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I use windows xp now.When I installed software ,System told me that one file of Windows xp was replaced by another file unrecongnized,it fluenced then operating systerm stability. What can I do now? Thanks! Melody

Hello, I had a user delete a bunch of files from a share. I was able to recover them but would like to know what user did this. Is there a way to find this out? It does not appear any auditing was turned on on the server. Also, how can I just turn auditing on only for permission changes to folders? Thanks. Kevin

Hi, We have KMS 1.1 service installed on windows 2003 server. Our KMS key (group B) activated on this server. We successfully activated 6 windows 2008 servers vs. our KMS server. Currently we have only 4 Vista Business computers and they don't want to do activation. Error message: "Error: 0xC004F038 The computer could not be activated. The returned count from your Key Management Service is insufficient." 1) After reading different articles about KMS activation - if I understand correctly - I thought Vista machines will do activation if we have at least 5 windows 2008 servers OR 25 Vista machines. Apparently, even with 5 windows 2008 servers we need …

Hello All, I have a 2K3 server with mirrored volume. I need to break the mirror so I can create a bigger partition. What is the best practice method for this senario. Break mirror, or volume? Thanks

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

So, I found out today that wql doesn't support array datatypes, which complicates the process immensely that I'm trying to use to get a property from certain events within the event log. Any thoughts on why arrays aren't supported?

Every time I stick a music CD (standard cda format) into my CD-ROM, it starts playing. A player control appears, but even if I X it to close it, it continues to play each track. If I right-click on the blue bar at the top of the player, I do not see an About option to identify the player. Task Manager doesn't show any application or process that may be responsible. What's doing the playing? How do I disable Auto Play? Thanks, Ray

Is there anyone out there who knows if there is a program that will re-fresh the browser? Maybe someone knows?

We just upgraded memory from 4GB to 12 GB on windows server 2003 R2. However, the upgraded memory to 12 GB is not showing in the operating system, but it shows while booting and even in the BIOS. What should I be doing in order to show the memory in the operating system.

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Good morning! Okay, Okay......I know that several of you in here will kill me for this! Vera, Patrick, Jeff,.....sorry...but I did not do this!!!! I am simply trying to fix some things and want to make sure that I do not break things in the process.... Anyway, a client has a small Terminal Server farm (two servers). A Terminal Server Profile was not implemented. Yikes! I know! Anyway, most are using a Thin Client but some still use a PC / Laptop to access the Terminal Server. Some of the of these good people are Sales Folks who are almost never in the office and log on to their laptops locally (read: the "log on to:" part is populated with "myma…

Hi all. I am unable to rdp into my server after doing manual windows update. Upon windows update completion i would manually restart the server. Previously if i just click on the restart button from the windows update dialog box i would have this problem. All my other servers do not face this problem except this particular server. All my servers are of win2003 standard with sp2 and have the latest patches. Is there any setting i can do to prevent this issue? Thks in advance.

Hi. I have several users that connects to Win2k03 R2 TS server in order to run a POS application. Most of this clients has a small POS printer attached to them. I've installed a compatible print driver on the Terminal server. If I print from lets say wordpad it prints ok, but If I try to print from the application itself it does not. I understand the application in configured to sent the print jobs to Lpt1: Any ideas? regards, Elvyn

Hi, I have been having a reoccuring issue where my Windows DNS Server suddenly stops resolving high profile major websites (news.bbc.co.uk as an example), and the only way to get it to resolve these domains again is to clear the cache. This happens every few days. Is this a known issue, or is there something that I am supposed to be doing? Is there a long term solution? Regards Richard

I have a terminal server setup and configured, when logged in as the administrator on the domain and trying to install software from a shared drive I get the following error " Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropiate permissions to access the item." Logged in as an administrator on the domain, permissions are perfect.

I ordered my new Dell laptop with Windows XP Professional, and one of the features I particularly liked was the Windows Search feature (it came with Version 3.x - I can't remember the exact version) as it was fast and remarkably accurate. However, the first time I took my laptop and my external hard drive on the road with me, Windows Search quit working. A Dell tech suggested I uninstall and the reinstall version 4.0, which I did. It says it's there, and it says it has indexed all the files on the computer, but any time I try to search anything it just tells me "Nothing found in All Locations for query ...". Any suggestions?

My computer is in a bad situation. almost all icones on the desktop, all programs at the menu (start, programs...) and all icones in the control panel do not function. the message I get when I try to use them is (translated from French): "no program is associated with this file to execute this action. create an association using the application file option in the control panel" I tried to do system restoration but it responses the same way. I think that the problem started when spybot asked me if I authorize changes in registery and I replied no. since than I can't open any program or utility (luckily explorer stil works) Does someone have an idea how can i…

When you go to Windows Update website, you can check the update hsitory. How do you to remove entries in Windows update history? There were some updates that didn't install pproperly and they are indicated there. I just want to remove them.

Hello, I have a client running Windows XP Pro SP2. We just swapped his PC and now he can't get any of his thumb drives to be recognized. He has three thumb drives that showed up fine on the old PC. I think they had random drive letters like I:\. His current PC has C and D used by the hard drive, E:\ by the CDROM and F:\ G:\ M:\ R:\ S:\ by mapped drives. I moved the CDROM to drive Z which allowed one thumb drive to grab drive E:\. However, I still can't get the other 2 thumb drives to show up. I already applied a patch from Microsoft that seemed like it addressed this issue - but it didn't. The patch was from KB297694. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Issue: A user on my network, needs to sync a few hundred files, but for some unknown reason at the moment, everytime he hits the sync button it will only sync 1 file. He has to constantly do this to sync all of his files. Has anyone seen this issue before? Im doing the typical google searches, but im hopesing some one here has seen this before. Thank you, Brendan

Re: Outlook Express message?? On Oct 30, 7:11 pm, Jo <J...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > My apologies if you see this post more than once, since I'm not quite sure > which group to post it in, so I'll post it in a few that might be relevant. > > For the last 3 days or so, I've had a message window appear when I boot up > Windows (XP SP3). It says "Outlook Express. To free up disk space, Outlook > Express can compact messages. This may take up to a few minutes." And then > the OK or Cancel buttons. I have always clicked Cancel. > > Here's the weird thing -- I run Office Outlook (2003), NOT Outlook Express! > I've never…

Hi all I am sure the bulk of the questions behind this topic are concerned with how to turn it off. But we print over a WAN and I need to ensure the successful print popup window appears for users who print to remote printers in other geographical locations. 1. I use HP printers everywhere with internal jet direct cards. 2. On both my Windows print server and the advanced print properties on each terminal server i have the following set under print properties>advanced tab: "Show informational notifications for network printers" and "Notify when remote documents are printed" Is there any other setting that could override these settings? Are the …

How can I change the font that is displayed in Windows Explorer's file and folder panes? Thanks much.

I have some clients who, for budgetary reasons, only have a single server (WS2008) in their office but would still like to have the benefits and security of using TS for their employees. Is it possible to configure a single server as a locked down TS (using GPOs) for use by multiple remote users? It's currently not configured as a domain controller, but I suppose could be. I realize a single server is not ideal...in fact I always recommend and have always configured scenarios with at least a separate TS and DC and file server. - anthonyx26

Every time I log off the "My Recent Documents" in Start Menu empties. How do I prevent this from happening? Thanking you in advance. Rajiv K. Khandelwal