Windows 2000 Workstation
Windows 2000 Professional help and discussions.
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Any suggestions please! Familiar with internals of win2kpro but this one has beaten me! After a few probs and rebuild of system, suddenly any 16bit program(Coreldraw 5 for example) which opens with "wowexec" has an odd problem. Programs open/run fine, but when a ''open file'' command is issued and the dialog box pos up, all files on current partition are shown but the ''drive'' box is either blank or showing the current drive only. Opening up the drop box, show just a large white space. However, putting full path in the filename box is fine. Please, which file(s) handle this particular box (as different format to all other 'open' boxes) so…
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Server keeps spitting out backup tape
by Guest Dana DiSalvo- 1 reply
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I'm running small business server/server 2000. Every morning I come in and change out the backup tape. 10 minutes after I put in the new backup tape, it spits it right back out. I've tried different tape, but it spits them all back out. Has anyone else had this problem? How did you fix it?
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Services and IE with problems
by Guest Clemente- 1 reply
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After the last Security Updates and a reboot my W2K server is behaving strangely. On this server is running Exchange Server 2000, and all related services are working fine (email is working, outlook clients can access their mail, outlook web access is working). However, I am having lots of problems with the server: - IE does not work - even opening "About" makes IE freeze - cannot stop/start services manually - in IIS Admin, can stop "sites", but cannot start "sites" - cannot install new updates (because Windows installer does not start) - opening the "Add/Remove Programs" takes ages There are no errors in the Event Log, things just freeze. One last…
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Program dominates screen, wants to always be "on top"
by Guest jbclem- 1 reply
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I have a stock market real time program that is very annoying in the way that it wants to be always "on top". While I can understand needing some priority when live real time data is coming in (during market hours), other similar programs don't have this problem. What I am talking about it that if I am in another program, the click on the desktop icon...this program will pop up on top. Same when I'm switching from one program to another one (which this real time program is running). Most obnoxiously, when I'm closing down this program (it takes 1-2 minutes), I can't do anything else because everytime I switch to another program this one will pop up "on top". …
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Wierd Desktop Problem
by Guest ahbutler- 3 replies
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Greetings, I have a Windows 2000 Server that generates the following message when double- clicking the "My Computer" icon on the desktop. I have already tried what is described in MSKB article Q172223. This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action. Create an association in My Computer by clicking View and then clicking Options. Any adivse is appreciatted. Thank You Aaron
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How to remove .RAR optoins from Win 2K menus?
by Guest Clueless in Seattle- 2 replies
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A while back I downloaded a file that was compressed with something called RAR. I ended up downloading and installing an RAR file utility called WinRAR and now my Windows 2000 menus are cluttered with RAR menu items. For example, now in Windows Explorer, when I right click on a file name, on the little menu that drops down, no less than *four* RAR items now appear: * Add to archive... * Add to "Archive.rar" * Compress and email... * Compress to "Archive.rar" and email.... I find this a bit annoying and would like to clean up the clutter on the menus. But I would prefer not to have to remove WinRAR altogether. How can I do this…
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Humaneyes sucks!
by Guest Humanass- 0 replies
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We are a company in Turkey and we purchased the package from them. Humaneyes software, services are sucks and totally rubbish. Don't be fooled by Humaneyes anymore!
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Humaneyes sucks!
by Guest Humanass- 0 replies
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We are a company in Turkey and we purchased the package from them. Humaneyes software, services are sucks and totally rubbish. Don't be fooled by Humaneyes anymore!
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IPP problem - page cannot be displayed
by Guest Bill Fisher- 1 reply
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I am trying to set up my win2k pro machine as an IPP print server but I can't get the printer web page to load,. instead, I get an http error # 500 "page cannot be displayed". When I browse to http://printserver/printers I get the prompt to enter the user name and the password and then I get the above described error. I get this error when browsing from both the client (an xp machine) and the server (the win2k machine). Note that in my router setup I have forwarded TCP port # 631 to the win2k machine. Other web pages on this IIS server work fine. I can access them without any problems so there is nothing wrong with my IIS setup.(or so I think). If anyon…
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Remote Installations Services
by Guest Diane- 0 replies
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I have been using RIS to deploy desktops and notebooks. My problem is that while RIS works for 90% of the machines - some stop and hang at a blue screen after the image is selected. On a restart of that machine, if you try to image it again - you receive an OS Chooser v5.0 message on a black screen. At that point, the machine can not be imaged using RIS. I would like a way around it, so that I can image the machine. My "problem" machines, I end up installing XP from scratch which is time consuming. The machines that do NOT work have the same configuration as the other 90% of the machines that work flawlessly. I am running RIS on a Server 2000 SP4 ma…
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Installation of 34 updates has screwed something up on log-in
by Guest news.microsoft.com- 0 replies
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Had a computer die on me yesterday (only processor fan working on plug in, nothing whatsoever else and on/off switch lights up but doesn't do anything) so I pulled out a box I hadn't used in some months It logs in in a peculiar way, with the need to CAD and then type in ADMINISTRATOR (and no password) before it will start windows. Never figured out why though it calls it some type of 'security policy'. There are two names in the lower part of the screen, DOMAIN1 and some past user. Neither of which will log on. I assume someone in a past life had this on some network but I certainly don't need this any more. On start, I used it for a few hours succ…
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"Disk defragment" is not defragmenting
by Guest v- 2 replies
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I have been using Adobe Photoshop elements 3.0 recently editing photos. I think this is where my problem began. I think it saves each photo, or portion of photo's somewhere. After using this program previously, I now have only 1.2 GB of free space, when I should have approx. 4-5GB of space left. Also, when I try to defragment my "C" drive, it indicates that most of the drive is red, or "fragmented". When I run the program, it does not clean the drive. It seems to go through the process, but does not really defrag any files. I believe Photoshop has files of these edited photos somewhere but I can't find them. I have searched many different options on the "C" d…
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MS-Config
by Guest Roger Fink- 4 replies
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I just unchecked a few items under the "Startup" and "Services" tabs of MS-config. Now, whenever I open it, whether I make a change or not, I get a message after closing (unless I close by selecting "cancel") that I have to reboot for the changes I made to System Configuration to take effect. I also get a message after I reboot (or log off and log on) informing me that I have made changes to the system configuration and to check the box if I don't want the configuration utility to launch on reboot or see this message again (these messages would be normal if I had made changes). The items I unchecked in Startup were related to nVidia features and also mobsync…
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help with secedit command
by Guest rocketz21- 1 reply
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I need to refresh a group policy setting for a windows 2000 pc using secedit and it doesn't appear to be working. I've tried secedit /enforce or secedit /refreshpolicy It brings up an automatic security config dialog box. Why is this happening?
