Windows Server 2000/2003 General Support

Locked out after removing from domain, am I up the creek?

sully - 13 Aug 2005 11:35 PM - 2 messages

I foolishly removed a server from our domain, without checking to make sure that the local admin account that was supposed to be in place was really there. Now that it is off the domain, we are without access, and cannot get ...

DUAL BOOT WIN 200 WIN 98 and wierd drive letters

DAMSEL IN DISTRESS - 13 Aug 2005 10:25 PM - 2 messages

Please bear with me - I partitioned a 17gb hard drive 12gb (C DRIVE) on one partition and 5 on the other (D DRIVE). I installed WIN98 to the smaller drive abd WIN 2000 to the larger, everything was working great until I ...

lost ability to ftp

keentoDELETETHISlearn - 13 Aug 2005 9:47 PM - 9 messages

Hi All I was using zone alarm free fire wall and could never get outlook express to send or receive emails. When I disabled it, emails could be sent and received ok. So after giving up trying to configure it to work, I uninstalled it and ...

KB823353 Keeps Trying to Install

Scott - 13 Aug 2005 6:10 PM - 5 messages

Automatic Update keeps telling me this update is ready to install. It installs it and then it pops up again saying it's ready to install! Huh? IE/OE version is 6.0.2800.1106. Anyone know what's going on here? ...

lost toolbar and icons

reddy015 - 13 Aug 2005 5:53 PM - 3 messages

turned my pc on this morning and it booted up but i had no toolbar or icons. i can get into my programs by using the task manager to open the program i want to use. does anybody have a fix for this problem. ...

How to analyze memory.dmp

Ryan - 13 Aug 2005 2:14 PM - 2 messages

Hi all, May I know the way of analyzing a dump file? I receive a save dump in the event viewer after a server crash but have no idea on how to analyse the dump file. Here's the description of the event 1001 from Save Dump: ...

Digital Signature Not Found...

Mike - 13 Aug 2005 2:09 PM - 4 messages

When trying to install Symantec Anti Virus on a Windows 2000 Professional PC, I keep getting the "Digital Signature Not Found" & "unknown software package" error messages, which then rolls back & doesn't let me install. I have read the KB article 269651, which explains this & gives a work around. ...

A Problem with Adding 2nd Hard Drive to Windows 2000

Bob - 13 Aug 2005 12:22 PM - 25 messages

I have a Dell PowerEdge 500SC server running Windows 2000 Server. (Bios Revision A03) It currently has one IBM Deskstar 60 GB hard drive. I just bought a Maxtor DiamondMax 10 200 GB hard drive (Model 6L200PO). Both drives are set to "cable select" with the original IBM drive being the ...

Not responding

raulemir - 13 Aug 2005 7:43 AM - 4 messages

I have a DC running on 2000 server. Every time I go to the network connections tab my computer stops responding. I have a feeling that the machine might be infected with a virus. Can some one tell me if they have come across this problem before. ...

temp files

annapolis - 13 Aug 2005 5:02 AM - 4 messages

my system won't let me delete temp files. it claims they are in use, even from an MS/DOS prompt. How do I shut them off to allow for deletion? I couldn't even reboot to JUST a dos prompt ... it's not an option under F8. ...

Safe Mode juggles my desktop

RWN - 13 Aug 2005 4:06 AM - 3 messages

w2kPro I have a fair number of shortcuts on my desktop that I have grouped to suit my needs. Whenever I boot in safe mode (spyware scans etc.) and then restart my m/c the desktop becomes "jumbled". The groups I had set up are scattered and some items appear to be missing when they are ...

Password Problem

Shmender - 13 Aug 2005 3:31 AM - 2 messages

I have changed the password to nothing in my Win 2000 and now I can't get in because it says I need a password but there shouldn't be one. Is there a way to change my "nonexistant" password? Can I reset it or get one that works ...

Cannot join domain Network path not found

Grocery IT - 12 Aug 2005 9:53 PM - 4 messages

We had a Windows NT4 server that was replaced by a Windows 2000 server as a domain controller. The NT 4 domain controller was not demoted prior to the change. Now the existing clients (windows 2000 and 98) cannot join the ...

Strange problem with Logitec corded optical mouse

Kevin - 12 Aug 2005 9:48 PM - 3 messages

My mouse has begun to "freeze" for a few seconds every 30 or 40 seconds. It happens if it is plugged into the usb or the ps2 port. Now the really strange part. while the movement is frozen the buttons and ...

