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I stupidly downloaded the new IE 8 beta, now I cannot use "Find" on any web page. Does anyone know how to report problems for this Beta version? Does anyone know how to revert back to IE 7?

OS: WinXP Pro SP3 I just discovered that there are two (2) 'Add or Remove Programs' entries in the 'Control Panel'. Both are opening independently and are functioning/responding normal. What is causing this abnormality and how can I remove the 'extra' listing? I rebooted twice but the 2 entries remain in the 'Control Panel'. (My most recent download/installation was Java jre-6u10-windows-i586-p-s.exe) TIA.

"havenlad" <havenlad@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:F28A176D-47C4-4F17-8595-67E34D7168FB@microsoft.com... >I have a user having this problem every 30 secs. Another engineer ran a > simple fix file for this a few weeks ago. Can't remember what it was. > Apparently it's a well known one. Does anybody know it? > > Thanks > > Havenlad

I am attempting to use diskshadow.exe on Windows Server 2008 RTM. My question is specifically with the "writer verify" and "writer exclude" commands. The technet help at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771649.aspx is fairly non-specific. It tells me that the syntax is “writer exclude [<Writer> | <Component>]” and that “Writers are specified by ID.“ But it doesn’t tell me how to specify <Component>! For example, I can get the writer ID from “vssadmin list writers”. No problem, and that works great. As an example: writer exclude {542da469-d3e1-473c-9f4f-7847f01fc64f} works fine. To get the components, I go…

I had this issue until I used the /silent switch on the batch file. Open the properties of your scheduled task and put a /silent switch on the end of your RUN command.

Hello, All! After installing the Opera browser as my default web browser I decided that it was not all it was cracked up to be. I uninstalled it. Now, my IE works fine for most browsing, but if I click hyperlinks imbedded in email (I use OE) nothing happens. Some of the hyperlinks in my favorites menu also do not function. I went through the process of resetting HTM, HTML, etc. file association in Windows Explorer(> Tools> Folder Options> File Types) - or at least I think I got them all. I even re-installed IE6. It's been several years since my last Win2000 OS load, and I am planning on re-imaging my sytem next month - but I don't want to do it r…

We have added a hash rule to software restriction policy to "disallow" user from executing the Window Live messenger (msnmsgr.exe) However, we would like to allow certain group of people (ie: Customer service colleague) to run the Live Messenger, so I created an OU, then add another hash rule to msnmsgr.exe and set it to "unrestricted", and then put all customer service colleague in that OU. But I found that this does not work, it seems that the OU's "unrestricted" rule does not override the Default Group policy's "disallow" rule. And now all the customer service colleague cannot access Live Messenger. Would anyone can help on this ? thanks

Hello this is a question is continuing my question of yesterday :"get message:no program is associated with this file to run this..." on my research for recovery or restoration tool I downloaded "Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset" (eveluaton version for one month) which create a booting cd that may do a system restore. (at the moment I can't use "system restore" from my windows.) my new problem: when I boot with the new cd that I created, I get the message that the image on the cd has expired... any Ideas ?

Hi, I created a Scheduled Task on Windows 2003 Server. Sometimes I have to start the Task manually in a RDP Session. The Task is starting a simple batch script. When I start it manually the Script is running in the DOS Box. While it´s running I´m logging of my session. Then the task is stopped with the following Error Code: c000013a. When I do the same action on a Windows 2000 Server the task is still running when I log off from the session and when I re-logon. Anyone has a suggestion to get the same behaviour on Windows 2003 ?

When I go to Sounds and Audio devices in control panel and click on it,it comes up. When I click on sounds and click on a sound to play such as dada the little arrow next to the name doesn't highlight and I can't play the sound.I don't have windows sounds or Adobe Flash sounds. Everything else is fine Windows Media player.Rapsody and Quicktime play sounds fine I've tried the wavemapper procedure ,it was already there, and correct-- and still no sound

Hi Sue, This is quite good, although Joanna's getting on a bit now! Alan. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=GneDzVZh1DA

Hi, How can I find out which date a certain domain workstation has been logged on (and if possible which user used it). Thanks for hints on this jake

I'm not sure if this is a Terminal Server issue or an SBS issue but I'll start here.... We have a Terminal Server (2003) connected on to a Domain controlled by an SBServer 2003 R2. The SBServer has, on its C drive, a folder which is cleared for sharing by "Everyone" with Full Control. Users on their PCs can access this folder, open files, run programs, etc. On the Terminal Server, we can also do all these things if we log in as an Administrator, but if we log in as a Domain user, then we get an error message "Your current security settings do not allow this action" I've checked all the sharing settings on the folder, but given they can get there fro…

We have a distributed application that uses IIOP to communicate to an application server (EAServer) running on Windows Server 2003 SP1. We are trying to understand how the servers allocate threads for processes and if there are any tools to monitor the threads that are being created and used by windows. We think that at some point client requests are waiting for a thread to become available. How can we monitor threads and their status? We have gone thru many many tests to believe that the server waits for threads to become available. We have verified that the connection is established from the client to the server and then may wait if the condition above appea…

I have a tablet PC that runs 98 and the hard drive died. It has a bootable diskette drive, but the usb cdrom is not bootable. I want to load Win 98 on it. I need a bootable floppy disk that can access a usb disk drive. anybody have something like this or willing to help me? I can not believe that i am the only person that has ever had this issue.

