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System is XP Pro-SP3 The standby and hibernate functions are gone on this system; the precise moment is not clear but quite some time ago (it is not my own system) but somewhere between SP2 and SP3 installation. Symptoms: - when switching off, the leftmost button (standby) is grey - in energycontrol, neither option is available - I checked with powercfg but all energy schemes are normally available Please advise -- Rob

I am having difficulty installing the cleanup utility on windows server 2008 64 bit standard. When I run msicuu2.exe as administrator I get an error message saying "can not change to destination folder". There does not appear to be anymore error information. I downloaded the file from http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301 That page seems to suggest that the utility should be supported on the OS. Any ideas?

I use the Choose Details menu in Windows Exploer detail view to add extra columns showing information held in the File Properties fields of individual files. Most work as expected, however there are a few that don't: eg Keywords, Company. They show blank, even if there is some content in the field (using Word documents as an example). Some fields in the Summary and in Custom Properties don't appear in the Chooser list: eg Manager, and even if you create a custom property to match these or any of the other options in the Chooser, they still appear blank. Is this just a "feature" of Windows / Office? Perhaps someone has some tricks to make this wo…

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Is it possible to completely disable RDP compression? If so, how? We are currently using RDP ver.5.2 & 6.0 Thanks. J

MY COMPUTER IS SET UP WITH A 20GB MAXTOR HD AS MY MAIN HD WITH WINDOWS XP PRO INSTALLED THERE, A 160GB MAXTOR SLAVE INTERNALLY, A 160GB MAXTOR EXTERNAL HD, AND A 1TB SEAGATE EXTERNAL HD. TONIGHT I DECIDED TO WIPE THE INTERNAL MAXTOR 160GB. IT WAS MY C DRIVE AT ONE TIME. IT STILL HAD REMNANTS OF XP ON IT. I USED WIPE DRIVE TO WIPE IT. 1 OVERWRITE. WHEN I REBOOTED 2 STRANGE EVENTS OCCURRED. I WAS INFORMED BY POPUP THAT MY COMPUTER HAD UNDERGONE A SIGNIFICANT CHANGE SINCE WINDOWS WAS ACTIVATED AND THAT I WOULD HAVE TO REACTIVATE IN 3 DAYS. AND THE 160GB INTERNAL HD WAS NOT RECOGNIZED IN "MY COMPUTER" I WENT THROUGH THE TROUBLE SHOOTER 10 TIMES USING ALL…

I was experimenting with the Content Advisor on I.E 6., but wound up putting all settings back to minimum. Now I can't turn it off. Any suggestions on how to do that? Thx Dave Win XP SP2 IE6 OE6

I know this is not the correct group for this question but could not find a good WORD group I felt appropriate. I use XP, and Word 97. Recently started getting this pop up message every time I opened an existing Word Document... "c:\....\filename.doc is being used by Earl Partridge. Do you want to make a copy" Maybe someone can point me to the correct source for an answer. Earl

Hi all, Here is a summary of what is teh probelm and what I have done so far. When a user plugs in any USB flash drive, the "Found New Hardware" Wizard pops up. If you follow it through, it eventually asks for the USBNTMAP.sys file which is a file associated with USB mass storage on Windows Me. I am definately on a Windows XP SP2 machine. These USB flash drives work perfectly on other Windows XP machines. What I have done: I have downloaded and installed the chipset drivers for the laptop. I have removed all USB devices in the Device manager and then rebooted the laptop. I had to reinstall all the USB devices manually by the way. I ran chkds…

I recently installed SP3 on my laptop and desktop computers. Since then, I can not plug my iPod into either computer. I receive a "power surge on USB port" error message. Any ideas? Do I need new USB drivers? Should I go back to SP2 (my iPod worked fine with SP2)? Thank you.

notebook is hp pavilion,4 yrs old, 3.0 ghz,512 mb, 60 gb hard drive. windows xp 2002. locked up and shut down while checking mail, now can not get past blue start up screen. verizon high speed internet in use,also spysweeper in place.any help apreciated

