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Hi All, Will print drivers for Windows XP work on Windows CE 6.0? Thanks

Hello, Is it possible to force SMB v1 in 2008 Server ? I have 1 W2K8 Data server and 2 W2K8 TS with an old Windev application which use indexed file for it database and I have a lot of corruption in these file due to Opportunistic Lock. My problem is that in 2008 Server, the opportunistic locking couldn't be disable because of the version 2 of SMB. Could we limitate the Lanmanserver service to emulate uniquely SMB V1 ? Thanks in advance. Regards Christophe CHESNEAU

We installed a 2008 term server on a 2003 network. User has a roaming profile and logs into windows xp. the terminal server has a gpo locking it down accroding to microsoft good practice guide. When the user logs into the terminal server the gpo applies and all is ok. when the user logs into there xp pc they get the error "cannot access the specified device, path or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item" when they launch outlook, internet explorer, word, etc. i even tried to raise there secuity to admin status but it did not make any change. I can log in as another user on the same pc and everything works ok. Any ideas? …

My win XP machine has suddenly started disabling my keyboard on Windows bootup. This applies to both USB and PS2 The keyboard functions properly until the windows screen appears with the Blue oscillating bar under the windows logo. I am out of good ideas. Does anyone have any new one or has anyone experienced the same problem?

When you hold down the Shift key and r-click a highlighted file in Explorer, or when you launch a file type for which there is no association, you are presented with an "Open with" pick-list. This list appears to be generated from the active file associations at the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT registry key. This means that if you have two applications which are used for opening PDF files, say, then only the currently active one will show up in the list. To select the other one, you need to choose "Other" and then browse for it. Currently what I'm doing is creating a dummy file type and associating the second application with the dummy. For example, Opera is my default…

How can I determing if I have the XP 32 or 64 bit version?

I have 2 CD drives. I am trying to copy a disk. The burner program copies the source disk OK, but then when it tries to burn to the target I get a message that says "burn failed". I have tried using 2 burner softwares and get the same message. I get this message when I try to copy audio and data files. All help appreciated.

Microsoft is now blocking Trillian instant messaging. This is rediculous. I have two reason for using Trillian instead of MS mesenger. First, messenger does all kinds of crap in the background and wants to run itself all the time, and it has this pop up window that has nothing to do with my IM session. In other words, I dumped MS messnger for the same reason I dumped AOL years ago, it became abuntantly clear to me that the service was about prividing access to me rather than for me. Second I don't like to have several IM programs running at once, having one program- Trillian is simpler and safer. MS is just being a pissant here, there's no reason to …

I have a windows 2003 domain with 1 server and 20 XP clients...every thing goes fine on the XP clients (e.g. installing printers and device drivers, USB Flash RAM) until I join them to the domain.. After joining the domain I can't install any device driver (e.g. USB keyboard, USB mouse, Flash USB, or Printer driver) even when i log in as Enterprise admin..i either get (data invalid error) or the installation just stops saying (can't install) Can anyone help with this, what policy causes that and how do i fix this?? Thanks n.damra@mgc-concrete.com

Hi, I am running Windows XP Professional on a Dell Vostro 1500 laptop. Everything was running fine when I noticed that from a few days, my HDD spins down automatically every couple of minutes or less! I can hear the distinct sound, and can verify that from the load cycle count increase. My laptop is always plugged in. I checked that my power settings through Windows and Dell Quickset were both fine -- none allowed the Hard Drive to power down by itself in any state. The drive is not being overheated or anything, it just spins down and then starts back up immediately. I would like to disable this unreasonably frequent spin-down as it's useless and is wast…

Hi Everyone. I don't know if this is the right group to posto to, of not please redirect me to the correct one. My problem is, i have a Windows server that is working as a printing server. i have 4 network printers installed there and shared to clients. the printer is printing correctly and all, but i have set the printers to log the jobs and what i see is thar windows is giving me wrong logs. for example, yesterday someone printed 20 pages, and this is windows log: Document 77, Microsoft Word - EXPLICAÇÕES-anúncios.doc owned by 4420 was printed on imp-adultos via port IAdultos. Size in bytes: 15564; pages printed: 1 so i tried some printer managme…

I believe I have done some thing to my print spooler. When I try printing, it will no longer print if I have the printer set to spool the print jobs. But If I change to 'print directly' documents are printed. The print spooler is running. The printer was working fine with spool prints but I think I stopped a process. Though it does show that the spooler is running. What do I need to change. Thank you

My audio drive keeps disappearing and I have to reinstall it for no reason. Someone mentioend this might be caused by a windows update and there is a patch for it depending on my hardware is that true? I have onboard sound and this MB: MSI P6N SLI Platinum LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 650i SLI ATX Intel Motherboard Thanks! Nancy

On my opening screen, just below my user name, appears the message: "1 unread mail message". I have searched everywhere I can imagine, and cannot find any unread mail. How can I get rid of that message?

