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We have two notebook computers in the field that are not connected to the internet or network. The users have limited accounts. Is there a way to update the time zone (or clock time) as a limited user without giving them the administrator password? Or even a batch file I could create and write to a disk or flash drive to have them boot and/or use? These computers contain patient information, so all wireless and lan setting were disabled so the sites could not modify certain settings. Thanks for any help or ideas for life science inclined.

Problem Description: I get this pop up window every time I turn on my laptop. Generic Host Process for Win32 Services has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience. szAppName : svchost.exe szAppVer : 5.1.2600.5512 szModName : wuaueng.dll szModVer : 7.2.6001.784 offset : 000e3e14 error report contents: c:\Docume~1\owner\locals~1\temp\wer7283.dir00\svchost.exe.mdmp c:\Docume~1\owner\locals~1\temp\wer7283.dir00\appcompat.txt If I select any one of the options offered: Debug, Send Error Report, Don't send Report, my computer freezes up and I'm forced to manually shut off. If I don't do anything, when I try to turn off t…

The AVG has detected this shown as follows:- C:\Docs nsetting\all users\application data\microsoft\Onecare Protection\LocalCopy\{CFD.............}IEUPDATES.EXE Thread name: Trojan horse Generic 11 SHA and been asked to either Heal /Move to Vault/ Ignore Process Name: C:\Prog files\Microsoft Windows OneCare Live\Antivirus\MsMPEng.exe Now what must I do with these?

If not, how can I force it? Thanks saqib http://doctrina.wordpress.com/

How does one raise "Administrator" on Vista? I don't have it but my buddy has. Any help gratefully received. TIA.

I am not sure where to post this question but I suspect I will get a few... different suggestions. We have an AD domain with 2003R2 servers, and many files stored on server file shares. We would like to use search to look for words inside documents (mostly MS Word, som MS Excel). Most of the clients are XP pro. The search from the clients works sporadically. When we say to search the contents all of the files in a folder and sub-folders sometimes it finds it and sometimes not even though you know it is there. Is there a tool or a better way to do this where the files are? TIA

Hi, I am thining of running Server 2008 on a laptop. Does anyone know if Vista drivers would work? Are 32 or 64 Bit drivers necessary? Thanks, Uwe -- Email-address is valid but never read. Visit www.<firstname><lastname>.de for my contact details.

Computer is a Dell 9100 Inspiron Laptop with WinXP SP3 and all later automatic updates. Randomly while typing, the open window loses focus. We can't correlate it with anything on the keyboard or mouse. Further, I can't figure out where the focus is! All global keys (e.g. Windows key, Ctrl-Alt-Del) still work as normal. If we tap the right mouse button, the focus point is restored to the point where we were typing, though no mouse icon or cursor is visible on the screen. I think as a first step, I'd like to find out where the focus has gone to. It's not any open window and it's not the desktop because these can be tested by typing keys that would h…

I am running XP Pro SP3 and I am having issues with thumbnails in folders that I have to refresh to get them back to the size I want them to be. I have read most of the posts about thumbnails and have insured that I am not having any of those issues. I have recently reformatted the hard drive and reloaded windows on it. I did not have had the problem before I reformatted the drive. Thank you for any info about this problem.

i dont know much about computers, i dont know what i did, but my system configuration utility starts every time i boot up my computer. please help me stop this oh ya im running win xp

I have a removable usb drive that has been working fine on my old machine. When I attach it to my another XP machine, it doesn't recognize the file system and it always prompted whether I want to format it or not. Does anyone know what the problem is? Thanks

When I try to view an html file in briefcase windows tells me the briefcase is in use on another computer. There is no other computer just this one. If I copy the html file I wish to view to the desktop, then I can view it. How can I fix this?

