Legacy Operating Systems

I have IE 6 and whenever I go to Adobe's site to install flash, I run the installer and get no messages that something went wrong. However, when I try to view videos, I get the message that I have Javascript turned off or I don't have the latest flash player. I went to tools/internet options/advanced but didn't notice anything about Javascript. This doesn't make sense, because I can view flash videos in Firefox fine.

I have Windows XP Home SP3 on a P4 1.7GHz, 1GB RAM computer. Graphics card is a legacy ATI Rage 128 PRO AGP 4X TMDS with the drivers provided by Windows. I did not download anything from ATI's site when XP was clean-installed. All has worked smoothly since the installation of SP3. After the latest Microsoft updates, however, my monitor no longer turns off despite me settings for it to do so. All was well with power management before the updates. Has anyone else had this trouble after the updates? Any ideas how to remedy this?

Using IE6 when I download a file, a window pops up and asks me if I want to Open or Save or Cancel. Now for some reason it just opens and runs the file for me. Is there some setting I can go back to the original. Thanks.

How do I move my client applications folder to another partition to free up space on my c (system) drive?

I was hoping someone could help me with this whole process. I tried using nLite software to place drivers on with winxp install CD and I keep getting same "Cannot Find Hard Disk Error". This is to due to the fact that Xp does not load SATA RAID Drivers during Windows Installation. -No I dont Have a floppy drive or even a blank floppy!- I have a Sony Vaio Model: PCG-384L Series: VGN-FZ140E I found the right SATA Drivers for my HD. I guess what I'm asking is if there is any other software or boot utility that I can use that will successfully load the SATA drivers or emulate an "A" floppy drive. I'm open to other alternatives. -Daniel

Folders do not keep the viewing options we'd like. They keep resetting to "Detailed" and keep resetting the size of the window to 3/4 the page rectangular. So say for instance, we have one folder on our desktop that has 5 files in it. When it comes up I'd like for it to view "Icons" and to be a long rectangular box at the bottom of my monitor screen. It used to do this, but now it views as "Detailed" and a bigger window in the middle of my monitor. I can reset it and it will keep that setting (mostly) until we reboot (which every night we turn off the computer). I think I remember a long time ago having this problem on our other computer and som…

Running Win XP SP2 Most URL links open fine when I click on them. Other links will only open if I right-click them and then select 'Open" from the drop down menu. Did I mess up a setting? Thanks -- Walter http://www.rationality.net -

Hi , I have both the edges cut off and in black on my screen remaining screen is ok as per desktop background settings. It was ok until yesterday , today in the morning wheni switched on the display is changed. I have checked my display settings and is as follows. Screen resolution is 1024 x 768 Please let me know what need to be done to get the full screen. Thanks in advance

I support an automation lab. Sometimes systems seem to shut down when they are supposed to restart. I have never caught a system in the act, but I see it in the automation logs. The most common time for this to happen is switching between OSes. Each system has 4 OSes (xp,vista, 32,64, mix 'n match). The system uses batch files to set up a change in OS. The shutdown command used in the batch file is shutdown -r -f Are there known cases where a XP or vista machine shuts down instead of rebooting? Googling this sort of thing gets me huge numbers of useless (for my current problem) "my windows won't shut down" pages.

XP Pro, svc pk 4 I have had this system so long that when I click on the Programs button, there are 3 1/2 panes of programs and I can't read the ones in the right hand side. How can I make the panes smaller or the font smaller? TIA

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This is a trivial problem, but I wonder if there's something I can do to fix it. Ever since I received my new Dell notebook last month (WinXP, SP2 then but SP3 now), the Start Windows sound begins OK but then has some hesitations in it toward the end. All the other sounds are normal. I'd be grateful for suggestions. Thank you! Jo-Anne

Is there a way to allow the blue screen to hold to allow the user to read it? Do you use the 'pause break' key? -- Jeremy

After nearly a year of occasional crashes and constant frustration I am taking Vista off of my new laptop and going back to XP Pro (which is already on all 5 of the other PC's and/or workstations in my office.) I've gathered all of the XP drivers and exported Vista's "Contacts" folder as a .csv file. Vista would only export IE's "Favorites" as a .htm file. Will XP be able to import that info, or is there a better way to get my "Favorites" over to XP? MOST IMPORTANTLY, how do I get my e-mail messages from Vista's Windows Mail format back to XP? Windows Mail will only export the messages in Microsoft Exchange format. Will I be able to import that fil…

