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We got our printers on the Domain Controller. We want to give our helpdesk support access to create and alter printers on the DC but are having difficulties on trying to give them the access to do so without giving them admin rights. Thoughts

When doing a search fror documents in Windows Explorer, each file in my results list apepars twice. Ther behavior seems to be conistent regardless of the search parameters (folders searched, file names, etc.).

I have lost my CD, but still have the product key from the CD. I need to reinstall Xp. Can I just borrow someone else's CD to reinstall Xp and then enter the product key for the CD that I purchased several years ago (rather than the product code on the borrowed CD)? If that is not possible, can Microsoft help me or do I need to bite the bullet and purchase another upgrade Xp CD?

XP, SP2 After playing an mp3 file, the 'Date Modified' changes to the time it was played. is there a way to correct this, and what would cause it? TIA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- If we say "forty, sixty, seventy, eighty and ninety", why don't we say "twoty, threety and fivety"?

Hi there, Is netmeeting still available or not? I configured it for XP pro with conf command and it tells me it has been superseded by msn messenger when trying to login to Microsoft directory. Thank you, T

Hi All, How can i find the users, who are connected to my Server 2003 using the Remote desktop. if i find them can i disconnect them from the server. -- Raghuram Raichooti

We have a standalone 2003 server for file sharing purpose. I would like to allow user to change their password on their own. I was suggested to use psexec to run the net user command. However, it was giving access denied error when running the command. I didn't get the same error if I didn't attempt to change the passworkd command works psexec \\server -u user1 -p user1_password net user user1 command gave access denied error psexec \\server -u user1 -p user1_password net user user1 new_user1_password Do I have to gain specific permission for user to change password? All these are done from the user's workstation. Thanks

I use Copyrite XP which is a GUI for Robocopy. http://copyrite.dyndns.biz Very easy to use WYSIWYG interface and you can save settings and save jobs to batch files. Henry

Server 2003 standard edition sp2. PF usage on the server constantly rises and never retruns to normal unless we reboot. It takes 4-6 hours for it to reach it's max. The memory usage stays completely normal. I've scanned for viruses and spyware with several programs and found nothing.

We are starting to test Windows 2008 in a virtual environment. We created an instance of 2008 on top of a VMWare server, and assigned this VM 12GB of ram for windows (no reserved amount on the host). What we're seeing is that Win 2K8 itself (in performance manager) claims it's using only 2GB of ram. However it looks like it's keeping 6GB tied up for cache. Since this is being used, on the host server instead of just 2 GB being allocated to the VM, it's allocating 8 GB of host memory. My question is, what is this cacheing in 2008, is it like the pre-fetching in Vista? And is there a way to disable it? We are much less concerned with performance imp…

Hi, I 'm running windows XP SP2 on thinkcentre M55 with Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 @2.33GHZ. I'm trying to tune the memory on windows xp sp2 so I can have 4 GB of RAM. I can see the 4GB of RAM in the Bios, but windows can't see it because it's 32 bit. I found articles with Microsoft so you can tune the memory. I followed the documentation and modified the bootini. I didn't have much luck I can only see 3GB in window mean while 4GB in the BIOS. This is the bootini "multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /PAE /3GB /Userva=2900 /NoExecute=OptOut". Any Idea, note the machine supports DEP.

Hi I have a zip file that is encrypted with a tricky password, which I need to extract from a .bat file. The password is: -33,33_(}33"33*33=33|33^%33 So I try this line in a .bat file: "c:\program files\winzip\wzunzip.exe" -o -s-33,33_(}33"33*33=33|33^%33 MYZIP.zip C:\MYZIP\ This hits a problem because of the double-quote in the password. "ERROR - missing closing quote on argument" This also doesn't work: -s"-33,33_(}33""33*33=33|33^%33" I believe the ^ char is an escape character for DOS Command Line arguments, but that doesn't work. I tried to simplify this by changing the password temporarily to 33"33 and using the following arguments: -s33^"3…

We are implementing Folder Redirection very soon (just my documents and desktop). We have put all the IT people (3 of us) on Redirection for testing but we have come up with some questions. Everything works fine, but where are the local files store at? If we take our laptops home we are still able to open/modifiy files like normal. If I open my documents and modify a file the C:\Documents and Settings\username\My Documents does not refelect the change. But if we are offline the My Documents (off desktop) will show the change. Where does it store the files? One users C:\Documents and Settings\username\My Documents is blank but all files are aviable …

Data Execution Prevention - Microsoft Windows "To help protect your computer, Windows has closed this program. Name: Remote Desktop Connection Publisher: Microsoft Corporation." These are the updates that were done recently- KB updates - 952287, 952954, 938464, 950762, 951698, 951376-v2, 950974, 951376, 951066 and 946648 which after the updates this message occurred. If the message is not closed, RDP can be used normally. I have gone into the Advanced tab under Data Execution to select the option to have DEP not be used on RDP - rebooted the laptop and still have the issue. What is the next step to correct this issue?

1.) Remote User connected via VPN 2.) Run gpresult on client and check user group membership 3.) Add User on your AD controller to a new group 4.) Run gpupdate /force on the remote machine 5.) Run gpresult again As you can see Group Membership will no be updated. Membership refresh only happens during logon to the machine (not possible here, VPN User is using a software certificate for auth which is only available to the user after logon). QUESTIONS: 1.) Is there a solution available to trigger the client to update Group Membership Caching? 2.) Is this a known issue and solved with Vista? Thanks a lot, Herbert