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My basic scenario is that I have a laptop that I do "light work" from and a power-house desktop that I develop and run automated reports on. Currently, I have a series of VBS files that download source data from a web location to a local/working directory on my Desktop. Some of these files can get pretty large. The problem is that I receive notification on my laptop via Outlook that the data is available and had set a rule in Outlook to run the applicable script, which reside on my desktop. I want to run the script from the (remote) desktop and not from my laptop. Do I need to setup a service on the desktop in Windows XP or something to do this? O…

We have a 2003 license server and we recently purchased licenses for our 2003 terminal server. Since 2003 licenses have been discontinued we were given 2008 licenses. Now when trying to install these licenses, I get an error message 0x13a7 which points to KB article 839878. This article says 2008 licenses cannot be installed on a 2003 license server. How can I install these licenses without having to upgrade the license server?

System Configuration: HD1 - XP Pro with all updates HD2 - Vista Ultimate with all updates I switch OS at boot time via F10 key. Problem: I select Turn Off computer and system executes normal shutdown procedure. A second or two after shutting down it Restarts. If I press the Power Btn. and hold it down until the system shuts down, power remains off. This occurs using either OS so I suspect something common to both; perhaps the power supply? Any suggestions?

RE: "DWWin.exe failed" when shutting down "tonpal" wrote: > For no obvious reason, I started getting an error message when I shut down > WinXP. The message is only on-screen for less than a second so I've been > unable to catch it all, but (probably paraphrased) it says that "DWWin.exe > failed to initialise because Windows is shutting down". > > It may be that this started after automated error reporting to MS when FS9, > and later WinXP, said that they 'had to shut down' but I did not notice it as > following immediately, nor did it immediately follow any installation or > update. > > Part of me doesn't care becau…

I have two installations of Win'XP. One has "Add or Remove Programs" installed and one does not. In the case of the one that has it installed it appears as a specific item on the takbar. Opening it up shows a single list of all running programs. By selecting any particular item on the list, it open it up, and there are one or two buttons. The button marked Delete is always there. The button marked Modify is sometimes there. By pressing the Delete Button one is able to delete the selected program. I know of a "Task Manager" look alike that has many of the same features of "Add or Remove Programs". But on my system the "Task Manager" version doesn't seem…

Re: "DWWin.exe failed" when shutting down "S.Sengupta" wrote: > First of all dwwin.exe is an error reporting tool.It's only trying to > investigate "events" that it believes is causing problems that may lead > to crashing. > you look at the Event viewer to know what exactly is happening. > > How To View and Manage Event Logs in Event Viewer in Windows XP > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q308427 > > Error Reporting Overview > http://www.microsoft.com/resources/satech/cer/GettingStartedMNU.asp > > regards, > ssg MS-MVP > > tonpal wrote: > > > For no obvious reason, I …

I reformatted my hard drive and installed windows again so I could start with a clean slate. I installed the drivers and everything seemed to be fine but now when I start my computer an error message pops up and says: The procedure entry point LocalizeString could not be located in the dynamic link library STLang.dll. Does anyone know what this means or how I can fix it? I don't know much about computers. Any insight to this problem would be a big help!! (Windows XP Professional, SP2)

I was having problems with ads popping up eventually found a virus and cleared it but now unable to load pages with flash. I know I unticked a box which mentioned flash ad web pages but I now do not know where to look to recheck it. Hope you can help thanks -- Karen

alot of the applications/ programs/ internet service providers (zonealarm, ect) I am intrested in reference a system requirement as Windows XP service pack 2..... if I have Windows xp professional edition.... does this mean I have all the requirements to meet the Windows XP service pack 2 requirements? -will be taking distance education via web -would like to use Rhapsody (yahoo) -my internet service provider uses zonealarm and forcefield -dsl or broadband internet connection (seperate from using a phone line) thanks for your input

Hi all, I would like to set up Window Server 2003 to basically act like Windows XP. When I connect to the server via remote desktop it creates a new session on the server, now if I go to a different machine and connect again instead of disconnecting the other remote user and logging into that session it creates an entirely new session. I would rather it handle remote connections the same way XP does. Please help! Dav

I have some thin client (Wyse) units with windows XP embeded. When they boot they connect to a terminal services session. I can set the session to start an application which has been great. I now need to have two applications available to the users but that means I cennot set a "run app on connection" which in turn means they will have acces to the start menu... I would like to launch two apps with no shell on connection. Thanks

I am trying to connect to an XP Pro machine from a Vista Home Premiuim machine via Remote Desktop Connection. It works just fine behind my router or without it when I try to connect from a Windows 2000 machine. So that leaves me with the indication that there is a setting in Vista that is blocking it. I get the message "can't connect to the remote computer." Any thoughts on how to fix this?

When I attempt to install, I get the following error. "The update does not apply to your system". I have downloaded the update for Windows Vista 64bit SP1. The file name is Windows6.0-KB940157-x64 and I pulled it directly from the Windows Search site. Suggestions? Since GOOGLE doesn't yet have a search tool for 64bit Vista, it's kinda' critical to me that I get this installed and working. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Jim P.S. I've checked with windows update, and I'm current on everything.

Is there a way around this? My two-PC network seems to work fine except that I can't share files and printers unless I unload my F-Secure AV and Firewall. Is there a way around that? Another naive question while I am at it - Does the AV software that I have installed on the desktop also protect the notebook (while connected to the network) - or do I also have to install an AV software on it? Many thanks for your help. Cheers!

Suppose my antivirus program breaks the connection to the internet (this has never happened but it could happen). I have DSL modem that automatically connects whenever I turn on the computer. If the connection is broken, would I have to reboot or is there a way to reconnect? My Start> Connect To does not list my current DSL connection.