Windows Server 2000/2003 General Support

SERVICES.EXE Mystery

Jay Somerset - 13 Jan 2007 9:56 PM - 18 messages

Every couple of hours, services.exe tries to add the same two keys to my WIN2K registry. I am running WIN2K/SP4 with the latest MS patches. The system is not part of a domain. The keys being rewritten are: ...

Creating an Image

JCO - 13 Jan 2007 8:50 PM - 3 messages

Getting an error reading the disk while trying to image my drive using TrueImage ver. 8. I've used this product and ghost for many years. I prefer TrueImage because it works better across the network. I'm wondering ...

Hard Disk Data Recovery Expert

samsloan - 13 Jan 2007 2:04 PM - 4 messages

Hard Disk Data Recovery Expert I have had a serious problem with my hard drive, which crashed in October, 2006. As the hard drive contained books that I had written, it was necessary to recover it. I took it to all kinds of experts and none ...

No sharing tab in Local Area Connection properties?

saferbrowsing855 - 13 Jan 2007 8:14 AM - 5 messages

Can anyone explain the reason why I don't see a sharing tab in my Local Area Connection Properties? I'm running Windows 2000 Pro and have removed my File and Printer Sharing and Client For MS Networks components. ...

ati video card in W2k

Tex Shalter - 13 Jan 2007 2:23 AM - 6 messages

Not really an W2K issue. Wondering if a ATI 9600 radeon card can't power a big lcd monitor, does this mean the power supply is too weak ? ...

modem installation and system administrator

govewood - 12 Jan 2007 8:17 PM - 2 messages

Am trying to install a new modem and drivers in a computer that was used in an office environment, and apparently was part of a Local Area Network. Modem installation seems to go well with new hardware recognized and new ...

Will greater CPU help memory?

Erick - 12 Jan 2007 3:05 PM - 2 messages

Good morning, My company has Oracle running on Windows 2000 Server. The server is about 5 years old and has dual Xeon 2.4 GHz processors. Becuase it's Windows 2000 and not Windows 2003 there is a limitation on the amount of memory available for ...

Raid5-Problem - two hard disks out of service - Server still running

beruehm - 12 Jan 2007 2:56 PM - 2 messages

Sorry for posting in german. When I posted the last message I saw that this newsgroup was only english Hi, I am administrating a windows 2000 domain server with five hard disks, running under Raid 5. Now I have lost two hard disks one after another ...

Collapsing threads in Windows Explorer

Rick Charnes - 12 Jan 2007 2:48 PM - 4 messages

[A trivial matter, but...] In Windows Explorer, is there a keystroke for 'collapse this thread' *when you're not on the parent of that thread*? We have zillions of directories on some of our network drives, and I'm ...

Dr Watson error

fniles - 12 Jan 2007 2:34 PM - 10 messages

I have a VB6 program that receives data using socket and save the data to a SQL Server 2000 database. It has Windows 2000 SP4 with all hot patches in it. It has 2 gig of RAM. The program had been running for years with no problem, but for the last 3 ...

RAID5-Problem_-_zwei_Festplatten_defekt_-_Server_l=E4uft_noch

beruehm - 12 Jan 2007 2:33 PM - 2 messages

Hallo, ich habe einen Windows-2000-Server mit fünf Festplatten, die unter Raid 5 laufen. Nun sind zwei Festplatten gleichzeitig ausgefallen (bitte fragt nicht, warum!). Der Rechner ist per Ping noch zu erreichen. Auf die Freigaben kann von den Clients nicht mehr ...

Win2K Driving Me Crazy

rn5a - 12 Jan 2007 12:44 PM - 9 messages

Sir, can someone please help me overcome my problem? Win2K Pro (installed in my machine's C: drive was working fine till today morning but after taking a break for about 3 hours, when I restarted my machine in the afternoon, I find Win2K restarting by ...

DST

Greg - 12 Jan 2007 12:42 PM - 4 messages

Does anyone have the latest DST patch for Windows 2000 server? ...

