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RE: WGA Notifications Current News Please I have to cime in here after reading numerous posts on numerous newsgroups and blogs, and on Microsoft non helpful help areas,. etc etc, on the web; you get the pic. Bottom line is I;ve been trying to remove this "tool" for days now, and have tried all of the conventional methods described and known to most folks on the general and other xp groups...none have worked. I've used ones p osted here and other places, and have even found the same inefetive "solutions" on yutube; still here. What I am finding is not the same as many have described as their problems. I am using a genuine version of xp BTW, and it has …

Hi, We're experiencing symptom 3, Message 2 in the knowledge base article with some of our servers and were wondering if there's a fix that's going to be released. While the text of the KB advises its going to be in the next service pack, the fix wasn't credited as being in 3.5 SP1 as per http://support.microsoft.com/kb/951847. Can someone from MS please advise if it is included, but not credited otherwise we'll have to work with MS support to get the hotfix talked about in the original KB article. Cheers, Kieran

Hello, Iam trying to create a database in SQLServer by pointing the database files to a UNC location (\\bigserversnas01\sql_use\) which is a SAN. This requires a trace flag as mentioned in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/304261. But when trying to create the database, its giving me this error: Msg 1802, Level 16, State 4, Line 1 CREATE DATABASE failed. Some file names listed could not be created. Check related errors. Msg 5123, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 CREATE FILE encountered operating system error 1337(The security ID structure is invalid.) while attempting to open or create the physical file ' \\bigserversnas01\sql_use\sqldata.mdf '. The CRE…

Hi, I'm experiencing a strange problem in my Windows XP (Version 2002 Service Pack 3). I have IE7 installed and it seems to be IE7 (7.0.5730.13). But I have two problems: 1. My bank account site says that I have a IE below than 5.5. When I try to type a number in an Edit Box that handles 4 digits, it moves to the next Edit Box when I type 3 didgits. 2. I try to connect to a Remote Server and my password is not acnowleged (in other micros it works). Any clue other than reinstall everything (I have 74 installed programs in it)? Thanks, Marco Castro

-- Hi...I can't find help for this at the microsoft support site or anywhere for that matter! The computer is a Dell Latitude D600 laptop...It's running windows media 2005...It was the victim of a very bad virus and after much effort I decided to do a clean reinstall of XP using the recovery disc...The reinstall went fine, but when I rebooted it wanted an administrator password...There never was one so that was odd..it also showed an error message that said the following: The System cannot log you on due to the following error: The specified domain either does not exist or could not be contacted. Please try again or consult your system administrator …

I plugged my Iphone into the laptop the other day and it crashed i held down the power utton and it turned off Now when i restart my laptop it comes up saying it was closed incorrectly and i should try running on normal mode et i have tried all of these and Windows XP comes up for about 2 seconds then a blue screen for less than a second then it start up all again telling e to it alll agian i have tried all the safe modes etc but nothing happens I cant get on this at all i hope some bdy can help me

Hello, I just had to reinstall windows xp home service pack 1 on my moms aging computer. The recovery cd is just a service pack 1. Well now I cannot install many antivirus software because it doesn't support this operating system. What I need is to find an update to service pack 2. My moms pc only has 512 mb memory. Thanks C

I try to install sp3 but he couldn’t backup the registry key HKCR\TypeLib\{22813728-8BD3-11D0-B4EF-00A0C9138CA4}\2.8 to file C:\WINDOWS\$NtServicePackUninstall$\reg00759. 5: Access is denied. What can I do?

Hi I'm using Windows XP Home edition. I've never been able to use the Standby or Hibernate features, but thought I'd give it go a fixing it to save a bit of electricity. When I select Standby or Hibernate from the start menu, the system will begin to shut down as appopriate, then move onto the blue screen that states "Preparing to Stand By" ---- and that's as far as it gets. It never actually goes into Standby mode, and I'm forced to restart the computer. I've had a look around on Google and haven't found anyone with this problem. I assume some process is not letting the computer standby, but how can I figure out which it is?

Please let me know if anyone experienced below VSS error or can help troubleshooting it.. Thank you in advance... EVENT # 9397 EVENT LOG Application EVENT TYPE Error SOURCE VSS EVENT ID 8193 COMPUTERNAME MYTSSERVER TIME 8/1/2008 11:29:13 AM MESSAGE Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error calling routine ConvertStringSidToSid. hr = 0x80070539. Operation: OnIdentify event Gathering Writer Data Context: Execution Context: Shadow Copy Optimization Writer Writer Class Id: 4dc3bdd4-ab48-4d07-adb0-3bee2926fd7f Writer Name: Shadow Copy Optimization Writer Writer Instance ID: 0a211db5-6f6c-4349-bab9-5b9520829066 BINARY DATA 0000: 2…

Hello, I am hoping someone can help me. I recently purchased a PC game off of Ebay only to find out when I tried to run it I received a win.ini [iNTL] error. Now the program appears to install properly it is just when I try to run the program that I get this error. I looked on the internet for help on this error and all I have found is that it refers to an INTERNATIONAL error associated with my win.ini file. I have even tried the Windows compatibility wizard but that does not seem to help. The game I am trying to run is an older Win 95/98 program so I believe it has something to do with that but other than that I don't have a clue. It is funny b…

