Windows 2000 Workstation
Windows 2000 Professional help and discussions.
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Text size
by Guest Sid Elbow- 6 replies
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Gordon Biggar wrote: > > The icons on the Desktop appear of normal size, but the print below each is > miniscule; same for Outlook Express. (In OE, under View, I set text size to > Largest, but only with minimal impact.) I right-clicked on the Desktop, and > my resolution is set at 1024 x 768. 800 x 600 makes things much too large. > Perhaps the changes are made under the Appearances tab? Yes, if you go to the Appearances tab and select Icons from the drop down, you cant set the font size (and the font itself) there. .... and registry cleaners are frowned upon around here :-)
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Printer Help--Spoolsv.exe
by Guest VFP Developer- 2 replies
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I am running Win/2000. I found I could not send anything to the printer and when I looked in the control panel, I found that my printer drivers all disappeared! When I tried to add one in the control panel, I received a message about no resources available. I rebooted the machine and when the machine restarted, I received this message: Program Error Spoolsv.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows. You will need to restart the program. An error log is being created. I don't know what this means or how to access the error log. Can you suggest how I can correct this problem? Many thanks.
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2 versions of win2000 on disk
by Guest tomh- 9 replies
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While reloading win2000 I encountered a problem did a reboot to last good config and finished the load. Now I have 2 versions on it on disk, 1 good and 1 bad. How do I ghet rid of the bad version? TomH
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How to stop auto-play of CD
by Guest Ray K- 4 replies
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Every time I stick a music CD (standard cda format) into my CD-ROM, it starts playing. A player control appears, but even if I X it to close it, it continues to play each track. If I right-click on the blue bar at the top of the player, I do not see an About option to identify the player. Task Manager doesn't show any application or process that may be responsible. What's doing the playing? How do I disable Auto Play? Thanks, Ray
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Opera messed me up
by Guest Brett Holden- 3 replies
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Hello, All! After installing the Opera browser as my default web browser I decided that it was not all it was cracked up to be. I uninstalled it. Now, my IE works fine for most browsing, but if I click hyperlinks imbedded in email (I use OE) nothing happens. Some of the hyperlinks in my favorites menu also do not function. I went through the process of resetting HTM, HTML, etc. file association in Windows Explorer(> Tools> Folder Options> File Types) - or at least I think I got them all. I even re-installed IE6. It's been several years since my last Win2000 OS load, and I am planning on re-imaging my sytem next month - but I don't want to do it r…
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msinfo32 - problem devices - removing? (Win 2000)
by Guest BertieBigBollox@gmail.com- 1 reply
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Got two problem devices listed for PS2 keyboard and mouse. System uses USB keyboard and mouse but I had to plug PS2 version in temporarily. Trouble is PS2 version still listed as problem devices even though they are not in device manager. How do I remove these?
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HOw to find files taking most of disk space
by Guest Prem Mehrotra- 5 replies
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I am on Windowns 2003 but 2000 command should work on 2003 as well. Is there a command which will show me disk usgae sorted by disk space so I can find which files are utilizing most of the space. I do not want to buy any third party tools, looking for a command or something from sysinternals which can be run to get this information. I am a UNIX guy learning Windows. Thanks a lot.
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virtual memory
by Guest Gordon Biggar- 17 replies
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I write a lot of Word programs (Office 2000) in which I am inserting photos, etc. Of late, I am receiving virtual memory warnings, the system saying that I am low on virtual memory, and that it is going to have to increase same. My programs are not terminated, however. I have a 200 gig hard drive (C:) with 260 MB of RAM. There is 87% free space, and my Word files are only a few meg, or so, in size. Virtual memory on my C drive is set for 400-450 MB. I read in the HELP section that the pagefile.sys should preferably not be located on the same drive with other system files. Since I have another hard drive (E: 4 gig free), I set up a file on that drive (450…
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BA/BS degree in 4 weeks
by Guest ar.pebblehills@gmail.com- 0 replies
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Interactive logon character limit
by Guest msenior- 1 reply
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Is there a way to increase the character limit of the "Interactive logon: Message text for users attempting to log on"? We're in a Win2K/2003 mixed domain. I don't think it's possible, but thought I'd ask anyway. Thanks!
