Windows 2000 Workstation
Windows 2000 Professional help and discussions.
1671 topics in this forum
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personalized settings revert to default
by Guest Urge- 1 reply
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I recently installed W2k on a computer (completely updated) and it seems to be working fine BUT, maybe once a week when I turn it on it shows the default (first boot) desktop and any customized settings I have put in have reverted to the default settings. What am I missing here? How can I get it to keep my customized settings?
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OffLine Synch question
by Guest Bachboy- 0 replies
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User was getting a message that some files could not synchronize. Tech did some troubleshooting. In the course of events the Tech turned off (unchecked ) "Enable Offline Files" Files are now gone. User is quite upset since the unsychronized files are now gone. Where do these unsychronized files go when you uncheck this option? Can they be retreived?
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locked out by a LAN?
by Guest Urge- 5 replies
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I was setting up a LAN in my home and when I turned on 1 computer running win2k I got the CTRL+ALT+Delete screen and then it wanted a passport. I swear, I have NEVER put a password on this machine and I have had it since2002. This has to be related to setting up the LAN. Bill
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Yellow folder/Shortcut/Program desktop icons cobering half of scre
by Guest Summer1- 1 reply
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Good Day Everyone, I have yellow folder icons, shortcut icons, and program desktop icons covering half of my screen. Which of these icons can I remove 'without' removing the entire program. I still want to access them through 'Programs, Start' and the desktop tray but not on the desktop screen. Cheers.
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Is it necessary to do a CHKDSK?
by Guest void.no.spam.com@gmail.com- 2 replies
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If you get a BSOD, is it necessary to do a chkdsk? What would be the consequence of not doing a chkdsk?
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RECOVER DLL FROM ORIGINAL DISK
by Guest JL- 1 reply
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When I start add/remove programs from control panel, I get the error: object does not support this property or method, res.//sp3res/default.hta, line 82. I was told to check validity of mshtml.dll. Mine has a date time stamp of 12/10/0712:38 pm and a size of 2,642 KB. I run version 5 build 2195 service pack 4. Is this correct? If not, how do I get my original from the install disk? If so, any other ideas?
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Best procedure/soft for backup of entire drive ?
by Guest Spendius- 3 replies
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Hello, I'm looking for a backup software that would enable me to do the following in case of hard disk crash: 1/ boot from a CD containing the backup/restore program and a USB driver, 2/ plug an external USB disk containing the image of my crashed hard drive, 3/ then find this image from my CD, and restore it to a brand new internal hard disk. To sum up: I'm looking for a small software, allowing me to install it on a CD to boot from, on which I'll put a USB driver as well, to access an external USB disk containing my backups... I'd like to be able to backup an entire drive, whatever the filesystems (NTFS...) existing on them... Are there free…
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My computer sometimes freezes coming out of standby.
by Guest Robbie Hatley- 0 replies
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Greetings, group. I've been experiencing an annoying problem with my Windows 2000: I usually put my computer in "Standby" mode at night to kill fan and disk noise without wiping out contents of RAM. I prefer standby over shut-down because the computer can be shut-down and re-started MUCH faster that way. (About 2 seconds to shut down and 10 seconds to start up, as opposed to several minutes for each if I use shut-down.) The problem is, sometimes (about 20% of the time) when I push the "On" button to come out of standby mode, the computer freezes. The video doesn't come on (the monitor pilot light stays orange instead of going green), and the system doesn't …
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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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Resources
by Guest Cecy:)- 0 replies
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Hi, Someone that can help me please!!!, I have a server with win 2K, and i need to connect a printer to give access for one user that is not in this city. When I try to open the directory new printer the system show me a message. It said the next : The operation cannot be complete because a the system dont have resources I was thinking that one solution could be to end some process but my boss said that the server is too old !!, and important applications are there :( CAN I DO ANOTHER THING TO INCREASE THE RESOURCES?????????????? OR SOMETHING:)
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Windows 2000 professional service pack 1
by Guest pcbunny- 1 reply
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I installed the sp1 and now my screen stops at the "prepairing network connection" I left it for over 2 hours and nothing happened. Safe mode does not work either. Help PLEASE!!! I also can not install SP4 it just says error occured while installing. Then nothing..not numbers or reason why I can not install it.
