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Score IE6 freezes after it spawns another window
Computerguy - 12 May 2007 11:03 PM - 2 messages
Hi, I am running Win2k SP4 with IE6 Version:6.0.2800.1106, SP1. I have Windows Update installed and configured so that I get regular updates. My system has been running just fine for a long time but recently I have noticed that IE ...
Score what is dma and hardware interupts?
sa_lll - 12 May 2007 8:50 PM - 4 messages
The dvd playback is choppy.  the hardware interupts is using 20% cpu everytime i play dvds. I think there might be an error in it because i can't suspend it with the proccess explorer program. Also IDE channel is set to 'DMA if available'. .This fixed the problem ...
Score Shutdown behaviour
Tom - 12 May 2007 8:24 PM - 3 messages
Hi, When i use the normal Windows shutdown it takes some time as usual, but when I use the keyboard's Power key the comp shuts down pretty fast.  What's the difference? Thanks ...
Score Strange Num Lock problem
kleefarr - 12 May 2007 3:42 PM - 7 messages
I have an unusual num lock problem with W2K SP4. In the Administrator account there's no problem, but in my personal account when ever I log on the num lock turns on. I have read through quite a few num ...
Score Show Desktop issue
Herbert Eppel - 12 May 2007 9:26 AM - 6 messages
I accidentally moved Show Desktop to My Documents. Assuming that it was merely a shortcut I tried to move it back, but it seems to have been the actual file! I now see to have the 'real' Show Desktop in My Documents and a shortcut ...
Score W2000 with 2 nic's in same subnet?
bert.moolenaar - 12 May 2007 7:42 AM - 2 messages
Hello, I''m running Windows 2000 sp4 as a webserver (office-intranet). I have two networkcards in this server and i want to use one for web traffic and the other for ftp, etc. I thought this would be simple. I just give each nic it's own IP- ...
Score How to automate security patch updates
David F - 12 May 2007 2:55 AM - 3 messages
I am running Win2K+SP4+Rollup 1 ver. 2. I have downloaded all the security patches since then. Is there a tool \ way to install all those executable patches upon a fresh install of W2K? Any relief is appreciated. David ...
Score Error 1077: No attempts to start the servcie have been made since the last boot
Richard M. Hartman - 11 May 2007 7:41 PM - 7 messages
This is the (remarkably unhelpful) error I am getting with a number of services, that are apparently vital to running Win2000.  (See the thread "Ok, now I never get past the boot screen . . ." for background on this problem.) Anyway, the "Remote Procedure Call (RPC) service" depends upon the "Security ...
Score reboot even before OS loaded in dual boot hdd
liveprices - 11 May 2007 5:16 PM - 5 messages
This hdd is a dual boot of win2k prof and win xp home. I boot into win 2k and use this to scan another hdd(sec slave) for virus etc. After I detached the sec master I reboot into win2k. However, it never completes the loading of ...
Score Daily BSOD: unable to allocate from the system nonpaged
torbens - 11 May 2007 8:29 AM - 2 messages
Hi All! For a few weeks we have had a very strange problem with one of our windows 2000 servers. In the eventlog we entries like this: The server was unable to allocate from the system nonpaged pool because the ...
Score Restart after windows update
Leslie Isaacs - 11 May 2007 7:50 AM - 4 messages
Hello All Every so often my PC does an automatic windows update, following which a restart is required. Ever 5 minutes (or so) I get a message offering to restart now, or later. This can be a real problem, as sometimes I'm not at ...
Score Boot to dos to access NT/2k NTFS?
j_slobo - 11 May 2007 12:35 AM - 7 messages
Anyone please- is there a downloadable boot floopy to get a command prompt with at least read access to NTFS? ...
Score Auto-upgrade won't go away
Daniel Kaplan - 11 May 2007 12:15 AM - 5 messages
Oh please help me.  I have a Win2000 machine.  Build 5.00.2195 SP4. I keep getting the upgrade icon for IE 6   KB 832894. Anyone know how to make it update once and for all and leave me alone? ...
Score Getting Control of Explorer
Roger Fink - 10 May 2007 4:30 PM - 3 messages
I'd like to get Exporer to open up where I want it to within the profile that it's launched. Currently the "start in" box says: < %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%>, which starts it in C:\Documents and Settings\rff\My ...
