Windows 2000 Workstation
Windows 2000 Professional help and discussions.
1671 topics in this forum
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How to increase hard disk space in Windows 2000 Server
by Guest mk214- 4 replies
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Hi, We have a server where the C: drive is almost full and unable to open certain application even Windows Explorer. How do I increase the space in C: without damaging the contents?
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can I delete hotfixes?
by Guest promicro- 12 replies
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Hi to all, I have 100 hotfixes installed on my system and would like to uninstall them - will this wreak havoc? my problem is very slow response time on my computer, and I have tried to speed it up by uninstalling old stuff and disabling other things with no change in speed. All of these hotfixes are the only things left. I'm running Win2k sp4... thanks to all, bob
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How do I remove the dual boot option?
by Guest M Skabialka- 2 replies
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I have an old Win98 machine that is being donated to some kids. I wiped the drive and put a fresh install of Win98 from the original CD. I then upgraded it to Windows 2000 with the upgrade CD we bought a few years later. However when I upgraded I had the choice of totally removing W98 or adding Win2K to Win98. I chose total removal of Win98, and convert to NTFS file system. Now when I boot it asks me whether I want to use Microsoft Windows 2000 or Microsoft Windows. I didn't want this to be a dual boot machine. There is a Windows folder and a WINNT folder. How do I remove Windows98 completely (very small hard drive) and remove the dual boot option at…
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Repeat on boot-up
by Guest William- 1 reply
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Hey all...I have a kind of old HP at home with Windows 2000 Pro. I ran a virus scan the other day and found I had infected .dll files that couldn't be repaired. I chose to delete some of them, stupidly, and now the system goes into a loop when I power on. It shows the HP logo, then the WIndows 2000 loading screen (the bar fills up all the way), and then a blue screen and repeats over and over again. The F8 options do nothing. Is there any way around this without having to reinstall Windows, because it wasn't mine and therefore don't have the reinstall software. Thanks!
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pop3 and smtp ports
by Guest Jim- 1 reply
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I have Windows 2003 server and installed the POP3 service. How do I change the ports that are used for the POP3 and SMTP service? I want to change them to: pop3 = 995 smpt = 465 Thanks.
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Windows 2000 Server StandardEdition /PAE Question
by Guest Microsoft- 9 replies
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Hi. I have a Windows 2000 Server Standard Edition, with 4GB of RAM installed. I also have SQL Server 2000 Standard Edition installed on the same server. I'd like Windows to 'see' all $GB of RAM and I've read articles on /PAE, but unfortunately some of these articles imply that Windows 2000 Server Standard Edition cannot use /PAE. So I have a couple of questions that I hope the group can answer: 1) Does Windows 2000 Server Standard Edition only support 2GB of RAM out of the box? 2) Can /PAE be enabled on 2000 Server Standard Edition to allow it to utilize all 4GB? Thanks in advance. PJ.
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Run excel when logged off.
by Guest Jaz- 3 replies
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Is it possible to run excel when I'm logged of the computer? I have a excel document that launches a bunch of macros. I would like to have task scheduler run it at night without me being logged in. Is that possible? Thanks, Jasper
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W2k - failure to load SP4 because of no Web access
by Guest Michael- 7 replies
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Hi I have downloaded SP4 and am trying to install it on a laptop that does not have web access (yet!). The process stops with a setup error telling me to go to the W2k Service Pack Web site and select the 'Problems Downloading the Service Pack'. Apparently, I can get information about downloading a version of the service pack that does not need a Web connection. I CAN'T EVEN FIND THE SP WEB SITE!!! Can anyone help an aging newbie please? Best wishes Michael
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Exchange 2000 Send As permission
by Guest Krykino- 0 replies
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I'm using windows server and exchange 2000. In order to have the send as permission for user A on mailbox of user B, I go to AD, search for user B's user account and under security tab, add user A and selected the send as permission and restarted the information store. After half an hour, I realized that the user A is not in the list anymore. I thought that I didn't add into it. So I repeated the same step again and again and the same thing happen. Why will this thing happen? The user A will keep on disappear from the list and i need to add it manually. "Allow inheritable permissions from parent to propagate to this object" is not selected. Any help would …
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.net V2 Installer Hang?
by Guest Chris LeFebvre- 0 replies
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I'm installing an updated application on a Windows 2000 machine that requires the .net V2 framework. This application tried to automatically download and install it but apparently got hung up. I tried exiting, rebooting and downloading the .net V2 redistributable from MS and installing that and it got hung up as well but I was able to see where exactly it got stuck, under "Installation Progress" I see this: Key: \Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\SideBySide\PatchedComponents, Name: {63E949F6-03BC-5C40-C01F-C8B3B9A1E18E}, Value: C:\WINNT\winsxs\Policies\X86_policy.8.0.Microsoft.VC80.CRT_1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b_x-ww_... can anyone make a suggestion about how …
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Need Help with QBasic Commands
by Guest Terry Mester- 2 replies
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I have QBasic Version 1.1 which, as you know, doesn't have a functioning "Help" Menu. There is no information available on Microsoft's Website which provides a List of QBasic's COMMANDS, and the proper syntax for its Commands. Does anyone have a complete list of QBasic Commands & Syntax which you could post here, or E-Mail them to me at tlmester@niagara.com. Thanks for you help. Sincerely, Mr. Terry Mester
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Can't open JPEGs over 1 MB in Picture and Fax Viewer
by Guest Dahlias- 1 reply
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When I double-click on a JPEG e-mail attachment in Outlook, Windows Picture and Fax Viewer will open the file if it's under 1 MB, it won't open it if it's over 1 MB. How can I fix this?