What is pagefile.sys for

aa - 12 Jan 2007 12:29 PM - 5 messages

What is pagefile.sys for? I a 4.5Gn hard drive it takes 1Gb If I delete it, what would be repercutions? ...

Don't think your computer has errors

gcbmnrursifm - 12 Jan 2007 12:18 PM - 2 messages

It's a known fact that over 93.7% of computers that are over 30 days old are infected with spyware and adware. Such software is rarely accompanied by an uninstall utility and even when it is it almost always leaves broken Windows Registry errors behind it. ...

on which drive letter w2k is installed ?

aa - 12 Jan 2007 10:28 AM - 12 messages

There are several partitions on the Hard Drive with several w2k and XP installed When I boot into an OS how can I quickly see which drive letter it is on? ...

Permissions for USB flash drive

Miha - 12 Jan 2007 8:58 AM - 8 messages

Hi Since all of our company users (WinXP) are just 'ordinay domain users' some of them wants to use USB flash drives, but to install they need admin rights. Is there a way to give them permissions just to install new USB ...

Schedule broken after UpdateRollup1

Reinhard - 12 Jan 2007 8:26 AM - 6 messages

Hi, after installation of UpdateRollup1 for Windows 2000 Sp4 schedule-service is not starting anymore. The error is: Error 87: Wrong starting parameter (Note: This is a retranslation of the german error) When I deinstall UpdateRollup1, schedule is starting without any problem ...

Help - bizarre drive letter problem

dave xnet - 12 Jan 2007 3:43 AM - 6 messages

Hello, I did an elected "repair" install, after some small problems installing a wireless adaptor (Of course, I took a backup first) The repair finished, but the boot partition drive letter had changed. It used to be i:, now it was f: It would only boot in safemode. ...

FAT32 to NTFS

rn5a - 12 Jan 2007 1:05 AM - 4 messages

I am working on Win2K Pro which is installed in the C:\ drive whose file system is FAT32. I would like to convert the file system of C:\ from FAT32 to NTFS. I know how to do it but what I would like to make ...

Hi,somebody can help me ?

roopeman - 12 Jan 2007 1:04 AM - 2 messages

we have one windows 2000 File Server,we had shared a folder in file server which just let every user can exchange files with their Desktop,but those user alway copy some useless files, such as game, MP3, video to occupy the ...

Do I HAVE to stop Netlogon before running Nbtstat -RR ?

- - 11 Jan 2007 10:47 PM - 5 messages

Hello, I am planning to recreate the 1C WINS record for my domain and I am trying to avoid restarting the netlogon service if at all possible. Can I just run nbtstat -RR without stopping and starting the Netlogon service? ...

duplicate username folders created out of the blue

Christopher Leon, Nicholas & Company - 11 Jan 2007 6:04 PM - 2 messages

We have had a problem lately with 2000 clients logging in and getting a desktop that looks like the first time they logged in. No personal icons, the internet connection wizard is back etc..... Anyways, we found that ...

Whack a DCOM server

ChrisW - 11 Jan 2007 1:10 PM - 3 messages

We are getting DCOM errors on a Windows 2000 server. This started after alot of software was installed and removed. The strange thing is that the DCOM GUID is not in the registry or on the filesystem. Is there a ...

Blue screen after memory test!

clyde@mail.gr - 11 Jan 2007 12:01 PM - 4 messages

I can't turn on my computer.Afetr it finish the memory test it shows a blou screen with some strange letters and the phrase : Driver_unloaded_without_cancelling_pending_operations" What is wrong? The day this happened my brother had accidentally removed the cables from my ...

Services control manager error

Team ZR-1 - 11 Jan 2007 6:41 AM - 4 messages

This problem started a few weeks back and do nto know the root cause Laptop, win200, for network is using DHCP for tcp/ip, thus gets all that from the router. Random basis events log shows services control manager reporting : ...