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AVG killed a file - now W2K says no access
by Guest Will Renkel- 3 replies
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heres the problem... Yesterday I downloaded/installed the latest virus definitions for AVG. Suddenly it said a CYGWIN executable - df.exe - has a virus and disabled access to it. FYI - it runs just fine on other puters and was running just fine on so called bad puter. So I disabled AVG, but now W2K wont allow me access to the file. Can someone give me advice as to how to fix W2K? Yes - I have contacted AVG but no response from them yet. -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Will Renkel Wheaton, Ill. ---------------------------------------------------------------
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what make system time changes?
by Guest ykffc- 4 replies
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OS: Windows 2000 server When we had Daylight saving time effective weeks ago, the system time of this machine failed to adjust automatically (although I have the checkbox on to adjust automatically). I can understand this as Microsoft no longer supports this old version of OS and they no longer produce updates/patches for this. For software compatibility and other reasons we haven't upgraded this machine. However, I don't think it should be the end of the world. It is a matter of seconds to adjust the time by hand. Two days ago I started to adjust the system time from say 13:15 to 14:15 (2:15 pm). But after a while, say after 30 minutes, it was dis…
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Reboot command no longer works in Task Scheduler
by Guest Oliver- 8 replies
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The following bat script (as a file.bat) which I put on a task scheduler no longer works (W2K service pack 4). Shutdown.exe /L /R /T:120 /C How can I fix this? The shutdown has to work on each Saturday to refresh the server memory. Also, as a related solution to the above problem, how I can get the event viewer to email me an alert when it triggers certain ID code? Our main problem is that the server shutdowns expectedly and I suspect it is the event viewer getting full. So I am hoping someone will have the solutions. Oliver
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ntbackup force overwrite
by Guest Doug M.- 5 replies
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Hi I've copied a batch file script that I found on the web to force ntbackup to use a removable external USB hard drive. However, the ntbackup stops with the message "the media is not blank - do you want to overwrite?" or something to that effect. Since the script runs late at night, the backup doesn't run. Thanks in advance for the help. Here's the script: rsm.exe refresh /LF"external USB" sleep 30 for /f "Tokens=1-4 Delims=/ " %%i in ('date /t') do set dt=%%i-%%j-%%k-%%l for /f "Tokens=1" %%i in ('time /t') do set tm=-%%i set tm=%tm::=-% set dtt=%dt%%tm% C:\WINNT\system32\NTBACKUP.EXE backup "@C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Setting…
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Stats microsoft.public.win2000.general (last 7 days)
by Guest Jesse Melber- 0 replies
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"Caveat: Quantity is not necessarily a measure of Quality" Newsgroup.................: microsoft.public.win2000.general Stats Were Taken..........: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 07:55:24 GMT Stats Begin...............: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:14:55 GMT Stats End.................: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 02:58:47 GMT Days......................: 7 Total No. of Articles.....: 87 Total No. of Characters...: 220841 Total Volume..............: 215 Messages Per Day..........: 12.4 Characters Per Day........: 31548.7 Average Daily Volume......: 30 kB Total Posters This Week...: 26 Messages with Sigs........: 21.84% Original Content Rating...: 41.13% Top 10 Prolific Po…
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Regaining EN logo on the task bar
by Guest DaffyD®- 3 replies
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At startup when when the taskbar icons were loaded at restart, one of them was the EN for the Text Services language bar. I closed the language bar on the task bar and now I can't it back. I know I probably don't need it but I'd like to do the reverse of what I did. so that EN logo would load the same way the SoundMAX, Volume control speaker icon, ATI icon, D4, Zone Alarn, The Area connection speed 3, and the Norton Antivirus Auto-Protect enabled all do all at start up.What would be the registry hack for this?
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Video plays 15% fast...?
by Guest Kenneth- 5 replies
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Howdy, I have a Win 2000 system that I personally use infrequently. Other family members use it nearly every day. Minutes ago, I went to Youtube to play a video. It played "fast" that is, both the audio and video were playing at about 115% of their proper speed. My wife said "Oh yes, this system does that all the time..." Every video source played the same way. What might cause this sort of problem? Many thanks, -- Kenneth If you email... Please remove the "SPAMLESS."
