0x0000007B (0x817E7670,0xC0000032,0x00000000,0x00000000 Inaccessible_boot_device The other OS - XP still boots well What can I do?

On booting a PC with multiple OS (w2k and XP), the OS selection screen shows OK Then after showing that initial W2K window (logo on white background), a blew screen with white letters reading STOP: 0x0000007B (0x817E7670,0xC0000032,0x00000000,0x00000000 Inaccessible_boot_device The other OS - XP still boots well What can I do?

Explorer is occasionally crashing and restarting itself. No error msg displayed. On restart, it displays an Explorer browser window, but the Desktop and Taskbar do not reappear. Ctrl-Alt-Del to Task Manager works fine. If this is a known problem, please point me to the relevant URLs. Thanks. Event Log: "The shell stopped unexpectedly and Explorer.exe was restarted." Win XP Pro, with SP3 installed on top of SP2 Core 2 Duo 1.86 GHz, 3.5 GB RAM

Hi there, Is it possible to make 2 machines master browsers for a remote subnet or it would cause some sort of conflict? I mean to set the settings isdomainmaster to true and maintainserverlist to yes in registry? My goal is to prevent another machine to become master browser which I already set the above settings to "No" and to have a backup of the master browser if the other one is not powered up for that remote subnet. Thank you, T

I am having a terrible time with my win. xp home edition right now. It started a couple of days ago, all of a sudden the task bar, icons on the desktop, and start menu disappeared. I had been working in the task manager, deleting some processes... I was doing as the Sims 2 Holiday Edition manual said, as it also said everything would return to normal after i restarted my computer. well since then, one of 2 things have been happening. Either everything flashes [appears for like 15 secs then disappears for couple secs, comes back, disppears, comes back....] or all i have is the desktop wall paper. I have been trying to fix this for a couple of days an…

I rebooted Microsoft Windowsxp Professional 2000 using the CD. Unfortunatly I didnt know to save data for my drivers, and upon restart after resetting the basics my pc is slugish. Moving a window drags across the screen, scrolling down an internet page is enough to give you a headach. I went under Device Manager and found the following did not register and could not be updated. Multimedia Audio Controller, PCI Bride Device, SM Bus Controller, Video Controller, Video Controller (VGA Compatible). Im trying to find a way to update these so they can work. -- Bluex25 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bluex25's Profile: htt…

Windows XP Home has a "history" folder (hidden) in documents and settings, user, local setttings, which show all the web pages you have visited plus a folder named "my computer" that shows all the files and folders you hve viewed for any given day. . on my computer running xp home it goes from the current day all the way back to two weeks or more, til you delete the files. .my new computer has XP Pro and i cannot find a folder like that. . thanks for any information

In our office, one of the users (who brings in own laptop) cannot connect to network. I can connect to same connection & can connect just fine. Cable tester shows no problems, either. I can take his laptop & connect directly into switch & it connects just fine. I had a new cable run & all worked fine. He has moved to a new office & it's starting all over! Any reason why mine, or any other computers can connect fine, but his wouldn't? Thanks- -- Mr. Simpson, there are thousands of people like you with no discernable talent. Yeah, they're called Congress.

[Crossposted to Windows Update and WinXP General newsgroups; Followup set to Windows Update newsgroup] Posted as an FYI. MS08-061: Vulnerabilities in Windows kernel could allow elevation of privilege: <QP> Known issues with this security update XPSP3 unsigned binary issue Summary If the installation of Windows XP Service Pack 3 fails for any reason, the win32k.sys component becomes unsigned. This issue can also occur if you uninstall Service Pack 3 after a successful installation. If you encounter this issue, and then you successfully install Service Pack 3, the win32k.sys component is correctly signed. How does this update correct th…

[Crossposted to IE General, WinXP General, and Windows Update newsgroups; Followup set to IE General] Posted as an FYI only: MS08-066: Vulnerability in the Microsoft Ancillary Function driver could allow elevation of privilege <QP> Known issue with this security update After you install this security update on a Windows XP-based computer or on a Windows Server 2003-based computer that is running ZoneAlarm, you may be unable to connect to the Internet. This issue may occur when you run the ZoneAlarm versions that are listed in the following table: • Zone Alarm Internet Security Suite 6.5.645.000–7.0.482.000 • Zone Alarm Pro 6.5.645…

