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This morning, I found a substantial group of Windows XP, Media, and Explorer updates indicated as needing download in the tray. I duly ran these. Immediately after rebooting, my machine (a Dell Dimension 5150) became unstable. Upon booting into my desktop, an error message appeared indicating that there was an error in the Windows Genuine Advantage Module. More distressingly, I was from then on unable to run *any* programs. I went into safe mode and rolled back the system 24 hours. I restarted and my machine ran in a stable fashion. I then re-downloaded only the four specific Windows XP patches, as I consider these to be the most crucial since I don't u…

error 1068: The dependancy service or group failed to start (backup exec) This error is for almost all backup exec services. Backup exec opens but then comes up with the login box and again will not restart services or allow me in if I type the username and password. Any help on this would be much appreciated. Thanks

When managment console is open, disk management shows Local Disk with no drive letter. In Windows Explorer it shows as C: and the same for many other applications. If I right-click on Local Disk and select Channge Drive Letter, C is not available. When I attempt to back up this drive using Norton Ghost 12, it shows as an unmounted drive thereby eleiminating certain option available only to mounted drives. How do I get the drive letter C: to appear? -- Ed

Ok I think Im alittle confused here. I specifically went through the trouble of resintalling windows from an original CD (as I was originally using a pirated copy) so I could use windows 'legally' and take advantage of the various benefits (SP2, security updates, etc.) Now that I try to activate it, it says my product key has already exhausted the number of times it can be used for activation. Im practically using a brand new CD, I think Ive only used this CD once before and that was to install and activate windows on another computer. What does this mean...all the money I paid for the CD is down the drain??? just because its been activated once before? Ca…

We have a dell server with Microsoft Small Business server, which is in real need of updating. I need to increase the hard drives within the server however in doing this I will have to format the existing data. This should be a major problem, however I need to back-up or make a report of all users, user permissions, user email addresses and any other info surrounding user account. Does anyone know of a tool that can do this? I will be making a Microsoft back-up however because I am changing the storage size I am a little worried that the back-up I make will not recover correctly, which in turn is why I need to find a tool to do all the above. Thanks

how to change the registry of Windows Server 2003 to set the wallpaper? Thanks, Joe.

When I try to use firefox, svchost.exe makes my pc slowdown or even freezes or hangs. Firefox uses low memory but the pc hangs or freezes. This has been happening since I installed an update to my addon on firefox. When I use IE in the pc, my pc became stable even in multi-tabbing though IE uses more memory. Is Firefox or svchost.exe or some other programs responsible for this? Note: I use IE 6

Hello-- I may be way off base here, but we are migrating our web server to a new box and wondered if there are any utilities to take the folder permissions from one server and copy them to the new server? Thanks, sd

Users folders (home folders) are owned by Administrator account, this is throwing off disk quota. This is because all the user folders where created by the Administrator account, & new users will get created by the Administrator account. There is a manual process, by using a Win2k3 server; to give ownership to the users folders, but we have way too many users to do this manually. What can I do to automate this? So that current user folders & new user folders that get created are owned by the right user, not the Administrator account. Any suggestion is much appreciated. Whether it be a script or something in AD. Thanks. Jason

2003 Server... Database & ERP system server... When I try to add a Performance Monitor Object or 'Counter' , all of the Objects are listed as numbers. For example, instead of PROCESS or MEMORY, only 1152, 1154, 1156, 1158, 1160,... and so on... are shown in the drop down list. There are no service packs applied to this machine. It is a database server running our ERP system and management won't approve updating the machine. I believe the system is bottlenecking (has 2 GB RAM) but can't prove it without Performance Monitor working. Thanks in advance...

What kind of impact does runnig Performance Alerts have on a server? Would running too many (more than say 10-15) slow the server down? Thanks

Hi there, Am i the only one having this problem? We are action pack subscribers. I can't get Server 2008 Enterprise 32 and 64 bit Beta 3 disk to install on any of our bench servers. It just wont boot off of the DVD. I have even tried to upgrade from Server 2003. Any ideas. -- Thanx for any help Ray

We have here MSFT server 2003 We have 20 workstations Each workstation has PDF Creator 8.0.I am trying to upgrade to 9.0 througth GPO. Please can someone help me Sam

Hello, If I restore the MBR from an Acronis Image, what would happen to the partition table because I re-arranged the partitions since I made the copy of the MBR. Will it be okay to restore the MBR despite the partitions changes ? TIA.

Hi My n/w setup is: Windows 2003 Enterprise SP1 DC & XP, 2000 Pro Clients with upto date patches updated. My Query: I want to set Security Permission to control user's access. I logged on as Domain Admin rights credentials in DC. 1) I created two Securiy Group & added user's in the respective group (Scope as Global & type as Security ). 2) I created a Folder & shared named as "Test" with full control to Everyone Share Permission. 3) I added the security groups into that folder & set full control permission to one group & Read & Execute, List folder contents, Read, write to another group. 4) I am unchecked " Allow inheri…