HELP, PLEASE!!!

Oscar - 12 Aug 2005 7:48 PM - 2 messages

I have a Windows 2k server with SP4 and an Exchange 2000 server. I cannot access to control panel or to the services. When I clic on them the system hungs. Can you help me, please?. Any Idea? Thanks in advance. ...

Windows 2000 backup restore problem

debbiealp - 12 Aug 2005 6:36 PM - 2 messages

We're using the Windows 2000 backup software Version 5.0 on a Dell 530 desktop to backup data to a Dell Powervault 110T DELT VS 80 tape drive. A year ago we did a backup. We are now trying to restore data from this ...

Registry_error

Mister - 12 Aug 2005 5:09 PM - 4 messages

Windows 2000 Professional: receiving Stop:0x00000051 (0x00000002), (0x00000001), (0x00000000), (0x000000000) Registry_error. Tried Last known configuration, windows repair, windows install, safe mode, command prompt, boot logging do not have ERD disk from this computer, tried one from made from different computer , same message, any suggeations ...

Forest Security Question - Selective Authentication

Gabe Matteson - 12 Aug 2005 4:36 PM - 3 messages

I have two forests and want to give permissions from users in forest A to access resources (mapped drives in forest B). So i created the trust, but I selected "selective authentication" on the domain trust. How do I give users ...

copy files and keep security

anoni - 12 Aug 2005 1:59 PM - 3 messages

hi, I like to moving some user files from one 2003 server to anther 2003 server and keep their existing security settings. what is the easiest way to do it. xcopy, what is the other options? Thanks. ...

Why would I want an OU?

needin4mation - 12 Aug 2005 1:47 PM - 2 messages

Let's say I have 1000 users, and they are different departments. I can create an OU for each department and control whatnot for each Organizational Unit. But now let's say that the staff is moved, transferred, to the other ...

This systems is shutting down

Raghunath - 12 Aug 2005 1:47 PM - 3 messages

I have a Windows 2000 Server which keeps re-booting by itself 4-5 times a day. I have no clue why is this happening. I do not see anything in the event viewer except for the event which is created when the server comes back again ...

What does Take Ownership mean?

needin4mation - 12 Aug 2005 1:39 PM - 2 messages

On Folder Redirection, as specified in the docs, I cannot look at users folders on the server unless I either logon as them or take ownership. If I take Ownership, does this mean they will not be able to use their ...

Need help installing Win 2000

BigBuck98 - 12 Aug 2005 1:35 PM - 2 messages

My hard drive failed, so I bought another hard drive and tried to install Win 2000 Pro. I started out by installing from the 4 floppy disk and then when asked I put the CD in the CDRom and pressed ENTER. I then get a message ...

W2K loops during startup

Topeka - 12 Aug 2005 12:51 PM - 2 messages

When I start up, I get to the Starting Windows page, but after about 10 bars, the system loops and restarts itself. This happens over and over. Yesterday I was able to start in safe mode and disable all unnecessary hardware, and ...

Moving software

Keith D - 12 Aug 2005 11:46 AM - 2 messages

Hi there, Does anyone know of a method to MOVE a software package from one pc to another? (I dont mean reinstallation) Thanks Keith D ...

Deploying icon to numerous desktops

Deus DNE - 12 Aug 2005 10:13 AM - 3 messages

Hi, Is there a simple way to deploy an icon onto all desktops on win2kPro I cant use standard MS tools as the OS is pretty welll locked down, and admin is done by bespoke system. I thought about somesort of batch file/script, but got stuck on how to ...

Can't open Network and Dial-up properties

lehrdw - 12 Aug 2005 5:36 AM - 3 messages

I need to make a change to my DNS server settings in the TCP/IP properties of my Win2K standard server. However, I cannot open the Network and Dial-up properties. When I try to right-click My Network Places and select ...

Automatic power down when shutting down Win2K

MichaelE - 12 Aug 2005 4:07 AM - 2 messages

How do I set W2K to automatically power down when it is shut down, rather than displaying "It is now safe to power your computer off" message and requiring a manual power down? Is it a BIOS setting or a switch within ...

