Windows 2000 Workstation
Windows 2000 Professional help and discussions.
1671 topics in this forum
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Missing "Mailto"
by Guest JR- 4 replies
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Always awkward questions I am afraid - last two had no answers so must be difficult! In my constant twiddling (no rebukes please) I have managed to stop email links in web pages opening up a mail client and starting a new email. Browser is Firefox2.. and mail is Thunderbird. Checked prefs on those - all ok. Registry shows mailto entry as pointing to Thunderbird but there seems to be fields missing. Vaguely recollect removing a load of file types (unused) and just maybe this is my problem. Windows 2k latest updates. IE 6 installed but not used. Outlook completely un-installed. rgds
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Microsoft Remote Server Administration Tools
by Guest Jim- 4 replies
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Is there a RSAT that will administer 2008 server that runs on Windows XP? If so, where do I download it? Thanks.
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Server shutting itself down
by Guest Penny- 4 replies
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I've got a server that shuts itself down just about every week, but other than the system event 6008 which just states there was an expected shutdown. What else can I look at that might give me a clue what's going on? There aren't any errors or any events in the application event log that were around the time of the shutdown. I'm noticing that this usually happens on Tuesday, but there's no schedules in the windows scheduler and there don't appear to be anything out of the ordinary running as a service that might cause this. I'm kind of stumped, does anyone have any suggestions as to what I can do to troubleshoot this?
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Installing Win2k on brand new drive
by Guest Davet102- 4 replies
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Several months ago I had a major drive failure. (Unrecoverable) Bought a new computer. Now I have purchased a new drive for the old computer. It is a 250G drive. During the install from the Win2k drive I cannot figure out where I can bust up the drive into the 2 partisions (drives). Is there a way to do this during the reinstall?? If not how would I get this accomplished? Right now it shows the drive as only 131069MB (131G) Help. Thanks Bob
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Reinstalling Server 2000
by Guest Richard- 4 replies
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Hello I have a Win 2000 server which is a Domain Controller. I might have to reinstall the OS and I need some advice on some issues to make some decisions. I understand that if I reinstall the OS and recreate users, the users id will be different from the current id. 1. How do I set it up that I will use the existing users Id? Can I save the active directory and copy to the newly created domain? 2. I am using raid 1. If I were to change both the hd, need I set up the mirror before I install or install first? If yes, is it difficult to set up? (One of the hd died on us, and could not find a similar hd replacement, advice was to upgrade both Hds) Many th…
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Saving Settings on Shut-Down
by Guest Ian D Samson- 4 replies
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Saving settings on shutdown now takes an eternity - about 6 minutes. Does anyone know why? Thanks.
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Unlocking Locked Computer
by Guest Chad Guiney- 4 replies
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I have a problem with users not being able to unlock a computer locked by someone else. We have CAP regulations that state we must have a screensaver screen lock on every computer in our lab. However when someone walks away from that computer and someone else needs to use it they cannot unlock the previous user becuase they are not admin. The users of these computers are not allowed to have local admin access to the computer becuase of the same CAP regulations. Is there a way around this? Without making everyone local admin? Thanks in advance.
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shutting down
by Guest taipan- 4 replies
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I am running a home computer with windows 2000 sp4. The problem i am having is when i shutdown for the evening it takes several times of clicking shutdown for the system to power off. There are no error messages nor any other applications that need time to close. I tried waiting 20 minutes before i click shutdown for the second time. It will only shutdown on the first attempt if i turn on my system for a short period of time (5-10 minutes) and then shutdown. Any ideas?
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can not delete programs
by Guest bear- 4 replies
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Change/Remove Buttons have disappeared from Add Remove Programs
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Hard Drive Swap
by Guest Roger Fink- 4 replies
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I would like to remove the hard drive on my IBM laptop, which has Windows 2000 installed on it, and replace it with a hard drive which was removed fromanother machine, same model 2682 R40, also running a freshly installed Windows 2000. Undoubtedly there are some differences in the installed driver versions, and the processor on the machine to be fitted is a Pentium 4M 2.0 rather than the 2.2 of the other machine. I'm pretty sure the two CD-DVD combo drives are the same. The proprietary IBM software on the "blind" partition that comes on a new machine is not installed on either machine. Is it likely that once the replacement drive is installed the machine will s…
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Alternate data file location
by Guest Roger Fink- 4 replies
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Apart from the issue of who will be able to access the data, is there any reason why a large body of data (music collection within a main folder and subfolders) can't be created in the root directory at the same level as Documents and Settings? I'd be doing this for convenience, but I also recall that there was a capacity issue in Win98 with regard to the amount of data that could be placed under My Documents.
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Windows 2000 Powered NAS Upgrade
by Guest KennyW- 4 replies
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Hi all, is it possible (I am sure the answer is no already!) to upgarde a NAS Dell 725 from Windows 2000 Powered NAS (Build 2195) to a Windows 2003 variant? The NAS is preventing me from raising my domain functional level to Windows 2003 native. TIA Kenny
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Missing Administrator Level Account
by Guest Roger Fink- 4 replies
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I recently received a used laptop with a fresh install of Windows 2000 Pro, and no applications. I'm having a problem with it in that there is no Administrator account set up (I thought this was supposed to happen automatically during installation of the OS). Since I can only access the machine with User level privileges, I can't figure out how to create one, since the option to do this under Users and Passwords is grayed out. How do I fix this? (I don't see how any fix for this can involve the internet, since there is no antivirus program or firewall installed on the machine.)