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Help how to get MS update back to English
by Guest TBLUHP- 1 reply
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See this picture http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j291/dqboy87/MSupdatewrongsettings.jpg
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Remote Assistance
by Guest mwebb- 1 reply
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Is there any way to get Remote Assistance on Win200 Pro machines? --
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missing pagefile.sys
by Guest h.stroph- 9 replies
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On reboot yesterday, the first in some weeks, Windows 2000 5.00.2195 SP4 encountered the subject: error exactly as described in http://support.microsoft.com/?id=315270 Efforts to follow the remedy stated are meeting difficulties. The pagefile is indeed defined and of size 800-1000 MB , the computer name is "w2k2." as it's been since inception several years ago. The difficulty starts in Step 3-f, as we don't have a "Computer Name" tab in the System Properties dialog, but it's possible to rationalize using the "Network Identification" tab instead, as it's the only possibility that makes sense. The larger difficulty comes in step 4, as there is no "File menu"…
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*** VIRUS WARNING!!! ***
by Guest Terry Mester- 10 replies
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I have discovered how Spammers are able to access people's Computers to spew out their Spyware garbage, and it is Microsoft's OS which has made this possible! Spammers utilize two commands: the "nslookup" Command and the "ftp" Command found in c:\winnt\system32 -- which you can review in the Windows Help Menu. Spammers can also use a HTML E-Mail you open on your Computer while logged onto the Internet to download a Virus. Those E-Mails you get from friends telling you to forward it on to others, in order to get good luck or money, are nothing but a SCAM perpetrated by the Spammers! DELETE those E-Mails -- DO NOT open them!!! Last month after separat…
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FTAM support required for Windows 2003 server
by Guest Windows Guru- 0 replies
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Hi, I would like to know the following: 1.Is there any service pack available for Windows 2003 server edition to support FTAM? 2. Please suggest the way forward to have support for FTAM for file transfer? Looking for the earliest reply. Thanks & Regards, Pal007
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Changing the Windows Explorer View to 'List' from 'icons'
by Guest adrianr- 0 replies
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Hello, Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP SP2, Windows 2003 AD Domain in Windows 2000 mode. I've written a script that changes the windows explorer view to 'list'. It works by writing values to the 'Streams' key in HKCU and seems to work fine when I run this as an administrator. However, when I login as a non-administrator, the view is still 'icons'. I have written a second script to interrogate the registry to verify that the changes that I made had been written successfully - they had. Given that the non-administrator user has group policy settings applied to them, would this be the reason why my registry changes are not taking effect? As far as I can…
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Apply restrictions with gpedit or mmc to all users but admin (Win2000)
by Guest Jaime RodrÃguez- 1 reply
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Hello to all, Reading this group I was redirected to Microsoft Website where I read a Knowledge Base which apply restrictions using gpedit or mmc to all users but to admins in Win2003 Server, printed it and tried to apply in Win2000 SP4 pc's but to no avail, Microsoft article (I think is 325351) states work only for Win2003 Server Enterprise and Standard edition. Could be possible a related article or KB or work-around might work in Win2000 SP4??? if so, would you please point me in the right direction?? need to apply this in a network I admin with over 50 pc's with Win2000 SP4. Thanks in advance, JR.
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background won't stick
by Guest IT wanna be- 2 replies
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I have read the various posts on this issue but none fits exactly. Computer is operating on Windows XP connected to a server with full admin rights to the local machine. If we change the background it sticks for a while but then changes by itself and sort of tiles the image, but not exactly. It divides the large full screen picture and puts the bottom right corner of the picture in the top left corner of the screen and the top left part of the picture in the lower right corner of the machine. For example we put the coffee bean back ground on and it does fine for a while and later it will have the moon back ground image, divided as desribed above. I loo…
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ip config
by Guest promicro- 2 replies
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hi to all, i'm having trouble setting up my wireless network between my 2 computers; the main one runs W2k and the smaller one runs XP pro. both computers tell me that they are running and connected but i cannot find them on 'computers near me' on either machine nor can i see folders of the connected machines. checking the Event Viewer on the W2k computer i see an error with the message: Your computer has automatically configured the IP address for the network card with the network address of 00E04CCC3533. The IP address being used is 169.254.47.74. can you tell me if this is my problem ? thanks, bob
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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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Blank Desktop
by Guest Diane Walker- 12 replies
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We setup dual boot for Windows 2000 Professional and Windows XP Professional. For some reasons, when we boot up to Windows 2000, the screen came up blank. We do not see any icons on the desktop. The only thing on the desktop is the mouse cursor. Is there a way to fix this problem? Thanks. Diane
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Windows Service Pack 4 ~ Problems with the Registry
by Guest Terry Mester- 2 replies
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I want to inform Windows 2000 users about problems which Service Pack 4 can cause. I can state from personal experience that installing Service Pack 4 can screw up some of your previously-installed Software. After installing SP4, my FaxTalk Modem Software didn't work properly, and using the Windows procedure to "Remove" and re-install it, didn't solve the problem. The Windows Remove procedure didn't remove the FaxTalk's contents in the Registry. Thankfully, the FaxTalk Website provided information to manually remove it from the Registry, and after doing that it re-installed correctly. So, if you should have some new problem with a Software Application…
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Setting the NUM LOCK Startup State
by Guest Phil Galey- 3 replies
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My setup screen for my motherboard doesn't have an option for setting the state of NUM LOCK when starting Windows. Is there a way to set that through Windows 2000 or in the Registry?
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Re: Recycler <folder
by Guest 8-Ball- 0 replies
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Re: Recycler <folder chuck bro, its at the very top "Start/Help..." "Chuck T" wrote: > I don't see a reply here. Am I missing something? > -- > Chuck T > > > "Dan Seur" wrote: > > > Start | Help | Search | enter "recycle", no quotes | read it all > > > > Chuck T wrote: > > > > > OK, more questions... > > > > > > 1. Where is this "applet" you mention... How do I find it? > > > > > > 2. My C: HDD is NTFS, therefore the folder "RECYCLER"... is this the same > > > as the "scratch" file? > > > > > > 3. In Folder Opti…