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Hi Is there a way to use a batch file or script to do the following; 1. Create a folder X 2. Copy a file form another location to folder X. 3. Create a shortcut to copied file in folder X on the desktop? If batch or script can not do this, is there another way? Thanks Regards

Here are the specs. Windows XP Pro SP3 I am tring to setup a scheduled task and I get this error ....the account information could not be set. The specific error is: 0x80070057: The perameter is incorrect. All of the updates for this computer have been done. The permissions for the Administrative Tools tools under the All Users \ Start menu are all correct. The Administrator account and the *User* account both have passwords set. From all my research to date say that the Microsoft hotfix and SP2 should have resolved this issue. The KB refering to this issue seem to have been pulled as the SP should have fixed the prob…

Every now and again, maybe 2 or three times a week, I open a commonly used folder which I have previously set to a specific size, position and view, and find it has been reset to its default size an position, and that the selected view has been lost. It seems to pick a view at random, usually Icon, List or Tiles. Sometime sub-folders of the folder are also affected, sometimes not. What could be the reason for this? Is there anything I can do to stop this happening as it is most annoying to keep loosing the settings. I have already set the BagMRU size to 8000. I am confidant at editing the registry if required. Paul.

Yesterday 9/26 I uninstalled my webroot spyware. Then restarted laptop. When I logged on (administrator account) I got this message, "windows cannot load the users profile but has logged you on with the default profile". I can not acces my desktop, and all the documents. I tried to use Restore system, it doesn't work. I used to be able to do system restore. I can't do any download, or send email using that laptop. Because it said that I don't have administrator privilege. Please help all my work related documents are in that laptop. -- Thanks

Using SBS 2003 sp2 on a server with a dell 5110 cn networked printer on the network. Upgraded to SP3 and there seems to be a permission problem printing to the network printer. - it wont print. Getting a printer error id = 20 in the event viewer every time I try to print a test page. On the xp client, can see the printer in the printer box, I can uninstall and reinstall it, can view its properties byt can not print a test page. Instant error as soon as I press 'print test page' - can not print to printer - see network administrator. I have looked at all the basic settings and they appear fine. Only happened after upgraded to xp sp 3 Pat

Have been struggling for months with MS Paint opening painfully slowly. If I open now it takes at least 10 minutes to open hard drive goes mad and every application is affected you may as well go and make dinner while it sorts itself out. Then over the past couple of weeks Office Picture Manager started to do the same thing but after looking at this forum found that by deleting the associated .cag file hey presto its back to normal. Is the problem the same in MS paint and if so where do I find its associated catalogue file?

My daughter's notebook computer tanked at college this week and she came home for the weekend for dad to fix it. It starts normally, then after the windows splash screen it goes black. Before I tried to fix it, I wanted to take her data off to another drive. I placed the HD in an external enclosure and plugged it into my laptop. When I explore the drive, everything appears to be there. Under properties, it shows about 2/3 full, which would be about right for the music, photos, documents and such. When I click on documents and settings, I see the normal folders, administrator, shared, and hers. When I click on the shared, there is the normal empty shared fo…

Hi all, I have a Dell PE 2950 server with a single hardware Raid 5 volume (Basic Disk 0) with 6 drives and a total size of 4655.00 GB. It has 2 partitions: 39MB Dell Utilities Partition 200GB System Boot Partition - C:\ For some reason Disk Management is showing the remaining unallocated space in 2 chunks instead of 1.So it shows the following: 1847.96GB Unallocated 2607.00 GB Unallocated Why is that? I want to create 1 big partition (D:\) with all the remaining unallocated space and I cannot do that now. TIA!

Hi, I am trying to use the windows explorer switches, but have a problem combining /root with /select. Individually they work, but together I get problems. Initially, I used: C:\WINDOWS\EXPLORER.EXE /e,/root,c:\ucd,/select,c:\ucd\module. I tried it different ways but usually I get C:\ to open instead. I tried skipping the comma before /select and when I try a file, I get a warning that the path does not exist or is not a directory. If I add an extension to the end of the file it sometimes gives me a File Download box. Other times, like for a jpg file, it actually displays the image in the 2nd pane! If I choose a directory instead of a file…

Can someone please help me out. I have had an issue with my sound. I had to partition my computer after my computer crashed and then i had to reinstall the windows xp. After i had reinstalled windows xp, i had no sound. So i decided to go check the device area and update/reinstall and there was a button for reinstall. just before i was going to reinstall, i was reading in the general area of the multimedia audio controller that " the drivers for this device are not installed. So i hit the reinstall button then i would do the regular search, not the specific location, and then i would click next and then it would take a second and then it would come back an…

Have an XP pro machine and will be adding two extra IDE drives. Is there some feature that would allow me to control stand by and shut down times for each drive? If not is there some app that would allow control ? I also have a desktop with vista ultimate and pose the same question. Advice sought

We are using Windows Server 2003 R2 64-bit Enterprise Edition. It is our Terminal Server. We are not able to configure Outlook Profiles. Right-click on the Outlook Icon in Start Menu shows only 3 options - Read Mails, Internet Properties and Remove from the list. Access to Control Panel have been restricted, so users cannot access "Mail" control panel applet in "View x86 Control Panel Icons". How can I enable the "Outlook Properties" option in Start menu? Or how can I enable the "Mail" icon to be shown directly in "Control Panel" rather than in "View x86 Control Panel Icons"? Thanks in Advance. Best Regards, Denis Dudhia

I have a client who takes her laptop from office to office. She runs a batch file to connect network drives. When she goes to the next office, she runs a batch with all the drive letters net use j: /delete etc. If you look after running the batch file - it still shows the diconnected drives. If you run a line manually to delete the drive it returns - The network connection could not be found. You can't right click to kill the drive. What should I run at the command prompt to complete eliminate the previously mapped drive? Thanks

I just installed XP with a new 320G IDE drive. I put in the master position, I think, at the end of the cable. I had a second drive in the machine. I apparently the latter was named audio/video. I now see the old drive is C and the new drive (local) is F. What happened? How do I correct this without re-installing. I recall one odd moment when I was install when it asked something about formating the new drive. It said something about partitioning it, which I think I rejected. However, I was puzzled by a list that showed audio/video, not realizing this was the name I had given to the second drive. As far as I can tell, all is OK on both drives. I was …