I am starting a small home business and I have asked a developer to create an Order Form in PHP. My developer has been using both IE 6 and IE 7 to test the form and he does not have any issues. When I tried testing the form on my end in IE 7, I was unable to enter some of the fields and see the updates. I have tried re-installing IE 7 on my PC and I have cross-checked my Internet settings with my developers and I have not been able to resolve the issue. I also tried downloading Firefox and tested the Order form in that browser and it appears to be working fine. I am not sure why I am unable to do the same in IE 7. Can someone help me please? Tha…

Recently my computer got infected with Antivirus 2009. I have been able to remove it and all its files, and icons. But I still have folder remaining in my (taskbar and task menu properties) in the (Customize Options) Is there some way to remove it from there? -- emm

We cannot get a home page to come up..followed all directions....can get on line by going to favorites but cannot get a home page to come up....went to tools, internet options and did EVERYTHING in there...each tab went thru it...is there somewhere else we can go??????

I have a friend who has a laptop with two hard drives: an 80MB 'C' drive and a 5MB 'D' drive. Currently there is plenty of free space on the 'C' drive and zero free space on the 'D' drive. For some reason when the Windows Update process is run it is trying to download and store files onto the 'D' drive. As there is no free space on the 'D' drive the Update process fails with an error. How and where can I change the target drive so that Windows Update uses drive 'C' instead? I've checked all the environment variables and they all point to drive C.

Full Server backup has failed every time since Virtual Server was installed. The error message received is ... The VSS writer for Virtual Server failed during the PostBackup phase, during the mounting of disk \\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy71\Users\Public\Documents\Shared Virtual Machines\Win2k3VPC\Win2k3VPC.vhd for virtual machine Win2k3VPC. The disk was a foreign/offline disk and the writer failed to make it Online, in order to access volumes on the disk. I do not beleive the disk is foreign (standard fixed size VHD) and definitely not offline. If I take the VM offline backup will work OK. However I would prefer for the VM to rema…

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Hello Gentlemen, Will IAS meet my authentication needs as a Radius Server? and what are some of the first steps I need to take towards getting started? Thank you,

Hello, Following situation: We have installed a terminal server farm with two terminal servers and a session broker. The problem: We cant open a connection with the RemoteDesktopClient from computers to the farm, which are in the same domain as the farm. The following error occurs: An authentification error occured (Code: 0x80090327) RDC runs normally from computers which are not in the same domain as the farm... We did the following until now: we created a certificate request for our two terminal servers, with the name of the serverfarm: farm1. Our Certification Authority signed it. Then the signed ceritificate was implemented in both term…

I am trying to setup iSCSI initiator on a Windows 2000 Server (SP4). I was able to setup the Targets, and persistant targets. When I try to Bind all in the Bound Volumes/Devices tab all I get is the following: \\?\storage#volume#1&30a . . . . . . . . . When I set up the initiator on a windows 2003 server I am able to see and bind the virtual drive on the target server. Any ideas? Thanks, Michael

My laptop is runing windows xp professional sp2. the error suddenly occur in this morning when I turned on the computer. It show black screen with message "a disk read error occured press ctrl+del+alt to restart" and it will be repeat again if you press ctr+del+alt. I try to repair form the CD. After coppying file step, It restarted the computer and the same error repeat. I do not know what is wrong, I could not go to safemode at all. I think it is not the hard drive crash because when I tried to repair it is still recognize the drive c: do you have any idea about this? Thank you very much.

Recently I got the "blue screen of death" and since then, I lost my background tab and my screen saver tab and cannot change either one. I purchased the windows live one care package and that didn't help to fix this problem. How do I find out if they have been erased? Or are they just hidden? Is there a way to reload them? Or would I have to take my comp to a technician and have them reload windows. thanks

I usually delete files (folders too) with shift-delete rather than delete; you know, so it says "are you sure you want to permanently delete" rather than "are you sure you want to ... recycle bin" (and with a different icon). Thing is, nearly always, it doesn't work first time: it usually comes up with the recycle bin prompt. To which I say no, then shift-delete again, and it comes up with the right one. It's only on this one machine, and I'm pretty certain it _isn't_ a dodgy shift key - my fingers move very little between the first attempt that fails and the second that succeeds. Any idea what's causing it? (I know I could change it - I know the…

I usually delete files (folders too) with shift-delete rather than delete; you know, so it says "are you sure you want to permanently delete" rather than "are you sure you want to ... recycle bin" (and with a different icon). Thing is, nearly always, it doesn't work first time: it usually comes up with the recycle bin prompt. To which I say no, then shift-delete again, and it comes up with the right one. It's only on this one machine, and I'm pretty certain it _isn't_ a dodgy shift key - my fingers move very little between the first attempt that fails and the second that succeeds. Any idea what's causing it? (I know I could change it - I know the…

Each day I download the identical mp4 video file with program Miro.exe to a laptop and to a desktop PC. On the desktop PC the file size is 441 MB. On the laptop the "same" file is 115 MB. Both PCs are running Windows XP. Desktop=XP-Pro, Laptop=XP-Home. The difference in file size is consistent day to day. What might explain the difference in size? Stan Hilliard