Windows 2000 Workstation
Windows 2000 Professional help and discussions.
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Defrag strategy to extend disk life
by Guest AndyHancock- 16 replies
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I looked into defragging utilities in order to minimize the wear on my hard drive. This differs from most people's main motivation, which is to improve the speed of data acquisition from the hard drive. For me, that is a beneficial side effectg. So far, I've found that freeware doesn't cut it. The short story is that they don't use the proper security privilege so as to be able to access and derag all files, regardless of the account to which they below. I ended up trialing Diskeeper, which seems quite awesome in that it defrags all the files that the freeware could not. It also defrags in the background, making use of otherwise lull times in CPU usage. …
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Performance Log Event ID 1015
by Guest Ripley- 2 replies
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Over the past three months I've started to notice that we are getting the above event ID logged on our Windows 2000 Server. There have only been a handful of errors but I like to know what everything is and what everything means in my event logs! I've searched the internet and can only find something which suggests changing a registry value for the timeout, but I don't know which registry value. Wonder if someone could point me in the direction for troubleshooting, or if indeed I just need to increase this timeout figure, where it is in the registry? Detailed event below: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The …
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: Reinstallation erases all?
by Guest Anton- 2 replies
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XP and W2k doesnt boot, I get a black screen and tested reinstallation. Got a Warning and stopped, it will wipe out all old files, is that true when I'm not formatting again?
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SLOW SLOW DNS on Windows 2000 Server PDC
by Guest IT_ADMIN_GURU- 2 replies
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VERY VERY SLOW browsing internet and browsing local network. Barely brings up web pages on our network. Primary Domain Controller - Windows 2000 Server (DNS) 192.168.28.4 NIC1 / .5 NIC2 DNS 192.168.28.1 192.168.28.4
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Windows 2000 server - CTRL ALT DEL doesnt work at LOGON
by Guest IT_ADMIN_GURU- 3 replies
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Win 2000 server - I have a problem when the server reboots the mouse works fine but the keyoard will not let me CTRL-ALT-DELETE to log on to the server any ideas or helpful hints as to the problem ??? What does work is the screensaver after 15 minutes it goes into the screensaver I have applied. But after that I cant get a logon screen with CTRL-ALT-DEL. thx
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Access point
by Guest Joker7- 0 replies
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Hi, I've been googling for 2 hours now :( Im looking to set-up a open public wifi hotspot (access point).I have a machine running win2k pro I use as a web server and a mp3 store with shoutcast. Im rambling again: Question Im looking for some control software something like The Public IP ZoneCD http://www.publicip.net/ but for windows must be open source or free for none commercial use. Cheers Chris -- Superb hosting & domain name deals http://dn-22.co.uk The Handyman http://www.looker.me.uk
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SP4 installation problem
by Guest David Pereira- 1 reply
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I needed repair my windows with the original cd windows 2000 server to repair many problems. It´s worked!! But now i want to install the sp4 and the application stops when says inspecting the configuration. I need help to install this SP4... Thanks
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lousy dvd read speed
by Guest surface9- 0 replies
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I have TWO windows 2000 machines, an old p4 and a new amd 5600 with sata. The problem is that the speed reading a dvd on the new machine is about 3 times longer than the speed reading the same dvd (using the SAME DVD READER) with the old p4 system. Both systems have dma if available ticked, and the newer system has sata and the IDE DVD READER ONLY (no other IDE Devices). The lights on the old machine are flickering very fast, but, the lights on the new machine drag on. I searched through control panel/hardware/devices on both systems and I don't see ANY difference. If I connect an IDE harddrive to the new machine, and transfer data between the sata and the I…
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Diagnosing Blue Screens & Re-boots
by Guest Dave Onex- 6 replies
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Hi Folks; I have an old Compaq DL380 G2 server that I'm using as my firewall. All it has on it is Windows 2000 Advanced Server & ISA Server 2004. It's worked well for years - never an issue. I manage it remotely via Terminal Services. Recently the server has been re-starting itself about once a week or so. This is done by the server management software (auto recovery). It checks the machine to ensure it's responding and if it doesn't get a reply for 5 minutes it forces a re-start of the system. Because this is a rack mount server I'm never in front of it to see it happen. In anticipation of it occurring again (it seems to happen once a week) - w…
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Access SBS 2000 share over VPN
by Guest Looch- 1 reply
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I'm having trouble mapping a Windows SBS 2000 shared folder over a VPN connection. I was having the same issue accessing a Windows XP shared folder, turned off Windows firewall and it worked. Question is, where/how can I allow access to a shared folder in SBS 2000 from a VPN connection? (I can't even ping the server over the VPN) Thanks in advance.
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persistent "ghost" USB device?
by Guest surface9- 2 replies
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I made the mistake a few days ago of shutting down my windows 2000 PC with a USB harddrive still connected and powered up. After the PC shut down, I disconnected the USB h/d and powered it off. Now, everytime I boot up the PC, windows 2000 informs me that it "found new hardware" "USB device", and then "error installing device" and I get a yellow question mark in the control panel/system/hardware/ device Now, I tried booting up with the USB h/d connected and powered up, and it recognizes it OK, but, it still tries to install that darn "ghost" USB device also and reports the failure. So how do completely remove whatever it is that is causing windows 2000 t…
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IE6 Very slow; System Log evnt id 10010
by Guest J- 1 reply
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On startup and when going to a new webpage is terribly slow. In the system log I see logs being generated. One is: Source DCOM Event ID 10010 The server [long alpha numeric here] did not register with DCOM within required timeout. Any idea what is going on here? Thank you. John
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Getting Wrong Profile
by Guest jhunter@huntercomputerinc.com- 1 reply
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We have one old Windows 2000 Pro (that we use once a quarter to run a database routine that we haven't yet moved to a WinXP computer). When I login (as JohnDoe), it doesn't give me my normal desktop/etc. When I look in c:\documents and setting, there are two folders. One is "JohnDoe" (which has all the correct stuff in it), the other is "JohnDoe.Computer05" (which is the one it's loading when I log in as JohnDoe). This is, and always has been, a stand-alone computer. Anybody ever see this before?
