Windows 2000 Workstation
Windows 2000 Professional help and discussions.
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Non-Dvorak Keyboard Layout ¿¿
by Guest InOverMyHead- 3 replies
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I want to add a new keyboard layout (Control Panel - Keyboard - Input Locals) for Spanish characters. I am tired of doing the Alt-Keypad thing. I note that Microsoft has a huge number of keyboard options. Is there a graphic somewhere that corresponds to each of these variations? Without a guide, its really a guessing game which of the several "Spanish" layouts will best fit my needs. Thanks for any help¡¡ Bob
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Increasing internet speeds
by Guest Ray K- 0 replies
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I use this site, http://internetfrog.com/, to measure my u/l and d/l speeds. From January 22 to March 5, I made 20 tests. On March 6, I ran a program that optimized internet setting and recorded 5 tests so far. The averages (and the highest and lowest values)of those two sets of tests are: Jan 22 through Mar 5 Mar 6 through Mar 11 D'load speed: 1.75 Mbps (3.01-1.20) 4.24 Mbps (4.66-3.69) Upload speed: 411 Kbps (675-189) 530 Kbps (841-204) Quality of service: 42 Pct (95-13) 80 Pct (88-73) Round Trip Time: 107 ms (122-89) 98 ms (121-91) Max pause: 461 ms (1124-…
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win2000 dual boot
by Guest Bob I- 2 replies
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IF you use a third party boot manager, what's on the other partitions is immaterial. JM wrote: > Is it possible to have windows 2000 doing a dual boot with Macintosh and > Linux all on the same hard drive? > JM > >
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Hi All, We recently upgraded a windows 2000 server to Windows 2003 enterprise edition server, it was a fresh installation. We created all the shares which existed and gave permissions, and user started working on it for the last 2 days, yesterday we gave windows update and updated the server using express update, so almost everything got updated. This server is a member server in a AD domain, users are grouped this way. Two groups H1 and H2 were created in "Tai2d/built" OU and all users were placed in respective groups according to their privileges. But from today onwards some users are not able to access some shares. for eg. user1 and user2 are ex…
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Registry Woes Courtesy of Adobe
by Guest Hiram- 6 replies
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Morning: I recently allowed the adobe updater to upgrade my reader... It didn't uninstall the Reader 9.0b.ocx file properly before loading the new version and now the registry is looking for that OCX file... I tried deleting the key that refers to it but Win 2K won't let me delete the invalid registry key... I asked Adobe and they sent me a utility to wipe the ocx files from the computer and then I reloaded the new reader from their website... It's still looking for the 9.0b ocx file... Help...
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Time increased to Shutdown a lot
by Guest dc- 2 replies
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Hi, I have one w2k ws that takes a long time to shutdown. Is there a way to check it out to see what might be causing it? tia, dc
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Laptop Keyboard Problem
by Guest Roger Fink- 2 replies
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I'm in the process of setting up a ThinkPad R40 W2k laptop for a friend of mine. I've created a new administrator level profile for her and in general things are going OK with the exception of this keyboard problem Certain letters on the right side of the keyboard have numbers or symbols on them and it's the numbers and symbols that are being displayed when you press the keys. For instance <explorer.exe> appears as <ex*36rer.exe>. This can be corrected by pressing shift/num lock after you log in but she shouldn't have to do that. It should default to a normal keyboard without that step. The other profiles on the machine don't have this problem. I'…
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takes a long time to logon...
by Guest rodchar- 4 replies
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hey all, i just built a 2 computer network pc1 has windows 2000 server (domain controller) pc2 has xp sp2 on it joined to pc1 domain. latest updates and patches have been installed. for some reason it takes a long time (~3 minutes) to login from pc2 into the domain. any ideas? thanks, rodchar
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File extension association doesn't work - workarounds?
by Guest inews@questuscorp.com- 1 reply
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I run a program which uses a particular file extension (say *.abc). Opening files from within the program is perfectly functional. However, by default, there is no registered file type for *.abc. When I register the file extension to the relevant executable, and double click on a data file, nothing happens. The software vendors cannot help, not even to suggest the workaround which I eventually stumbled across. There is a workaround - add the executable to the "Send To" list, right click on a file and the file opens inside the program as hoped. The other workaround is to use an automation program, but is rarely applicable. I do this hundreds of times a …
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Having problems adding printer. ERROR#11-Unable to add printer driver "HP DeskJet" ERROR#11-Unable to add printer "same" ERROR#7-Registry update failed for key "HPC Filename" ERROR#7-Registry update failed for key "Printer Model Name" I recently added a new hard drive and clean installed of 2000 Pro with SP4 and numerous critical updates. Which I think are preventing the update. Can I edit the registry manually ? thankyou, john
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Missing ".exe" extension on download
by Guest Bob Howard- 9 replies
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Hi, My daughter gave me her old W2K laptop, and I'm trying to download a program "xxxxxx.exe" from a web site. The file downloads OK, but without any file extension ... is just downloads as "xxxxxx" ... I've poked around and cannot figure out what's wrong. I've tried the same download on both Win/XP and Win/Vista computers, and they work fine. Is there some sort of option I need to set to have the ".exe" preserved?? BTW, I also tried this with my antivirus software disabled, and it made no difference. I also checked my IE, and it's IE 6 with no plugins. Thanks for any help!! bob
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NET framework multi versions
by Guest tex shalter- 1 reply
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Looking thru for programs to delete - I see I have net framework 1.1 and 2.0 Is it safe to remove 1.1 ?
