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Hi all, could someone point me in the way of some clear instruction on how to do this upgrade please? The server runs ISA 2006 and some other GFI software. thanks Nigel

When try to oper SB Equalizer I get EQRes.crl is missing. How do I find this? Tried to reinstall driver and did not change. Any ideas?

Recently I came across a Windows 2003 server licensed in per server mode with 5 CALs in which almost 50 users had open sessions and open files. How can this be possible? (I also had to start the license logging service to see the 5 CALs, otherwise, where can I see them?)

"My computer seems to get slower and slower. A friend told me to clean my registry. Will that really help, and how can I do that?" Cleaning the Registry Yes, your computer will run better if you occasionally clean your Windows system registry. But first, let's define exactly what the registry is. The registry is a database in which Windows keeps track of relationships between hardware and software. It stores all the settings and options for the operating system, hardware, software, users, and preferences of the PC. The registry manages your system startup options, and keeps track of all software that's installed. Prior to the introduction of the Registry in Wind…

I have Windows XP and used IE 7. I had to do a system restore on Saturday because the add-ons someone messed up my system and I couldn't visit websites or click using radio buttons. Now IE 7 has disappeared - when i click on the icon my desktop flickers but IE never opens. The strangest thing of all is my System Restore no longer works and that concerns me more than IE not working. Any suggestions? Thanks.

With XP Pro, I extended my desktop onto a second screen. Then I opened PowerPoint, opened a PPT file, and moved it over to the second screen to work on it. At some point I clicked "Screen Show", and the screen show came up on .... the first screen. Why didn't it come up on the second screen, and is there anything I can do to get it onto the second screen? (This actually has practical applications -- I tried to use the extended desktop technique to attach a projector as the second screen - but if I can't get the screen show to appear on the second screen, then, well, forget that idea.) Thanks for any insights, John

I have never known what it is to have a boring day - ever. one day things work fine, the next who knows waht happened. For example, the two USB ports on the front of the case worked fine and tehn one day they didn't. A little patience and dilegence goes a long way in troubleshooting. In Device Manager I discovered that the ports in question had no drivers installed. Ok, so push the Update Driver button and al is good again. The question is how can USB ports work one day and not the next? -- FrankO

I am looking to have windowsXp explorer automatically changing the color of the folder icon if no files exist in the folder. I have seen tricks to change the color manually, but that is just not what I am looking for.

We have a Win 2003 SBS server that has too small of a boot partition (C drive) so I think we need to re-install the OS and expand the partition to use the entire drive. When I re-install the OS can I use the same domain name and will workstations need to re-join the domain? Also, is there any other way around this or other options for me? Thanks. David

I was setting up new server in a small environment and domain controller has 2 nic setup for internet access. Inside card set to:IP 192.168.01 SM 255.255.255.0 D/G none DNS 192.168.01 Outside card set to: ip 10.10.10.11 SM 255.255.255.0 D/G 10.10.10.1 Linksys Router DNS 4.2.2.2 (public DNS server) DHCP Range 192.168.0.10-192.168.0.254 DHCP- Server01.office.local NAT - Internal connection 192.168.0.1 and automatically assign addresses 192.168.0.10-192.168.0.254 External connection 10.10.10.11 …

Hi, I have several MS Access DB's that are in a folder that is Read/Execute for Authenticated users. No one can open the DBs. If I change the permissions to Read/Write/Execute than it works because the DB lock file needs to be written to the folder that the DB is located. Is there anyway around this? I do not want the users to have read,write, execute to that folder. All they need is read and execute. Thanks, TKE402

The time on our servers (and domain) is about 5 to 8 minutes fast. I am trying use an external source to set time in a domain environment. I have been having problems following the directions in the following article: How to configure an authoritative time server in Windows Server 2003 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;816042 I have two w2k3 standard edition SP2 servers. One server is the PDC, but when you type net time, it is pointing to the GP server. On the GP server it points to itself. I have made all suggested changes in the above article, and tried different time servers. I even tried using the command line: net time: / set…

See my other recent posts on my difficulty in getting my system squared away after a drive failure. So far unstoppable copier hasn't quite done, it but I may know why. Possibly I missed a setting. However, I tried the old drive again. The shop had gotten it up once long enough to copy just about everything off of it, so I thought I'd give it a try. It came up but needed to do a chkdsk, which took 10-15 minutes of sorting out orphans and such. It now seems pretty much up and intact. I'm about to make an image copy and save off to an external drive. I may explore unstoppable again, but first to get the image saved. It's been up for 2 hours. My guess is…