Task Scheduler not run

alen - 12 Aug 2005 2:11 AM - 4 messages

Hi all, The task scheduler on my Windows 2000 server could not run. When attempting to edit a task that had been added to task scheduler, I got the following error message: General page initialization failed. The specific error is: 0x80041315: ...

file and setting Transfer

Freddie - 12 Aug 2005 12:05 AM - 2 messages

Does anyone know how to do a "File and Setting Transfer Wizard" that is available in winXP, in Windows 2000? freddie ...

Add/Remove Programs failure

gretchen - 11 Aug 2005 11:12 PM - 2 messages

While logged on as Administrator and trying to Remove a WinPcap program, I get the error: "Unable to locate the installation log file 'C:\Program Files\Netgroup - Politecnico di Torino\WinPcap\Uninst.isu'. Uninstallation will not continue." I am unable to locate this file anywhere on the drive, although ...

Slow 2000 Server and 2000/XP Pro Performance following Windows Updates

robert - 11 Aug 2005 11:05 PM - 3 messages

In the last month, we've started to see several sites where Windows 2000 Servers and Windows 2000/XP workstation performance has really fallen off after installing Windows Critial Updates. At one site that ran all available critical updates today, only one of three servers is ...

Cannot join domain: Network path not found...

Grocery IT - 11 Aug 2005 10:29 PM - 3 messages

We have a Windows 2000 server that replaced an NT 4 server as a domain controller. The NT server was not demoted before the change. We now cannot join the clients (Windows 2000 and 98) to the domain. We receive the error ...

no online connection

escalante - 11 Aug 2005 9:25 PM - 18 messages

hi. i have recently removed the spysheriff and related viruses from a computer at work. now there is no access to the internet or the outlook. i'm thinking the removal process also removed files needed for these. i have run ...

Pentium 4 and end of life for w2k Pro??

Rob - 11 Aug 2005 8:32 PM - 6 messages

All. now that there is the new Pentium D chip available and no one that wants to sell it with w2k pro or server should we be expecting an end of life for w2k pro?? with this new generation of chips it looks like the single core P4 will ...

Destruction of secondary disk by start-up scandisk

Chiropter - 11 Aug 2005 7:36 PM - 2 messages

If you are a user of Windows in two languages, especially one in one byte system(such as English) and the other in two bytes system(such as Japanese), you must have wondered whether you can use a partition manage/format utility software for both languages. In my experience, the ...

tasks started as a Scheduled Task sometimes quits

Donna YaWanna - 11 Aug 2005 7:07 PM - 2 messages

I have a program written by a contract programmer now long since gone. I schedule the program to run every 30 minutes and it usually works. Sometimes, though, it just stops and I can't tell why. It's supposed to open ...

Removing Windows 2000 installed games

Kathy - 11 Aug 2005 6:16 PM - 4 messages

I have been asked to remove all local games (Windows installed games) for our computers. Most of our computers are Windows 2000. Does anyone know how I can remove the games from these systems? Thank you in advance, Kathy ...

roaming profiles

Franco Colzani - 11 Aug 2005 4:56 PM - 2 messages

Hello! I have a user in a Win2k domain in native mode, and is roaming profile is very often (almost always) locked out. The client is Win2k professional SP4. There is not a particular or unusual operation performed by the user, it happens, and the account has to be ...

How to move Windows 2000/2003 to another hardware

Luiz - 11 Aug 2005 4:10 PM - 3 messages

Hi, I would like to know how can I move the Windows 2000/2003 server image (like Ghost) from a machine to another. Can anyone help me? Thanks. Luiz Felipe ...

Lazy Server

James - 11 Aug 2005 4:01 PM - 2 messages

Hi all, hope someone can help. I have a Dell Poweredge 2500, 1GB ram, RAID 5, etc. We recently had mutiple power outages (however we do have a UPS on the server) and ever since the server is taking around 8 hours to log anyone ...

Error: 2019

SMB - 11 Aug 2005 3:39 PM - 2 messages

I have a DELL PowerEdge 1650 Server running Win2K SP4. The last few weeks I'm getting an Error: 2019 " The server was unable to allocate from the system nonpaged pool because the pool was empty. " I thought it was McAfee that was causing the problem, but it looks like that ...

HELP! I cut and lost critical docs

BZM - 11 Aug 2005 3:22 PM - 3 messages

BOY O BOY was I dumb! I easily installed a new larger HD, copied and pasted everything from the old HD into the new BEFORE I installed the W2K OS. But, then I got cocky and cut and pasted one critical folder to the new, so when ...

default printer in Windows Terminal server session does not stay s

zooeyhallne - 11 Aug 2005 3:17 PM - 2 messages

Hi! I have a lot of users that run XP Remote Desktop sessions from a W2K terminal server. I am having the following problem: a user sets a default printer in his session, but when he logs off and back on it doesn't keep this ...