Desktop Background "Disabled" by Spyware

Trykster - 10 Jan 2007 11:08 PM - 2 messages

I turned on my laptop and had found that spyware called Spy Marshall had installed itself on my desktop and my desktop had defaulted to the windows plain blue background. I uninstalled the spyware but when I went to reset my desktop background in "display properties" I found all the ...

system reboot time

a - 10 Jan 2007 9:36 PM - 4 messages

Hi Is there any log to show when the system has been rebooted? Thanks ...

Replacing an existing Windows 2000 Server

CGed - 10 Jan 2007 8:44 PM - 2 messages

I am in the process of installing a new Windows 2003 Server. My goal is to completely replace the existing Windows 2000 Server. The number of applications and users is minimal and will be individually installed on the ...

SATA Win2k Install - "Couldn't open the boot partition to check for signature"

sdac - 10 Jan 2007 5:06 PM - 6 messages

Hi, I have a problem with installing Win2k and after hours of reading on the net and trying things out.. I haven't made any progress. A friend pointed me to XPC. I got a new SATA hard drive connected to my MB through a SiliconImage ...

RIS

Apollo - 10 Jan 2007 3:22 PM - 4 messages

Hi, trying to get a RIS server working. I have followed all the steps including the articles regarding additional NIC drivers, but the server still returns an error on some machines alonf the lines of... no drivers are availe for this machine....setup stopped. ...

Adding a Domain controller

Apollo - 10 Jan 2007 9:54 AM - 4 messages

Hi, I have a server with replication problems; Server1. Per Microsoft due to the length of time (i.e. beyond 60 days) best pratice is to: demote server, metadata cleanup, remove entires from all DNS servers, delete computer account, allow AD to settle (i.e. 24 hours) then ...

ntbackup slave drive

tex shalter - 9 Jan 2007 8:52 PM - 7 messages

Is it possible to use Ntbackup to restore a corrupted harddisk when it's installed as a slave on another computer ? ...

How to migrate local users and groups to a new server?

helpwanted - 9 Jan 2007 8:30 PM - 3 messages

We bought a new server to replace one of our Windows 2000 servers. After I set up the new server, created the same set of local users and groups (as those existed on the old server), and then moved the data drives ...

Directory Read-only Flag Stuck

Steve - 9 Jan 2007 8:23 PM - 2 messages

I have a couple of large directories in the root of C: that are marked read-only, for no apparent reason. I didn't explicitly set them that way, nor did I create them by copying from CD, etc. One is Program ...

How do I prevent opening a pdf document INSIDE browser (and let it save on hard disc) ?

Eugen Austermann - 9 Jan 2007 3:13 PM - 6 messages

Recently I installed AcrobatReader 8 on a couple of WinXP and Win2000 systems. Unfortunately this installation seemed to change the opening behavior of pdf documents. Whenever I click on a pdf link on a web page the pdf doc is now opend INSIDE InternetExplorer ...

Some good user migration tool/software to recommend? (W2K -> WXP)

Zorpetus - 9 Jan 2007 2:37 PM - 3 messages

In our organization we are about to receive new workstations for all users (approx. 120 workstations). Currently we are using Windows 2000 SP4 but with the rollout of the new workstations we would like to move to Windows XP SP2. ...

Automatic boot Win 2k in safe mode

ragonzal - 9 Jan 2007 4:45 AM - 2 messages

I'm looking for a way to automatically start a computer in safe mode w/networking without the need to start F8 key. This is a Window 2000 Profesional Edition computer. ...

commandline utility to list files in ZIP - freeware

flahmeshess - 9 Jan 2007 2:17 AM - 4 messages

Hi ! I need to list the files in zip (together with the date/time). I want to do it from commandline and then pipe the output to a file. Are there any freeware that can do this ? Thanks ! ...

administrator privileges

Debbie - 9 Jan 2007 2:10 AM - 5 messages

I am trying to uninstall a program and it says I need to have administrator or power user privileges to uninstall the program. When I set my computer up I set it up so it assumes I am logging on and I am the administrator. How do ...

