Windows XP
Windows XP help and discussions.
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Unable to write $Mft.
by Guest John- 1 reply
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I woke my PC from Hibernation to find a warning that my PC was unable to write E:\$Mft. E drive is my USB data drive. Anything I should be doing about this?
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How long does it take you to boot XP?
by Guest Spiral- 8 replies
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Little survey here--and if you have fast times, please mention your mobo and processor. I get 22 seconds on a six-year old Intel PBZ with a P4 3.0, Raid 0. A networked, but stripped down XP (minimal services except for virus). I think that's good but I'm sure newer machines will beat it easily... interested to hear yours--no cheating! (shopping for a mobo)
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Windows Millenium to Windows XP Home Edition
by Guest natelb- 1 reply
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Can anyone tell me if there is a Windows Millenium to Windows XP Home Edition upgrade path/download? I am helping to update my Mother's machine and hope to bring it up to XP... Any guidance is appreciated!
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Access is denied
by Guest Bob V- 4 replies
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On my second internal HDD 'D:' I have 1 Folder (empty) that I can't Delete ~ "(folder) is not accessible. Access is denied." This folder (& file contents) was originally a straight drag & drop Copy using Windows Explorer. Also, I have five older Nero BackitUp files that I can't Delete ~ "Cannot delete (file name): Access is denied. Make sure the disk is not full or write protected and that the file is not currently in use." These 5 Nero files were Backed Up on the same morning, but other previous & subsequent Back Ups have not been a problem. How can I Delete these old Folders/Files?
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2 Batches required
by Guest happytoday- 15 replies
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I need to automate those 2 tasks : 1-Distribute number of files inside 1 directory to subdirectories created each one include only 1000 file. All of them named 1,2,3...etc. 2-compare names of files inside 2 directories and see the different of files . Please help . Thanks in advance .
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SP3 has broken the remote desktop connection
by Guest DT- 2 replies
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Hi everyone, Has anyone experienced any problems with remote desktop connection 6.1 client not working after installing XP SP3? Note 6.x was not installed before the upgrade. When I try to connect to any other machine, PC or server, I get the error "Remote Desktop Connection has encountered a problem and needs to close..." When i check the details it mentions the appname mstsc.exe (obviously) and the modname mstscax.dll. Any ideas anyone? Thanks in advance. Darren
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xp3 sysprep problem
by Guest air_craft- 1 reply
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hi.. i try to ghost an image of my xp sp3, i use administrator account to setup the pc, wallpaper, program setting, chinese input methods, after that i copy the administrator profile to default user with everyone full control right. then i use sysprep with mini setup and sysprep.ini to shut the pc. however, after that i reboot the pc.... use administrator to login again, all the input methods, program setting, background....are gone. i read some advice through the web such as adding [unattended] UpdateServerProfileDirectory=1 to sysprep.ini, still no use. can any support staff help me to solve this problem ???? urgent...thx for your help. ps: i…
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Prob'ly OT: Drive two monitors from laptop?
by Guest Ed from AZ- 3 replies
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I don't really know where to go for this solution, so I thought I'd ask here first because I know most of you have dealt with just about everything!! I have an older Dell Latitude laptop (one external standard monitor port, no DVI). I know I can hook up one external monitor. Is there a cheap and easy way to hook up two flat screen monitors that will display the same thing? I've seen add-on boxes costing over $1400! WIll a simple splitter cable work? Ed
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Remote desktop won't allow access
by Guest Didier_Toulouse- 6 replies
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Hi all, I have three PC computers running XPP SP3. All of them have the same config in terms of remote desktop authorization. One of the three PCs, say "A", was part of a WS2003 network. I took that machine off this network and created a new one with "B" and "C", an ADSL box and a hub. I can connect from A to B and C via the remote Desktop application, but I cannot connect from B or C to A. I immediately get an error message saying that either the Administrator denied access (which is obviously not the case), or a network error occurred during connection. There are no messages in any system event logfiles. The three PCs have an account password. A…
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Slow pc
by Guest Mark- 4 replies
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How can i find out why it is now taking so long to load my desktop? It use to take only a few secodns and now it is taking about 2 min. and I have not loaded any new software or hardware. Thank You Mark.
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I think SP3 broke my OE
by Guest dwaing- 1 reply
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After I installed SP3 on my SP Pro in my desktop my Outlook Express does not connect to the servers and I get an error message. Socket Error 10061 Error number 0x800CCC0E. I used the Microsoft chat but the technician could not help me. I googled the error and the suggestion was that two ports were closed; Port 25 and Port 110. Any suggestions? Earlier I installed SP3 on my laptop with no problem. -- dwaing If you can read you can learn anything for there are those who are smarter than you who can write, however not everyone who can write is smarter than you.