Hello, A software called Free Internet Window Washer disabled my "SendTo Shortcuts". If a copy and paste a shortcut from My Computer to Desktop the shortcut doesn´t work. This software delete all MyDocuments files too. How can I restore the SendTo Shortcut? I am waiting for your feedback. Thanks in advance.

i have windows xp pro sp2 and i can't reinstall yahoo messenger or msn messenger. it kept saying "communications error". i tried older versions, still nothing. i can install/reinstall anti virus software and all. i'm not quite sure if this is even the right place to ask this. any advice or suggestions?

I had a machine running XP Pro SP2 that started complaining about a corrupt HAL.DLL error. I used MS's KB#314477 and used the XP CD to run a recovery. The recovery ran fine. I booted from CD, selected Repair existing install, got to the console, typed bootcfg /rebuild and then did a chkdsk /r. It successfully got past the HAL.DLL error and was able to boot to Windows. The problem is that not all my data is there. There is SOME of my data, but not all. It's like the PC was reset to sometime close to the original install, but with SOME of my data. HELP!!! It seems like to reset the MBR to sometime in the past. How can I at least get my data that is miss…

I can't open c: when double click on it but pop up a message "C:\resycled\boot.com is not a valid Win32 application". Please help. Thanks.

Is there any registry tweak to disable the folders compression at 100th execution? Kind regards.

I have 2 cmd windows open (minimized) at startup. I have used various utilities to check my startup programs and they are not listed. Is there another way to see what might be starting a cmd window on startup? I have been having Virus problems, so I would like to investigate. Terry

Hi I have the following attached to my wireless home router. 2 x Windows XP computers, 1 x Windows Vista computers, 1 x Apple Mac computer, Apple TV, iPhone. Until last week all devices connected to the internet fine. One day both the Windows XP computers (from two different vendors) stop acquiring IP addresses and therefore cannot connect to the internet despite the fact that they have successfully attached to the router wirelessly. So I put in static information and they still could not see anything externally. I've run updates on them (by connecting them via an ethernet cable to the router) and it appears that they are up to date. I have subst…

I have a user having this problem every 30 secs. Another engineer ran a simple fix file for this a few weeks ago. Can't remember what it was. Apparently it's a well known one. Does anybody know it? Thanks Havenlad

(Originally in xp.basics) When carrying out an XP repair installation does it replace the whole registry with a new one? regards, Beemer

Hi to forum members, My Dell 5150 XP+SP2 has been running like a dream for several years but I had to go and upset it and now need your help quite urgently. I have Tweak-XP Pro v4 installed but seldom use it. However I was reading some stuff about speeding up performance by optimising the Prefetch settings and went and clicked the Re-Initialise the Prefetcher button. When I rebooted the start-up items failed to load and the were no icons in the right hand side of the Task Bar just the clock. I used System Restore and everything is fine but the next boot returns to the no icons situation. I have checked the start-up activity using WinPatrol and all …

cannot delete a program that my internet installed on my computer without me knowning it's no where to be found in the add and remove section it just sits here on my taskbar please help me get rid of this.

This has been the week for abnormalities on my machine. WinXP SP3. This morning, I inadvertently dragged the right edge of the Quick Launch section over to the Notification Area. At that point, the complete taskbar expanded vertically to 3 lines and showed the clock as time, day name (Friday) and the date. I couldn't get it back to the normal one line by putting the mouse cursor on the top of the taskbar and moving it down. I would expand up but not reduce down. (Yes, the cursor did change to the double arrow as usual.) The task bar is not locked. Changing the properties to not show the clock or the Quick Launch buttons did not fix the problem nor…

Just inherited the task to administering our Win2003 Enterprise file server. The server has 16GB of ram and is connected to our SAN for our organization's file services. This morning I was copying some files in the SAN and I started getting some errors in copying large files. Seemed the server was out of storage. Looked like a memory issue. In checking the System event log, I ran across an Event 2020 for the Srv service. It said "The server was unable to allocate from the system paged pool because the pool was empty". Also, I couldn't Remote Desktop into the server. I could login at the server console but it was so low on resources it couldn't even load…