Drag & Drop files to CD

Deborah - 11 Aug 2005 2:13 PM - 2 messages

Can anyone tell me how to turn off Roxio CD burning (without uninstalling it) and use Windows feature where you can drag and drop files to CD? Thanks! ...

Fatal Error c0000005

Keith Ward - 11 Aug 2005 12:22 PM - 2 messages

Hi, Im trying to run a program called orderwise on my client machines. Some of the win2kpro machines are having the following problem. When logged in a a user and you try to start the orderwise program the following error messages appear ...

MDAC installation

adrianh33 - 11 Aug 2005 9:25 AM - 3 messages

I am about to install a software product which requires MDAC 2.7, but will NOT work with MDAC 2.8. I am about to install Server 2000 and service pack 4, my question is what version of MDAC will be installed, and where if nescessary acan I find the ...

Problem Norton Internet Security 2005

SteM - 11 Aug 2005 8:11 AM - 2 messages

Hi! I have installed Norton Internet Security 2005 on 5 Win2000 PC's. It worked fine on 3 of the 5, but 2 PC's have problems with networking!! I can deactivate NIS but it doesn't help - i can't ping anything - i ...

Win2k registry viewing

Oleksii Krykun - 11 Aug 2005 6:03 AM - 2 messages

One of our Win2k doesn't boot due to disk problems. Recovery is not possible. I must to reinstall. All files I've copied to another disk on another PC. I would like to view some of old registry settings. Under Win9x I can export ...

How to enlarge size of system drive?

Serge - 11 Aug 2005 5:32 AM - 5 messages

Hello all! I meet a problem. I have to enlarge size of system drive from 4G to 8G to upgrade my server from 2000 to 2003. Do you know any possibility how to do it without reinstalling server and loosing any data? ...

HELP Moving Email & Settings to a New Machine!

Tom Newton - 11 Aug 2005 2:27 AM - 3 messages

Hi Folks - I recently used the "files and settings transfer wizard" on my XP machine to backup my outlook express email and settings so I can load it on a new Win2k machine. So I'm on the Win2k machine now, and have run the files and settings ...

Windows Event Log ID List

mikey - 10 Aug 2005 7:32 PM - 2 messages

Where can I find a complete list of Windows Event Log ID's? It would be nice to have the list in .xls format or some other searchable format. Surely this is available somewhere on the Internet. I know you can enter the ID number at MS and other sites to find the ...

Active X component register/unregister failure

CI - 10 Aug 2005 7:22 PM - 2 messages

One of our clients reported the following issue: They have our application installed that uses a number of ActiveX COM dlls written in VB 6.0. They used this app for some time without any problems. Few days ago they took a single machine from the one of the users and ...

Pain in my....

Joe - 10 Aug 2005 6:44 PM - 2 messages

I have a Windows 2000 Standard Sever (HP Proliant ML570 G2 w/ 4 1.4 Ghz processors). I recently upgraded the memory from 2 Gb to 16 Gb. The OS only recognizes 4 GB. Ok. So I did my research and found out about the \PAE ...

Adding a Windows 98 partition to a Win2k box

El Marko - 10 Aug 2005 6:30 PM - 2 messages

Our computer currently runs Win2k Pro SP4. I want to add an additional hard drive which will be dedicated to running Windows 98. I plan on disconnecting the current drive and then making the 2nd one a master on the secondary IDE, and then installing 98. Then ...

Home Folder not recreated

needin4mation - 10 Aug 2005 4:37 PM - 3 messages

Hi, if I delete a user's Home Folder on the server, as an admin, when the user logs in again, it does not recreate the folder. Is it supposed to recreate the folder? Thanks. ...

Win2K Server shell

Warren Z - 10 Aug 2005 2:57 PM - 2 messages

Rebooted one of our Win2K SP4 servers and get only a blue blank screen. Doesn't have SP4 Rollup installed. Mouse cursor shows and moves, but no login prompt, no response to Ctl-Alt-Del. No activity on screen after 30 minutes. ...

Let's be honest.

