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I unistalled Norton Ghost 14.0 and when I went to defrag my HD, I got this error -- basically saying it could not defrag the HD. Here are the specifics of my results. Any help is appreciated! Thanks. Duane Volume (C:) Volume size = 74.52 GB Cluster size = 4 KB Used space = 62.73 GB Free space = 11.79 GB Percent free space = 15 % Volume fragmentation Total fragmentation = 6 % File fragmentation = 12 % Free space fragmentation …

Hello everyone, I have a bit of a problem. Today for the first time in my life I had to set up one of our servers as VPN/Remote Access. I managed to set it up, but as i only had one NIC I had to go for the "Custom configuration" settings. On the way, I had to disable the Firewall service. I can now connect to the server VPN, however now I would like to restrict access to remote desktop and other apps - eg. I need the firewall to control access. Essentially, I want to: - only allow remote access to the server through the VPN. - have all the convenience of the firewall. Is this possible? Thank you in advance Leo

I have a fairly new Dell server (2 yo/dual core) but the dummy who originally set it up, split a single 120 GB hard drive into two partitions...one for system (12 GB) and another for data (108 GB). It's configured as a "basic" drive in disk manager. The server is running Windows 2003 and Active Directory. I'm not sos concerned about the data drive as I am about the system drive (as I'm considering upgrading it to Windows 2008). Is there any way to, more or less painlessly, migrate the system drive to a larger hard drive? - anthonxy26

In Explorer, highlighting a particular file and r-clicking it while holding down the Shift key brings up a context menu with an "Open with" option. Is there any way I can automate this via a single command line? I'm thinking of something like this ... some_command.exe /option_1 ... /option_n %1 .... where %1 is the file I wish to open. Would rundll32.exe or explorer.exe have appropriate command line options? - Franc Zabkar -- Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email.

Hello, a few days ago, a strang printing issue occured. An employee working on a WinXP Pro SP2 Workstation, with a HP Color LaserJet 2550 attached via USB. She works connected with mstsc 6.0.6000 in a terminal session on Windows Server 2003. Until the error occured she could print. And suddenly she couldn't print anymore. We reinstalled the driver. But it isn't even possible to print a testing page from within the terminal session. The Dialog only tells, that it is impossible to print the testing page. Who can help me? Thanks, Andreas

11/Oct/2008 12:01 I am running Windows XP Home with SP3. When I minimize a web page, the notification icon goes to the bottom of my desktop (between the start button and the clock). This web page SHOULD NOT change. However, when I start a new web page (for example, that is on my desktop, or is in an e-mail message) the minimized web page changes to the web page I just started. I want the prior web page to remain. This worked the way I want until about three weeks ago. Then the MINIMIZED web pages changed automatically when a new web page was started. How would I make minimized web pages stay the same until I terminate them? TIA Sincerely, Bar…

After recklessly using a registry cleaner, I can no longer upload files (DSL speed test upload speed = 0). Event viewer shows "upload manager failed to start ID: 7000). Account specified wrong. It looks like my computer name has been removed from some service that is trying to start, but I haven't figured out how to find the name of it. I did a system restore from a safe date, but no joy. Local system network DDE disabled network DDE DSDM disabled remote access auto connection manager disabled (I think this is due to remote access being disabled for security). I do have a drive image from a previous backup s…

SessionViewSize and SessionPoolSize entries is not listed on HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management Is this normal? Can I just add it back manually?

Hi, I'm looking for any tools/softare or a process where in replacing an exising hard drive on a computer, that has a hidden restore partition like IBM, Lenovo, some HP's, that I can clone both the boot partition and the hidden restore partition over to a new larger hard drive, that would then replace the existing internal drive. Seagate tells me their SeaTools will not do this. Acronis tech support has not responded. Thanks in advacne - Dodge

Dell laptop, Windows XP Home, one play/burn DVD drive. Have a Western Digital My Book Essential USB 2.0 320GB external drive. Whenever I connect this external drive then power up, I get a black screen and nothing else -- as soon as I disconnect the drive, Windows boots immediately. When I connect the drive AFTER the laptop is running, all processes seem to slow down or stop. Every simple click takes 2 to 3 minutes or the request won't complete at all. Can barely run Belarc Advisor. Can barely view "My Computer." Can barely even switch Web pages. Not a crash but I get a very long hourglass no matter what I do and/or this error message: "The specified…

Intermittently (maybe half the time), when I close a file I have opened from the explorer, it freezes for about 3 seconds before letting me do anything again. I doesn't seem to happen with .txt files, but it does happen with ..doc files (where the recovery exactly coincides with the backup file that Word created being deleted), and with .jpg files (which is why I don't suspect something with Word in particular), and maybe others. During this delay, keystrokes I make are lost (e.g. if I hit down arrow to move to the next file, it does not do so when it recovers). It seems that only explorer is frozen. I can switch to another application or bring up the …

Hi, Does anybody know where to find documentation about installation of Mappoint 2006 on Terminal Services

Why do all my local workgroup shares show up as "The Internet" in Network Places on my XP machines? UPnP devices show up as "Local Network". Even a share off the local host shows up as "The Internet". How does Network Places decide "The Internet" vs. "Local Network"?