Today a Microsoft tech support person tried to fix a problem I was having with IE7 on my WinXP SP3 notebook. He ended up having me disable just about everything in msconfig, and later he had me check the "normal" startup box there. Some of the system tray icons I had removed a month ago then returned. I've been able to get rid of everything but the Google search box. I unchecked Google Desktop in msconfig Startup, but it's still in the system tray. Is there a way I can remove it? Thank you! Jo-Anne

Dear All, I've setup up a custom ADM to block all drives on a system, except the Z drive which is mapped to a folder for the person to be able to save out... All the Drives get blocked, except the E drive (well the Z drive is visible, but that was intended) I'm using the value of '01111111111111111111111111' or 33554431 decimal, which is correct, right? Why would the E Drive be visible in 'My Computer' ? Regards Paul.

Hi Vista gurus We're using CYGWIN_NT-6.0 1.5.25(0.156/4/2) We were successfully using it on Win2k3SP2 but on Vista ultimate it is not working as previously. When we start our application in the cygwin command prompt window, it is not doing anything but just times out after awhile, terminating the process started. The cygwin is setup to use the inetd account with certain user rights that we used on Win2k3SP2 successfully. We wonder if on Vista we need to setup cygwin any differently in regards to user rights and accounts, enironment variables, network access etc etc.? Many thanks for any solutions, ideas, tests, workarounds etc., QA4Ever

Some one mentioned to me that the tools had been available for download from the microsoft site, but, when they needed to download another copy they could not find anything at microsoft to download site. Should there be a download section for the 2008 tools, as there is for the 2003 resource kit?

Hi, How can I set my resolution besides from 1280x768 and 800x600? Lately I have, I think, 5 resolution options, but now, there are only 2 options left. Thanks! -- ===================================

Is there any reason why since daylight savings I've got to keep changing the time (e.g. from 1000 to 900)? Thanks, J.

HELP ME PLEASE!! I dont know what I'm doing and this video must be edited by tonight. Every clip is in MPG format. I already tried to download and install the codec by going to options..general..download codacs automatically. I just want to import the clips but it keeps telling me this... "The file \\Generaladmin\videos\Morton Video\M2U00755.MPG cannot be imported because the codec required to play the file is not installed on your computer. If you have already tried to download and install the codec, close and restart Windows Movie Maker, and then try to import the file again."

I'm working on a server that needs to expand the hard drive capacity. The system is a Dell 2950 server. It currently has 4 x 300gb drives configured as RAID 5 array. There are 2 spare drive bays open to add drives to. If I just add additional drives, say 2 more 300gb drives, do I just go into computer management, disk management and partition the additional capacity as a new drive? How should I approach this. I do not want to reformat the existing drive and re-install the OS. Thanks, Jim

Hi I am trying to achieve something very specific using RDP. I have 2 windows XP systems. System 1 is currently in a session and System 2 RDPs into System1. This is the simple part. Can I detect from a running application on System 1 that I am about to be logged off because System 2 is requesting a connection. I need to detect it before the session is closed and moved to system 2. I tried all the WTS_SESSION_CHANGE messages and its already too late the system has already been locked or logged off. Thanks for any ideas, Marc -- ....

With the great help from these Technet forums, I've gotten my TS folder redirection working to point my users to a cust Start Menu. My only issue now is finding a way to get rid of the Startup folder that gets created when I login with a normal user account. It also adds the test user's account to the ACL list permanently too. Is this expected behaviour? -- Sandy Wood Orange County District Attorney

re: usb host controller after i wrote to first message to the "hardware" group, i received this message on my computer. "no usb host controllers installed on this computer". . but i do have a 4 port usb that has been working just fine til i downloaded that registry cleaner. . now the four ports don't even show up in the device manager. . what the fell is going on? :( thanks for any help. . .:) -- Life is a treasure; spend it wisely

what does area code rules do?.for example i create an area code rules and set 0353 as area code and choose Include all the prefixes in this area code button and check Include the area code check box and finally choose dial check box and set it to 1.what and how should i type phone number in phone dialer that translates the area code rule that i've just created?