Windows XP
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Do I have a Virus? Shutdown problem
by Guest the_best_of_fools- 6 replies
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Hi every one, I've been experiencing a weird problem with my computer recently. When I turn off my computer, the light on my monitor will go from green to the orange standby state and the computer will shutdown normally. But after 60 to 90 seconds, my monitor light turns on green again and the power 'on' light on the front of my tower flickers really fast as if the computer was turning on and off and on... I can also see the fan at the back of the computer turning. Any idea? I my computer corrupted? thanks, tbof
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Windows XP Network Issues
by Guest Bruno De Barros- 4 replies
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Hello. I have three computers. A desktop with Windows Vista, a laptop with Windows XP and another desktop with Windows XP. I have been messing with everything, trying to make this network work. Sometimes it does, other times it doesn't. It's an adhoc connection, as I do not have a wireless access point. The two desktops have a wireless adapter, and the laptop has it's own built-in adapter. I can connect my Vista with my laptop, but only sometimes will it work. I don't know how it starts working or not, it's just by chance, after some rebooting on both ends. My Windows XP Desktop doesn't even get the network. I think it's because of the range of the adapters. …
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FAT32 or NTFS for backup?
by Guest Joe Starin- 9 replies
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Fast question: Have a Dell 8600 laptop with an NTFS file system. Want to back up the laptop to a Western Digital external hard drive that I believe is formated FAT32. Can I do this? I've heard that if you want to back up data from one hard drive to another, the formatting of both drives must be the same. Is this true? Thanks. Joe
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Adding a machine to the domain using an alternate token
by Guest Bill The Cat- 0 replies
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I work for the Federal Government, and we use alternate tokens for our elevated privilege accounts. Currentlt, we do not know of a way to allow our Level 2 desktop support technicians add a new workstation to the domain without using a username/password combination. The alternate tokens are tied to their elevated accounts and work for typical runas functions, but we can't make it work to add computers to our domain. Any assistance would be great!
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I have to logoff twice
by Guest Fishermun- 1 reply
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Windows XP, Home Addition, SP3, all updates in place. Just finished completely rebuilding my laptop, and everything seems to work correctly except. I have to log off twice now to actually log off. Does the same thing in safe mode. Task Manager says no processes are running. When I log off the second time laptop logs off correctly, and all is fine. No messages of any type are given anytime. Am I missing a setting somewhere? Thanks.
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Installing Windows Service Pack 3
by Guest FlyingFish- 7 replies
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Good morning. I'm not sure if I am posting my question under the correct caption. If I am in the wrong place, please let me know and I will repost. I’ve tried on several occasions to install Windows XP Service Pack 3 (KB936929). I keep getting an error, “Control ID not found.” Could you please tell me what I need to do so that the installation will work. Thanks
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How can I delete an account that I can't see?
by Guest spamlet- 10 replies
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On our XPHome laptop, there is an account which is not listed in the control panel users accounts, but still has a profile associated with it. It does not show up in TweakUI either. Only comes up with (ctr alt del)x2. Want to delete it (the account, not the profile), and replace it with a visible one but don't know where to find it. In Home there is no Advanced User Management console in which to look for more information about this invisible user. Is there another way to show this information? Presumably the invisible user account is a registry key somewhere that needs to be deleted. Where are the user id's held and how do I identify which to del…
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XP PRO SP2 Desktop On and Off Network
by Guest garywi- 14 replies
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Hi, here is an issue my company desktop support cannot solve. When I am on the network at work, and I create and organize folders and shortcuts on my desktop, they do not show up the same when I log on locally off the network. The folders, incons are all there when I log on locally, but they are not positioned as a mirror image when I log on locally. I only have one user profile with admin rights and log in the same way all the time. My desktop settings are Align to Grid and Show Desktop Icons. Simply put: When I create a new folder on my desktop, it shows up when I log in locally and on the network. When I position the folder on a certain place in …
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Usb drive faster than internal drive?
by Guest spamlet- 4 replies
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Browsing through the thread on Fat32 vs NTFS for back up, I am reminded to ask about the unexpected 'bonus' I got when I bought a couple of MyBook 500gig usb drives for back up. In the first place I was a bit miffed to find there were no on/off buttons and only one type of input connection permitted at the back - USB - when I had expected there would be ethernet and firewire type connections possible too. I think I would go for the 'world edition' next time. Secondly, I had been led to believe that drives connected by usb would be slower than internal drives; and, indeed, some people have advised imaging the internal drive and then replacing it with o…
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Backup copied folders but not files
by Guest moondaddy- 1 reply
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I have winXP pro sp2 and ran a complete backup on my D drive. it backed up all of the folders, but not the files in the folders. can anyone explain why this happened? Thanks.
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Folder view settings revisited - again
by Guest Alpha- 2 replies
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One computer is driving its user nuts - it will simply not retain folder view settings in Explorer. All the usual methods have been employed - TweakUI, Views tab on Folder Options, Save User settings tweak from Kelly's Korner, and deletion of Bags and BagsMRU keys in the ShellNoRoam section of the registry. Nothing seems to work. Only thing we found was that the deleted registry keys would be regenerated at boot - and then opening Explorer it is found that the view has reverted to Tiles and sorted By Name which the user does not want! This started last week on a fully updated Windows XP Pro SP2 machine but no system settings modified in months. Inexplicably seem…
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Cannot delete folder
by Guest Guybo- 3 replies
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I have an empty folder on the drive where I keep my data. I would like to delete this folder but get the message that "Access is Denied." HOw can I delete this folder?