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How to turn off Yahoo Messenger
by Guest Mike Arter- 4 replies
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Yahoo starts automatically when I boot up. The Autoexec.bat file is empty. How do I switch off this preogram? Thanks
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Logging in
by Guest Trainbuff- 4 replies
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I received an older computer with Windows 2000 on it. It works fine, but there is one thing I need to change. The person who gave it to me had an account on it that he called "me". When I turn the computer on and get to the log-in screen, it tries to automatically log in with this account. However, the password on it no longer works and so it keeps coming up with the "wrong username or password" error. However, I just log in as the administrator. How I can I stop it from doing this? I deleted the account but it still continues to do this. Any information will be appreciated,
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Where to put swapper file ?
by Guest flahmeshess- 4 replies
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I have 2 disk. HDD1 has - C: OS - D: applications - E: data - X: temp data HDD2 has - not use - F: data - Y: temp data I created a X: drive which is at the end of 1 HDD to put but I wonder if that is the optimal place to put it. Should I put it in Y: drive which is separate from my OS ? Or should I put it in C: ? My problem now is that since I've added the HDD2 (which is 500GB), my system hangs when going to standby. I don't know if it's due to HDD2. Thanks.
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Windows Installer 3.1 - won't Start
by Guest 360freq- 4 replies
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hello, I am new to the forums. I've spent weeks online looking for an answer.. to no avail and I now truly need some input. home System: Win2000 SP4 ... Local Computer (no Administration) I just purchased a new HP Printer. the HP setup software requires the "Windows Installer 3.1" (v2 KB893803). I believe it's listed as "MSIServer" under Services. this recent version installed fine.. but all is not well. I guess certain applications with an executable of .MSI need to have this service for the software to install. (this also means I can't run .NET Framework 2.0 and other apps etc..) whether it's set to Manual or Automatic, the Windows Inst…
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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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Win 2000 Issues
by Guest Nate- 4 replies
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Anyone, I have Windows 2000 Pro. Everytime after I boot up and log on, after the windows 2000 pro loading process, windows explorer keeps blinking. The whole desktop along with icons and background flickers and rolls over and over. Under tasks, the task showing explorer keeps on going away and reappearing while above happens. Does anyone know what's causing this and how it could be fixed? Another issue, whenever clicking on internet explorer or mozilla firefox to go on the internet, after clicking internet explorer or mozilla firefox browsers disappear. Does anyone know what's causing this and too, know how this problem could be fixed? Thanks, Nate
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Event ID:222 source:SWS
by Guest Krykino- 4 replies
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Event Type: Error Event Source: SWS Event Category: None Event ID: 222 Date: 10/5/2007 Time: 10:36:44 AM User: N/A Computer: SERVERNAME Description: The description for Event ID ( 222 ) in Source ( SWS ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: Error: "recvfrom" on [0.0.0.0] failed, error 10054.. Event Type: Error Event Source: SWS Event Category: None Event ID: 107 Date: 10/5/2007 …
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Nero and Memory
by Guest The Doctor- 4 replies
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Are there any issues with Nero 6 and Windows 2000 SP 4? -- Member - Liberal International This is doctor@nl2k.ab.ca Ici doctor@nl2k.ab.ca God, Queen and country! Beware Anti-Christ rising! Canada vote anything but Conservative on 14 OCt 2008, join us at http://www.harpocrit.ca .
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New hard drive keeps reinstalling
by Guest Tim Ogiela- 4 replies
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I installed a hard drive in an external USB container. It installed fine. I then partationed and formatted the drive as NTFS. Which also completed successfully. While copying data to the drive, the copy process froze. When I restarted the computer, the drive was no longer visibly available. I unstalled the drive and let the system redetect the drive. At this point it appears to install correctly and then at the finish it says "An error occurred during the installation of the device The specified service does not exist as an installed service." When the process is finished, it starts detecting the drive all over and then comes back to this error message. …
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auto-switch to dialup
by Guest b.jeswine- 4 replies
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This w2k/sp4 machine has a hard-wired network connection that allows internet access via a router connected to a satellite connection. It also has a modem dialup connection that when active is the routed path to the internet. If the dialup fails, then the route is automatically switched to the hard-wired satellite conneection and there is only a brief interrupttion in connectivity while the modem redials. If the redial is successful the the route changes back to the dialup. What is necessary please to make it so that if I choose the hard-wired satellite connection and that fails due to transient problems such as weather interference, misalignment etc. that t…
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mstsc access to server NEWBIE
by Guest JT in VN- 4 replies
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Users are using mstsc to access our server. How do I disable this ability?
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How can I re-create my Adminstrator account?
by Guest Bob H- 4 replies
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Somehow??? I lost my password for my administrator account, but managed to get back into windows by a username account. Now I have lost some settings etc and I need to be an Adminitsrator to create accounts??? Is there any way round this? Thanks