Windows Server 2000/2003 General Support

Windows 2000 SP2 upgrade

Gerry_mct - 3 Mar 2007 4:41 PM - 2 messages

My query relates to Microsoft Windows 2000. I am trying to upgrade Windows 2000 from SP2 to a higherlevel e.g. SP4 but continuously get an error uninformative message which says " an error has occurred during installation" .. I have checked your Knowledge Base but it does not have a related fix. ...

Win2k Fax Service

Frank Booth Snr - 3 Mar 2007 2:09 AM - 5 messages

I've never been able to use this service as it always hangs once I've dialed up a fax number through Word. All the stages of the wizard come up ok, but once I click on 'Finish' the printer icon shows up ...

Service terminating and restarting

TJ - 2 Mar 2007 11:33 PM - 2 messages

Hello, and thanks for your assistance in advance. I have several services on a Windows 2000 SP4 box terminating, although restarting after they are killed as they are setup to do so. This occurs about every 20 mins with the ...

search from address bar

Debbie - 2 Mar 2007 7:01 PM - 4 messages

I search from the address bar using google but now I am unable to search from the address bar. What needs to be changed so I can search from the address bar? Thanks. Debbie ...

Fie search causes Office 2000 dialog box to appear

KGF - 2 Mar 2007 3:21 PM - 4 messages

My phone system runs on Windows 2000 Server. Whenever I try to do a Search for a file, a dialog box appears asking me to do some type of installation for Office 2000 Premium. It won't let me cancel out once it starts, it just ...

Backing up messages Outlook express

peternoon@hotmail.co.uk - 2 Mar 2007 9:31 AM - 3 messages

In Outlook Express 6, is there a way to back up all the folders at once, instead of the tedious way of copying the contents of each folder in turn? Also if I just copy the .dbx files to the back up drive, will I be ...

Stop error

matthew5060 - 2 Mar 2007 6:00 AM - 8 messages

*** STOP: 0x000000D1 (0x00000000, 0x00000002, 0x00000000, 0x00000000) DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL Beginning dump of physical memory... I get this error often, wheater I am idle or active. Running Windows 2000 Pro on a Dell OptiPlex 110, Intel Pentium 3, 256mb of RAM, 1-15gb and 1-10gb ...

Hard Drive CleanUp

Modnoc - 1 Mar 2007 11:35 PM - 2 messages

How do I determine what program file does what? I'm just about out of space on my hard drive and my system is running sluggishly. I want to delete some programs that I don't use (and won't use) ...

win2003 - simple burn CD software ?

+Bob+ - 1 Mar 2007 10:28 PM - 4 messages

Are there any add-on modules that will let me do simple CD writing and copying with a 2003 server ? I really don't want all the bells, whistles, and meaningless overhead of something like Roxie/Easy CD. I try to keep all application crap, ...

DST patches

MSNews - 1 Mar 2007 9:24 PM - 9 messages

One of our domain controllers is a windows 2000 server. I see MS doesnt offer an upgrade for the DST 2007 change. Is there a fix? or would coming in and manually adjusting the clock work. thanks CR ...

windows 2000 pc card use question

rb - 1 Mar 2007 8:59 PM - 4 messages

I just got my first laptop, an old Micron Trek 2. It runs Windows 2000. I ordered and received a 3 Com 3C574-TX 16 bit Ethernet pc card. 3 Com tells me I need their installations disk/drivers for all Windows versions ...

How to backup files using original extension

BorealBob - 1 Mar 2007 6:21 PM - 5 messages

Is there a way to backup files from one drive on a W2K Server to another drive on the same server using a batch file that will execute every day? The files are not very large - about 300MB total. The normal backup will do it's ...

W32Time

Matt MC - 1 Mar 2007 3:25 PM - 2 messages

Hi Guys, We have an issue with one of our Windows 2000 Servers. The server does sync correctly but every time it does sync its out by about 450 seconds. There is an application which emails reports (I don't really have any info ...

Win2000 Backup

BillB - 1 Mar 2007 12:09 PM - 4 messages

Hi I'm using windows 2000 as a file server, to store my music and other files these files are all saved on my D Drive with only the OS on the C Drive, is there a way of creating a backup, or a backup script, to backup my D drive ...

security problems

Marc - 1 Mar 2007 10:17 AM - 2 messages

Hi, I have installed a windows 2000 server sp4 with all updates, it's a member server. I can't copy files to eg c:\windows\system32; but can create new files ?! I can't stop some services eg Mcafee services. ...

defragmenter displays no white space but drive properties shows 15

Internet Explorer User Gets Runtime Erro - 1 Mar 2007 7:34 AM - 4 messages

More than 50% of my small 7gb drive shows red fragments and there's no white space at the end of analysis phase of defrag. This conflicts with 15% white pie slice of free space in c: properties. Defrag proceeds normally but there ...

