Legacy Operating Systems

are there any techno-wizards in the house? this tech-know-nuthin' desperately needs help from one... all was fine till i opened a document emailed from someone whose docs worked ok before... the latest one i saved to my desktop took forever to open and close... after that, all my own docs also took minutes to either open or close, as well... i've deleted that doc and emptied the trash, emptied my sent email file and trash stored on the puter, done a norton windoc repair twice and an ad-aware scan/repair, restarted afterwards, but still have the prob... my file folders and my final draft program open as quickly as ever, but the windows docs take …

So, norton is gone, completely removed, however, guess what it left, the Firewall, still on. I dont have norton disks, dont want to re-purchase. I figure the only way to get rid of the stupid firewall is to re-install norton & then disable firewall, and uninstall it. I'd rather not have anything to do with norton touching my computer again. how can i disable all firewalls on the pc to re-setup a different firewall. thanx.

Hi, I am getting ready to install Windows 98 on a 1ghz P3 with 512mb Ram system. I have two hard drives a 10GB and a 40GB. How should I partion them? In FDISK I noticed options for DOS, Non-Dos, and logical, I am not sure which to use for the second hard drive. Also which should be my primary drive the 10GB or the 40GB? Thanks for any advice and opinions!!!

I have a small network of 3 machines all running XP Pro. I installed SP3 on machines A and B I had it installed on Machine c but uninstalled it because of a conflict with a program that I need to run on a daily basis. I would also like to uninstall it from Machine B but when I do I am unable to get to the internet. Now for the real problem. Since attempting to uninistall and reinstall SP3 on Machine C the "Share" tab is gone from the Properties configuration window. How can I get the share tab back??

When I press the "A" key, caps lock comes on AND an "A" IS TYPED. When I press the Caps Lock key, cAPS LOCK COMES ON and AN "A" also is typed. This hAPPENED after I instALLED sp3 (Windows XP Pro), but I ALSO SUSPECT MY Cat. I've tried to reseARCH KEY GROUPING and key mAPPING WITHOUT LUCK. Any help will be most APPRECIated.Thank you! Steve

Frightening thought, I know, however: This machine is a busy file server. I run a network virus scanner from another machine. I need to provide access to drive C on the file server to the virus scanner, but Win 2003 won't let me share drive C. How do I share drive C on Win 2003 please? Kind Regards Jennifer

Hi, some of our domain user try to login the workstation. It pops message saying 'Local Policy Does Not Permit You to Log On Interactively". Do you have any idea about this? I try to go to local security setting> user Right assignment>select logon locally Even I have the admin access It is not allow me to add group (the add user and group is disable). How can I solve this problem. Thank you very much for your help.

Hi, I have a hard drive taken from another PC attached as a slave to my own computer. I need to be able to view the other PCs Registry. Both computers have Windows XP installed. Anyone happen to know how to do this without corrupting the registry of my own PC? Many thanks.

Hi, I'm going to be upgrading my PC soon (This is my first time, but according to many people I've asked it's not too hard.) and I was wondering how I'd go about reinstalling Windows XP Pro? I'm told I should reformat since I'm upgrading the Motherboard/CPU. Anyway, while reading through the XP booklet I came across the part for activation and registration. I was told by people I've asked that I need to phone up Microsoft and "reset" the activation code and that it only takes 5 minutes. Does this mean I can register fine as well? Also, I was wondering if I can phone at any time to do this as I plan on upgrading early morning (3-4am) and want to phone u…

Someone wants to get a new drive that is external and only has a lan connection (1 gig). The computer does have a 1 gig ethernet on the motherboard... however the ROUTER that will be connecting the 2 is only 100MB ... So what would happen is that the connection speed would drop to 100mb of course since that's the router speed. So I thought of getting a new 1 GIG SWITCH and connect everything as you can see in this diagram: http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/2135/graphic1gm3.jpg I suspect that the speed connection between the router and switch would be 100mb and the connection between the PC and HARD DRIVE would be 1 Gig... I would want to have th…

For about the last week or so my Drive C: will not retain changes made to files on that drive. I noticed this when Windows kept asking me to install the same updates over and over. While exploring this problem, I found that any changes made to Drive C: remain in effect until the next reboot or startup, but are wiped out after the reboot/startup., such as changes to an Excel desktop short cut or a Word file saved to Drive C:. Fortunately, all of my data files are stored on other physical drives (Drive D: and E:), but this is why I didn’t notice the problem right away. If I boot up in Safe Mode all changes can be made and they remain in effect even after a …

Hello, We created a service using SC.EXE for <gasp> Oracle Application Server ("opmnctl.exe startall"), and the service creates ok, but have noticed the following problems: (1) Service appears in the services applet, but the status always shows not running despite the actual process status (2) Attempting to start the service via the GUI returns "failed to start in a timely fashion" yet the service does indeed come up Is there anything we can do to correctly enumerate? Thanks!