George Hester - 10 Aug 2005 2:36 PM - 3 messages

[link] "Counterfeit copies of software are illegal in many places, less reliable than authorized copies, and unsupportable because of the risks they pose[...]" It ought to be illegal everywhere. Trouble is how is it going to be ...

Microsoft Update error 0x8DDD0002

Blithe - 10 Aug 2005 1:16 PM - 6 messages

I am up-to-date with Iexplorer ver. 6 & W2k ver 5.0 build 2194 SP4. I got the MS bulletin promoting Microsoft Update as the replacement for Windows Update. I followed directions & got error 0x8DD0002 with this message: ...

Service Packs On CD

box2003 - 10 Aug 2005 1:15 PM - 2 messages

Hello, I have a MS Access application that has a requirement of Service Pack 4 for Windows 2000 or Service Pack 2 for Windows XP and Jet 4.0 Service Pack 8 prior to installing the MS Access application. Am I legally allowed to ...

Error 1053 - Cannot Start / Stop any services.

Neil - 10 Aug 2005 1:09 PM - 4 messages

We have aproblem with our domain contoller in that we are unable to back it up. On investigation I found that although the service in the Services MMC says it has started, in fact it has not. Nither can we start our Symantec AV, ...

Win2K SP4 + error 1053 when I try to start service

cedric - 10 Aug 2005 12:56 PM - 4 messages

Hi all, I am unable to start or stop any service : I have an error 1053. I read many kb articles, but none of them help me. I am also unable to do a windowsupdate or install a msi package because ...

problem with booting win 2000

gordon - 10 Aug 2005 9:05 AM - 2 messages

Hi My friend has win2000 on his pc and most times when he boots - he gets to the part where the light blue screen comes up - and the machine reverts to the bios again. He asked me to look at it for him and i found some bad ram and a graphics ...

Taking forever to logon!!

John Wilt - 10 Aug 2005 5:35 AM - 5 messages

Our system is 2 Win2k servers with DNS running AD integrated. In the last few days the network has taken forever to get logged on. About 2 minutes to be exact. This only occurs with standard users. If I use an Admin account ...

Win 2000 Pro Will Not Boot

George Lawshe - 10 Aug 2005 4:16 AM - 4 messages

My wife's computer has been working fine until tonight. When turn on it will load up and boot seemingly normal until the Desktop is to appear, then the screen is blue with the task bar (no icons) is on the left side of the screen. ...

Last ditch repair of crashing W2K box...ideas?!?!?!

intrepid_dw - 10 Aug 2005 1:10 AM - 3 messages

All: I have a home-brew box built about five years ago to run Windows 2000. It has served primarily as a host for a printer and a development database, and in that time has run flawlessly...well, until the last ...

Restoring System State

DanaK - 9 Aug 2005 10:15 PM - 7 messages

I have thrown in the towel on a downed DC server and, after making all the backups I could from the mirror drive: System State, Home Directories and other misc. folders, I was wondering exactly how much I would regain by ...

2000 Pro - Xp Pro

Mac - 9 Aug 2005 8:39 PM - 11 messages

Is there an upgrade from 2000 pro (upgrade) to XP pro? How much? ...

NTbackup corrupted file

Eli Acevedo - 9 Aug 2005 7:55 PM - 6 messages

I have been working for a while ago with NTBACKUP, but now I find out that backup file is not valid to open with NTBakup, itÂ´s currupted. What can I do??, uninstall backup and re-installed again ? or use another ...

Enabling caps lock on login to Win2k TS

ideagirl - 9 Aug 2005 7:13 PM - 2 messages

Our floor manager would like the caps lock to be set to ON when a user logs in to the TS. I have tried the following solutions: Changing the appropriate keyboard registry entry from 2 to 4 writing a VB script that turns on caps and num lock and running it in a ...

Win2k hangs at 2000 screen

TKinHawaii - 9 Aug 2005 5:51 PM - 2 messages

Replaced second HDD with larger (10gb to 160gb) on Sunday, used Norton Ghost 9. Since then my system has been slow through the Win2k start up screen and has sometimes stalled there. Nothing was touched on the system drive. Suggestions and help are appreciated......I am afraid to turn the computer ...

2000-2003 Licensing issue

FieldTechBrad - 9 Aug 2005 4:51 PM - 4 messages

Hello, I have a small business environment (10 or so users) with 1 windows 2000 server and 1 windows 2003 server. For some reason, the licensing server has revoked all the licenses and if we try to add them back, they just dissapear. ...

