Windows 2000 Workstation
Windows 2000 Professional help and discussions.
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Can't upgrade 2000sp2 to sp4
by Guest muzikhed- 4 replies
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I had a W2k sp4 OS which crashed - failed to boot after attempting to fix Adobe program. With help from Dell I've wiped the c: clean & reformatted. I had much trouble getting it to boot at all. Would not complete the Win2K setup from CDrom. Finally I partitioned my Heardisk0 into 2 virtual drives: C: and H: and I set H: as the systemroot. Then I was able to get through the Win2k Setup sucessfully. Using Windows Update - I sucessfully installed Internet Explorer, but SP4 pack fails repeatedly. svcpack.log says: "Apply failed: c: <temp>\download\ntdll._p on h:\winnt\ntdll to get c:\<temp>\ntdll..dll" and repeats a similar message f…
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WMI Service - Stops/Starts Multiple Timees per Day
by Guest Dan Marbes- 0 replies
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I support a number of Windows 2000 servers in an enterprise enviroment (as well as Server 2003). I'm having issues with a number of the 2K machines. The WMI service will terminate unexpectedly and then (per the recovery options) restart. The service works as it is supposed to after the restart, but since we monitor the environment with MOM, this is sending a large number of alerts which I would like to eliminate. Does this repeated restart indicate a problem with the WMI service or should I look elsewhere for the root cause? I have not seen the issue on any of the 2003 servers, but am not familiar enough with the construction of the services to know…
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Getting partition too big on W2K re-install (NTFS)
by Guest Bill Stock- 1 reply
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A few weeks ago W2K hosed itself on my backup PC. I was able to get into the disk from a boot CD, but I could not get the disk to boot or W2K setup to see the installation. I pulled the drive this weekend and recovered the setup files I wanted to my XP machine. I also recreated and formatted the partitions I wanted in XP and put the files back on those partitions. W2K still cannot see the installation (disk unformatted or damaged), so I killed the boot partition and tried to recreate it in W2K, but I'm getting partition too big. The partition I'm trying to create is 8 GB and is NTFS. Disk is set to Auto in the BIOS (always was), so it should not be a si…
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windows2000 professional cd player sound
by Guest squirltok@yahoo.com- 2 replies
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Hi my cd player that comes with 2000 has no sound but vlc player does, it was a driver AC97, any thoughts on fixing this? Oh yeah I have a sound blaster live card.
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Re: Print dialog too big
by Guest PA Bear [MS MVP]- 0 replies
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Re: Print dialog too big Forwarded to microsoft.public.win2000.general via crosspost. -- ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002 AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net DTS-L http://dts-l.net/ bomberer4@yahoo.com wrote: > I recently added a new printer to my W2K machine. I'm not sure if > this > is the cause of my problem or not . . . > When I try to print from OutlookExpress 6 the print dialog is too big > to fit on the screen. I'm running 800x600 due to vision problems. > > The print dialog has changed recently: the border of the entire box > is > now much larger than nece…
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Print dialog too big
by Guest bomberer4@yahoo.com- 0 replies
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I recently added a new printer to my W2K machine. I'm not sure if this is the cause of my problem or not . . . When I try to print from OutlookExpress 6 the print dialog is too big to fit on the screen. I'm running 800x600 due to vision problems. The print dialog has changed recently: the border of the entire box is now much larger than necessary to contain the elements within. As such, there is quite of bit of flat gray area to the right the information/setup areas and between the Page Range/Number of copies areas and the Print/Cancel/Apply buttons (they are off the bottom of the screen.) The print dialog in MS Word does not have this problem. Anyone k…
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Ping error 65
by Guest nesredep egrob- 1 reply
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by Guest sarwer1@gmail.com- 1 reply
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Ping error 65
by Guest Dave Patrick- 1 reply
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This article may help. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/298100 -- Regards, Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup. Microsoft Certified Professional Microsoft MVP [Windows] http://www.microsoft.com/protect "nesredep egrob" wrote: > This seems to be different to other cases I have seen and as yet it is not > cured. 2 computers are connected directly from a Dlink 504 router. It has > worked > for some years like that. This one is w2k sp4 plus updates and in perfect > order, > the troubled one is a XP sp2. The XP will see W2k and see any folder I > have made > available on the net but will not con…
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Problem adding local user to local group or deleting local user
by Guest fkitzmann- 4 replies
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I have a problem when trying to add a local user to a local group using "Computer Managment" tool on a Windows 2000 Server. First off: The existing group memberships are not displayed. Second: After hitting the Add... button an error message pops up and tells me "An error occurred attempting to create the Object Picker". Third: When trying to delete a local user, an error message pops up saying "An error occurred while attempting to delete a user: An invalid Active Directory pathname was passed" Has anybody had this problem? What can I do (besides reinstall)?