In Windows 2003, I have a service that once in awhile will not stop when I tell it to. It sits as Stopping and won't finish. Now there seems no way to start it again without rebooting the server. I know what the problem is, just haven't been able to fix all the problems that cause it. Is there a way to kill it so I can restart it without rebooting the server? Thanks, Tom

I have 2 servers, identical hardware, that run Server 2003 R2 (Std Ed) w/SP2. Each server has a share for home directories. The permissions are set as follows on both servers: 1)Domain Admins - Full Control - This folder, subfolders, and files 2)Everyone - List Folder / Read Data (under the advanced settings) - This folder only 3)Inheritance is blocked/removed On Server1, any user can click into the share and view the folders and files, but not read/modify anything. On Server2, users outside of the Domain Admins group cannot even get into the share. I used the Effective Permissions tab to see if something looked odd, but they were the same for both ser…

I installed Windows 2000 on my laptop, which was just a test to see how it would run on a slow laptop. (I have both Win2K and Win98 installed). I just installed Win2K on a spare desktop computer using the same install CD. I gave the desktop a different username than the laptop, but used the same Product Code, since I intend to delete Win2k on that laptop (too slow). On the desktop, Win2K refused to accept the (SAME) product key I used on the laptop. I should mention that the laptop has NEVER been connected to the internet so that product code is not registered to MS. I carefully checked my typing and it was correct. I tried to re-enter it, but it would not…

I have XP sp 3, IE 7, Nortan AntiVirus 2006 v. 12.8.0.4 and use AOL 9.0 SE. When I am on AOL, IE7 will frequently open on its own and open new blank pages continuously, in rapid succession, display "ads.web.aol.com" and lock the keyboard. The only thing that works is: ctrl-alt-del, end the AOL and IE7 tasks, then reboot. However, it then routinely starts all over again. Any suggestions of what I can do to stop this ???

We're trying to implement a custom userinit procedure in our network. The user MUST register his/her time-entry within a custom application (that we developed) just after the network authentication and before the logon procedure continue. Here's the sequence we're trying to achieve: 1. User authenticates in our domain providing his/her username and password; 2. Gina calls Winlogon which in turn calls MYUSERINIT.EXE; 3. MYUSERINIT prompts for a time-entry; 4. User agrees clicking in a button; 5. MYUSERINIT calls the DEFAULT USERINIT.EXE and ends; 6. Logon continues. The issue is that, everytime we manually change the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \SOFTWARE\Micros…

I just posted this message without entering a subject (I forgot). This is a reposting with minor change. My backup (Symantec BackupExec version 11d) skips the following files: Unable to open the item \\windows2003.ourdomain.com\C:\WINDOWS\security\edb.log - skipped. Unable to open the item \\windows2003.ourdomain.com\C:\WINDOWS\security\tmp.edb - skipped. Unable to open the item \\windows2003.ourdomain.com\C:\WINDOWS\security\Database\secedit.sdb - skipped. What are those files? Is it safe to exclude them from the backup? Thanks in advance.

Hello! This used to be easy with the CHOICE command in Win9x batch files, but I think I must be missing something, as I can't find out how to do this using SET /P, the replacement in WIN XP. Does anybody know if and how to get a batch file to wait a limited time for user input, and to use a default value instead if the time expires without user input? I thought it might be possible to do something equivalent to SET /P:30,Y choice=Enter your choice I know this is just made up, its just an example of what I was trying to do, but does anybody know how I would go about doing this sort of thing? I can't find any relevant documentation anywhere .... th…

Hi, I am getting ready to install Windows 98 on a 1ghz P3 with 512mb Ram system. I have two hard drives a 10GB and a 40GB. How should I partion them? In FDISK I noticed options for DOS, Non-Dos, and logical, I am not sure which to use for the second hard drive. Also which should be my primary drive the 10GB or the 40GB? Thanks for any advice and opinions!!!

I'm going to try and explain this as best as I can...I'm stumped and need some ideas. We have a marketing company who developed a presentation video for us. We used a personal website on an XP box to test the launching of the video and it worked fine - played audio and video and showed you the video controls (play, pause, stop, etc). We then attempted to apply the same code and files to our DEV and TEST webservers, both of which are running Windows 2003 R2 server. For whatever reason, the video will not play. Just a little black screen and it doesn't even show the video controls. We then applied the same code and files to a windows 2000 test box on a…

Is it possible to disable the warning when you manually change the file extension in Explorer on XP SP3? I do this on a regular basis (changing MPG to AVI due to certain limitations in PowerDVD with closed captions), and it's rather annoying to have to confirm it every time. I've googled the issue, and a few places said it couldn't be done, but I couldn't find anything on any sites that I consider reputable. Thanks, Rob

I am trying to print to a certain printer which is connected via IP. I can ping the printer, install and reinstall the printer, browse to the printer web interface via IP but I cannot print to it. All of the other computers in the office can print to it except me. I checked my event logs and I did notice this warning: tcp ip has reached the security limit imposed on the number of concurrent tcp connect attempts (event ID 4226). I have been searching all week all over the internet and no one has a solution to this issue. The Microsoft support center is suggesting that there could be a virus on the machine. I ran my antivirus only to rule it out and no…

I have an old 2000 Citrix farm that I am supporting. It should be replaced with all new hardware and 2008 server within the next 6 months or so, but that's all tied up in budget. So we have to keep it running. (it could more than a year before the budge gets approved, so we can't depend on it) However, The DC that is running the License service is dying. Environment is 100% XP clients, all are on the same LAN. 10 Terminal Servers, 3 DC's Existing License Server has: 25 Windows 2000 Terminal Services Client Access License (Type OPEN) (10 are issued dating from 2006, up till last week) 450 Builtin In (the main bulk of our users) 14 Temporary Windows 20…

Does anyone know how to get the application instance of a COM object from a ProcessID using .NET 2.0 or greater? My goal is to call a function in a COM object running in a session. TIA.