How to change the title of the command prompt window ?

flahmeshess - 1 Mar 2007 3:22 AM - 5 messages

When I do a start, I can create a command prompt window with a particular title, eg start "Test" A command prompt windows with a title "Test" is created. But if I've already opened the command prompt window, how do I change ...

OT: (possibly) Randomly naming files.

Sid Knee - 28 Feb 2007 10:37 PM - 10 messages

I have 1000 - 2000 files in a directory and would like to rename them with random filenames - the objective being to destroy the current file (name) sequence when these are picked up by an application. The actual names are unimportant. A series of (say) 8-digit random ...

question on data migration

Frank - 28 Feb 2007 9:28 PM - 6 messages

I am looking for a way to migrate data that have very complex permission settings. Many folders with many different permissions. What is the best way to do this? Thanks ...

LSASS.EXE - Error 1073741819

8NsMom - 28 Feb 2007 8:28 PM - 10 messages

Hello, Windows 2000 Professional SP4. I was fixing some spyware and got a little to aggressive in blowing away some parts of a registry. Now I can't boot the machine up in "normal" mode or "safe mode with ...

Utility to delete lines from a file ?

flahmeshess - 28 Feb 2007 9:44 AM - 11 messages

I need to automate a process to delete the first 3 lines from a file. What is a good command line utility that can do that ? Thanks in advance. ...

APM problem with Dell laptop

BrendaR - 28 Feb 2007 1:46 AM - 5 messages

Hello, I am having a problem with my Dell Inspiron 7000 A400GT. With Advanced Power Management (APM) enabled, the computer will randomly freeze, requiring a power down. With APM disabled, the computer beeps loudly every few seconds whenever in in battery mode, with a fully ...

Double up of C drive

Ajay Nabh - 28 Feb 2007 1:26 AM - 4 messages

Hello All I have strange problem with my Compaq ProLiant server running windows 2000 server OS, which is suddenly I have replica of C drive as D drive. They are just identical drives; everything is the same including same folders, same ...

roaming profile

el - 27 Feb 2007 11:15 PM - 4 messages

Hi all, [SBS 2000 server] A user in our company had worked offline at home from his laptop last night. He had created folders under his My Documents folder and copied files (mp3, doc, xls, and jpg) files onto those newly created folders. He also had worked on some of those copied over files. ...

Laptop with possible Control Panel corruption

David - 27 Feb 2007 9:07 PM - 5 messages

My laptop is running Win/2K SP4 & Rollup1 to SP4 This morning I wanted to delete an installed program. I started control panel & clicked on add/remove programs. My mouse pointer displayed the wait symbol for about 1 second then nothing. There was ...

BART PE CD and USB port

BTB Real Estate - 27 Feb 2007 2:50 PM - 4 messages

Pegaus (MVP) helped us with a boot problem by suggesting we boot from a BART PE CD. We've done that, and the machine now boots. The BART File Management utility allows us to copy files from one hard drive to another (there are ...

Internet Explorer keeps crashing

Joeri Bruneel - 27 Feb 2007 12:02 PM - 5 messages

Hi, We have a siebel application running on Internet Explorer. Unfortunatly Internet Explorer keeps on crashing at random times. I alreayd changed value "BypassHTTPNoCacheCheck" to 0. This reduced crashes with 50%. Below you find the errors in the eventlog. Anyone any idea how to solve this. ...

laptops suddenly offline

Joeri Bruneel - 27 Feb 2007 10:51 AM - 2 messages

Hi, I have a lot of laptops with offline files and folders enabled. Since a few weeks most of them suddenly go offline at random times. Network cable isnâ€™t unplugged and I find nothing in eventvwr. I only see in the taskbar a blue ...

admin$ ipc$ and c$ shares gone

faadil - 27 Feb 2007 5:17 AM - 7 messages

Hi all. I have a real problem that's bugging me. First, the server contracted Vundo virus. After a lot of fighting, I was able to remove it. It was creating randomly created .dll files of 26kb and it opened ...

how to remove corrupted folder

Wing Siu - 27 Feb 2007 2:54 AM - 3 messages

Dear All Experts One of my folder is corrupted and I would like to recovery it will my backup, however, when I try to remove it. It prompted me I cannot remove corrupted folder, any way I can remove it without using chkdsk command. ...

upgrade NT4 to 2000 on IBM Netfinity 7000

RickyVene - 26 Feb 2007 11:28 PM - 4 messages

Hi, Is there's a big risk on upgrading my Netfinity 7000 from NT4 to 2000? And I can't find the scsi driver on my server room. That's why I didn't continue with this. Is there's a big risk that 2000 will not recognize driver on scsi from NT4? ...