Due to some big problem I had been forced to perform an in-place upgrade of Windows. Now Windows runs well again but now I am requested to reinstall 9 drivers of type "unknown device" , "PCI bus" and "PCI device" ! I inserted some of the CDs I have, but the drivers have not been found. The main problem is that installing a driver, Windows wants to know what type of driver I am going to install. But I have no idea what a "unknown device" is. I run Driver Magician using the backup I made 3 months ago, but nothing changed. Can you please help me? Horst

I been using this new compute since Feb. log into a domain. user name is there entered password. Get noise then the screen shut down. Assuming computer is shutting down. Then get no signal

I was install File Server Resource Manager on my server (Windows 2003 server Enterprice edition), but when i try to run the service show me this error on the event viewer: Event Type: Error Event Source: Service Control Manager Event Category: None Event ID: 7023 Date: 10/1/2008 Time: 5:25:38 PM User: N/A Computer: CAPACO-SQL Description: The File Server Resource Manager service terminated with the following error: File Server Resource Manager is not a valid Win32 application. For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp. Could you help me please.

Where can I download a copy of Robocopy for Windows 2000 Server? I need to copy from a one LUN on a W2K to another LUN on the same W2K server. Or will the one in the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit work on Windows Server 2000?

At location A I use SJ4850. At location B I use SJ8250. I use the same laptop (HP Pavilion dv9000) at both locations. This system has worked well in the past. I’m now at location B. Suppose I scan a fully printed A4 sheet. I see an A4 image, but the printed sheet has been “pushed” to the right and upwards, lopping part of it off, while leaving corresponding blank space at the left and the bottom. Have tried reinstalling the HP drivers to no effect. The defect seems to be at the HP end as four different software scanning programs give the same result. Is there a way of regaining congruence? Is SJ8250 dying?

We are using Windows Server 2003 Enterprise as a Terminal Server. It was installed and activated in 2005. This morning it would not allow any of the users to log-on, and every user was presented with the Activation Wizard, telling that the Windows needs to be activated before it can be used. The Event 1000 was logged-on in the event log Event Type: Error Event Source: Windows Product Activation Event Category: None Event ID: 1000 Date: 10/1/2008 Time: 7:16:23 AM User: N/A Computer: FSDTS2 Description: An error occurred while the wizard was checking the current Windows product license. Error Code: 0x80040507 For more information, see Help and Suppo…

I bought a newer MS Natural Ergo Keyboard 4000 to replace my very old white MS Natural Keyboard Elite. I was very disappointed to find that the space bar was stiff or sticky. So I searched the web for all the possible solutions. Here's what I found and tried: 1. lubricate plastic posts on underside of key (didn't work) 2. twist metal sway bar away from each other slightly (acceptable) 3. remove metal sway bar completely (acceptable) I took pictures of the procedures. Here's the gallery - http://www.paulstravelpictures.com/MS-Natural-Ergo-Keyboard-Sticky-Spacebar-Fix/ Hopefully this will help some of you that have this keyboard. Cheers, Paul Michaels …

When I log on to my system and enter the password, a screen comes up asking "This copy of windows must be activated with Microsoft before you can log on" Do you want to activate Y or N. When I answer yes it takes me to a screen that states "Windows is already activated" Click OK to exit. When I click on OK it takes me back to the log on screen. I have read some of the other responses for a similar messsage. I can not get to the start>run system because I can't log on. I have looked at a wpa.dbl file but I cant change it in safe mode. Any input? Do I reinstall XP? If I do will I lose all my files? I have tried to restore the system to a pr…

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I am not sure if this is the right group and I appoligize for the cross post but I am really in need of some help. I stepped into a site that needs to upgrade the hardware and software of their current Domain. The hardware is ancient (9+ years old) and nearly completely out of resources. Here is the role of the server OMG It is the PDC, It has Exchange on it (with only a few accounts but it is the 'front end' server for our other main Exchange server - which has all of our accounts on it) It also has ISA 2004 which controls all access to our network - that access includes access to our Web Server with 6 web sites (all public 3 of them with web services applica…

When I changue the user throw log out, the windows stand slowly. What can I do?