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Com port install
by Guest Davet102- 2 replies
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Win2k machine. I have 2 DB9 Serial ports on this machine. Only 1 is showing up in the Hardware config (Com1) How do I get the other one to be recognized as com2?? how do I set that one up?? Thanks Bob
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Has MS fixed Win 2000's file copy logic, which completely aborts onencountering a problem?
by Guest baobob@my-deja.com- 2 replies
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Has MS fixed Win 2000's file copy logic, which completely aborts onencountering a problem? I just upgraded from Win 98 to Win 2000 SP4, and I continued to be sickened by Microsoft's failure to implement reasonable logic for human users. In copying a tree structure from one place to another--as millions of us do regularly in order to, say, back up a USB stick to our hard drive--Microsoft has failed to implement any error recovery. In File Explorer, if you highlight a folder, select Copy, go to your destination, and select Paste, then, if any error occurs during the copying--for instance, Windows encounters a path that is too long-- then the copy completely …
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System Crashes with 2G Memory
by Guest ggonthedl- 3 replies
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Am looking for information that can lead to fix for W2KAS when installing 2G RAM. Motherboard: Asus A7M266-D Processor(s) (2): AMD Athalon XP 1800+ DIMM: KVR266X64C25/512 I have been running two KVR266X64C25/512 for about three years on this server, but when I install two of the same chip W2KAS crashes with a different STOP message each time, and never in the same stage of bootup. Sometimes it will make it into the OS and allow me to run an application, but the moment the application loads the OS crashes to a reboot. I tried inserting the /PAE switch in boot.ini, but this has not corrected the problem. However, when I remove the two new DIMM's W2KAS b…
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Unable to locate the Desktop Icon Window
by Guest Colon Terminus- 2 replies
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That is the exact message that pops up in a dialog box each and every time I click on the "Show Desktop" icon in the Quick Launch bar. "Show Desktop" works as expected, just that annoying Fatal Error dialog box. I've searched Google with no luck. I've searched Google Groups with no luck. I've searched Microsoft with no luck. This is a newly built box with a quad core processor, 4GB RAM and a 1TB disk array, dual booting 2K and XP ... both fully patched. Oddly enough, I see exactly the same behaviour when booted to XP. -- Posted via NewsDemon.com - Premium Uncensored Newsgroup Service ------->>>>>>http://www.NewsDemon.com<…
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When I watch video clips on youtube, it takes time to download it, so that when viewing it for the second time it plays without downloading so it must be cached somewhere. Is it cached on disk or in the memory?
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W2K fails to properly distinguish between Permanently Delete and Sendto Recycle Bin.
by Guest baobob@my-deja.com- 4 replies
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I just upgraded from Win 98 to Win 2000 SP4, and I continue to be absolutely sickened at the lack of attention to vital detail in the UI. In File Explorer, on highlighting a file and pressing Del, it asks whether you want to send the file to the Recycle Bin. Fine. Perfect. But on pressing Shift-Del, it asks whether you want to DELETE the file. Everyone KNOWS that Windows has the virtue of saving things for you in case you accidentally DELETE something. Everyone KNOWS that "delete" means merely to send to the Recycle Bin. The phrase they're looking for, PERMANENTLY DELETE, is abandoned, thrown out, not in the picture. Do more recent versions of Window…
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Moving Favorites
by Guest Thomas- 1 reply
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Same workstation, different hard drives w/ W2K Pro on both. I want to transfer & install my favorites from one HD to Favorites on the second HD. I have created a desktop Shortcut on the target HD/OS; now, how do I get it to display all the hundreds of links in the Favorites of the target HD/OS. I tried dragging it; no go. I tried Copy and Paste; no go. Thanks for any help. -- Thomas Peter v B
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How to back up one computer by another?
by Guest Mike Tucker- 1 reply
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I'd like to back up a 4-year-old desktop (which has a single physical hard drive and W2K OS) using a laptop (Vista OS) and an external HD. Ideally, I want to make a ghost image of the desktop HD. I normally do mirror image backups with Ghost 9 (which I'm quite happy with), but I'm not sure how to backup a computer which is itself in operation while I'm doing so. Any suggestions, anybody? Thanks.
