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A recent crash left my old Win ME laptop unbootable. Also, the floppy disk and CD drive are both broken. I understand that it's impossible to reinstall the OS by putting my HD in an external USB box connected to another computer, which would be the easiest solution, as the OS has to install to the C drive, I have read. It seems the only way I can reinstall Win ME would be to put my laptop HD into someone else's laptop, start the installation routine from its working CD, then, after Windows finishes copying files and says it's going to restart the computer, turn the computer off, remove the HD, put it in my laptop, start it up and hopefully the install will r…

Hi there, I have a 10-year-old system which has two hard drives and is otherwise working fine. It's had a few upgrades along the way with more RAM (now up to 200 MB (not up to 256, didn't have enough old-style memory). One CD drive is a CD reader, the other is a CDRW but it's not speedy. I had upgraded the original Windows ME installation to a WinXP Pro. However, due to memory limitations (RAM) and just overall slowness due to the age and technology of this system I wish to revert it back to Windows ME. I would prefer to start over from scratch. I still have all the original hardware disks (CD Burner software, fax modem, etc.) including my original ME …

Hi there, Well, I've successfully re-installed WinMe after I tracked down my back-up disk and run all the critical updates. It's running beautifully after this clean install, and I don't want to mess it up. I've googled and was not very successful, so now I am requesting your assistance. I'm looking for FREE software, i.e., antivirus, antispyware, antiphishing, etc. to run on this 10-year-old system. Anything else I need please let me know on the security side. Thank you! Lynn

I have an external drive plug into fire-wire port, after disconnect it using "safely remove hardware", is there a way to reconnect it from desktop without having to power down/up the drive? thanks for any info, Cheers!

In the process of tracking down a possible virus problem, I did a search and found the offending folder. I clicked Explore, and Explorer opened to the folder of interest. I then opened another Explorer window so I could compare a few things, and guess what, the folder did not show up? I have hidden and protected files unhidden. In other words, as I write this, I have two displays open: 1) C:\Documents and Settings\Dave\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5 (which is where the problem file is) 2) C:\Documents and Settings\Dave\Local Settings\Temporary Internet iles - there is no Content.IE5 folder What's going on? Dave WinXP SP2 …

Posting this for a friend so I hope I am giving you ample information to help solve the problem. He is attempting to install an 'external monitor.' He has a Gateway MX3210 Laptop running XP (Home Edition V. 2002, Service Pack 2). The external 'monitor' he wants to use is a Sony Kdl 26M4000 (I guess it is really a TV monitor.) He has a cable connected, and in a menu shown on the Sony's screen, he selects " PC-PIP. In Device Manager, the default monitor is listed as VIA/536 Unichrome Pro IGP (I believe this to be his laptop's monitor). The monitor listed for Plug & Play is the same VIA/536 ... When we restart the laptop, when the first Windows logo scree…

Hi there, Well, it appears that OpenOffice.org no longer have the English version of 2.4.1 on their site. I've checked Filehippo.com and Tucows, and googled, and am not able to find this version to put on my 10-year-old system. Can someone help me track this down so that I can install it please? Thank you. Lynn

Windows Movie maker taking >10hrs to save a video of 45 minutes. Cannot figure out the problem. Any help -- Thanks

I use windows xp now.When I installed software ,System told me that one file of Windows xp was replaced by another file unrecongnized,it fluenced then operating systerm stability. What can I do now? Thanks! Melody

Hello, I had a user delete a bunch of files from a share. I was able to recover them but would like to know what user did this. Is there a way to find this out? It does not appear any auditing was turned on on the server. Also, how can I just turn auditing on only for permission changes to folders? Thanks. Kevin

Hi, We have KMS 1.1 service installed on windows 2003 server. Our KMS key (group B) activated on this server. We successfully activated 6 windows 2008 servers vs. our KMS server. Currently we have only 4 Vista Business computers and they don't want to do activation. Error message: "Error: 0xC004F038 The computer could not be activated. The returned count from your Key Management Service is insufficient." 1) After reading different articles about KMS activation - if I understand correctly - I thought Vista machines will do activation if we have at least 5 windows 2008 servers OR 25 Vista machines. Apparently, even with 5 windows 2008 servers we need …

