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When I try to backup the sytem state on an external USB disk using ntbackup the USB disk became unavailable, the backup fail and I have to disconnect and reconnect USB disk to access it. If I try to backup the system state on the 2nd disk, ATA disk, the system hangs and I have to restart it using reset button. I have no problem to backup system diectory (c:\windows\) or any data files. The system is Windows XP Pro SP2, patched with the latest patches available on windows update site. I hope anyone can help me, thanks in advance.

How do I remove unwanted icons from my system tray?

Hi, I just installed a DC in Branch Office. Everything in term of AD synch looks fine except Query-based Distribution Groups. When I open a Users and Computers on my Branch DC I can't proper see any Query-based Distribution Group objects. I have one DC in the Central office, and just put second DC in my Branch. I do DNS synch via AD, create a side with different subnet for Branch in the same Zone. What the problem with my Query-based Distribution Group, why they are not synch between offices? Thank you in advance, Sasha

I got the recommendation for this app. add-on from I believe a couple of different sources in this group. I just want to extend my thanks for such a nice addition to OE. I'm not sure whose dictionary it uses, but it suits my purpose. I too, will highly recommend it. -- HTH, Curt Windows Support Center http://www.aumha.org Practically Nerded,... http://dundats.mvps.org/Index.htm

Hello, My Windows XP PC has an Admin account and several limited User accounts. How can I, as an admin, change settings on a user account? For the sake of discussion, let's say I want to change the Power settings: I want the monitor to turn off after 4 hours of the computer being idle. Right now, I login to the user account, open the power applet, try to change the setting and appropriately get "Access Denied". How can I tell Windows XP that I am the admin and that it is OK for me to change those values? Or better yet, how can I do the same thing to this user, but while I am logged in my own Admin account. Thanks.

Hello- We have a huge backlog that is taking forever to clear. I looked at it yesterday and there were over 750 files. To give some more background, there was a power outage and this server crashed (the UPS didn't last through the outage). We have also been plagued since DFSR implementation (I believe) by frequent 5014 events that I can't seem to get rid of. DFSR is running on two domain controllers seperated by a WAN and connected via a SonicWALL Site-to-Site VPN.

How do I confirm that my time server is running and that my work stations are pointed to it? I have a Windows 2003 server that is my DC. My XP SP2 workstations are not getting their time from that server. Their times are not the same anyway. All the workstations are port of my domain. Is there a good check list I can go throught to make sure everything is configured correclty? The Windows Time service is running and is set to start automatically. Event view doesn't have any Time Service event that I can see. Where do I find the "Peerlist" ? If I change the time on my DC, how long should I have to wait to see it change back to the correct time? How…

The icon appears in my system tray that says I have an update. I click on it and it says it is installing a security update for microsoft .net version 1.1 service pack 1. i have installed this at least 10 times and it keeps showing up in the system tray. How do I stop this from happening.

Hi, Probably one user has done something special because now it isn't possible to print a pdf file on his shared printer with his profile. Other user can print pdf files on that computer and on that printer. Anyone any idea where to look? Thx

I've got 8 windows 2003 systems standard running. 3 of the 8 server experiance the next problem: If i try to backup the system state, the server freeze. The only solution to get the server back to work, is power down and then power up the server. There's no logging in the event- or system log. I als try'd a microsoft article to reregister the VSS components, but this was not the solution for mine problem. I try'd to make a backup whit the NTBackup util and try'd the backup-exec application. Both failed. I als listed the VSS writers by command 'vssadmin list writers'. There are no errors reported in that list. The OS is up-to-date. Who can help me? What can…

My sister jsut gave me her PC and she is telling me that she turned her PC on and now all the pictures in her My Pictures folder are very small. They are all only 2 KB in size and everyone has been renamed with a ~ in front. An example is ~627910d49f0311c6.jpg I have asked her what she did so I can try and trouble shoot this but she says she did nothing. I tried a system restore and had no luck. Does anyone have any suggestions how I may be able to get the pictures back to their original sizes? thanks

One of the users has a laptop running Windows 2000 Professional. He was able to access the internet through wireless in a hotel. However, after logging in to Cisco VPN client, he can no longer access the internet or the local LAN network. He could not open Microsoft Outlook or ping any devices even though he was authenticated through Cisco VPN client. Do you have any suggestions? Thanks.

Running 64 bit version of Vista Ultimate. The 64 bit browser works fine, but whenever I use the 32 bit browser (necessary to view some sites) all of a sudden I started getting the following message: ieuser.exe - bad image c:\\windows\syswow64\msfeeds.dll is either not designed to run on windows or it contains an error If I say ok to the error message the page continues to load and then the message reappears, etc. etc. Has anyone encountered and fixed this error.

Just got an error message of a type I haven't seen before, about a file I've never seen or heard of. The error message is telling me: 1. the file can't be saved 2. the data in the file is lost 3. try to save the file to another location. One of several problems here is I have no idea where the file they're talking about currently is. Nothing is showing as open. Here's the text: "Windows was unable to save all the data for the file G:\$Mft. The data has been lost. This error may be caused by a failure of your computer hardware or network connection. Please try to save this file elsewhere" How do I find out what's going on, here, and f…

forgive me if this seems a bit rushed but am still recovering from the fact that I can't find my last post,but here goes again!!My DVD/CD drive was working fine until recently.I could play games,DVD's and music CD's.I also had no problem burning(DVD's as files only).But now all I can do is play audio CD's and DVD's-can't play games or burn ANYTHING!My pc has had a lot of items removed recently so am wondering if something has been removed or changed that shouldn't have or is drive kaputt?Have tried to go to restore point but that hasn't worked for a little while(goes through all the motions but when it reboots I am informed that it hasn't worked and that …