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Data organization and management best practices
by Guest Barkley Bees- 1 reply
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I would very much like to hear from folks about their 'best practices' regarding data management, organization and directory structures. What are strategies do you follow for organizing and managing data on your systems (Client or server.....Mac, Linux or Windows...the same theories and practices can apply to all). In Windows I mainly keep my data in the 'My documents' folder or on my mapped network drives (separating work from personal) but I find that my data organization has gotten quite out of hand and I would like to redefine the structure and organzation for it. I, and surely others, appreciate any tips that any of you can share.
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.dll hell again
by Guest alshideaway- 0 replies
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Windows 2000 sp4. We have 2 separate environments for testing QA and IDE. Both machines are built identically; one is a vmware and the other is on real hardware. We are trying to install a msi package that registers a .dll file and it fails on the hardware box not the vmware box. I have tested the permissions, depends.exe and regmon, to no avail. “RegSvr32 Loadlibrary (“c:\mycom\mycom.dll) failed. A dynamic link library (DLL) initialization routine failed” is the general error. However in dependency walker I am getting an error on the KERNEL32.DLL function IsTNT – where on the vmware box it does not error. I am not a developer but the difference in the .…
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registration of COM.dll fails on server works on vmware
by Guest alshideaway- 0 replies
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Windows 2000 SP4 C:\MYcom\MYCOM.dll failed to register. I have used depends.exe to try and find out the reason that a .dll registration in a msi file fails on a brand new server in our QA enviroment and works fine in our IDE enviroment. This has been a problem for 2 months now. The servers ARE identical builds one is a vmware server and one is on a real box. "c:\MYcom\MYCOM.dll", 0x00000000, LOAD_WITH_ALTERED_SEARCH_PATH) returned NULL. Error: A dynamic link library (DLL) initialization routine failed (1114)." "Exited "c:\winnt\system32\REGSVR32.EXE" (process 0x1FC) with code 3 (0x3)." I have just about given up this is one of those "no reason why" proble…
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WinMgmt repository size, insufficient disk space or insufficientmemory, registry backup error
by Guest wscott44- 0 replies
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WinMgmt repository size, insufficient disk space or insufficientmemory, registry backup error Hi Folks: I am having trouble with the HKLM_SOFTWARE part of a registry. EMC Dantz Retrospect backup is scheduled to run at 4:04 every morning. It has been reporting errors when it tries to backup the registry. The following errors appear in the event viewer, Application Log -- 4:09 - EventID: 29 Source: WinMgmt The repository file was not the size we expected it to be. This could have been because WinMgmt crashed, the system crashed, or you did not shut your machine down cleanly. We had to delete the repository and create a new one. 4:09 - EventID: 27 …
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Windows 2000 can't join Windows server 2003 PDC
by Guest ViNC3 via WinServerKB.com- 7 replies
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Hi, i have a winserver2k3 primary Domain Controller, but when i tried to join the domain using computer with windows 2000 sp4, the computer can't detect any Domain at all. but when we unplug the computer with windows 2000 sp4 and join another network, the computer is able to connect to the DC with winNT 4.0 installed. anyone please help, thanks in advance, regards, Vince -- Message posted via WinServerKB.com http://www.winserverkb.com/Uwe/Forums.aspx/windows-2000-general/200801/1
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Save Quick Launch Toolbar layout
by Guest Ian D Samson- 7 replies
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After one of the most recent downloads for W2K SP4, Microsoft in all their wisdom and understanding of users' needs, requirements and preferences, decided to re-arrange the Quick Launch Toolbar alphabetically, irrespective of how long it had taken "this user" to arrange the icons into groups by preference, order of use, sequences, commonly-used icons vs not-so-commonly-used icons, etc. It has taken me 2 weeks to get my Quick Launch Toolbar back to the way I want it. Now I am looking for a way to save it so that it stays the way I want it to be, not the way MS or anyone else decides for me it should be. How can I save my QLT layout? Thanks.
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Stop Error on boot up
by Guest LMI- 1 reply
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After rebooting my PC. I see that i get a stop error 0x0000004D saying no Pages Available. I think this is a memory things however how can i tell for sure. It will boot up in safe mode.