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Running XP Pro SP2, 2 GB RAM, P4 Dual Core 3GB. Windows won't always open an external 500 GB USB2 HD with approx. 180 GB free space. I hear the chime when it connects but it won't appear in My Computer. If I then turn the drive off I hear the chime again. It takes several (3 to 6 or 7) attempts and then it will behave normally. It was fine until it got to about the 'half full' point and then started this behavior, getting worse as it filled up. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ If we say "forty, sixty, seventy, eighty and ninety", why don't we say "twoty,…

I am using business server 2003 and Dell originally set the active partition © (1 Drive - there are two partitions C and F) to just 10 gigabytes and I need to grow that space. I have a dynamic mirrored drive and have physically disconnected it - the second hard drive. I am using RAID 1. I will use EASEUS Partition Manager Server Edition to do the repartition. What do I have to do with the mirror settings before I perform the repartitioning. Righjt Click and remove, delete, or break the mirror. Secondly if the repartition goes well, how do I reset the second hard drive to mirror the new size? -- *************************** Mark M Simonian, MD 681 …

I have two hard drives in my system, and the C: drive is not the drive where Windows is installed. However, Windows constantly places io.sys and msdos.sys on the C: drive. If I delete them, Windows automatically re-creates them. Worse, it seems as though Windows actually overwrites the filesystem area where those files are placed -- some of my other files suddenly became 0 file size.

I was trying to assit a friend with his computer. i am pretty savy...........but oops I went into his ms config and turned off some start up items. now his machine will not boot up. he is running some version of XP. i would like to make a bootable cd and then go into his ms config and turn on what i turned off..........please advise

I have Dell Inspiron E1505, 1GB RAM, 80 GB HD, updated to SP3. I originally used Internet Explorer 6 to register on half a dozen hobby forums in 2006, then soon upgraded to IE7 but about 6 months later I begin to find it impossible to login to any of these forums after literally over 1500 times among them all. I sell items of interest to the members of these forums so I actively participate in on-going discussions. After about 6 months of easy access, I began to experience login problems which take the following nature: The sites accept my user name and password, thank me for logging in and then proceed to take me back to the login in screens again and show m…

Everytime I restart my pc and login it creates a temporary profile and reverts back to all factory settings. My documents folder is empty,no financial data,no email messages etc. Its asks me to set up programs. It makes a beeping sound almost like quite telephone ringing. The message I get is this: windows cannot load the locally stored profile and is logging you on with a temporary profile. Any changes you make to this profile will be lost when you leave. HELP!!!

Everyday the Enter Network Password Window pops up indicating my server, user name, and password (in stars). This started about a week ago and I don't know why or how to fix it. I'm using Office Basic Edition 2003 & Windows XP Please advise > > Thanks > -- > jj -- jj -- jj

RE: Service Pack 3 I am having the same problem. All suggestions appreciated. -- Thank you for your help. Julia Ann "Gilly" wrote: > I'm trying to install XP service pack 3 and get the message below > > The feature you are trying to use is is on a network rescouce that is > unavailable > > Click on ok to try again or enter an alternative path to a folder containing > the installation package PRO.MSI in the box below > > Z:\msoft\officeXP.Professional\ > > When clicking on ok again it tells me: > The path cannot be found and to check I have access to the location > > Can someone point me in the …

XP Pro sp3 I'm trying to temporarily disable McAfee Virus Scan Enterprise 8.5. This is installed on a laptop that is NOT a member of a domain but is sometimes connected to a corporate network. McAfee's anti-tampering feature won't let the services be stopped and McAfee was installed (by corp) without installing the console that permits turning off the McAfee anti-tampering feature. However, a McAfee KB article reveals that anti-tampering can be disabled by changing a registry key. However, regedit gives the error: "Cannont edit LockDownEnabled. Error writing the value's new contents." I've checked the permissions for this key, and the Administrato…

Dear Folks, When I am trying to run ntdsutil on command prompt it is showing following error:- “'ntdsutil' is not recognized as an internal or external command, Operable program or batch file.” But this ntdsutil.exe file is at the path %systemroot%/system32/ dllcache & if I go into this path it works successfully. I want to make this file available at any each prompt despite of this where ever it is physically saved. HOw can I do this .....? Thanks in advance With Regd, Gaurav Mathur

We have a desktop 5 users. We want to get rid of all but 2 users. My user "Lisa" is also "Owner" If I delete the user "Lisa" will that create a problem because it is "Owner" Do I have to change one of the other users to Owner so I can delete "Lisa" Thanks for your help!! ....Lisa

Sound worked until few days ago. Computer set to automatically load updates. Got Message that there was a problem with sound device. Said _ maybe driver not installed, used by another program, or not functioning. This has happened once before and someone sent me a link and a process to repair it.. -- Thank you for your help. Julia Ann

Any time i need to right click on a file to copy and paste, or rename, i get the error message saying Windows explorer needs to close. The message details through eventvwr.msc are as follows. Event Type: Error Event Source: Application Error Event Category: None Event ID: 1001 Date: 20/09/2008 Time: 09:52:22 User: N/A Computer: Mally Description: Fault bucket 877976138. For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp. Data: 0000: 42 75 63 6b 65 74 3a 20 Bucket: 0008: 38 37 37 39 37 36 31 33 87797613 0010: 38 0d 0a 8..

I've recently doubled my system RAM to 512MB, with no problems. There's room on my motherboard (ASUS A7V8X-X) to plug in another similar 256MB module. (I don't think I want to add 512MB merely because it might be useful when/if I get around to dual-booting some version of Linux. A total of 768MB ought to be enough. I would rather not have to fiddle with MaxPhysPage=39999 - or what- ever else would be needed if I had 1GB or more memory - unless it is absolutely necessary, in which case I will think again.) In system.ini at the moment, I have MaxFileCache=163840 (160MB), and (presumably much less important) MinFileCache=8192 (8MB). From what little I've …

Had to reinstall Windows use all the CD'S that came along with Windows XP Medaia Center Edition Service pack 3. I did not get to back up my system . I know first mistake. I have found some problems after reinstallating windows .. Have not sound , disk defragmenter does not start . While installing a program from the internet received this message Application has genarated an exception that cannot be handled . Have tried to troulbe shoot these problems do not know if I may find more .