Legacy Windows Archive ( Read Only )

We are using a Windows 2003 (SP1) terminal server to support remote users etc.... Our domain controller is a Windows 2000 Small Bus Server. I do not have the "terminal services configuration" settinss configured at all on the actual terminal server itself - because we have different users with different requirements. Because of this I use the "Sessions' tab in each users AD profile to configure the disconnect times, active session limit etc... etc... However, for some reason, when a user either disconnects their session manually or gets disconnected for some other reason and never logs back on again, the session never gets logged out automatically afte…

Help! I have no hair left. Objective: using a combination of mandatory profile and a GPO for a student OU that will give a student a share folder and lock down the desk top. My approach: In a GPO I define the lockdown settings. I specify the logon.bat which uses net use to set the drive mapping to a shared directory for students. I also defined the profile path //server/profiles/mandatory In the Mandatory profile I establish how the desktop will look (icons etc). To test this I have student-A student-B Student-C that belong to a studentrights OU which has a studentgpo. To create the mandatory profile (which may be the problem) I did the following steps:…

I just bought a new Hard Drive and put Media Center on it as my OS. I now want to uninstal Media Center and put Home Edition on instead. How do I do this?

Hi All, I am using mailto.exe for alerting from batch files for various administration tasks. I get this error in the event log. Reporting queued error: faulting application MAILTO.EXE, version 0.0.0.0, faulting module ntdll.dll, version 5.2.3790.1830, fault address 0x000210c8. However mailto.exe works perfectly I am just worried about ntdll.dll error in the application log. Has anybody experienced this, please let me know. Thanks Raj

When I remote desktop into a machine at home, the screen on the pc I am controlling locks up at ctrl-alt-del. Is there any way to disable this so that if there is a person on the other pc, he can see what is happening?

I have a bit of a confusing problem for myself. I have a windows NT 4.0 server that I am looking after, as the administrator is long gone. This particular server was part of a domain called ATS. The domain controller for the ATS domain quit working a few months ago and there was no backup domain controller (bad design I know but that is the way it was setup before I got there). Anyway, the only computer left in the ATS domain is the atsadmin server that I want to move to a different domain called SQL2. On the atsadmin computer, there is a SQL Server 7 database that is usually stopped and also an IIS server that seems to be disabled at the moment. The…

From the back of the closet I recently unearthed six tapes (Travan 3) that I used to use for back up three computers ago. I want to give them away to whoever might still use them (they cost over $30 each). But I know they contain confidential information like my old tax returns. Any suggestions about how to clean them before offering them to strangers? If I wind up having to trash them, is burning them the safest way to destroy the data? Apologies if this is the wrong group to ask; could you redirect me please. Paul in San Francisco

I purchased an (outdated but new) Palm m515 PDA because there were available (outdated but new) keyboards for it that I could operate while on my back during all of the next 6 months. Now I found out that the driver needs Win 95/98/2000/ME or NT. My OS is Win XP sp2. Both PDA and keyboard are outdated enough that there is no longer any telephone or online support system. Is there a way to load the ThumBoard driver on my computer (and thus my PDA) with the Windows XP system? Any options that anyone knows of? -Bella, and Blessing her wheelchair Service Dog

Having an hour or two to spare, I Googled around and further researched the new (older gen. Pentium D935) components that I slapped into my system box, ....box a few weeks ago, (mobo/cpu/memory and other parts) I stumbled across http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=60416 ....which led me to :- http://support.microsoft.com/kb/896256 FAT LOT OF GOOD IT IS, me building a new system box to find that MS have left it up to me to get their OS making use of half of it. Any tips for anything else that MS may not be bothering to "update" for me, gladly accepted. regards, Richard

This from yesteday - didn't post ( on my OE reader)-hope this repost doesn't duplicate previous one that other readers may have accessed. RobF Hard disk & monitor spring back after varying intevals of time, using first start->turn off->standby, then later power management enablilng power switch to effect standby. Have tried closing systray apps and turning off cable modem. No success. The help files don't point to a trouble shooter for standby. So far, haven't found solution in MS online. If that's due to faulty searching, please supply a pointer, where to find...Suggestions greatly appreciated. -- RobF Address anti-spammed

I use a batch program to print out several hundred documents to a Canon multi-funcion copier. In this process there are both letter and legal size documents and I use the Canon software to compress the legal pages to the size of letter. This has been working now for well over a year. I installed a new Canon MFP (different model) to our environment and it apears to have corrupted something w/ the existing print drivers and I cannot get the original program to work properly. Here is why I am not completely convinced that it is an issue w/ Canon. I print to a different model copier (we also use Konica), the exact same result appears (legal is getting cut o…

we have x-64 pro are there any pci wireless adapters with 64-bit drivers

I just had a problem with a Windows XP computer - I used V-COM's Partition Commander to resize the NTFS boot partition. Horrors, Partition Commander gave me an ugly error that it had an internal error, I had lost data, bye bye. System became unbootable. I was finally able to boot from a Partition Magic 8 CD, which allowed me to fix some HD errors (but I had to reboot from the CD and fix 3x). This allowed me to boot, which allowed me to schedule a CHKDSK for the next restart, which fixed over a HUNDRED errors(!), which fixed the system with only the loss of some unimportant data files. Now, during the days of Windows98, I kept a bootable Win98 floppy with Norton…

I am a "young" senior citizen and an avid enthusiast of digital photography and editing. Due to the large size of Photoshop files and that I cannot afford a new PC with a faster processor I am looking for ways to make my PC more productive. It's been slowing down quite a bit lately. I have IntelP4 and have upgraded to 2GB of memory, so don't think memory is an issue. I have a 80GB HD with 48GB of free space. I move important picture and project folders to DVDs for safety but also to keep more free space on the hard drive.I also keep my system maintained very well (clean, defrag, A-virus, firewall, etc..,) it'd help me to know the following: - What chan…

I find the Windows XP "Help and Support Center" difficult to use as I'm trying to learn the different CMD commands that is listed under "Command-line reference A-Z". Does anyone know if there's a downloadable html I can put on my system so I can more easily view/search the information? If I can get the following set on my system... http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/ntcmds.mspx?mfr=true Actually it would be ideal if I could get the whole set: http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/ntcmds.mspx?mfr=true TIA