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Very slow startup
by Guest Ray K- 2 replies
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Yesterday I installed W2K over ME in a friend's computer. Works okay, except boot time is well over two minutes, measured from the splash screen to the appearance of all the desktop icons. At several points, the screen is just a pure blue/green. Once, it remains that way as long as 25 seconds, with just the mouse pointer visible and a very brief one-time flashing of the hourglass, before the next dialog box appears. By contrast, my computer with the same W2K boots in about a minute. I noticed several differences between the computers. 1. In my computer, there is a WINNT directory; in her computer, it's called WINDOWS. Regardless of the name, the cont…
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Where to look for video driver
by Guest Ray K- 3 replies
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When my friend's computer was using Windows ME, it displayed true colors (32 bits). Now that I "upgraded" it to Windows 2000 Professional, it will display only 16 colors. I don't know where to look for the driver. The system is as follows: *Motherboard *– AMD Jetway 861CS KLE133 Chipset: North Bridge VIA VT 8361 Apollo KLE133 VIA chip VT 82C686B *Display PCI/AGP Video* – Trident CyberBlade-i7 Video adapter I tried the AMD and VIA sites, but couldn't find anything for W2K. Thanks in advance for any suggestions. Ray
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Broken Link in 'Notify me of replies' link
by Guest Summer1- 8 replies
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Good Day: Yesterday, I posted a question and I received a 'notification' of a reply this morning so I clicked on the link within the message. A new window opened but it was blank-Does the cache or something need to be 'cleared?' I had to go directly to the Microsoft Discussion website, log in there, and then view my message.
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Ghosting Issue
by Guest Parvardigar- 8 replies
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This is very uncomplicated. I have at work here only Dell Optiplex GX1's running Windows 2000. On all the machine I ghosted from former harddrive 9GB to new harddrive 80GB. No problems. On this one machine I have ghosted in the usual fashion the 9GB to the 80GB drive. And I did this on two new fresh WD harddrives ending up with (after installing the newly Ghosted drive) this Blue Screen Stop 000000007B and so on ending with Inaccessible_Boot_Device. I've ran the Ghost several times and ending with the blue screen message. In Bios I alter the device to auto, and it is found. Bios fine. I can upon reboot launch safe, safe with networking, LKG, and so on.…
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Scheduled Task won't work after password change
by Guest Magnus.Moraberg@gmail.com- 1 reply
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Hi, I have a Scheduled task that backs up my database. I runs once a day. Once a month I am prompted to change my password and then the Scheduled task stops working because it now has my old password... Without having to explicitly edit the Scheduled Task. how can I avoid this problem? I am the admin on this computer and I am also experienced with .Net and C#. Thanks, Barry.
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XP & Vista to 2000
by Guest Information- 6 replies
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Due to budget limitations, I am working with the following: We have a Win2000 workstation (SP4) that houses a database program to be accessed through a shared folder to the remainder of our stations. Station 1 is an XP Home box (SP3), Station 2 is a Vista laptop (SP1). XP and Vista can see each other, but only the XP box has a printer shared. Vista can see that, and a temporary shared test folder, We removed the folder share after seeing it worked. Neither can access the shared folder on the 2000 box. Both XP and Vista firewalls are disabled, there is no Norton or McAfee installed, only AVG. I have added the user/passwords to the user list on the 2000 ma…
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Domain Controller is not running any Application.
by Guest Swapnil- 1 reply
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Hi, My domain controller is not running any application. if I click on anti virus Icon it will displayed an errror msg "Cannot find the file 'C:\Program Files\Quick Heal\Quick Heal Total Security\SCANNER.EXE' (or one of its components). Make sure the path and filename are correct and that all required libraries are available." The same kind of error msg is displayed for any application like , IE, outlook express, backup and many more. If I type " CMD" in run dialogue box i get the same error but If I type "command" the dos window is opening , I am able to do some basic operation from cmnd prompt but not every application is woring from that window. Als…
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remote Shutdown Command
by Guest Haggis- 13 replies
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I have an odd issue. the scenario is this. i have a server (A) connected to a UPS that is set to run a batch file when the battery power gets to some predetermined level. THis batch file is a remote shutdown command to bring down the another server (B) connected to the UPS. As part of the test i send a command line email before and after the remote shutdown command so that i know that it has run. Now the remote shutdown command runs properly when i test it on the Server (A) and both emails are sent. When i test it on the UPS, the emails are sent but the remote shutdown command fails. I cannot understand why, it is obvious that the command is running bu…