Score time zone
Mhd - 10 May 2007 11:16 AM - 3 messages
Dears; I am having w2k domain environment with 500 workstations. I need a way to uncheck the Automatically adjust daylight saving check box from central location without access each pc individually Please advice ...
Score W2K continually reboots (Just before log in) After updates?
Wideawake - 10 May 2007 10:36 AM - 21 messages
I have three machines experiencing the same problem - not sure if related to recent windows updates. These machines reboot just prior to windows log in. They cycle endlessly - rebooting. I think their "system failures" settings are set to reboot on system crash - ...
Score Ok, now I never get past the boot screen . . .
Richard M. Hartman - 10 May 2007 8:18 AM - 14 messages
I don't know what happened yesterday, but now the boot process appears to hang on the startup screen (the white one w/ the windows 2000 logo covering most of the screen, a grey bar w/ the copyright on the bottom, and the ...
Score Browse File Utility
flahmeshess - 10 May 2007 7:09 AM - 5 messages
I'm looking for a utility to browse a file (instead of editing), preferably don't have to be installed.  Just a standalone exe. I search the internet but found many unrelated hits. Thanks you. ...
Score KB867801
Richard - 10 May 2007 1:37 AM - 2 messages
Hi I have installed this update (KB867801) a couple of times, it stills prompts. How do I get rid of it? Many thanks in advance. Richard ...
Score Windows 2K Server Freezes on startup
eilrama.betkolia - 10 May 2007 1:11 AM - 6 messages
Hello, I have a dell poweredge server, we had a slight power outage today, while I was out to lunch, and the battery backup was depleted and windows shut down, I am unable to start windows in normal mode, however it starts fine in safe mode.  I get the log in screen on ...
Score can't "Add Printer"
Patrick - 9 May 2007 11:48 PM - 4 messages
When I double-click the "Add Printer" selection in "Control Panel --> Printers", I am told "Printer operation cannot continue due to lack of resources. The print system is unavailable." The goal is to create a printer that will simply print to a text file. How ...
Score Disk space for 512-bit numbers
ChrisW - 9 May 2007 8:02 PM - 2 messages
Hello, I have to be doing something wrong. This is gotta be a simple question. I want to print off every number from 0 to whatever in a 512- bit. I figured out the disk space I need and it is some ungodly value ...
Score Setup.log file never gets updated
Darkane - 9 May 2007 7:25 PM - 6 messages
hi all I've been trying to make ERD's and it works but I noticed that the setup.log file is always dated as 2006/July , everytime it is the same file never changes I mess with the system all the time everyday which is ...
Score Windows 2000 - Very Slow
Luke Chalmers - 9 May 2007 2:55 PM - 2 messages
Hello, One of customer servers has been running slow and then sorts itself out after a few hours for the last few days now. The general behaviour is that a user will report slow traffic on the server and then when I connect up to is ...
Score Help with MD5 Sum
SANTANDER - 9 May 2007 9:52 AM - 3 messages
I lost my Windows 2000 Pro CD, but find an old backup (ZRMPFPP_EN.iso) I did once, but I'm not sure is this backup data correct or not. So I need to verify MD5 sum of that ISO file, could someone post MD5 sum for ...
Score sysprep in windows 2000 - product key not automatically
jörg - 9 May 2007 7:05 AM - 2 messages
I am writing from Austria Windows 2000 server & Clients (windows 2000 professional) Description of my problem: I create with setupmgr sysprep.inf as my answer file. In the following mini-setup after cloning with GHOST all informations are well done out of ...
Score Recovering PDC from Hardware Failure
Brian McGrew - 8 May 2007 6:46 PM - 2 messages
Good morning! I've got a whitebox Win2000AS that's running as a primary domain controller. Thank God my data is on the other drive but my primary master hard drive failed and the server won't boot.  No, I don't have any backups of that ...
Score VPN Question
George Schneider - 8 May 2007 4:56 PM - 2 messages
I'm connecting to our network via our VPN connection.  Obviosuly when I'm at home I'm not authenticating to our network so when I go to mange a computer across the VPN I do not have the authority to start and stop services.  Is ...
