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RE: ** DVD / CD-ROM drive disappeared ** >"I looked under device manager and it does show there. > So again, nothing showing under My Computer, nothing > in Device Manager/Disk Drives. So, which is it?.. does it show or not show in the Device Manager... If the drive disappeared from both My Computer and from the Device Manager: Just go to the Device Manager, select the CD/DVD drive with a right click and select "Uninstall".. and still in the Device Manager, right click on the computer name and click on Search for new hardware.. The CD/DVD Rom should be auto-reinstalled with the system drivers. If after that, you are still having trouble, go to…

I have noted that, not this week but some time in the recent past, Windows Server 2000 (all versions) seem to have lost a CAL for RDP. The server came with a 2 CAL license to administer the server, now all the 2000 servers I have to administer remotely only allow a single sign on. Anyone know why Microsoft took away this CAL? Any plan to give it back? Sometimes we need 2 people in there.

I am currently running WS 2008 32-bit on my laptop as a workstation (I'm using PerformancePoint Server 2007 whiich only works on a MS Server OS) and when I use msinfo32.exe it says there is 3.93 GB Total Physical Memory (as opposed to 4 GB Installed Physical Memory). So this means that almost all 4 GB of RAM is available to WS 2008 32-bit. Is that correct? That compares with 3 to 3.5 GB that is available to MS Vista installations. Correct? TIA

I have a signature picker and background on my Outlook emails for all send/receive and forward/replies etc. Recently my son installed IE7- which at the same time seems to have created problems with my email formatting. when I am chatting to another email addressees, after a few replies back and forth- my email loses it's background and reverts to plain text. My friends do not have plain text as their setting- I am sending it as HTML with background but it arrives to them as HTML with NO background and wehren they reply- I receive it as plain text with no background. All my setting (HTML & background) stay for a few replies back and forth- then they go.…

Hi A friend of mine has some of the options under the Display Properties menu missing, such as changing the desktop picture and changing the screen saver. He is running Windows XP home version. Any help/ideas appreciated. TIA Tony

I have a Windows 2008 Server Ent. 64bit w/ Hyper-V and all latest updates. Currently we are only running 1 Guest OS. Server Specs: Dell PowerEdge 2950 16GB of Memory RAID 5 w/ 6 x 146GB drives at 15RPM (SAS) 4 Broadcom NICS teamed to make 1 virtual Created one Virtual Network in Hyper-V for my Guest that points to 1 physical NIC out of the 4 that I teamed. Team is configured in a Smart Load balancing configuration w/ failover. 60GB OS Partition for Windows 2008 and the remainder space is for Guest machines. Host freezes up about once a day and I need to physically shut it down to make it functional again. Event logs don't help much, but then a…

Hello, SPA already downloaded via automatic updates on my machine, but I have not let it install. Is it possible to delete the downloaded file or even to find where it is to delete? -- Thanks, Bob

Bought 8G flash drive. FAT32. it writes, but slowly. tried to format as NTFS, no go. tried to convert to ntfs. error "ntfs boot sector unwriteable" ??? any hints? thanx

Hi. I'm trying to auto-open a web site when plugging in a USB drive. (My actual question is at the bottom.) My autorun.inf file currently looks like this: [autorun] open=example.bat action=www.example.com Where example.bat contains this line: "Start http://www.example.com" This is all good, but the user gets prompted before example.bat executes. I managed to bypass this by the following entries: [autorun] open=example.bat shell\open\command=example.bat useautoplay=1 In this example, using Windows XP, example.bat gets executed without asking the user. In Vista however, the user still gets prompted. My question: Is there _any_ way of making a w…

I use Firefox 3 and hardly EVER use Internet Explorer. So I don't understand why, no matter how infrequently I use IE, I find megabytes of files stored in the 'Temporary Internet Files' folder during a disk cleanup. The last time it happened I found 38mb of files, despite the fact that in the previous internet sessions I didn't use IE once. Maybe I'm stupid, but I thought a browser only downloads files from sites you're actually browsing; when I check these files I don't recognise any of them. A lot of them are 0kb in size, have weird names and filetypes like "Status[number].3-digit number". An example: "Status[4].017". As I recall, Firefox organises its ca…

Hello All. We're migrating our old servers (Win 2003 SP2) to Dell PowerEdge boxes (same OS). Last night we moved our entire file server, updated login scripts via group policy, and did the cut over. The box we moved our data from was the first server in our domain and is a DC running DHCP and DNS. It is now ONLY performing those roles (we're a very small business and couldn't afford to split the services). We duplicated the directory structure on the new box, however it is NOT a DC, only a member server with much more horsepower. From the user perspective everything is fine. They can access all their files, our backups are good, etc. However, on …

Hi, I've a Hp Pavillion dv8000, with 49GB C: drive and 50GB D: drive. I've recently found that if I move (drag and drop or cut and paste) files within the D: drive something gets corrupted and I'm able to access or delete the folders ("Access is Denied") or open the files. This affects all users, and all types of file (all of which loose their applications specific info too: e.g. photo's loose "date taken" and "domenstions", Word files loose the "Author" information). However the file size and type and date modified information remains in tact. Moving files within the C: drive or between C: and D: drives is OK, the only problem is within the D: dr…

Try Tweak UI to recall the drive letter. Download the application from the next link, install it and on My Computer\Drives\right pane, select the C check box. Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/Downloads/powertoys/Xppowertoys.mspx OR... Open a command prompt window (Start\All Programs\Accesories\Command Prompt) In the command window: Type: DISKPART Next to DISKPART> type; "LIST VOLUME" and hit Enter A list of volumes or drives appears with volume number and letter (or probably no letter on the system drive in your case)... Next to DISKPART> type: "SELECT VOLUME #" (the number that corresponds to the s…

Hello I am trying to set up a new user account to my daughter , in some post about creating new user account the recomendation is to I need to create a new administrator account , I have Hp pc to have a "Hp administrator" and I understand I have another "Administrator" account when I log into a Safe mode , my question is ; How I can create another administrator account ? what will be happen if I do that with the Hp administrator account ? when I create a new administrator account will be the only way to restricted files and folders ? thanks.

Hi, My laptop show the message as follow; error signature BCCode: 1000000a BCP1:C00B1578 BCP2:00000002 BCP3:00000000 BCP4:80510D72 OSVer:5_1_2600 sp:2_0 Product: 256_1 ..... If anyone have experience with this issue please help me. Thank you very much