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I have a legal xp pro system for 2 computers and in the last 2 month have been having hardware problems and have had to reinstall several and move a previously installed system to another computer. Now Microsoft is treating these two installed systems like they are bootleg ones and cutting off several important licenses and aren't letting me download updates . How can I get them to see these two systems are legal. clayman

I wanted to take a look at boot.ini under XP SP3 but had forgotten just where it was. I opened C: via Windows explorer and Searched for it but nothing came up. 'Show hidden files and folders' is checked in Folder options and 'Do not show system files' is not checked either. So I took a careful look at the root of C: and there it was. My question is why didn't Search find it? No big deal, just curious. Thank you

I am using WSUS to push updates, and recently have had on Office update that requires the end user to accept an EULA thing, yet it doesn't take the accept. It keeps popping up. It appears to go away with admin rights. I do not want to have to visit each one of these machines with the login out... required. Is the a fix for this so the user can accept it or it is done from the server? I posted this under WSUS group but haven't seen an answer.

Got a text from Noel last night that I thought was funny, "Found in the library today - "Norton for Dummies"! - I kid you not ! What will they come up with next <g> -- Joan Archer http://www.freewebs.com/crossstitcher http://lachsoft.com/photogallery

I found a way on Emergency shutdown computer in just a second, the link as below http://support.microsoft.com/kb/279134. However, users are required hold on the Ctrl key and hit on the shutdown. Is there a way to convert this into script? Please advice.

For some reasons I cannot reinstall my video card drivers. The graphic is slow. So I decided to reinstall my video card drivers. After reinstall, everything looked fine. But after reboot, the drivers are gone. It looked like the the video drivers were not reinstalled. The graphics became slow again, even something like moving the explorer windows around. It would refresh the explorer window section by section as I move it around.

How do I get the exact answer from a formula so it doesn't always round up or down eg .19 not 20

Hi there I have already posted my problem. Again I am posting it. My company has purchased a 5 user ts cal PER USER license. Now that is going to expire on 30th november. Please guide me how can I extend the period further ? OS - Windows Server 2003 R2

Is there any way to find out what the internet traffic is? I have closed all the internat applications I have yet there is still internet traffic. How do I find what it is? The connection is too expensive to ignore. Thanks, J.

pavilion HP dv-6141 amd turion hi at all.... after buy my portable pc HP, sometimes when i RECORD a tv movie with the windows XP media center, in random mode and random time it crash and BLUE SCREEN appars with this error: DRIVER_IRQL_LESS_OR_NOT stop: *** USBEHCI.SYS This error is frequently read in some FORUM on the web for more and more peolpe that have the Media Center of XP ! i contact microsoft but it say to contact HP, hp say to me this act: - Update BIOS with the new F3.D - Update Media center with the rollup2 - Update the Yuan Ec-300 tv tuner card HP with the new update - the KB918005 microsoft patch with the new driver E…

what is the most handy desktop FLV Player for win98?

Recently, when my colleague on her PC tries to copy/open SOME files that reside on my PC, she gets the message: -------------------------------------------------------------- == Error Copying File or Folder == Cannot copy [filename]: Access is denied. Make sure the disk is not full or write protected and that the file is not currently in use. -------------------------------------------------------------- This has only started happening recently. Here's the info I can give. Hopefully there's some clues in here. * SOME files will copy/open/read and others will not. * This problem is not discriminatory to file type or folder location. Eg: …

I'm using a workgroup with a couple of XP Pro machines and a Vista machine. If I want to access the Vista box I have to give a user ID and password. But when I'm on the Vista side I can go directly to the shared folders on the XP machines. How can I set up XP so anyone wanting network access is prompted for a User ID and password?

Hello! I bought the guitar hero guitar and game for my pc, and I cannot install it, the error message "cab3" is coming up right when is about to finish the installation. I have windows xp. Can someone help me please?

While reloading win2000 I encountered a problem did a reboot to last good config and finished the load. Now I have 2 versions on it on disk, 1 good and 1 bad. How do I ghet rid of the bad version? TomH

I'm running Terminal Sevices on a Windows 2003 Standard server. Fairly powerful box (1xQuad-Core Proc; 4GB RAM; plenty of fast HD storage space available) Users are seeing poor performance at times, even when only one or two users are connected to the box. Some of the performance issues reported include: - Slow opening of data files (.PDF, .DOC, etc.) - Once opened, slow and/or choppy scrolling from page to page in documents - Choppy and broken up video streaming In order to fix the video streaming problem I've upgraded the server's built-in video card to a card that has 256MB of RAM onboard. It made a very small improvement, but not enough to make the…

Hello Group, I recently downloaded Windows Server 2008 Standard Trial and installed it on a test machine, ie. MB: Asus CPU: 800Mhz PIII RAM: 512MB HD: 10GB ATA133 Video: NVidia GeForce 256 Ethernet: Intel Pro 10/100 (or maybe RealTek) Audio: SoundBlaster Live! The installation went very smoothly, but afterward I noticed I didn't have Audio or Ethernet connectivity. I looked in Device Manager and sure enough there are two "Other Devices" labeled "Ethernet Controller" and "Multimedia Audio Controller", and the icons for these devices have a black on yellow exclamation mark. I also noticed my Display Adapter is set to a "Standard VGA Graphics Adapter…

hi. i'm have winXP SP2. how can i encrypt my folders under "my documents" without downloading any software? does windows have that? please help. TIA!

We have a program that uses the FlexLM key locks to prevent more than one person running the program. Even when you try to fire up a second instance of the program you are denied a license. Since only one instance on the computer can run at a time we have had this installed on the Terminal Server and not violated the license agreement because even when 10 people are using the TS for whatever, only one can use the program using the FlexLM key lock. I baggered out of a developer that they put in the restriction on the program (no details on how) but Sales and Management of the software company deny it is there because they know we and other customers will…

what tool do i use to view computer configuration information?

As a user, I can open PDF files on my hard drive but an online PDF file gets an error saying "Could not launch Acrobat". If I switch to Administrator that online file will work ok. Also some programs will run as Administrator but not as a user. Any suggestions, Thanks, Marv

purchased a new dell cpmputer with xp pro. . in documents and settings there are three folders . . "all users" , "user" and a hidden folder "default user" How can i change the name of the "user" folder. . thanks for any help

A guest attempted to send a file containing a large number of photgraphs from my outlook express. The file could not be sent and now I cannot delete the file from Outlook Express....................since I am a computer illiterate is there anyone out there who can perhaps point me in the right direction to resolve this problem!!!!! Thanking you in advance for any replies.......................... Bob (aka - Black Shrek)

On my XP Pro computer, everytime I shut down, it's installing updates & tells me not to shut down it will shutdown automatically. I don't get the option in the shutdown menu to shutdown without installing & there are times this might run for 4 or more hours! What's up with that? -- Mr. Simpson, there are thousands of people like you with no discernable talent. Yeah, they're called Congress.

Hi folks My sa have installed new server. It does not have any windows interface. I beleive this is Hyper-V server and does not have Windows Server 2008 Server Core Enterprise x64 as he insists. The main difference for me is next: Hyper-V support up to 4 cpu, Windows server supports 8 or more. Is there any way to clearly proof which os we are running, how many cpu does it support.