I have a Dell Inspiron 6400 notebook running Windows XP Home. I am using the touchpad. No mouse. Whenever I am typing (e.g. in MS Word, text search box in Google, composing Gmail message), the text cursor will suddenly disappear after a while. If I realise it, I have to click on the touchpad and bring the cursor back to the text box before I can continue typing. If I do not realise it, I would be typing but nothing goes into the text box. The time it takes for this to happen varies from 2 to 20 seconds. It is most frustrating. My anti-virus is up todate and I have also run various malware and adware removal software. No success. I googled and found sev…

I bought a new harddrive. So I used Partition Magic to copy the Windows partition from the old to the new drive. But after I copied it, Windows XP can't boot. What is the reason?

Hi there, this morning my Windows2000SP4 desktop started with the 680x480 resolution and the keyboard not running at the login window. The keyboard is ok at the bios and til the F8 start menu. If i choose the debug mode, the keyboard is still dead. I tried with a Linux live boot cd and I have no problem. I guess a problem on the keyboard drivers but the Recovery disk does nothing. Can i manually substitute the keyboard driver? Which drivers??? Help !! -- SteM

Hello everyone, I'm new here & have found Microsoft forums are the best place to get help with problems that really stump me. Basically, we have a TS set up on server 2003 (sorry, I know this is a 2008 forum), but the principles should generally be the same. Our users, when they log in, have a clock program that sometimes disappears off the screen & is no longer visible, yet is still running. This program is only displayed in the system tray as there is nothing in the task bar. When you right click on the program, you are given no move option (nor when you right click on the system tray icon). My thoughts on solving this problem were to wr…

Hi, I have a computer with Windows XP. I started it a few days ago to be greeted with the message: 'Windows Product Activation. Your Windows product must be activated. Do you want to activate Windows now?' I clicked OK and after a moment it comes back and says 'Windows is already activated. Click OK to exit.' You can see the screen messages here.... http://www.users.waitrose.com/~zeonozo/1c.jpg Can anyone tell me what to do here please? I mean will it just continue like this for ever, asking for activation and then saying it's OK, because I can cope with that. Or will it just refuse to cooperate on Wednesday morning? How do I resolve this, it is like …

In my PC (XP Home SP3), works only the screensavers of default (those which we find installed, with to the O.S...... in order meaning to us.). All those which I install, and I say just all, I have tried because them, when I try to enable them: Property - Screen > Screensaver, not they work! I have setting 1/2 minutes, then Apply > OK, but does not happen just null? The thing still stranger, is that, clicking on push-button " Try", it works all to the perfection, but after It applies > OK, passed by far the wait time, does not happen just null! How I can resolve the problem? Thanks in advance!!! -- SIMONE

I am in the process of replacing our Windows 2000 TS with a new Windows 2003 box. I would like to know besides USMT, what other migration tool(s) would help me ease the transition over to the new server? I have about 50 users that I need to migrate. Thanks, Steven

Computer: WinXP SP2, 1g ram, 60g hd (12g freespace). Usually surfing, explorer/windows slows and finally stops. Sometimes, when we exit explorer, then go back to surf, it is ok for a while. (By slow, I mean that it will take 10 minutes to boot up.) In Windows, same thing, but never speeds up. I have active virus s/w and run regular scans, usually nothing found but a couple of cookies. If I defrag, system seems to return to normal for a while. Sometimes restoring to a previous date helps for a while. Any ideas. Appreciate the help.

i need to find the fix for long file name. Every time we open a e-mail with long name we are enable to save it or open it.

Hi.. Yet another person with ongoing activation issues here, any help would be great. I've got a legit copy of Win XP Pro that I've only ever used on this computer (self-built) for about 3 years now. I recently reformatted and was prompted to activate windows again but it's not working. The last time I reformatted I had this problem aswell but it all of a sudden activated on the last day before deadline. Both this time and last time I've called to activate over the phone but they haven't helped. They've talked me through changing the product key to the same key it already has (?) which makes no difference (which doesn't surprise me?). I've run out of…

"Error in C:\PROGRA~1\MYWEBS~1\bar\17.bin\M3PLUGIN.DLL Missins enrty:UPF". What is this and how can I get it to stop showing up every time I turn on my computer? Thanks for any help. -- Kate Galway