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XP Explorer.exe will not start
by Guest smicale- 5 replies
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I have a XP machine when it reboots the explorer.exe file will not run. If I go to task manager and browse to the file in the windows directory it is there, but if i try and run it I get the error message saying, "Windows cannot find 'C:\windows\explorer.exe'. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again. To search for a file, click the start button, and then click search." This system was hot with a virus, but I think I have removed them all. I also ran a registry cleaner and it found 187 errors and fixed that as well. I think there still is something wrong in the registry and that is why explorer will not run. Anyone have any id…
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Backup missing.
by Guest Patrick- 9 replies
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I need more help from the pros! I attempted to perform a Backup of my system. I went to Programs, selected Accessories, then System Tools and I couldn't find Backup. System Restore appeared along with other options, but the Backup option was missing? I just recently performed the latest Windows Update without any errors. How can System Restore be an option, and not have Backup as an option? Has this in someway been deleted? I didn't delete it... not knowingly, anyway! Do you have a suggestion? Your help will be greatly appreciated, needless to say. Thanks -- Patrick
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Windows XP problems
by Guest donatwave- 19 replies
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I've had pc for about 4 years. have two hard drives. both are almost full. Running Internet Explorer, Firefox, Spy Sweeper, AVG 7.5, AdAware personal, System Mechanic, Adobe Reader a) one for Firefox, b) one for Internet Explorer. Not an expert, but know a little bit about pcs. Willing to learn more... Can anyone tell me if there's a conflict with above programs and how to identify & fix problems such as: 1) When shutdown windows, it crashes and I get "blue screen"- Have to turn pc off/on to restart. 2) Cannot start in safe mode 3) Date and time has to be reset everytime I start pc 4) Cannot use System Restore Thanks for your assistance. Don
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lost document
by Guest VAWriter- 4 replies
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I was working in a word document that I opened from an e-mail attachment. Instead of clicking "Save As" to save it, I clicked the disk icon in the upper left corner. Now I can't find the document. I've searched by date and key word, looked in all my document folders and hidden folders. Is there any way to find this document?
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SP3
by Guest speedy_mike- 1 reply
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I got a window saying SP3 was ready to install with warnings to close all programs and backup my system. Trouble is, it didn't say how to restart the install Wizard after the backup. Also, this took me by surprise and I have no idea what SP3 will do. Changes? Remove functionality? Enhance functionality? I went to a Windows page, http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=68c48dad-bc34-40be-8d85-6bb4f56f5110&displaylang=en, and couldn't really find any good material on what's actually being done. Does anyone have a good reference to SP3 and what it does? Thanks much, Mike
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Random Reboots; Minidump says kmixer
by Guest Marla- 7 replies
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We purchased 8 identical XP workstations around August last year and deployed them in September through November last year. Each machine is running identical software. We had 2 reboots in September, one in November, and 2 in February, on different machines. Then on June 12 we started having frequent random reboots. They seem hardware rather than software related because the machine doesn't log anything going down, only coming back up. The two error messages we are getting are: Error code 8086 with all parameters 0s or error code 100000d1 with parameters 28, 2, 0 and f7b51be7. Each minidump always refers to kmixer.sys. We are only using on-board audi…
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Blue screen of death
by Guest CNN- 4 replies
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Good day, I'm using a Dell Inspirion E1505 with Windows XP Media Center 2005 installed on it. After a number of virus and trojana attacked my system, I decided to repair it using the CD that came with the system. However, during the repair, I got the following error messages: - shmgrate.exe: The procedure entry point Get RequestedRuntimeVersion could not be located in the dynamic link library WININET.dll - ngen.exe: The procedure entry point InternetGetSecurityInfoByURLW could not be located in the dynamic link library mscoree.dll - .NET Framework Initialization Error: C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\mscorwks.dll could not be loaded Please…
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Cannot see partitions more than 128Gb in Windows Professional XP S
by Guest Extremaluz- 2 replies
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I've a legal copy of Windows XP with Service Pack 3. I recently bought a 320Gb Maxtor PATA HDD. My BIOS recognizes 320Gb, so Linux and Plan 9 Operating Systems, but for some extrange reason, Windows XP SP3, only 128Gb. I created EnableBigLba Key (It didn`t exist), DWORD, Value 1 in: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\atapi\Parameters Rebooted the machine, but had no effect. When I open Administrative tools->Equipment Management->Disk Management I see always a 128Gb Disk instead the real, 320 Gb. The same with Partition Magic and other partitioning tools. My XP is in Spanish. First I installed XP, then upgraded to SP1, later …
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brndlog
by Guest John- 1 reply
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Should I get rid of brndlog? Each user has a version of this text file in the application data - Microsoft files - I don't understand its function.
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Segregating Traffic in Windows XP
by Guest KDawg44- 0 replies
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Hi, I have two NICs in my Windows XP box, one wireless. I would like to have each attached to a different network and then specify traffic uses which NIC. For example, I want all SSH traffic traffic to go on NIC 1 and all web surfing traffic to go on NIC 2. Is there a way to do this in Windows XP? Thanks. Kevin
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File splitter functionality in windows?
by Guest Antrak- 1 reply
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Hi. I need to split a large file into several smaller to fit them on CD:s... Is there functionality for this in Windows XP? If not... can someone recommend software for this (preferrably freeware).
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winlogon error
by Guest christopher.2312@hotmail.com- 8 replies
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hi . i was trying to replace my shell32.dll with the one from vista . first i have found a guide how to edit shell32.dll, so i opened the registry and edit the winlogon part. second i copied the new shell32.dll as shell3.dll. i went to safe mode with command prompt and entered "cd c:\windows\system32" i hit enter then i typed "ren shell32.dll shell2.dll" enter then "ren shell3.dll shell32.dll" . i closed the command prompt window. i shutted down pc fom keyboard.when i restarted i received error after boot
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winxp fax
by Guest Sonny- 1 reply
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My winfax is not functioning so I have to revert to the fax on win xp. It receives ok but i can't see anything more than the first page. The size indicates that more than 1 page was received but when I open it, I can only see the first page. Any help. Thanks Sonny
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resetting folder view
by Guest brothersamati- 6 replies
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I have two computers, running XP Pro and Home respectively. They've both had recent reinstalls, and both display folder contents as icons. How can I reset them to dispay lists?