Windows 2000 Workstation
Windows 2000 Professional help and discussions.
1671 topics in this forum
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Reboot command no longer works in Task Scheduler
by Guest Oliver- 8 replies
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The following bat script (as a file.bat) which I put on a task scheduler no longer works (W2K service pack 4). Shutdown.exe /L /R /T:120 /C How can I fix this? The shutdown has to work on each Saturday to refresh the server memory. Also, as a related solution to the above problem, how I can get the event viewer to email me an alert when it triggers certain ID code? Our main problem is that the server shutdowns expectedly and I suspect it is the event viewer getting full. So I am hoping someone will have the solutions. Oliver
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New Install - Lost Data
by Guest HuggieJ- 8 replies
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Long story, short - After getting the NTLDR missing error, and trying many different repairs, I decided to reinstall Win2k. As instructed, I made a different folder with the name winnt2. I've reloaded all the updates, etc. and got the system back to usable again, but have lost all the user data that I had on the sytem. My questions are: 1) did I truly lose the data, or is it on somewhere I just can't seem to access? 2) can I access this data and move it into the new install Sorry for the ignorance. I should have tried harder to repair the NTLDR problem, but ran out of patience. -- Regards, HuggieJ
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Lost my Generic Text Printer Installation
by Guest George Hester- 8 replies
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Hello. I was having trouble setting my default printer to something else besides the Generic Text Printer. I finally got my normal printer installed and tried to switch the default printer to that and away from the Generic Text Printer but it just would not work. So I decided to "delete" the Generic Text Printer and that is when the troubles began. It turns out I should have "uninstalled" the Generic Text Printer. As it is I wanted to put the Generic Text Printer back in but now it will not install. I get an error. And so it will not appear in Printers off the Control Panel. So now I am stuck. Is there a way to manually uninstall the Generic Text Printer? Maybe …
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win 2000
by Guest rb- 8 replies
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I have an 8 yr old pc I'd like to put a new 30gb hard drive in. That's what's there now. As long as I match up what where with it, will the pc match up OK? Or, do I need to find something that will match my pc board? I'm sure there are plenty. Where do I get the disks to start and run the Win 2000 disks I have?
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Broken Link in 'Notify me of replies' link
by Guest Summer1- 8 replies
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Good Day: Yesterday, I posted a question and I received a 'notification' of a reply this morning so I clicked on the link within the message. A new window opened but it was blank-Does the cache or something need to be 'cleared?' I had to go directly to the Microsoft Discussion website, log in there, and then view my message.
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USERINIT.EXE - A new startup
by Guest ms- 8 replies
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I normally have a very stable W2K system. This AM, I ran a utility that removes all instances of McAfee products, I didn't ever install McAfee, but the program instantly executed and was not able to be stopped. It apparently didn't find anything. But since then, I have a alert utility, and get frequent notices that USERINIT.EXE wants to be added to windows startup. I finally allowed it, rebooted, everything *seems* normal, but I am concerned, as W2K has daily cold booted fine for over 2 years w/o this startup. Below is the report on the USERINIT.EXE now in my system. I don't know if it replaced an earlier version, as I never before had occasion to loo…
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Ghosting Issue
by Guest Parvardigar- 8 replies
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This is very uncomplicated. I have at work here only Dell Optiplex GX1's running Windows 2000. On all the machine I ghosted from former harddrive 9GB to new harddrive 80GB. No problems. On this one machine I have ghosted in the usual fashion the 9GB to the 80GB drive. And I did this on two new fresh WD harddrives ending up with (after installing the newly Ghosted drive) this Blue Screen Stop 000000007B and so on ending with Inaccessible_Boot_Device. I've ran the Ghost several times and ending with the blue screen message. In Bios I alter the device to auto, and it is found. Bios fine. I can upon reboot launch safe, safe with networking, LKG, and so on.…
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Windows 2000 Professional
by Guest NoTech- 8 replies
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Hello: Help.....Are they 2 Versions of Windows 2000 Professional? One just that and the other one being the "Commemorative Edition"? What is the difference? Also, I got 4 Disks...? Will describe them if anyone have the time.... Thanks.
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Win 2000 pro won't boot
by Guest canna- 8 replies
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When the 2000 screen apear the loading bar gets about 3 quarters across and BSOD appears. It mentions about a virus and says run CHDSK /F. How can I fix this? I really need the files on the laptop for work. I got the laptop from a friend but it does not have a 2000 disk with it. I have gone to bootdisk. com and downloaded 4 disks and 2 .exe files. These are currently on my memory stick. The laptop doesn't have a floppy drive do I need to put these files on a CD? Many thanks in advance for your help. Canna
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Task Scheduler 0x80 errors
by Guest Paul- 8 replies
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Hi, We have problems with scheduled tasks failing on windows 2000. A reboot solves this but we cannot get to the bottom of the problem. It's Sp4 and there's no Human Interface Devices service. I've tried making jobs with the AT command, assigning runas service and bath permissions and pretty much worked through a lot of search results. It seems to be about every 7 days it fails. Can anyone shed light on this? There is nothing in event logs (app and system). Task log attached, job names aren't actually xxxxxxxxxx lol. "xxxxxxxxxx.job" (runxxxxx.bat) Started 06/10/2008 23:45:00 "xxxxxxxxx.job" (runxxxxx.bat) Finished 06/10/2008 23:49:14 Result: The tas…
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Transfer Win2000 all setting from Old PC to New PC
by Guest tlee- 8 replies
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Hi All, Could anyone tell me how to transfer Win2000 all setting from old PC to new PC? Thanks Tlee
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"Not enough storage is available to process this command"
by Guest Todd Cary- 7 replies
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It appears after an update to my Win 2K computer, I get this message when I try to map a drive on another computer. I have tried the suggestions by Microsoft to alter the IRPStackSize to no avail. The permissions are Everbody and the drive(s) is Shared. Any suggestions? Anyone else have this problem? Many thanks... Todd
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other computer will not boot and dont have backup disks
by Guest hudginsb37- 7 replies
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my other computer a windows 2000 will not bott normally its says :will not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:/winnt/system32/config/system how can i fix this without the startup or backup disks? please help.