To Dave Patrick

eXistenZ - 9 Jan 2007 1:45 AM - 2 messages

Dave I forgot to wish you a happy Xmas and a good year for 2007 Thanks again for all your help and sound advice in this and other news groups. eXistenZ ...

Startup slow at "Preparing network connections"

kitsune17717 - 8 Jan 2007 8:17 PM - 3 messages

Hi, I recently installed a bluetooth keyboard and mouse onto my win2000sp4 computer. Because of this, my computer always hangs at "preparing network connections", adding about 2-3 min to the whole boot sequence. The computer works fine, but it's just annoying. What could I do? ...

Windows 2000 server keep crash

Sarivudth - 8 Jan 2007 6:38 PM - 3 messages

Hello, My win 2000 server SP4 and Exchange server 2000 SP3 keep crashed every 2-4 hrs sometime few days. I have reinstall SP4 hotfix and follow every steps Microsoft recommand but it still crash with the following error. The only i ...

Window File Protection

jslarose - 8 Jan 2007 6:20 PM - 4 messages

Hi, I ran the Disk Cleanup on a Windows 2000 server and stupidly chose to "Compress Old Files". It ran the process and then came back with the Window File Protection error saying that "Files that are required for ...

OT sorry need to resolve an IP issue I think

sgopus - 8 Jan 2007 6:14 PM - 5 messages

Howdy guys, My sister has encountered a problem, someone has hijacked her computer and used it to generate requests to visit a phishing web site to gain yahoo e-mail id's and passwords, it's since been shut down ...

How to copy a filename as text in Windows Explorer

Clueless in Seattle - 8 Jan 2007 3:55 PM - 7 messages

in Windows Explorer. The only way I've figured out to do that is: 1. Right click on the filename, 2. Left click "Properties" 3. Right click the filename which appears in a little white box ...

USB scanner trouble

Spartanicus - 8 Jan 2007 12:19 PM - 3 messages

My Acer aka BenQ 3300U scanner won't work under W2K (SP4 + Rollup1). I'm using the latest software from the manufacturer which works fine under W98 and XP. I've emailed the manufacturer's support, but no helpful clues in their response. They suggest that there may be something wrong ...

CHK Files

rn5a - 8 Jan 2007 10:53 AM - 2 messages

I am working on Win2K Pro. Due to UPS failure & a sudden electricity disruption, my PC didn't give me the chance to shut it down conventionally. After electricity was restored, Windows started the disk checking & found a few problems. ...

Re: Sometimes Eudora cannot connect to server.....

Computerguy - 8 Jan 2007 7:25 AM - 3 messages

Here is some more information on the problem .. Whenever the problem occurs, on shutting down Windows a "ccApp" error box pops up saying that some process is having trouble exiting and giving me the option to "End Now". When I do, Windows shuts down fine. ...

stop 0x00000051

Napsterlay - 8 Jan 2007 6:02 AM - 3 messages

i got that error on when i start win 2000pro pls help me how to trouble shoot thakz ...

Add Remove Programs

JCO - 8 Jan 2007 3:40 AM - 3 messages

Some installations that have been removed still show up in the Add/Remove Applications. Where in the Registry can I delete these items? Thanks. ...

drive letters

Debbie - 8 Jan 2007 1:42 AM - 2 messages

I changed a few of my drive letters. Then when I went into windows explorer I notice I have two of the ones where I changed the drive letter. One the way it was and one with the new drive letter. How do I get rid of the ones ...

Using Partition Magic to increase Primary Partition

Dan - 7 Jan 2007 4:24 PM - 7 messages

I have a windows 2000 server with four 18GB Hot swap drives, the system is configured for RAID 5 with 1 Hot spare. My primary partion was partitioned for 4GB and the rest for Data. Its been fine for about 6 years and now my ...

Problems booting

Paul Floyd - 7 Jan 2007 3:43 PM - 6 messages

Hi Yesterday when I tried to boot W2K, login failed. Today I've been trying to find out why, without success. It's an old PC, and getting a bit flaky. My first thought was a problem with the disk, so I restored from my last ...