I've been working a cluster of two Windows 2003 Enterprise SP2 systems, which run SQL Server and are also domain controllers for a local domain (it's an hosted environment, so only two servers could be fitted there). The two servers have each 18 GB of memory, but run the x86 Windows version. The /PAE switch is enabled on those systems, in order to take advantage of all that memory; today, we tried enabling the /3GB switch too, to give SQL Server some extra memory... but then the systems started behaving erratically, taking hours (literally!) to start up, even more time to log on, showing plenty of errors in the event log about almost everything crashing…

I am installing a Windows 2003 std server on a dell 2950 system. Brand New from Dell, and I am using their software to load. Everything went fine with the install and the software loaded without incident. I patched the system fully with MS patches. Everything was great until I went to configure the server for AD as a member server on a domain with 2003 std (R1). First thing that happend is this release is R2 and the other releases on the other two servers are R1 release that is fully patched. The first thing it errored out was I got a message stating that the Schema wasn't compatable between the this version R2 and the other R1 and that I had to run…

Hi, Is it possible to specify a user-defined usable area of the XP (SP3) desktop where shortcuts, files etc. will be placed and where the rest of the desktop area that s not user-defined is off limits and is not recognised by the system as usable and therefore is kept clear of any icons or files. Thanks for any info!

I have win98 original. I re installed. How do I update to the last update MS had? Is there an all in one service pack?

In the Event log I see this error The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x000000c2 (0x00000007, 0x0000121a, 0xf56d3867, 0xc0000120). A dump was saved in: C:\WINDOWS\MEMORY.DMP. Attached is a debug from the memory.dmp file everything is pointing to the fact that the ntkrpamp.exe is the problem and I have read that it may be faulty memory or there may be a hot fix for dropped packets none the less the server reboots and will run fine for 4 or 5 days then it will re-boot with the same error. I would like to find out what is causing the error so that I can get it fixed. This is a 2003 R2 Enterprise sp2 server fully patched and runn…

Re: Are there any standard uninstall utilities in XP? On 15 ÏËÔ, 14:52, "Clark..." <Clark_throwa...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Dmitry Bond. wrote: > > Hi. > [...] > <snip> > > don't know, but try these. > Windows install cleanup tool:http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301 > PC-Decrapifier:http://www.pcdecrapifier.com/node/159 Both variants you suggested not fit my needs. Finally I have to wrote such simple utility by myself. Here the link http://cid-d4095215c101cece.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/UninstallUtil.zip Here the some part of "readme.txt" for it: Command line tool to enum installed products, find…

Running XP Pro and have been using Nero for a while, but recently, it seems to have issues and it has always been more complicated than my needs dictate. I know you can burn to DVD and CD from within the OS, but I do not really like that approach. Therefore I was hoping some of you could let me/us know what you use to burn to DVD's and CD's with? Whether it be freeware or low cost is fine. Just trying to see what others use that is reliable, easy to use, and gets the job done without a bunch of buttons or confusion and without errors. Thanks for the input!

I have a situation. I have both MS Internet Explorer and Firefox active on my XP SP2 machine. I have Firefox set as the default browser because I prefer Firefox. I want to execute Verizon's speed test at (http://www2.verizon.net/micro/speedtest/java/ and it appears that it will not run under Firefox, but will under IE. I have a desktop shortcut created to do the test, but it wants to use Firefox because it is the default browser. How do I permanently make this shortcut and only this shortcut use IE? Thanks -GECKO

I have WinXPsp3 and just downloaded/installed IE 7. I notice when I open IE 7 and my (google) homepage shows, I can then go to Tools and Windows update to check for any critical updates. However, after I have checked and downloaded the updates, I click the back (blue)arrow (uppoer left corner of screen) and expect to be allowed to go back to my Google homepage. However, I can't get back to my google homepage. I have to close the Windows update page and then open IE 7 again so I can get my google homepage. If I go to other sites while using google (in IE7), I can always click the back arrow and be returned to the google page. Why am I not allowed to do it …

Hi, I installed WSUS in the 2003 server box. Now I try to add computers in domain into the computer group of WSUS. I opened WSUS admin console. clicked on computers. There is no computer on a group. How can I add them to the group. Thanks