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Phantom DVD Drive
by Guest MS- 0 replies
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Hi, I have a phantom CD/DVD drive on my fully up-to-date Win 2000 Pro PC. It's listed in device manager under 'DVD/CD-ROM drives' as: 'ZE3506G VEZ242R SCSI CdRom Device' No drive named anything like that is on nor has ever been on my PC. Also I've never has a SCSI CD/DVD drive on the system though I do have a SCSI scanner. I have deleted the drive from device manager (and from 'Computer Management'), but I get a reboot pop-up and after the reboot the phantom drive is back again! Meanwhile my genuine DVD drive now won't recognize DVDs in it. Could the phantom drive be interfering? The only thing I can think of is I got a new mobile phone last…
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Unable to run vb script in windows XP
by Guest Vijay Kotian- 3 replies
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I am trying to run VBSCRIPT in windows XP and unable to run, but the same script can be run on Windows 2000 professional, what needs to be done ? OR If any patch available where I can be copy in my PC? Please help.
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dynamic library dll. files
by Guest canyondancer- 1 reply
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i recently started getting error message after starting up computer or restarting. Unable to load dynamic library dll. files reader 7.0. What is this? And how would I reload or correct this issue?
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reset display for user
by Guest MSNewsGroup- 4 replies
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I have a user who somehow set his resolution to beyond the range of the monitor. How do I reset that users display settings under safemode. Thanks CF
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Wireless Over Cisco VPN Client
by Guest Diane Walker- 2 replies
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One of the users has a laptop running Windows 2000 Professional. He was able to access the internet through wireless in a hotel. However, after logging in to Cisco VPN client, he can no longer access the internet or the local LAN network. He could not open Microsoft Outlook or ping any devices even though he was authenticated through Cisco VPN client. Do you have any suggestions? Thanks.
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Utility to search for string in string
by Guest flahmeshess- 7 replies
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In my batch, I want to search for a string in a environment variable, possible ? Any utility to do that ? eg. SearchStr %1 %bigstring% Is there any such Search utility that can search %1 in %bigstring% and return an errorlevel for subsequent steps ? Thanks very much.
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Preventing Standby
by Guest flahmeshess- 3 replies
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Previously, my machine would go into standby at the preset time. But now, sometimes it does not. The PC also does not turn off the screen at the preset time. I wonder what would prevent the machine from going to standby ? What would reset the timer so that it does not kick off the standby mode. Hard disk access ? Lan Activities ? Keyboard activities ? Mouse activities ? CPU utilisation ? Thanks for any advice !
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How to identify runaway process / memory leak
by Guest Brian- 3 replies
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I have an SBS2000 server that pretty much hangs after about 10 days of running because it runs out of nonpaged pool space. It has been running fine for about 5 years, and this started perhaps two months back. The first time, I thought it was just an anomaly, but there has turned out to be a consistent memory leak. Through PerfMon, I have identified the fact that both the nonpaged bytes & the handle count steadily rise after a reboot but cannot easily identify which process is responsible. All the documentation I have seen seems to require me to have a suspect process before I can determine whether it is, indeed, the problem. However, how can I ident…
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Login Script problem.
by Guest Sandeep K- 0 replies
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History of issue:- All users belonged to the Single(e.g:- S) OU in the Active Directory. This OU(i.e S) had Group Policies assigned against it and a number of Logon scripts were run. All users were located in one location with no problems. A project was raised to separate the users in two different OU ( E.g:- U1 and U2) because of businesses requirment and the in new building was prepared. As a joint exercise, the U1 users and U2 users were separated into 2 newly created OU's (e.g:- S1 and S2). These new OU's ran the same GPO's (with some slight differences, mainly branding) and the same Logon scripts. The U2 staff were moved to new building. At…
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Changing the Prefix of a Group of Files
by Guest W. Watson- 6 replies
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I have some photos on a CD and they are prefixed like: 425691-R-284-1 425691-R-284-2 425691-R-284-3 425691-R-284-4 .... 425691-R-284-24 I'd like to change the 425691-R-284- part to Trip2004_ Can it be done in one fell swoop? -- Wayne Watson (Nevada City, CA) Web Page: <speckledwithStars.net>
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Disable dhcp in a domain pc
by Guest Myweb- 2 replies
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Hello ronny, Did you configure the Domain DNS server only as primary DNS server? Is it the same subnet mask and default gateway for your domain? Best regards Myweb Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. > When I disable DHCP and work with static address in my PC which is > included > in a large domain, the PC works very slow. > Can someone advise please? > Regards > > Gur >