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help! My windows xp will not start past the blue windows is starting screen. Any ideas?

I have a couple USB hard drives and have not had this issue before. All of my drives with the exception of 1 drive works fine. My problem drive is recognized by the system and displays a drive letter in windows explorer but it is blue in color as opposed to black like the other drives. When I try to access the drive it shows no files. I know there are files on the drive because I have copied files to the drive and when I look at the properties it shows that there are about 50GB of data on the drive but I cannot see or access the data. I use this drive as a place to back up data files. This hasn't been an issue in the past and was trying to figure our i…

All, I've been using Veritas (now Symantec) Backup Exec for many years now and frankly I've had enough of the complexity and error proneness of this software. I'm looking for suggestions on a replacement. Environment. Multiple Windows 2003 servers Exchange 2003 (full DB and Mailbox lever backups) SQL 2K and 2K5 I need reliable Open File backup preferably through VSS Backups are done to disk nightly and to tape weekly. I've downloaded an eval of CA ARCServer and I'm looking for other suggestions. TIA Rob

Rarlabs (http://www.rarlab.com) has released today version 3.80 of its Vista x64 friendly archiver program. Changelog is here: http://www.rarlab.com/rarnew.htm Only English version is available for the moment and can be downloaded (1.2 megs) from CNet: http://www.download.com/WinRAR/3000-2250_4-10007677.html?part=dl-WinRAR&subj=uo&tag=button&cdlPid=10890490 Carlos

My Screen Saver doesn't work, nor will the monitor turn off at the intervals I've set. I've examined the settings many times to make sure they don't conflict, and all is as it should be. I had this problem once before, and an HP Rep guided me to a place on Microsoft where I downloaded something to repair this. I've searched, but can't find it again without assistance. Thanks!

I've Windows XP Pro & Windows Server 2003 installed on dual boot system. I only have one hard disk with partitions. I know that formatting the partition where Server is installed, is the only way to get rid of it. My question is, do I still have registry values for Win Server 2003 left behind?

Hi, I have found this forum in desperation, would be grateful for any advice. We have a network with 4x terminal servers serving up to around 20 users each. We have a problem when users log on to terminal sessions, where after a user provides user/password and appears to authenticate, the blue background (that I take to be the first stage of drawing the desktop) appears but the session does not progress further, no taskbar, no desktop icons, just the pointer. Nothing works, and the only way we have found to rectify the problem is for an admin to reset the session through terminal services manager. This problem appears to happen randomly - it can affect an…

Hi there, Would a W2K3 server still use Netbios protocol somehow for the clients to be able to connect to its shares? Thank you, T

I am now receiving a bluescreen screen that is stating the MACHINE CHECK EXCEPTION with no error code assoicated with it, as Windows XP Pro loades, just before the logon screen. What could cause this to happen? -- Jeremy

How to delete any unwanted apps fixed icon from My Computer area and its fixed Desktop shortcut? "oc9ine" wrote: > Hi, > > I have win xp sp3. Some apps are creating unwanted fixed icons in My > Computer and Desktop areas which I am unable to delete the simple way. > How to delete any unwanted apps fixed icons from My Computer area and its > fixed Desktop Shoutcut? > > Plz help me. > > Oc9ine. Try in Safe Mode and see if you will be able to delete these icons. A description of the Safe Mode Boot options in Windows XP http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315222 Use MoveFile: PendMoves v1.1 and MoveFile v1.0 http://techne…

Anyway I can find out my on-board sound card has hardware conflict with other hardware? Or they are using the same interrupt? I check from Device Manager my on-board sound card is device 4.

Hello We have 2 networks here we use a Cisco L3 switch to route between them but when I browse I olny see devices on "my" network not the other one I can ping all thsoe other servers ijust cant browse when mapping a drive or looking in My Netowork Places--> Entier Network is this just the way it is or should you be able to see any thing you can getto via the router ?