DBF driver ODBC Connection

Rodrigo Santos - 26 Feb 2007 8:13 PM - 2 messages

I have a very large .dbf file and because of itÂ´s size the Access canÂ´t open it. I heard that the dbf driver has a limit of lines records to read in a file and if this limit is broken the program canÂ´t open the file. This file ...

Unable to Boot

BTB Real Estate - 26 Feb 2007 8:04 PM - 5 messages

Arrghhh!!! I broke one of our computers, and I'm hoping someone will be able to help me recover it! Here's the sad tale (I did something REALLY stupid...) The machine was set up to dual-boot PC-DOS (IBM) and WIN 2000 Pro. DOS is ...

Does Win2K Pro have a Web Server?

Victor - 26 Feb 2007 7:03 PM - 5 messages

Does Windows 2000 Professional come with a web server or some form of IIS? If so, how do I start and stop it? I looked through all the Services (Start > Programs > Admin Tools > Services) but could not find any. ...

IE6 SP1 for win 2000

kvin - 26 Feb 2007 5:53 PM - 3 messages

What is size of Internet Explorer SP1 full pack for offline installation on windows 2000? I find the pack I used once for win XP, it is 44.6MB. Is this the right one for windows 2000? Regards, ...

dll corruption

Walter - 26 Feb 2007 2:13 PM - 2 messages

Good afternoon, happens to a windows 2000 sp4 server with exchange 2000 sp3 that after the reboot of the server there is the event id 1005 logged in the application logs in the event viewer indicating that the atidrab.dll is missing or ...

Windows 2000 Locking Up

Jeff - 26 Feb 2007 1:24 PM - 3 messages

We have computers running W2k SP4. Recntly I have had problems with users machines locking up. The majority of the time, it locks up if they run a shortcut from the desktop. If I put the shortcut in the task bar, the program ...

Which newsgroup?`

Herb - 26 Feb 2007 11:27 AM - 3 messages

My main translation memory software is based on MS Access and MS Jet 3.5. I have a few specific questions relating to the 1 GB size limit imposed by MS Jet 3.5. Can you recommend a newsgroup for raising these issues? ...

DC Contains Global Catalog is down

MA P - 26 Feb 2007 5:11 AM - 9 messages

I have two DCs and the one handles operations master roles and Global Catalog was down due to hardware problem. Can I transfer the role to other DC even the other DC is down? Will there be no problem if the original DC ...

How do I stop the modem from dialing. I have broadband....?

John - 25 Feb 2007 10:00 PM - 4 messages

Never had this issue before, but this last time I reinstalled my win2K system, I dutifully loaded the modem drivers and set up the dialup account for those marvelous times when the broadband goes down (comcast <shrug>) and now when I am using the broadband connection, ...

botched installation now 2 os's

trooperbill - 25 Feb 2007 7:16 PM - 2 messages

i have an old laptop running win95 that i decided to upgrade to win2k. only its kept the win95 installation on drive C and installed win2k on drive D how can i delete the installation on drive C and free ...

Command Prompt Window

Willard - 25 Feb 2007 7:08 PM - 4 messages

How can I copy or save everything in the "Command Prompt" window to a text file?? ...

reinstalling w2000 pro to correct corruption

jhnptbrg - 25 Feb 2007 6:27 PM - 9 messages

my machine has started acting unreliably, with such symptoms as ie generating run time errors such as program:c:\program files\internet explorer\iexplore.exe this aplication has requested the runtime to terminate it in an unusual ...

Seeing my other computers on the network

Rob - 25 Feb 2007 3:28 PM - 4 messages

I'm running windows 2000 on 3 home computers. I am also using a Linksys BEFSR41 router. How do I go in and setup so that I can see the other computers and exchange files between them? ...

Time Zone change & Win2k Servers...

Mike - 25 Feb 2007 2:27 PM - 3 messages

Is/will there be a patch for these? ...

Boot-time error: spoolsv.exe - Bad Image

Gordon Biggar - 25 Feb 2007 5:53 AM - 4 messages

I just installed a new 200 gb Maxtor hard drive. The transition went smoothly, and all of the files copied over to the new drive from my 20 gb drive without a hitch . However, when I boot up the computer, I now get the ...