Windows Server 2000/2003 General Support

STOP : INACCESSIBLE BOOT DEVICE (0x0000007B, ...)

Joanne Bondoc - 17 Nov 2007 6:00 AM - 4 messages

Here goes: I shutdown my computer last night, (WIN2k PRO) which ws working very fine. I tried booting this morning, then the Log-in dialogue box appears, the pc hangs, so I am forced to restart the computer. After restarting, win2k pro loads about 75% (the blue bar during startup) and then the blue screen of death shows up. (STOP: Inaccessible Boot Device...) ...

I screwed up my PC. Please help !

Jason Derek - 16 Nov 2007 11:51 AM - 7 messages

Hi, Logged in as Admininstrator & I Ran GPEDIT.MSC and Enabled the options under USER CONFIGURATION / ADMINISTRATIVE TEMPLATES / SYSTEM / (1) Disable Command Prompt = Enabled (2) Disable Registry Editing Tools = Enabled (3) Run only allowed Windows Applications = Enabled Now my PC is locked and cannot do anything. Yes, it was stupid of me ...

Hot key needed

sherwindu - 16 Nov 2007 6:21 AM - 40 messages

I enter my email address and password to several browsers multiple times a day. Is there some way to set up a 'hot' key that can be used in my Windows 2000 operating system to make that job easier? I generally use Internet Explorer ...

No longer getting a "preview" of JPG images when viewing a Folder

scscompa - 15 Nov 2007 4:17 PM - 7 messages

I have not been to these newsgroup/forum entries for years... Since Win 2000 Beta. Sorry, if I post this in the incorrect spot. Anyway - I have recently (yes, I still use Win 2000 Pro) had a couple of ...

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New Profile Assigned

A DeLew - 15 Nov 2007 4:06 PM - 3 messages

Turned on my PC today and I suddenly have a new profile, that I did not create (or at least that I realized I created). The admin profile name is Janice. But this new profile is Alice.Alice-Dell. Everything seems to be ...

cmd.exe and others: 0xc0000142

marcosignacio - 15 Nov 2007 2:57 PM - 4 messages

Hi, Im experiencing some problems with cmd.exe (0xc0000142)'s popups, and sometimes initiating some services (ie mysqld-nt.exe). Note that I CAN run cmd.exe normally. The strange part of this is that this isnt happening always.. sometimes it does, sometimes it doesnt. ...

Control panel - Display

TKHaw - 15 Nov 2007 2:38 PM - 6 messages

All of a sudden my W2k is acting funny. My background is a picture from a digital folder. When I go to Control Panel - Display, on the background menu there are no options that I can use. I can change nothing. All other portions ...

Show Desktop does not work

Todd Cary - 14 Nov 2007 6:27 PM - 8 messages

By mistake I tried to install an older version of Sim Town on my Win 2K computer and the "Show Desktop" no longer works. The Microsoft site mentions this problem, however I have followed their instructions along with other suggestions and there appears ...

OS Attempts to Install Non-existent Device ????

ygo3@yahoo.com - 13 Nov 2007 11:57 PM - 3 messages

We are trying to install a Maxtor ATA 133 IDE PCI controller card, and it simply doesn't work. The new wrinkle is this: The card has been physically removed from the system. Every time the machine boots, the "Found New ...

Event ID 16 SOAP error

MAdrox - 13 Nov 2007 10:10 PM - 2 messages

I'm getting this error across a dozen front end win2k sp4 web servers at random times throughout the day. It puts 4 event id 16 errors in the app event log. Just to be sure I've isolated 3 web servers to ...

Making a directory with a date?

Jim - 13 Nov 2007 5:39 PM - 7 messages

Using Windows XP or Win 2003 Server. Is there a way to make a batch file that will create a new folder with the date? For example, if it were this easy...., MKDIR %DATE% would make a directory 11-13-2007 ...

Moving Shares to a new Server

guv - 13 Nov 2007 5:30 PM - 2 messages

I have a windows 2003 server acting as file server. I want to move the file server to a new windows 2003 server. I have several share folders that I want to move from the old file server to the new file server. Is there a ...

Task Mnager closes quickly

Suresh - 12 Nov 2007 4:26 PM - 2 messages

I have Windows 2000 Professional on my system. When I clikc on "Task Manager" or "Start->Run->'cmd'", these windows open and closes quickly. What could be went wrong with my system? ...

start menu hiding unused programs

legg - 12 Nov 2007 3:44 PM - 3 messages

One thing that's always bugged me about W2K and Wxp is the start menu 'automatically' hiding 'unused' programs in the start menu of the desktop. I find this a disorienting time-waster. Any way to disable it? RL ...

Sound Breakup when CPU is utilised

flahmeshess - 12 Nov 2007 3:12 PM - 5 messages

When my CPU is barely utilised, there is no problem with the sound generated (my sound is built-in on the motherboard). But when I start using the CPU, the sound breakup. Can anyone give me some hints how I can troubleshoot this ? ...

autoexnt

Pascal - 12 Nov 2007 2:21 PM - 3 messages

Hello i've got a problem with autoexnt on windows 2000 pc. I follow the instructions to make it works copy files in c:\winnt\system32 (Autoexnt.bat, Autoexnt.exe, Servmess.dll, Instexnt.exe) i make a litle script with autoexnt.bat ...

Users home folders

Apollo - 12 Nov 2007 10:27 AM - 5 messages

Hi, Need to restrict users home folders to a set size. Would have used disk qotas but all infomation (project folders, department folders et al..) is kept on one logical D: drive. Any utilities that I can use to 'only' affect ...

Dual boot XP/Vista and NTFS

Ham Pastrami - 12 Nov 2007 9:02 AM - 3 messages

I'd like to get XP and Vista installed to my computer for sandbox tests (still prefer to keep 2k as the primary environment). I'm a little concerned about whether the NTFS update is going to impact the existing filesystem. ...

Resize system drive HDD

Pleo - 12 Nov 2007 1:27 AM - 4 messages

Seems complicated. Any alternative method. Please advise. Thanks. A system drive of 3 GBytes is grossly inadequate for a server. 15 GBytes would be a more appropriate figure. AFAIK, none of the current partition managers will touch dynamic partitions. Your only choice would be to do this: ...

Re: Schedule broken after UpdateRollup1

Reinhard - 11 Nov 2007 7:50 PM - 4 messages

After almost one year of endless trials, to find a solution for this scheduler-problem, I am conviced, that this is a real problem of the Microsoft-security-update KB841873 (MS04-022). In the meantime I could confirm this scheduler-problem with ...