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This has been the week for abnormalities on my machine. WinXP SP3. This morning, I inadvertently dragged the right edge of the Quick Launch section over to the Notification Area. At that point, the complete taskbar expanded vertically to 3 lines and showed the clock as time, day name (Friday) and the date. I couldn't get it back to the normal one line by putting the mouse cursor on the top of the taskbar and moving it down. I would expand up but not reduce down. (Yes, the cursor did change to the double arrow as usual.) The task bar is not locked. Changing the properties to not show the clock or the Quick Launch buttons did not fix the problem nor…

Just inherited the task to administering our Win2003 Enterprise file server. The server has 16GB of ram and is connected to our SAN for our organization's file services. This morning I was copying some files in the SAN and I started getting some errors in copying large files. Seemed the server was out of storage. Looked like a memory issue. In checking the System event log, I ran across an Event 2020 for the Srv service. It said "The server was unable to allocate from the system paged pool because the pool was empty". Also, I couldn't Remote Desktop into the server. I could login at the server console but it was so low on resources it couldn't even load…

When I am attempting to recover my machine from "stand by" mode, my monitor will not come back on.The power button is lit, but the screen remains black. My system is a Dell Dimension E520 with a 19 inch flat panel monitor - 1907FPC,DIM,M. This problem occurs aproximately 50% of the time when I am attempting to recover from "stand-by". -- Cape Codderr

My PC: Windows XP Home Edition Hello all, My computer has been suffering with lots of errors lately (last few weeks), errors with sys fader/runtime errors/low on virtual memory ect.... Also windows update website wouldn't load last night and I couldn't see what custom updates were available. So I thought, the best thing to do, would be to system restore my PC to an earlier date. When I click to open System Restore though, now it doesn't load up ? What is happening, and how can I get my system restore to open up as it always has done in the past ? I desperatley await some some help or advice (pleeease) Regards, Miss. Caroline Thom -- Don…

Hi newsgroup. The last months I noticed that opening the context menu of shortcuts took sometimes very long (5-10 seconds). I found out fast that this happens only on shortcuts that are broken (the executable the shortcut links to does not exist anymore) - but it only happens on one PC therefore a software (or to be detailed a shell extension) must have been the cause. Investigating a problematic shell extension isn't simple but finally I found today the cause: Using Sysinternals ProcessMonitor i traced the long delay back to a shell extension named "CmdLineExt.dll" (located in the system32 folder). The DLL description named it as "SecuROM context menu for …

Running XP and the scan revealed the above infection and it cannot be clean by the scanner. Is there a way we can get rid of this infection manually.

I have the Server (Win2008) setup for Shadow Copies. I can see in the Properties of the volume that there are 2 a day for the past 2 weeks. Though when I go to folder where stuff has changed, there are no previous versions. The Drive that has all of the Shadow Copy Data on it has 207GB on it, so there is something there... How can I see the Shadow Copy files?

Hi, I would like a help, please: - I have configured 2 server with TS and they are in NLB. I have published the 2 TS through my ISA 2004 to external access. In my LAN the NLB works very well but when an external user access the node he/she is direct to onlye one TS. It seems that ISA 2004 is filtering something. Anyone knows if that is a ISA problem? Thanks. Luiz

I have windows XP and have no problem in accessing Explorer, MS Outlook or any files or games saved on my PC. I can get in to them and work fine. My problem is when I try to run my anti virus or "Webroot window washer" which I have on the PC. Washer works fine until it gets to the point where it is deleting TIF files. It then goes so slow it looks as if it has frozen - the only way I know it is still going is the clock. It freezes everything else though and the only way I can get out is to switch the PC off. The same with an AV scan. It scans fine - until it gets to the TIF files - then it slows down (25% cleared - saying further 6 hrs to clear?). I dont …

We currently are looking for suggestions on a problem have been experiencing in our environment. Throughout the company of approximately 2,500 users, we have a standard desktop wallpaper. This wallpaper is usually changed once a week and is controlled by our marketing department. Whenever this department wants to change the wallpaper, they place a new Wallpaper.bmp file into a shared network location that everybody in the company has read access to. Our machines have a startup script that runs at boot to check for a new wallpaper file. The script compares the date and time of the c:\windows\web\wallpaper\wallpaper.bmp file with the date and time of th…

Hi All, Hope someone can help with a basic question. It's probably been covered many times, but I can't find anything substantial or definitive... Looking at Terminal Services on Windows Server 2003/Citrix Presentation Server 4.5 for the first time. I'm uncertain of the correct sequence of actions to build a farm. There will be multiple servers, but only running Office and one or two other (low intensity) applications. The most logical sequence to *me* is - establish "infrastructure" (licensing, data store, etc) - install Windows Server 2003 SP2 - install and customise the applications - test the applications (eg with a standard user account…

Any one have any ideas as to how to stop runtime errors when installing programs? Any help would be greatly appreciated. -- w.hatton

I am running Win/2000. I found I could not send anything to the printer and when I looked in the control panel, I found that my printer drivers all disappeared! When I tried to add one in the control panel, I received a message about no resources available. I rebooted the machine and when the machine restarted, I received this message: Program Error Spoolsv.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows. You will need to restart the program. An error log is being created. I don't know what this means or how to access the error log. Can you suggest how I can correct this problem? Many thanks.

I have a Windows SBS 2003 server with WSUS that isn't working. Is there a way to have my XP clients download updates from MS automatically without going through the server? Thanks, John

I've created a PC backup in Windows Server 2008, When attempting to restore from the Window Startup DVD, the scan for backup doesn't find the backup on an internal drive (G:). Can anyone help?