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System Error When Leaving Hibernate
by Guest Simon- 9 replies
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I run XP Home SP3 and IE7 and AVG 8. Almost every time the PC wakes from Hibernate a 7011 error is created as follows: Event Type: Error Event Source: Service Control Manager Event Category: None Event ID: 7011 Date: 05/10/2008 Time: 15:06:07 User: N/A Computer: XXX Description: Timeout (30000 milliseconds) waiting for a transaction response from the Netman service. I have spent many hours googling this - it seems quite a common occurrence but no-one seems to know how to stop it and/or whether it can be safely ignored. Any thoughts, please?
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ShowBiz DVD2
by Guest Ellie- 0 replies
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I have used this software successfully once before. Recently though the system is hanging once it reaches the authoring stage. It seems to hang a lot, even while trying to close it and doesn't respond. I have tried reinstalling it and repairing it and even getting rid of programmes I no longer use in case of conflict. The project is 1.42 GB so not too big for DVD. It came bundled with digital videocam software. I can't access their website for a number of reasons. Anyone help me please?
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PING PHILO RE: usb host controller
by Guest Ronald E. Foltz- 5 replies
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Philo. . didn't get the whole message in last time . . sorry . .i meant all i get when i go into device mgr in the "drop down" is "update drive", "disable", "uninstall", scan for hardware changes", and properties. . how do i "delete" al instances of usb and just exactley what do you mean by that??? Hope i'm not being a pain with my ignorance -- Life is a treasure; spend it wisely
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Terminal Services Won't Start ... all of a sudden
by Guest Tom- 1 reply
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Hi, WinXPSP2 install, updated with everything but SP3. As of two days ago, will no longer accept RDP sessions. All is well in the land of the check boxes, firewall etc. So I went to services.msc to see if I can start Terminal Services manually and get the following error: Could not start.....Error 126: The specified module could not be found. Also, when looking at my backups, I started to get errors where my backup program can't backup certain files because of access denied errors due to file attribute changes. I ran a rootkit scan and NAV / AVG scans and come up with nothing. Any ideas?
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Abnormal Disk Image?
by Guest Watty- 2 replies
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Continuing my story from "Foiled Again?". A quick review. My 80G drive apparently failed. A shop got the contents to an external drive I gave them. I installed XP on a new 320G drive, and then used unstoppable copier to it. I think this is an image copier. I was able to fire up XP on the 320G drive, but it was obvious some programs were not working properly. The most frequent msg on them was something about DLLs. Supposedly, the point of installing XP and onto the the new drive was to produce an MBR. I just talked to WDC, and they said an image copy should have done the trick. There was no need to make a MBR. Either way, that leaves some mysteries. BTW…
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Windows Xp Pro SP3
by Guest Art- 8 replies
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I am confused I have ran the SFC(system file checker ) in an attempt to replace some missing DLL files noted. It says "insert the Windows Xp Pro SP3"? I have had this computer for over 1.5 years and it didn't come with an XP Pro disc, only restore disc, which I do not want to use. System Restore does not help. I have downloaded and installed SP3 and still have missing files. I have downloaded SP3 and saved to a CD, an attempted to use it with the file checker but it will not accept it."wrong CD inserted" Computer is a dual core AMD 2.6 GHZ, 4GB ram, 300GB HD SATA, 250GB HD IDE. I have no other problems except getting WMP to recognize my drives.. The IDE …
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Multiple users and XP Files and settings transfer wizard
by Guest Martin C- 0 replies
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I am planning to construct a new PC build and will be reinstalling XP from scratch - it was starting to lag a bit anyway! I thought I would try out the Files And Settings Tranfer Wizard to see how good it was, but it raised a question. My PC currently has 3 users. Does the wizard have to be run from each user's account, or does it only need to be done the once. I have looked on the web, but have not been able to find an answer yet. Please advise. Martin
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Processes do not close
by Guest r2d2rd- 8 replies
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When I close a program the coressponding process in the tasl manager does not close. So If I re open the program I will have two of the same process open. For example I will outlook.exe process open multiple times eventhough I have outlook closed.
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Login Impossible in Safe Mode
by Guest Telesphore- 2 replies
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Trying to get rid of a Trojan in safe mode, it is impossible to login in safe mode with the administrator's paswword! Any idea will be appreciated. Thank you
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ASP.NET user account
by Guest Jo-Anne- 4 replies
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I just looked at the user accounts on my old desktop computer (Windows XP Home SP3)--for the first time--and I found the following besides the Administrator and Guest accounts: ASP.NET Machine A... Limited account Password protected I Googled it and learned that it's something from Microsoft. Is it OK (safe) to leave it there? It's not on my new notebook computer with XP Pro SP2... Thanks much! Jo-Anne
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Not Able To See Users Tab
by Guest Mohammad Atfan Iqbal- 1 reply
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Hello I am not able to view the Allowed Users Tab In Network Connections\Incoming Connections. It Just crashes and error reporting comes in front. This Is Error Info is displayed.And The attachment is error dumped by watson i suppose. Please Help..... AppName: explorer.exe AppVer: 6.0.2900.3156 ModName: rasdlg.dll ModVer: 5.1.2600.2180 Offset: 00036081
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Active Directory DSQuery - Lastlogontimestamp
by Guest Naggy- 1 reply
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Hi, I want lastlogontimstamp for all users in a particular OU (functionalbased users) using dsquery. Could anyone help on this plz. Its very urgent. Request your syntax to be sent to my id naggy79@gmail.com at the earliest.