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From Charlie Russel's article "Exploring Windows XP Professional x64 Edition": "If you're running Windows XP Home Edition and have x64 hardware, you can move to Windows XP Professional x64 Edition when it's available. But you'll need to upgrade from Windows XP Home Edition to Windows XP Professional Edition first." My question is why do you need to upgrade to Windows XP Professional Edition before you install the 64 bit one? I thought all Windows XP Professional x64 installations were clean installs, making the previous os irrelevant (?). Any insight is greatly appreciated. Any

I have problem with printing from x86 client on share printer on W2k3 x64 server. Printer driver for x64 and x86 systems was install on server OK. But when user from W2k workstation tray starts properties of this printer following message appear: 'Printer properties cannot be displayed.' When I tray run properties from other x64 server all works OK. Where is problem?

My Internet explorer v7.0 has to be shutdown using the task manager, and the asks if I want to report the error. I've temporaily started usinf Mozilla Firefox. Any ideas on why my I,E. 7.0 hangs. -- Jason Kirkman

Brief recap: After the update on Tuesday, no Microsoft products (IE, Office 2007, Outlook, etc) would run without errors. After digging all day, I discovered that one or more of the Security Updates reset all Process permissions to read only. At least the error did not change third party process permissions; only the Microsoft ones. I have set all Processes to Full Access. The system is now functioning normally. However, I feel that not all processes need or require full access. Does anyone know what the permission are for the Microsoft processes.

I'm trying to help some pour soul hundreds of miles away figure out why they can't get networking going to a second pc, the first one is working and on the net. Doing this "remote control", when they don't know enough to be able to do this on their own, only complicates things. I have searched the net repeatedly trying to find out exactly what steps the executable carries out when you create a network transfer floppy/usb drive. Can anyone point me to the authority of what that does? Hopefully with that list I can help them walk through that list step by step and maybe we can figure out their problem. Thank you

I recently removed a trojan virus for my system and my computer seems to be running slower than it should. Especially the internet. I'm using IE7 and it seems pages are loading slower than normal and some pages aren't loading properly, even with my high speed cable connection. I ran Regcare and it found over 1000 problems with my registry and file associations. However it did not fix them because I didn't purchase the software. Does anyone know of any reliable freeware I can use to fix these problems and speed up my PC? Any advice and help is greatly appreciated!

I installed x64 on a secondary hard drive last night and now I cant see one of my 3 HDDs and one of my DVD drives. I found all x64 drivers for my motherboard and have them installed, all the devices in Device Manager are now working properly. Both missing drives ARE detected by the BIOS and on POST. Both missing drives ARE visible when I boot XPx32 from the primary drive. Both missing drives are NOT listed in device manager or "Disk Management" utility. The 3rd (missing) HDD is attached to the embedded 3rd party Promise IDE/RAID controller as a Stand-alone drive and is detected in BIOS, on POST and in XPx32. The x64 drivers for the promise controller are …

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Today I went to get a file off of my flash drive and when I went to open it, I got "The disk in drive E is not formatted. Do you want to format it now?" NOOOO I don't want to format it! What happened to my files?!?!

cdirectorychangewatcherhelper will not end on its own on a shutdown and I have to manually exit it. This is annoying. What can I do to get rid of this problem? Thanks.

Hi all, Quick question as I cant find any info on this. Is there any way in which you can prevent a/any program detecting it's in a Terminal Server environment? Can't be specific at this stage but it would be extremely helpful to know if say there are only a few places within the OS that the program may look which could possibly be worked around?! Many thanks yus

I just built a new W2K3 Term server and I'm noticing much longer RDP connection times than on my W2K term server. Does anyone have any idea what may cause this? The two servers are similar models. The W2K machine has 4GB RAM, the new server has 3.5GB RAM. Thanks, Jeff

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Hi, My PC is not retaining the system restore points, either those created automativally or manually. It seems restore points are only retained until I reboot, and then there gone. The PC drive has 3 partitions, with the following system restore settings C:\ 8% (9237 MB) Free space 88832MB, main working partition D:\ 12% (623 MB) Free 1100MB, restore partition G:\ 100% (7 MB) Free 4MB backup partition, reduced to minimum size Fragmentation is minimal 5.24% on C:\ zero on D:\ & G:\ I have 2 Remote drives and system restore is disabled for both of these. My OS is XP Home SP2. Any help in resolving this would be appreciated Joco (London) Joco (Lond…

I recently did a clean reinstall of xp and used the microsoft 'back up utility' saved to an external hard drive. when I copy the file back from the ext hard drive to my desk top it appears as an icon of 19.5 GB which wont open. So I went to the microsoft web search and it tells me its a file extension BKF that i need to open it. Being a novice I'm now 'stumped' as to what next to do to get the original files back to my pc. Thanks for any advice.