I am getting a error message windows cannot connect to the internet using HTTP, HTTPs, FTP. Check firwall settings Http Port 80, Https port 443, and FTP port 21. How do I do this? -- bob

I accidentally answered "Don't Ask Me Again" and then clicked "Yes" for opening a file type *.bat so that now it does not ask me anymore. How can I change it back to make it ask? Thanks in advance for your help! magmike

How can delete this from System32? I want to replace it with an edited url.dll file and it is locked by Windows? Will Safe Mode work? Thanks

I am using winxp professional SP3 in my PC with the following configuration: AMD 5000+ with 2G ram Seagate 250G harddrive in my mobo ASUS M2A-VM HDMI bios 1501 I changed the setting in the southbridge from IDE to AHCI according to the following link: http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?id=20080302172255000&board_id=1&model=M2A-VM+HDMI&page=1&SLanguage=en-us Everything is ok and the performance is improved except winxp stops for about 10 second when booting up which is same as described as the following link: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/248043-30-sata2-problems-booting I have tried different version of ahcix86.sys (driver for AHCI),…

"greeny" <grass@lawn.com> wrote in message news:%231zmQBsJJHA.2348@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > Hi,, > > A friend (80yr old) has just got hold of a computer with xp on it, > broadband too. > Trouble is, his modem seems to shut down if inactive for a while; I went > to his control panel and > clicked on 'phone/modem', but instead of showing details, it just brings > up a dialogue box for > setting up a modem. > Where are the dialogue boxes that show all the settings etc? I want to see > if I can find a tick-box > or similar to tell the modem to stop shutting down,, even if its more > than an hour or more. &gt…

Hi, I install win2003 sp2 in p42 gb ram.i installed active directory as a name ankitgrp.dom.i install exchange2007 on this machine.i send and receive mail in web url(https://mail.ankitgrp.dom/owa). Now i want to remove owa word from my url.i want that users login in this url mail.ankitgrp.dom so what can i do????? Ankit.

I have a problem with VSS on a server which was upgraded from 2k to 2k3. When I go to a volume and click the Shadow Copies tab the tap has the following error info Failed to retrieve volumes that are eligible for shadow copies Error 0x8004230f: The shadow copy provider had an unexpected error while trying to process the specified operation. The App log has the following Volume Shadow Copy Service error: calling a routine on the Shadow Copy Provider {b5946137-7b9f-4925-af80-51abd60b20d5}. Routine details IVssSnapshotProvider::QueryVolumesSupportedForSnapshots(ProviderId,29,...) [hr = 0x8000ffff]. Anyone have an idea what I can do to correc…

Hi, I needed to replace my HDD on my 4 year old Packard Bell (PB) A7145 laptop. As readers may know PB laptops don't come with Windows XP installation disks but rely on the use of restore disks & a restore partition on the HDD. I no longer have the restore partition so thought that I only needed to reinstall Windows XP and use the product key that came with the original laptop. That didn't work because it looks as though PB use a particular OEM version of Windows. I see that the sticker is marked NEC presumably indicating that it is a special version. My options seen to be: - buy another Windows XP but that will cost more than the laptop is worth, …

Hi all, I have a 64bit Windows 2003 R2 machine. It is an exchange server, and it is starting to run out of space on the C: drive (only 2.6 GB left). Pretty much the only thing that puts files on the C: drive are Windows Updates. I was thinking about making some changes to the swap file to make some room. The server has 32GB of RAM. The swap files are currently setup as follows: C: 2046-4092 MB E: 2046-49149 MB My question is this: What if I change the size of the swap partition on the C: drive to say...300MB? That would give me plenty of room, as the swap file is currently taking up 2.5GB. Is it safe to do this? Any help is appreciated, th…

Hello again all, Back again :-( For last few days my PC has been coming up with an 'ADD ON' error. The add-on is AcroPDF.dll, so I worked out how to disable this, but the error message still come up! Also to follow this error, this next error comes up (before it just shuts IE down completley):- SysFader: IEXPORE.EXE Application Error The instruction at "0x0508fc89" referenced memory at "0x00000044". The memory could not be "read". Click OK to terminate Click CANCEL to DEBUG But when I press CANCEL it doesn't DEBUG at all, and when I press OK it shuts down explorer. I hope someone can help me and tell me how to fix these problems. I hav…

with a P ent,I had to reboot my computer today and when it rebooted Active Desktop Recovery Screen was there and when I right click my mouse for the display properties I only had Themes, Apperance, and Settings to chose from no Desktop what could be the problem? I am running windows xp home edition have a Asus P4P800 motherboard, with a NVidia GeForce4 Ti 4200 AGP8x, with a Pentium 4 CPU 2.4 GHz and 1 gig of Ram. Thanks for your help, Sincerely, Kathy Scurlock

Hello I am not able to view the Allowed Users Tab In Network Connections\Incoming Connections. It Just crashes and error reporting comes in front. This Is Error Info is displayed.And The attachment is error dumped by watson i suppose. Please Help..... AppName: explorer.exe AppVer: 6.0.2900.3156 ModName: rasdlg.dll ModVer: 5.1.2600.2180 Offset: 00036081 Thanking - You Mohammad Atfan Iqbal