In one of our domains we run WINS to support Windows 98 machines. Recently, WINS stopped working and I have come to the end of my rope trying to figure out why. What I am seeing is: In System Event Viewer - Event ID: 4102 The connection aborted by the remote WINS. Remote WINS may not be configured to replicate with the server. (Getting this message on the forest level DC and on each local DC) Replication on each DC setup to push/pull per Microsoft standard instructions. WINs console, at Forest level, shows all DCs in lower domains. Each has a green arrow to the left of their name. dcdiag states - failed test systemlog Event ID: 0x40011006 RPC (call) se…

Re: Keep getting random crashes/restarts in xp on dual boot vista xp system cj75s wrote: > > Hi > > I'm new here and find all this info great. Kind of new to vista as well > so its a mine of information for me. Thanks to you all. > > My problem is this: > > I was running xp pro with sp2 fine for a couple of years and now have > taken the plunge to go to vista and of course decided to go the dual > boot way. I have XP on 1 sata drive and have loaded Vista premium home > on another sata drive. Vista is working fine, however when I boot into > xp it runs for a while then just crashes to restart the pc. It never &g…

Have windows XP Pro. SP3, windows will not start, starts at black screen (normal safemode Ect.) this machine also has a 2nd HD that I mirrored of the the orig drive I thought my main drive went bad so I switch the jumper on the mirrored drive (back-up drive) from slave to master disconnected orig. drive and still same thing. Tried to boot off CD to repair windows say's "operating sys not found" Reset CMOS reconfig boot up devices Same thing Did my motherboard go bad?

This presented itself when we tried to install a new flash drive. Windows cannot find a driver for it. We have one of the same exact model that we have used previously and works fine. I tried uninstalling the USB bus and redetecting (restarted too) but then Windows cannot locate drivers for the USB bus. We have found that no new device can be loaded unless there is a script that installed the driver completely (for instance, Dell drivers). Also, when we select "I have a disk...", and then "select from list" no devices are found even if "only show compatible" is not checked. In fact, the only devices that are shown when we select "show all devices" are…

We have a few 64 bit Enterprise Windows 2003 servers that mstsc /console does not work. You log in and the screen just stays blank. You can log in under a normal mstsc login. We are running SP2.

Hello, I've a strange behavior in my PC sometimes I receive a error 0xc0000142 with pop up which is notifying that application is failed to initialize properly. the strange thing is becouse is happening for different application more often for SQL.exe and less for CDM.exe. could you help me about this issue ? best regards Adriatik.

Hello, After several years of subscribing to Microsoft's Action Pack I have decided to stop as most of the software is no longer relevant to what I do. It does seem a little hard that it appears that I will have to buy a full priced copy of Office Pro. Is this true? No reduced price for ex-Action Pack users?! Cheers,

When I open ODBC Data Source Administrator, 3 User DSN's are listed: dBASE Files, Excel Files, MS Access Database. If I try to configure any I get an error message 'The setup routines for ...ODBC driver could not be found. Please reinstall the driver.' When I go to the Drivers tab, it is empty. The PC is winXPpro SP3, with MSOffice 2003 standard SP1. I have tried reinstalling Office, but this hasn't added any ODBC drivers. Can anyone give me a clue as how to reinstall the ODBC drivers on their own? -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This message has been checked for all known viruses. The information…

Hello In Windows 2003 Server users can also be put into one or more groups. By putting users into these groups the users may inherit permissions and privileges that were not granted to them directly. If asked to administer user accounts to an existing Windows 2003 Server installation how would one track down all of the groups that a user account belongs to and how would one know what all the permissions and privileges are that the user inherited and were assigned directly? -- JB

Dear Group, I can't find a technical monitor group, and many of you are at the cutting edge of compuer hardware as well as software. I am seeking an HDCP compliant 30" LCD Dual-Link DVI-D 2560 X 1600 Monitor to enable me to run Blu-ray on my computer as well as to have higher resolution and greater size in Windows Ultimate 64-bit. I just spoke with HP regarding their LP 3065, and I couldn't find anybody who knew anything. I have never liked HP much, and I am sure they just rebrand their monitors anyway. Samsung, whom I like, does no seem to have an affordable HDCP compliant monitor in that size and resolution. Any suggestions? Thank you! Jim