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Memory dump
by Guest TL07- 3 replies
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I run the normal Professional version of Windows 2000. Everytime after my computer crashes and it makes a memory dump, I find that my temporary internet files are deleted as well. Is there a way to set the dump configuration so that it doesn't delete those files? Because I use a large cache and my hard drive is slow, so it takes 15-30 minutes to delete them.
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schedule job for copy/move command fail
by Guest JohnDo3- 1 reply
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I am trying to have schedule job to copy or move files from local drive to mapped network drive/folders, but fails. I can issue cmd command without problem. Is it the permission issue on windows server (Win2k)? Thanks.
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Hard drive knackered? (Again) Stop Error 000000x7b
by Guest kleefarr- 21 replies
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Installed a new hard drive yesterday, loaded windows and updated everything. Ws running fine. Today, transfered some files over to the new drive. Got a light grinding noise, computer restarted by it's self and now gives a stop error 000000x7b and will not start in safe mode or boot from cd. Is there anything I can do or is it another RMA job? Kevin
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Setting up Auditing of folders
by Guest Kevin- 1 reply
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We are using Access as our database and a folder d:\database\???? We have has a rash of databases missing and tables deleted. How can I audit folders or subfolders? Kevin...
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folders accepting only certain extensions?
by Guest ps- 2 replies
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Is there a way for me to only accept a certain type of file extension into a folder? For example, I want this folder to only accept .bmp files. I would like to not accept anything else into the folder. Any way to do this? thanks.
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W2K SP4 dual boot problems
by Guest legg- 12 replies
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I've been nursing along a W98 2ed (on C:) W2K SP4 ( on D:) dual boot system since Y2K. My back-up method involved ternary rotation of hard drive sets. This produces a working hard drive for C and D, a most recent individual back up for each, and a previous back-up of each. Backing up involves cloning the current drive's contents onto the oldest back-up drives, installing the recent clones into operation, and retiring the working drives to most recent back-up position. Every time I do this, I get some kind of problem. Usually this involves an inaccessible W2K or W98 OS. Repair usually involves using W2K setup disc set, to fixmbr (default) from the command co…
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Screensaver password
by Guest Alan T- 1 reply
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I tried to create a password in the screen saver settings but it only provide a check box but no way to allow me to setup the password.
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System time keeps going back 1 day
by Guest Trevor- 3 replies
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I have a Windows 2000 server (it's not on a domain) whose system clock periodically goes back by one day. It's started happening more frequently, and is becoming a real problem. We have a freeware program that's supposed to synchronize it with one of the online time servers on a daily basis, but it won't let you control what time of day it does it, and it doesn't do it early enough in the day to avoid problems with some scheduled processes that we have. I tried turning on the Windows Time service, but it gives an error saying the time is more than 12 hours out of sync and won't adjust it. I tried putting a new setting in the registry to increase the amount …
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How to change Windows Explorer's default directory?
by Guest baobob@my-deja.com- 6 replies
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In Windows Explorer, the Explorer Bar displays Folders. Every time I launch Explorer, "Local Disk (C:)" is selected and expanded, which I don't want. I want some other default location under My Computer to be expanded. But I can't find any place in the UI to do that. Where do you specify default directory in Windows Explorer? Thanks. ***
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Stack Overflow
by Guest EnigmaX- 1 reply
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When I turn on my laptop I get this: a fatal error has exemption has occurred at 016F:BFFBFB22. The current application will be terminated. Press any key to the current application. Press control+alt+del etc. Press any key to continue. I press any key to continue and nothing happens. Pressing cnt+alt+del does what it is supposed to do. Is my laptop dead, what can I do
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EventID 7023 Microfost Search Service
by Guest Cyberpro60- 1 reply
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I am getting a persistent error: EventID 7023 every time I reboot my Windows 2000 server. The details are: ------------------------------------------------------- Event Type: Error Event Source: Service Control Manager Event Category: None Computer: WIN2000_SERVER Description: The Microsoft Search service terminated with the following error: The system cannot find the file specified. ----------------------------------------------- It is not a 'timing' issue as I can't manually start the Search Service after bootup has completed either. I have searched enlessly through all the online documentation without finding a solution to this problem. …
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SP4 problems
by Guest Ray K- 5 replies
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For years, my W2K with SP4 ran okay. Last week, following a virus attack, I reformatted c: and reinstalled W2K. To make a very long story short, without SP4, webpages open fast. With SP4, they are virtually impossible to open, with either of my browsers, Sea Monkey and IE. I got the SP4 update right from microsoft. File name is SP4express_EN.exe, size 589K, version 1.16.120.0, June 20, 2003. Odd thing: before all my problems started, I distinctly remember that if I went to Control Panel/Add Remove Programs, there were multiple entries related to SP4; maybe they were later patches to SP4. When I reinstall SP4 today, and then go to remove it, there is ju…
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HD formatting problem
by Guest r2d2- 10 replies
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I have purchased a Samsung SATA 160GB HD to be added to an existing windows 2000 having one SATA 80 GB partitioned disk (2x40GB NTFS). I have partitioned the new HD in 2x80 NTFS but I can only format one partition. The other one refuses to be formatted. Then I created a single partition (1x160) but it refuses the format process too. I have used Paragon Hard Disk Manager 8.0 and also the Windows Format command. The funny thing is that Format starts formatting but ends with the "unable to complete the format" error message after what seems to be a normal formatting time. Any idea on what´s wrong?