Score Clean install of W2K on a Dell 1400sc
North Coast Sea Foods - 8 May 2007 3:45 PM - 3 messages
Where can I find the step by step procedure to install W2K on a Dell PowerEdge 1400SC. I keep getting the message that it can not find the Disk? Thx ...
Score Win2K distributive
SANTANDER - 8 May 2007 3:21 PM - 4 messages
I lost my Windows 2000 media (distributive). Is there somewhere on microsoft website downloadable distributive of win2K w/SP4(iso)? Regards ...
Score Registry Repair, Clean Up and File Fix for Windows
milton chow - 8 May 2007 2:05 PM - 3 messages
Every Microsoft Windows operating system has a registry. Your system registry holds a wealth of information about your computer, which is why we constantly hear from users that after using their PC for a short length of time, it no longer works the way it used to. This is ...
Score Inaccessible boot device
aa - 8 May 2007 12:37 PM - 13 messages
w2k aborts loading halfway producing blue screen with white letters advising ***Stop Inaccessible boot device Win XP Home installed in another partition either send similar screen with the message Kernel Data inpage Error Or it loads and works but in a while throughs the blue screen "Dumping ...
Score W2000 SP3 and Generic/Text Only
Gigit - 8 May 2007 7:43 AM - 4 messages
Hi to all. Upgrading from SP2 to SP3 there was a problem with Generic/Text Only driver that made the first leftmost character lost. Was this problem solved passing to SP4? Can anybody link me to Microsoft KB articles? Thank you in advance. ...
Score Upgrade, How to or can this be done?
To Old To . . . - 8 May 2007 5:16 AM - 2 messages
I sure the answer is no, but I have to ask. I have a server 2000 that is being used as a workstation. It has a number of programs installed on it that it would be hard for me to re-install. ...
Score who was on and for how long?
SpreadTooThin - 8 May 2007 1:27 AM - 2 messages
How can I get a listing of the last users logged in and for how long? Like: user a logged in at 10PM and out at 11PM user b logged in at  1AM and out at 7AM TIA B. ...
Score Strange behaviour , started with "file.exe" appearing on the desktop
dieselmb - 8 May 2007 12:18 AM - 5 messages
Two days ago a desktop ikon appeared:"file.exe". I learned that it is a trojan. It would not go away. I  went to safe mode, installed and ran "Autoruns", but it froze. I removed file.exe finally using ...
Score Screen painting problems - Win2000 Server, GeForce FX 5200 AGP
Richard M. Hartman - 7 May 2007 9:24 PM - 3 messages
I am having screen painting issues.  I have Win2000 Server, and a GeForce FX 5200 AGP.  Both the original drivers on the CD for the GeForce and the latest downloaded from nVidia exhibit the problem.  It seems to be ...
Score Intel INF Update Utility
vision - 7 May 2007 7:12 PM - 2 messages
I need install drivers, INF Update Utility. The latest vers. I find is 6.3.0.1007 12/16/2004 [link] ...
Score External USB Harddrive Fails in Disk Manager -> Removable Storage
jkn_73 - 7 May 2007 12:29 PM - 3 messages
I have installed a USB 2 PCI card in a IBM Netfinity3000 PIII server running Win 2000 Server SP4. All works fine in that regard according to device manager. I have then tried to connect a 250Gb External USB drive formatted to ...
Score Clean install of Windows 2000 Professional
vision - 6 May 2007 5:11 PM - 12 messages
Not clear for clean install of Windows 2000 Professional:  should I first prepare the hard drive for Windows 2000 (HDD is new, unformatted), or Windows will format during installation? What is steps? Regards, ...
Score Windowsupdate not working
Richard M. Hartman - 6 May 2007 3:08 PM - 4 messages
Automatic updates are not working.  Going to windowsupdate.microsoft.com manually is not working.  It just shows the "looking for updates" animation forever. Any ideas? ...
Score Loss of functionality in Administrator
Roger Fink - 6 May 2007 6:28 AM - 6 messages
I have W2K installed in a new white box desktop. For whatever reason (user error comes to mind), Administrator profile is greatly restricted in what it will let me do. I can access six functions in the control panel:  Users and ...
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