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In Windows XP I have been able to play a sound from the command line by using sndrec32. This command does not seem to be available in Vista. Is there an equivalent I can use in Vista??

I close the application after reading emails. When I attempt to shut the computer down I get the "End Program" box which identifies "Outlook.EXE" as not shutting down. I have to hit the "End Task" button to close Outlook, then the computer will shut down. There have been occasions when the "End Task" button hasn't worked and I have to manually shut the computer down by pressing and holding the power button. I'm running XP Home Edition SP2. Suggestions? Thanks/Tony

Hi I was wondering if anyone knows of an application that enables you to do remote administration pre-boot (before the OS Starts). Im not sure if i am using the correct terminology, so what i need is something like remote admin, so i can see the post boot on a machine, get into the BIOS (CMOS) etc and make changes to SCSI controllers etc on a machine before the OS Boots? thanks in advance!

HI...I am monitoring a server in performance monitor, and here is what I found: there is a client/server application: client - app server - SQL server, when the client run a function of the application, the CPU at the App server climbs up to 25%, and stays for about 5 minutes before the client can see the result. During the period, the memory, disk counter at the App server and SQL server are all low, except the CPU at the APP server maintains at 25% for 5 minutes. My first question is why the CPU not jump up to 100% and finish at a shorter time? My further test is that I have two clients running the same application, surprisely, the CPU is still at 25%, but…

How can I tell which Server is the forest root in a domain with more than one domain controller? Thanks for your help

Hi, I have two vb applications that uses the old DDE technology on Windows Server 2000. I must promote to Windows Server 2003. I have the same configurations that the WS2000 (Network DDE services etc.) I have this error when the applications try to connect (by DDE technology): Run-time Error '282': No foreign application responded to a DDE initiate I try to start three services (Network DDE, Network DDE DSDM and ClipBook). I try to stop services and set Startup type to Manual. I try change the link topic properties (corresponding with this article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/203980/en-us ) I have always the error message. Does DDE prot…

Recently I replaced the drives on my PC by cloning.The new drives boot the OS system without errors. All the partitions and associated files appeared to be fine, and I have not had any problems running any of the programs moved to the new drives. One thing that really surprised me is Windows did not require to be activated on the new drives. WOW! As I am having a problem I will make that a wow! For some reason the cookies associated with IE did not transfer to the new drives. This is not important to me but may give a clue as to the problem of concern. Upon trying to run System Restore from Help, shortly after this transfer the following error message was di…

I need an alternative product to ZENworks for Servers TED - tierd electronic distribution that copyies files between two servers in two different organizations. Does anyone know of such a product?

My PC have problem with Wireless Network. We have 5 PCs networked wirelessly. D Link Wireless Modem Configured in this PC. From last week onwards this PC not connecting or accepting to wireless Network. All Other PCS are working with wireless Modem. I tried to Restore to an earlier Date which is 10 th Aug. and after that I tried to restore for 15th Aug. That also not working. Iam using Win XP SP2. Restore process starts and restarting the System. After that it says it can not restore to a previous stage. Please explain how this is happens? Rgds -- AFTHAR

There has been an change in IE that blocks viewing counter logs that are saved as html files. IE wants me to enter the "site" in the trusted sites part of IE but it is not a site I am using but an html file. It will not accept a file name. How can I view html files with IE??

Yall My DLT7000 is correctly installed and I see the free media allocated. Once I start ntbackup it asks me for preparing the media since it was used on a different computer. Once that is done, I try to use the tape but, alas, the backup tab only allows me to use file (grayed out). As a consequence I am left without the capabilities to do a backup. System is WS03SP2R2 and I was able to run a full backup a day ago. Anyone has a clue on how to re-enable the usage of tape on ntbackup? Cheerio

We had the same experiences with bad quality humaneyes. No after sell services, it's really sucks.

Comments appreciated I was given a 1.8ghz P4 by a friend who upgraded. It runs OK , but it's FAT 32 and looks like it's been upgraded from 98 ? It has an OEM sticker on the case , but no disks. I found a Windows XP folder on the HD. I slipstreamed SP 2 onto it and made it bootable , but when I ran it , it rejected the serial number. I confirmed what was on the case , and I also ran Belarc Advisor which got the install key from the registry. It looks like my only choice might be to reinstall to the same partition ? Is that a limit of the particular version of XP ? Thanks Tom

I upgraded from WinXP Home SP2 to WinXP Pro SP2. Now, when I turn on my compu, I get a black screen first asking me: Please select the OS to start: MS windows XP Pro MS windows XP Home Is that normal when you upgrade from Home to Pro? I thought that when I upgraded, that everything would be almost seamless - i.e., that my compu will know that I have Pro, and not Home and so should not be asking me which OS to start with. The MS Win XP Home option is useless anyway since the boot.ini has a "noexecute" entry for it. I thought I actually got two OS after upgrading to Pro (because of the startup message) but even when XP Home is selected, XP Pro gets l…

Hello-- We are in the process of migrating our IIS server from W2K3 to W2K3 64-bit and we cannot figure out why we can no longer ftp into the new IIS server from within the same subnet? the FTP service is started, and the FTP Sites is started in IIS. From a command prompt, if I enter in "ftp <server IP address>" we get a messages that says connection refused by remote host. If we try to use an FTP program, the connection just fails. I used the 'netstat -an' command on the IIS server and it shows port 21 is listening. Any help would really be appreciated.