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WMI Access to MountPoints on Windows 2000
by Guest David Förderer- 0 replies
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Hello, i've got a question. On Windows 2003 there are the WMI-Classes 'Win32_Volume' and 'Win32_MountPoint' to get Information about MountPoints. On Windows 2000 and Windows XP, these two classes don't exit. Are there any other classes which include the same information on Windows 2000 and Windows XP??? -- Nur wer denkt, irrt auch!!!
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After giving up on the problem deleting recently emptied folders, I tried to update the W2K installation. This failed with a fairly common error message EOX..... the details of which I do not have access to for reasons explained below. None of the MS site suggestions allowed the windows update to begin. Assuming the W2K SP4 installation to be corrupt, I attempted to perform an in-place upgrade, booting from the installation CD with the correct raid drivers available during start-up. After failing to read spxcoins.dl_ off the installation disk, or off a subsequent floppy copy, the inplace upgrade stopped midway during final registry of devices. The spxcoins.…
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Two Win2K Domain Controllers Not Responding after March 2008 Updat
by Guest Andreas- 3 replies
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Configuration: 2 HP/Compaq Proliant Win2K Domain Controllers, both with DNS/DHCP/FRS and a Dameware Remote Control Agent (acted strange in logs Too, so writing it down here). On March 13th server 2 was not responding with messagelog: Event Id 2510 : The server service was unable to map error code 1453. On March 12th server 1 was not responding with a number of strange messages. In both cases a Cold Boot was required, but the systems did not hang completely.
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Reboot?
by Guest Sid Elbow- 7 replies
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I have an odd situation that may (or may not) be related to my Win2K configuration. I run AVG antivirus on 4 machines all with Win2K. AVG is set to update automatically each day. Recently, on one machine only, the update software is demanding a machine reboot to complete the update. It didn't used to do this and none of the other machines do it and they are all receiving the same updates. This leads me to believe it's a difference in OS configuration which is necessitating this reboot. It's a minor nuisance but does anyone have any idea what might affect this?
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Have to log off twice...
by Guest Adde- 3 replies
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On my Windows 2000 Server for some reason I have to log off twice. the first attemtp to log off, shut down or restart does not do anything! This issue does not seem to generate any errors or cause any other problems but it is very annoying... Anyone, any ideas on what is causing it and how it can be fixed? Thanks, /Adde -- fantamejthisisgoodvarjedag
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Need Advice on Updates
by Guest Eric- 4 replies
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I'm running Windows 2000 with SP4 & Update Rollup 1. I have a dial-up connection with a firewall and I never use Internet Explorer or Outlook Express. I'd like any advice on additional patches or updates that would be considered absolutely "essential" to have.
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Error Message Occurred When Unsharing
by Guest Diane Walker- 1 reply
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We have a file sharing setup on Windows 2003 Domain Controller. When we unshare the folder, we got the error message "An error occurred while trying to delete share speech. The share must be removed from Distributed File System before it can be deleted". Do you have any suggestions on how to unshare the folder? Thanks. Diane
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mouse pointer - double speed?
by Guest surface9- 2 replies
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Is there a way to get my logitech mouse (marble mouse trackball) to go at double speed? Even the "fast" box is much slower than the same option under windows 98se. Logitech doesn't respond, so, maybe someone here knows of an aftermarket program that will just double the motion speed of the mouse - ok?
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dueal boot - blue and white screen
by Guest aa- 23 replies
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On ASUS notebook with Windows XP Home attempted to make it dual boot to install W2K. Before dong any changes I copied original ntldr (245K) and ntdetect.com(47K). With Partition Magic created an NTFS primary partition and installed W2K Pro which went smoothly, and W2K was running OK XP Home would not start at all because, as I seem to remember, ntldr(211K) and ntdetect.com(34K) generated by W2K would not load XP, -so I replaced them with the those of XP Home I copied earlier. Now after selecting XPHome it produces the screen suggesting several modes of loading XP Home, but whatever mode I select it just restarts the computer. I replaced ntldr and ntdetect.c…
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Reinstalling RAID Drivers
by Guest DSt- 3 replies
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Hi all, I have a Dell PowerEdge 2500 server, which has a PERC 3Di RAID controller in it, attached to two 36G drives, which are mirrored, running Windows 2000 SBS. We have been having problems lately, where one drive has been going offline - so the other day, we tried to install some of Tools from the Dell website, for diagnosis - unfortunately, one of them, it would appear, has somehow deleted or replaced the correct driver - after restarting (to complete an install of one of the tools), we now get a STOP Error: INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE. The drives are online at the moment, the array is intact and the data seems to be on the disk (I've used a boot CD to g…
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Users & Groups
by Guest Danny- 1 reply
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Win 2000 Server. I want to ad a user to the "Administrators" group who is now a member of the "domain user" group. Should I just add them to the Administrator and also leave them as a member of the domain user group, or remove them from the domain user group. I'm not sure if being a member of both groups is only redundant or could cause a problem. Danny
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Can't seem to make IE the default
by Guest Rob Dale- 1 reply
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A few weeks back, an update for my W2K O/S might have had a gremlin or two in it. Anyway, since then whenever I use IE, I never get asked if I want to make it the default. (My normal browser is Opera.) However, it suits me to switch for a while. How can I make IE the default? Thx
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User Profiles
by Guest Dave Patrick- 8 replies
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Assuming the profile isn't corrupt hold the shift key while logging off user2 and logon as user1 again. Be sure you know the password for the local administrator account before hand. -- Regards, Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup. Microsoft Certified Professional Microsoft MVP [Windows] http://www.microsoft.com/protect "G.G. Biggar, Jr." wrote: > In a previous posting, I described a problem whereby my computer is > booting > to what I believe appears to be a different user profile than I have been > using for the past year. I am now convinced that this is the problem. > Under Documents & Settings…