"ValueAdd" directory contents necessary for installation of Win2000 ?

Paul Barasoa - 9 Aug 2005 3:51 PM - 2 messages

From an original Win2000 CD I want to create new, individual Win2000 installation CD. In order to have more space for other tools I want to put on the new, own CD I consider to remove the directory "ValueAdd". Is this possible or does the boot/installation process of Win2000 ...

help - 16 bit app won't run

*ProteanThread* - 9 Aug 2005 3:23 PM - 3 messages

i even have memcheck dialogbox in my registry and no 16 bit apps will not run. ...

Installation problems.

Stuart Mantel - 9 Aug 2005 2:41 PM - 3 messages

I just did a complete reinstall of Win2k (aded all patches and SPs). I also re-installed Office 2000 Small Biz. Clean install, no error messages, everytihing was installed to run off the computer. Everytime I start an office application, I get an installation progress ...

Computer will not boot up from diskette or CD-ROM

sgtjdc - 9 Aug 2005 2:14 PM - 6 messages

My computer running Win 2000 Pro. does not recognize the keyboard or the mouse. I tried to boot from a DOS diskette or a Norton Utilites CD-ROM but it goes to Windows and ask for ctrl-alt-del. I cannot inturrupt the boot setup ...

Create new MBR

Joel Kauffman - 9 Aug 2005 2:08 PM - 4 messages

We have a Windows 2000 server that had mirrored hard drives. The main hard drive crashed and I was able to create a boot floppy and get booted off the second hard drive. Now that I have replaced the drive I can't get the server ...

Time Sync Monitoring Tool

Parvinder - 9 Aug 2005 1:17 PM - 6 messages

Is there a Utility that will monitor the synchronization of time on all the Windows 2000/2003 servers ? ...

Registry repair

Chachanger - 9 Aug 2005 12:52 PM - 6 messages

I recently had to reinstall windows 2K and now I have a bunch of registry errors in w2k plus my office suite as well which are causing the programs not to run propoerly. How can I repair the registry? Thanks in advance. ...

Cannot access Control panel

ltteh - 9 Aug 2005 11:26 AM - 7 messages

The problem begins after the server being reboot. When I try to access control panel via start menu, it just freeze the PC for like a few minutes before the following messages came up: "Cannot find the file â€˜(null)â€™ (or one of its components). Make ...

ZIP icons eternally corrupted - I am going crazy!

Peter - 9 Aug 2005 11:26 AM - 3 messages

Hello! I am going crazy for a silly little thing. Please help me anyone! The icon for ZIP files never shows the way it is supposed to. Instead it insists on displaying the Windows 'default document' icon for ZIP files. If I ...

Removing unused port type

Jon Lewis - 9 Aug 2005 11:08 AM - 4 messages

Can anyone please tell me how to remove an unused Port Type from a Windows 2000 Server? TIA ...

Second Drive...Now you see it...Now you don't

JW - 9 Aug 2005 10:02 AM - 5 messages

I recently installed a second hard drive in my 2000 Desktop machince. Sometimes when I boot up I can access the drive immediately. Other times I can't see it (Explorer, My Computer) and have to run Install/Remove ...

W2k inflected by new poly win32

man - 9 Aug 2005 9:05 AM - 2 messages

hi all one of our user's w2k inflected by "new poly win32" which detected by mcafee, now that pc's I.E seems cant work properly, such as when open I.E, it load for a long time or dont take any action, sometime can load the page, but ...

Can't get Win2K to detect CD/RW drive...

ohaya - 9 Aug 2005 5:15 AM - 16 messages

Hi, I have a Windows 2000 system with both a DVD drive and a CDRW drive. The BIOS detects both drives (master and slave, respectively, on my 2nd IDE channel), but Windows 2000 only detects the DVD drive, and can't see ...

Can I load windowsXP along with win 2000server and win98

Ram - 9 Aug 2005 3:30 AM - 2 messages

HI, I have a stand alone system with dual bootable, win98 on c:drive and win2000server on d:drive ,c: drive on fat32 file system and win2000server on NTFS file system. I have single hard disk with diff partitions (ie) c:drive, ...