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Running batch files before Windows loads
by Guest JR- 7 replies
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Another odd question from Somerset! Having trolled the various resources I still can not find the answer, so here goes! I have a duel boot with Win98/dos and win2k. I have a batch file that I wish to run BEFORE windows loads that deletes all the index.dat files plus many more, including emptying the temp folder. The batch file works fine from win98 dos. Runs as command promt (but obviously can not delete protected files). I know can call it from the registry startup commands, but how do I run it before windows even loads, preferably before the boot menu comes up? Autoexec.bat doesn't run of course for Win2k and neither does a *.cmd batch f…
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Is it OK to enable SafeDllSearchMode?
by Guest void.no.spam.com@gmail.com- 7 replies
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I read that the registry key SafeDllSearchMode was introduced in Windows 2000 SP3. It improves security by searching in the system directories for DLLs before searching in the current directory. But it was disabled by default in all versions of Windows until Windows XP SP2 because it could potentially break existing applications. Does anyone know what applications will break if you enable it?
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How to create a registry Key with Regedt32.exe ?
by Guest Adam Smith- 7 replies
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I am cautiously attempting to insert a key into my registry but the instructions seems to miss some details. I have done this before but now seem to have lost my way, perhaps some one can guide me back on track. Below is the instruction set: --------------------------------------------------- How Do I Enable Windows Installer Logging? Windows includes a registry-activated logging services to help diagnose Windows Installer issues. This article describes how to enable this logging service. Open the registry with Regedt32.exe and create the following path and keys: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Installer Reg_SZ: Logging V…
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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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Outlook 2007
by Guest critterbug- 7 replies
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Is Outlook 2007 compatable with windows 2000? Because I can't get it to install. I get a message that says, "The specified program requires a newer version of Windows". Thanks for any information. cb
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restart command, shuts down and stays down
by Guest MF- 7 replies
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I've got an HP DL360 G4p with Win 2k SP4 on it. When I issue the restart command on it, it shuts down but won't start up again - which is a bit of a pain if I ever have to restart it remotely. I'm scratching my head. I've reapplied SP4 but (surprise surprise) it made no difference. HP say it's an MS issue. Anyone any ideas? Thanks... Mike
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Program hangs
by Guest Dave Patrick- 7 replies
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You'll probably have better luck contacting the application developer. -- Regards, Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup. Microsoft Certified Professional Microsoft MVP [Windows] http://www.microsoft.com/protect "Gordon Biggar" wrote: >I have an accounting program that I haven't used for several months. It is > designed for Windows 2000, but when I execute the program, it freezes > without opening. I tried uninstalling the program, but when I went to > re-install the program, the computer froze. > > I booted up in the Safe mode, and I was able to install the program from a > CD, and I was able to ex…
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Spooled print job size much larger than actual file
by Guest Mizzleman- 7 replies
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Hello, When one of my users print out a job to an IP printer on the WAN from a W2k SP4 server, the spooled print job is 2-3 times larger than the original file. What is going on? How can I reduce it to the smallest file possible for WAN transmission? Thanks.
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Win2000 Server performance problem
by Guest tlee- 7 replies
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I have a PC installed MS win2000 server(SP4) with SQL 2000 server. Problem: 1) I find its respond (data access from client PC) becomes slow after serveral weeks running. 2) could i need to run the defragment in win2000 server? (AD implemented) Thanks tlee
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Need a little help after Windows 2000 Pro install?
by Guest psongman- 7 replies
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Hi, I hope you can help me with some unexpected results after installing Windows 2000 Pro. What happened was, I was having so much trouble with my Windows 98 that I decided to upgrade. However, I put the new OS on top of the ole 98. I followed some instructions on the Net, and got it to boot up using the new OS by changing boot ini, etc. but here is what is strange. It says there are no programs in the add/remove programs area and it is acting like the Windows 2000 area is not connected to the 98 stuff, but I can use all the programs in the program files area. So, what should I do to make it work smoothly? I will stop updating all the stuff I had before, you…
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Disk cleanup
by Guest Sirius- 7 replies
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Disk cleanup utility freezes, how do you fix that? Thank you.
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Programs menu
by Guest Herbert Eppel- 7 replies
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Start > Programs shows a list of recently used programs that can be expanded to show all programs. Is it possible to change a setting somewhere such that Start > Programs always shows all programs? -- Herbert Eppel http://www.HETranslation.co.uk