After patching desktops with 2008 September's patches the quick launch bar dissapears. It can be manually be activated but need to understand reason and also possible registry fix. This is not a result of malware since this is a newly built image.The following does not work; https://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.windowsxp.general&tid=c0bb7614-e3ce-48ea-af77-19f7ca137534&cat=&lang=&cr=&sloc=&p=1

Hi, We run Windows server 2003. I try to use NTBackup to backup data to a mapped network drive. The manual backup is completed successfully, but the scheduled backup failed with error message: Backup Status: The operation was not performed because the specified media cannot be found. It seems the mapped network drive is disconnected while the scheduled job try to run. Is there anyone know why this happen? Any help will be appreciated! Thanks in advance! Lisa

Hello: In the Display settings in Windows XP Control Panel, the drop-down list for monitor 1 and 2 read "(Multiple)". Now, only 1 says "(Mulitple)". #2 says "Plug and Play". I want them both to say "(Multiple)" in the drop-down list. I wish that I had never played with these settings, and I cannot remember how to switch them back. I don't care about those two checkboxes at the bottom. I just want each of the two selections in the drop-down to red "(Multiple)" ,like it was in the beginning. Would rebooting help? If not, how do I fix this? Thanks! childofthe1980s

I have a Toshiba Satellite L300D-01N, Model No: PSLC8C-01N019 and I am downgrading to XP Pro from Vista. I have formatted the hard drive then tried to boot with my XP Pro that already has SATA drivers as I had created it earlier but I get this Stop Error 0X0000007B (0XF78D2524, 0XC0000034). Would I need different drivers for the hard drive??? Thanks in advance for the help.

I have a desktop computer that has Windows XP Professional isatlled on it. It was user-installed. Right now , i am having issues with Windows XP trying to load. It comes to the WINDOWS XP loading screen with the green scrolling bar below the XP logo. As it attempts to load, it freezes before the screen switches from the welcome screen to the logon screen. What are the causes of this and how can it be overcome so that Windows will start normally? NOTE: Safe mode does work. Restore has been attempted but it can't get passed that little bump as XP is loading -- Jeremy

Hello, I have been using Server Performance Advisor to monitor the servers for adjustments that may need to be made on our 2003 servers. My question is does this "replace" perfomance monitor as far as setting a baseline for server system performance and day-forward monitoring of server performance? I was trying to set up performance counters for specific server roles such as file, print, domain controller, email, database and web server when I came across this utiliy. Should I still go ahead and configure performance logging or is Server Performance Advisor a turn-key solution? Any help, suggestions and advice would be greatly appreciated. -- Tha…

Anyone have experience doing this? Hit any big hurdles? - anthonyx26

Hello! I have some important files on my computer that need backing up daily, there is a hard disk attached and a very nice young man created a thing called BACKUP.BAT which works perfectly. It took him about 45 seconds of furious typing. It copies everything from my computer to the hard disk, all the files that have changed, or been created, perfectly. All I have to do is double click it. I wanted this to happen at the same time every day so the nice young man said as he left the office 'just set up scheduled tasks'. I have been trying to do this ever since but it wouldn't run, then eventually, acting on a hunch, I discovered that it is because I don't hav…

Months ago I installed and registered my OEM Windows XP Home Edition on an older computer. I just installed it on my new computer but I haven't registered it yet. Do I have to do anything to de-activate my old registration before I can register my new version? If so what would that be?

Hi, This is a new deployment and AD setup. Setup 1 2003 AD server SP1, after that, install x64 2003 server on another new hardware to install Exch07. Unfortunately, I got an error msg when trying to dcpromo(secondary AD) on X64 2003 server and I got the following error msg. I also did adprep /forestprep & /domainprep on the DC. The operation failed because: The Active Directory installation wizard cannot continue because the forest is not prepared for installing windows 2003 server. Use the Adprep command-line tool to prepare both the forest and domain. For more information about using the ADprep, see Active Directory help. The version of Acti…

I copied in some text from a pdf file and pasted it into Word. I have Windows XP with Word 2003. When I pasted the text, it puts hard returns at the end of each line. Is there a simple way I can replace these returns with a space and no return so that the text flows as it should? Thanks for your help. -- Jeff A. Rosiek

I have automatic updates set to Automatically download recommended updates for my computer and install them at 20:00. I left my pc on all night and it is still on SP3. Will SP3 not install via automatic updates? Thanks

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