2000 unable to detect harddrive with S.M.A.R.T. Status Bad.

dr.nil - 9 Aug 2005 3:29 AM - 5 messages

I have a 160 GB Seagate 7200 RPM HDD. Drive gets detected properly on my asus p4c800 motheroboard BIOS, I get a prompt to press F4 to continue resume booting. (Showing S.M.A.R.T. Status bad) But i am unable to locate (it wont get detected) on hardware device manager. ...

Scan disks on IBM ServeRAID 6 controller

Cody Lo - 9 Aug 2005 3:06 AM - 2 messages

We have a server running Windows2000 using ServeRAID 6i, the server was suddenly not responding and we can see there is a led on one of the disk keep lite when the server was not responding, the console was nothing to see and we have to hard reboot the server. ...

Assistance needed please ...

Warren C. E. Austin - 9 Aug 2005 2:33 AM - 5 messages

.... ran WindowsUpdate successfully today, and upon re-boot dissevered I'm getting each of the following advisories, where none had previously existed. What to do? I'm out of my depth here. Warren C. E. Austin Toronto, Canada ...

New XP crashes - 000000d1

Ook - 9 Aug 2005 2:12 AM - 4 messages

I get this several times a week on a new box with a clean install of XP Home: The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x000000d1 (0x83000000, 0x00000002, 0x00000000, 0xf791ba44). A dump was saved in: C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\Mini080805-01.dmp. ...

STOP: 0x000000D1 nightmare

Suicyco - 9 Aug 2005 12:59 AM - 5 messages

Hello group This has been driving me crazy for months now. Had this PC for a couple years now and never had this problem before. No new devices have been installed either. System randomly seems to get this error; STOP: 0X000000D1 (0x00000000, 0X00000002, 0x00000000, 0x00000000) ...

Win2K Stopped booting

Chiropter - 9 Aug 2005 12:12 AM - 2 messages

My Win2K HD stops immediately after the progress bar for loading Windows appeared and the computer starts booting all over again as if I rebooted. If I hit F8 for safe mode, same situation. Since the Windows try to load up to showing progress bar, I suppose something happened to ...

Windows Purge

Liam J - 8 Aug 2005 10:27 PM - 4 messages

A program running under Windows 2000 saves files as versions of the same template and an Engineer ran Windows Purge, deleting some 400 part models, erasing three months of work. Is there a way for a purge to be undone? ...

Trendnet TEW-424UB's latest driver crashes Windows

jorge.hodge - 8 Aug 2005 10:17 PM - 3 messages

I tried contacting Trendnet's tech support, but the person there simply wouldn't understand that it's impossible for an application to crash a driver. He thought the problem was with the application. The application in this case is mldonkey, a p2p client. ...

Net Add LocalGroup - question

- - 8 Aug 2005 9:45 PM - 2 messages

Hello, I wanted to implement a script that would add a Domain Group into the local Administrators group. It works fine, except that when it tries to place the Domain Group into the local group and it's already present, it throws an ...

Explorer Question

Buck Turgidson - 8 Aug 2005 8:45 PM - 2 messages

When I open Explorer, it always defaults to my C drive, and expands the directory tree. I usually don't go to my C drive, but somewhere else. Is there a way I can change the default so that it always opens to a ...

Can't download Security Updates

Mike Bailey - 8 Aug 2005 5:49 PM - 2 messages

I've recently taken over a windows 2000 server and foudn it to be missing 33 Critical Security updates. When I try to download them using the Windows Update, I get the following message: Network policy settings prevent you from using Windows Update to download ...

IE Security - Trusted Sites Zone

Nick Leh - 8 Aug 2005 5:16 PM - 3 messages

I am interested in disabling Active Scripting and adding the required websites to the Trusted Sites Zone for scripting. I have found my trusted sites in: HKLU\sID\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\internet settings\ZoneMap\Domains 2 Questions: Is this the correct key? ...

Scheduler not working properly, having to reset password in job

Jules - 8 Aug 2005 5:11 PM - 8 messages

I have a batch file to run in schedular using a local user account that is apart of the administrators group. The batch ran for awhile and now every day or two I have to go to the job and reset the password to get it to work ...

Need some advice on some Required Whiteboard Software.

Kardon Coupé - 8 Aug 2005 4:40 PM - 4 messages

Me and a friend are on two separate OS's. I'm on WinXP, and he's on Win2000, and we need some TCP/IP Whiteboard software. We have tried to use MSN, but it tells him he needs to be on WinXP. Does anybody know of any that will ...

Server Busy

windows 2000 professional Roll back

remove password request

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