Hello All, I have a 2K3 server with mirrored volume. I need to break the mirror so I can create a bigger partition. What is the best practice method for this senario. Break mirror, or volume? Thanks

Hello I am not able to view the Allowed Users Tab In Network Connections\Incoming Connections. It Just crashes and error reporting comes in front. This Is Error Info is displayed.And The attachment is error dumped by watson i suppose. Please Help..... AppName: explorer.exe AppVer: 6.0.2900.3156 ModName: rasdlg.dll ModVer: 5.1.2600.2180 Offset: 00036081 Thanking - You Mohammad Atfan Iqbal

So, I found out today that wql doesn't support array datatypes, which complicates the process immensely that I'm trying to use to get a property from certain events within the event log. Any thoughts on why arrays aren't supported?

Every time I stick a music CD (standard cda format) into my CD-ROM, it starts playing. A player control appears, but even if I X it to close it, it continues to play each track. If I right-click on the blue bar at the top of the player, I do not see an About option to identify the player. Task Manager doesn't show any application or process that may be responsible. What's doing the playing? How do I disable Auto Play? Thanks, Ray

Is there anyone out there who knows if there is a program that will re-fresh the browser? Maybe someone knows?

We just upgraded memory from 4GB to 12 GB on windows server 2003 R2. However, the upgraded memory to 12 GB is not showing in the operating system, but it shows while booting and even in the BIOS. What should I be doing in order to show the memory in the operating system.

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Good morning! Okay, Okay......I know that several of you in here will kill me for this! Vera, Patrick, Jeff,.....sorry...but I did not do this!!!! I am simply trying to fix some things and want to make sure that I do not break things in the process.... Anyway, a client has a small Terminal Server farm (two servers). A Terminal Server Profile was not implemented. Yikes! I know! Anyway, most are using a Thin Client but some still use a PC / Laptop to access the Terminal Server. Some of the of these good people are Sales Folks who are almost never in the office and log on to their laptops locally (read: the "log on to:" part is populated with "myma…

Hi all. I am unable to rdp into my server after doing manual windows update. Upon windows update completion i would manually restart the server. Previously if i just click on the restart button from the windows update dialog box i would have this problem. All my other servers do not face this problem except this particular server. All my servers are of win2003 standard with sp2 and have the latest patches. Is there any setting i can do to prevent this issue? Thks in advance.

Hi. I have several users that connects to Win2k03 R2 TS server in order to run a POS application. Most of this clients has a small POS printer attached to them. I've installed a compatible print driver on the Terminal server. If I print from lets say wordpad it prints ok, but If I try to print from the application itself it does not. I understand the application in configured to sent the print jobs to Lpt1: Any ideas? regards, Elvyn

Hi, I have been having a reoccuring issue where my Windows DNS Server suddenly stops resolving high profile major websites (news.bbc.co.uk as an example), and the only way to get it to resolve these domains again is to clear the cache. This happens every few days. Is this a known issue, or is there something that I am supposed to be doing? Is there a long term solution? Regards Richard

I have a terminal server setup and configured, when logged in as the administrator on the domain and trying to install software from a shared drive I get the following error " Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropiate permissions to access the item." Logged in as an administrator on the domain, permissions are perfect.

I ordered my new Dell laptop with Windows XP Professional, and one of the features I particularly liked was the Windows Search feature (it came with Version 3.x - I can't remember the exact version) as it was fast and remarkably accurate. However, the first time I took my laptop and my external hard drive on the road with me, Windows Search quit working. A Dell tech suggested I uninstall and the reinstall version 4.0, which I did. It says it's there, and it says it has indexed all the files on the computer, but any time I try to search anything it just tells me "Nothing found in All Locations for query ...". Any suggestions?

My computer is in a bad situation. almost all icones on the desktop, all programs at the menu (start, programs...) and all icones in the control panel do not function. the message I get when I try to use them is (translated from French): "no program is associated with this file to execute this action. create an association using the application file option in the control panel" I tried to do system restoration but it responses the same way. I think that the problem started when spybot asked me if I authorize changes in registery and I replied no. since than I can't open any program or utility (luckily explorer stil works) Does someone have an idea how can i…