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Access to Network and Dial-Up Connections blocked
by Guest Roger Fink- 9 replies
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I am in a losing battle with my IBM laptop over access to Network and Dial-Up Connections (shades of HAL 9000), which it will not let me into come hell or high water from either of the two administrative profiles on this machine. I even created a third administrative profile in an attempt to outsmart it, but access to this is just blocked, period. I'm not sure if the IBM "Access Connections" program on the laptop, which does seem to work, covers the same territory, but I'd like to be able to fix this, which is the only listing in Control Panel I can't open.
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I: Boot CD
by Guest Alberto Brivio- 1 reply
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Dear ALL, as all of you know, I can use a diskette in order to boot a particular disk device depending on what I have written into boot.ini. I would like to know how can I do the same way using a CD device instead a diskette, thinking to a nowadays server without floppy device. Regards Alberto Brivio
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Bypassing Administrator Logon
by Guest surface9- 1 reply
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I had to rebuild my windows 2000 system, and now it waits for me to logon (press the enter key) during startup. My old system went ahead and booted up to the desktop and I didn't have to logon - I forgot how I got it to do that - does anybody know what I have to set to make it go ahead and LOGON without waiting for my to respond? I am logon on as administrator and the PC in question is not connected to the internet (I bypassed the network setup).
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Sharing problem over LAN
by Guest sherwindu- 1 reply
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I am running Windows 2000 on two machines connected with a Linksys router. I have been able to share drives and peripherals in the past. Lately, I can no longer communicate over this LAN because I can't sign on with my usual passwords. Both computers are in the same workgroup. I cannot figure out how to change or verify the existing passwords. Any ideas on how to correct this?
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Why does Windows requires a password
by Guest Mishell- 9 replies
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I just bought a used computer with Windows 2000 Pro SP4 installed. I activated the access to the local network without specifying a password. When I try to open Windows, it keeps asking for a password. Is there something I can do to solve this proplem^ Thanks. Mishell
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mouse problem
by Guest promicro- 3 replies
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Hi, system Windows 2000 sp4 Pro: all of a sudden my mouse started halting for a minute or so, or until I tap it on my desk a few times. also, it will jump to other areas of the desktop or just hop around. then it will behave for 15 or 20 minutes and start again. thinking it was the mouse I put a spare mouse and had the same problem - then tried a wireless mouse; same problem, and decided it was a system problem I ran chkdsk /r and sfc but it did not help. any suggestions ??? thanks, bob
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Services running high and CPU usage high
by Guest Johncobb- 8 replies
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Hello everybody, Lately my HD is spinning like crazy and fans too. I looked in Task Manager and I can see that services are running very high and CPU usage is high also even when I do not perform any tasks. I scanned my computer for viruses and it seams that it is clean. A few weeks ago I installed Spybot and BitDefender but I uninstalled them soon because I thought that they may interfere with eachother. I ended unnecessary processes - now running 30. I have also unticked non essential Start Up programs and Services - that did not help. To me it looks like there is something running in the background but how can I detect it ??? It must be hidden som…
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Best Way to Replace Small Drives on Server
by Guest Randy- 3 replies
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I have a customer with a single 80 Gig drive. They need to move to a larger drive but I need some help with the best way to get this done. Is add the larger drive and then mirroring it and then break the mirror possible. Thanks for any input.
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Temporarily suspend/deactivate Diskeeper DkService
by Guest AndyHancock- 2 replies
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I'm running Diskeeper 2008 Pro Premier on Windows 2000 SP4. It was installed as admin. I'm logged in as power user, but want to turn off DkService so that the CPU can be uninterrupted for the next 20 minutes. I lauch Diskeeper as admin using Run-as, then disable DkService. However, though it uses little CPU most of the time, it still fluctuates in the amount of CPU that it uses, between a few percent to 40~50%. Why does it not suspend? I also see DkService in the Services menu. I am reluctant to suspend it because I'm not sure if that will screw things up. Some apps can be simply restarted, but some apps assume some kind of special boot-in/ login activi…
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Windows Vista and adding 2000 multiboot
by Guest Bob- 1 reply
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Want to add partition to install 2000 in a separate partition. Laptop has Vista. Win2000 install begins, but popup box selection to install greyed out and can't get past this step. Any ideas to make work?
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Windows 2000 Displays Symbols in system areas
by Guest R Brown- 1 reply
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I have Windows 2000 SP4 and over the weekend my application screens and user areas have all lost thier font. It now displays symbols (like in the system information area) instead of the standard english. All of my icons are still in english and can read them with out a problem but it is all of the other areas that have changed. Even when booting the "Starting Windows display that states please wait is in symbol form. Has anyone ever seen this before? How can I correct it without formating and reloading the drive?
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windows update error
by Guest Tester- 2 replies
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Hi there, I encounter [Error number: 0x80072EE2] while trying to do the updates, W2K Pro. What can I do? Thanks, T