Iam trying to remove a program from my computrt, but each time I click on it in Control Panel , all freezes and I cannot get any response by clicking on anything. Please advise. I am using Windows XP Pro. -- nanacopa

hello, I have the following error as Blue Screen on Win XP SP2, whenever I enable my NIC card or enable internet through netgear wireless adapter. IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL Error code : 0000000a , parameter1 elc07094 , parameter2 00000002, parameter3 00000000 , parameter4 804dc25d. Is it a driver problem? Please help Thank you

For our patch testing process we install our internally approved patches to the lab environment systems (servers and clients). We then follow a basic checklist to see if any post install errors/issues arise - such as application problems and basic functionality. We also verify the all the event logs to for any issues. If no problems are found we then approve these pathes for production deployment. For our servers, we take backup images, using True Image (during our monthly maintenance window), applying any patches so we are able to roll back if any issues arise. I imagine many of you follow a similar process but would like to know what you folks use for…

Hi, I've been looking for a long time to solve this problem that has started in march 2008. Problem: when i connect an USB stick it is regonized and it's getting a letter. Then when I want to use the stick, it is not possible, because the stick is not shown in the explorer. But it is shown in "portable media devices" (configuration screen) and it has a device letter.(this is normal) But from this place you can't use any folder on the stick. To do that, I must make a copy and paste it on the harddisc to have this possibility. But thats not the way it should work. I have 3 USB stick that all works fine on my other 3 computer with the same OS, so the …

We connect to a Win2k3 Fileserver via VPN. We have both Vista and XP machines connecting in. So that users don't have to remember the IP Address we have added an entry to the hosts files of the client machines - giving the server the name Zeus. When accessing Remote Desktop or other services this works fine. However when accessing files shares, \\Zeus we get the following message: "Zeus is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource." If however we enter the IP address of the same machine into the file browser it accesses it no problem. This is happening on all the client machines, so I'm thinking it must be a server issue, b…

RE: Accounts assigned to services Hi All I am in the process of renaming our admin account on the domain and changing the password. Just want to know if there is a quicker way other than popping onto all the servers and seeing if this account is used on any of them to host services. Cheers Baz

Hi, I have a need to reinstall windows 2003 server which is my DC. When this is done, I will re-create the domain with the same name as it was before. For the computers/users that log on to this domain, I have noticed before that they have to rejoin the domain, and that means that a new 'user' is created on the client PC. (Under the user directory there is username.001) Is there away to : 1 - Either backup the domain details so that after rebuilding the server, i can just restore the domain details, and the client connect as they did before 2- Have the client PCs connect to new DC without creating a new user OR 3 register the client comp…

Hello there, What is a reliable indicator to see if my machine is paging excessivelly and I need more memory? How does the paging work? I use XP Pro. Thanks, T

Hi, I googled for Tweak ui and went to an m/s site where it described the toys available under the Tweak utility...... but the one I really wanted wasnt there. The one I want is the toy/app/tweak that gets rid of Shortcut-Arrows on the desktop. I have it on my win98 comp and it works just fine,,, Q: does the Tweak ui for xp offer this? does anyone know where I can get a utility to do this on XP? thanks.

How do you go about re-installing XP on the same machine that its currently on, without Microsoft questioning the copyright. I know I would have to register it again also using the same product key codes. -- Don''t have the time to go though all the help web sites

I want to reset windows on my laptop. i just want all my stuff deleted besides windows. any way to do that?

Hi there, I have an XP Pro machine, recently new Dell Optiplex 745, I connect to a switch and my network speed is only 10 Mbps, speed and duplex set to auto in network card properties. What can I check? Thanks, T

Hi Whenever I open another window in IE by clicking on a link the new window always opens half of its normal size as opposed to full size. How can I rectify this problem please. TIA

We have a rather adventurous teen. We'd like to limit the number of applications on her desktop and password restrict IE7. When I set up a new desktop account it randomly included a number of applications, including IE7, and it wouldn't let me delete any.