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Hi I have 2 machines one with vista home premium and the other with vista ultimate that I need to network to a WIN2000 server. When I try to map the network drive, vista insists on putting the computer name in front of the username, and so I am refused log-on. I have tried set a login credential username/password in vista ultimate (home version wont let me do this). The credential is accepted, but when I try to map the network drive vista STILL adds the computer name. PLESE PLEASE can someone tell me how to stop this so that I can log onto my server? Why does progress always make things worse? Ths a million H…

My Windows XP Pro laptop auto-installed updates last night on shutdown (Wed Apr 15). On startup this morning, the system refuses my passwords and I cannot log on. Refuses both user password for domain and administrator password for the local machine. Anyone else having this trouble? Any suggestions for recovery?

Hello there Steve, To fix this problem permanently you will need to install kaspersky antivirus for the 30 day trial period, at first you wont be able to install as trial so choose to activate later, after you've succesfully installed kaspersky, download malwarebytes and install it as well. After you do that, scan your computer with malwarebytes he will find 4 viruses and a few bad registry logs, try to fix them with your initial antivurus (symantec, microsoft security essentials or even with the kaspersky you installed recently). Then try to update your kaspersky, it should get stuck at 90% and he will find a few viruses as well, delete or…

http://www.fastpictureviewer.com announces the immediate availability of its professional image viewer, FastPictureViewer Professional, along with the accompanying codec pack, FastPictureViewer Codec Pack, also available separately and supporting 37 image formats. The image decoders extends Window 7 Explorer 64-bit and 32-bit by enabling thumbnail views, along with full-size image viewing in Windows Photo Viewer and Media Center for "raw" formats coming from more than 300 digital camera models, along with several specialists image formats such as OpenEXR, DDS, TGA, PNM, PBM, PGM and RWZ. The image viewer supports the aforementioned code…

Hi All, I install Skype and noticed that it created more then 100 ports named Skype. Probably it happened during several installations. I uninstalled it and still the Delete button is disabled. How can I delete these ports under the Expectations tab? Thanks, Eric

[Crosspost to IE General] Always state your full Windows version (e.g., WinXP SP3 WinXP 64-bit SP2 Vista SP1 Vista 64-bit SP2 Win7 Win7 64-bit) as well as your IE version when posting in an IE-specific forum or newsgroup. Please do so in your next reply. -- ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Client - since 2002 beck wrote: > I have no idea what version of IE I have, so don't ask. > I have both IE and Firefox. > Flash items work on Firefox. > It doesn't on IE. > It hasn't for some time now - might have been forever or happened. > I do have the latest flash download. > I eve…

[Crossposted to internetexplorer.general] Well... we really need to know the version of Internet Explorer. Go to IE> Help> About for version information. You may have to enable the Menu Bar or use the Alt key to temporarily display the Menu Bar in order to access "Help." Which version of Windows? (Including SP level- e.g. Windows 7, Vista SP1, XP SP2 , 32-bit, 64-bit, etc. Right-click Computer/My Computer> Properties to obtain this information) 32-bit or 64-bit Operating System? That's displayed with the Windows version information. Don [MS MVP- IE] "beck" wrote in message news:26C25341-1BAB-4384-86…

I am taking a computer class and for an assignment I had to find a newsgroup and post about a Vista feature I like. Now that I know what the sidebar does, I like it. I always ignored it on the desktop because I couldn't figure out what the use of it was. Now that I realize you can add news features on it, I enjoy it more. -- Tab1534

Today Serveral systems running Word 2007 no longer would are able to Save documents. I receive the error " There has been a network or file permission error. The network connection may be lost. (\\servernane\filename.docx)" There was a knowledgebase reference to this error : Q291156. This did not resolve the issue. Also, this just started. I noticed there were updates applied from automatic updates for MS word 2007 for April 14, 2007 . When reverting back using system restore, Word 2007 then saves properly without any errors. We are using Word 2007 on XP systems with a NT 4.0 Server SP6 . I need to resolve this issue or I will n…

I recently downloaded updates to IE8 and XP at the same time. Before the update my system response (loading IE, etc) took 2 to 5 sec. Immediately after the updates response went to 20 - 60 sec. MS takes the position that I should pay them to fix what their updates damaged. Can anyone tell me how to regain my previous performance without paying MS? Thanks

"kbaldspo" wrote: > I need help. I tried to fix this error(800B100). I shut my machine before the > updates were installed and did everything to fix this. but it keeps telling > me there is this error. I just installed 12 new updates but this one won't. > Anyone know what to do?? Thanks i have the same problem and it is slowing my laptop down, i have done nothing but try install the updates windows has asked me 2 and its driving me crazy, i have left my laptop running to try download but it still wont work please help

I have a Word 2007 document that inserts several Excel and Word documents. When I open it, and select the option to update the linked files, everything appears to work OK, but I get an error message saying some links could not be found, so that content was not updated. I need some way to find all the links, so I can remove any extraneous ones, and get rid of this error message. Can anyone help with this? -- Chuck

In Office 2007 the display color for the type like in the inbox of Outlook is lighter than in 2003. There is a place on line that youc an go in Microsoft that allows you to change this "display" but I cannot find it. Does anyone know what I am talking about?

I have had a copy of Office on my PC for years, know everytime I use the product it comes up and says that "this product has not been activated" it gives me 2 choices, 1 activate or 2 reminde me... I choose option 1 and it states that the product is already activated... So what gives? How to make this annoying message go away? TIA

I am new to the above. I think I understand it. The problem is when I go to edit a microsoft query most of the drop downs are grayed out. Has anyone any ideas why this should be? Is there a setting I have missed somewhere. Excel is running on XP Professional and I am accessing data from an AS400 box Many thanks

Hi, The problem is the followine: if I try to access windows explrer with the Winkey+E shortcut the following message appears: "Explorer.EXE "Este archivo no tiene un programa asociado para realizar esta acción. Cree una asociación en el panel de control Establecer asociaciones. " Translated: "Explorer.EXE "This file does not have a program associated for doing this action. Create an association in the Control Panel Create associations. " Origin of the problem: Everithing started after installing Ultraexplorer, and try to make that the winkey+E went to this application. I looked in the internet for tweaks fo this( a…

For God's sake Robbie, don't feed these trolls - or everyone will plonk you as well. Robbie Hatley wrote: > On 2010-04-11 6:39 AM, George Orwell wrote: > >> Windows 2000 does not know its arse from its elbow > > I partially agree with that rather vague statement.

Note: you may need to run 'regsvr32 wuaueng.dll' from an elevated prompt ("Run as administrator") for it to work. - MFG "Pete" wrote: > thx alot! that 'regsvr32 wuaueng.dll' thing really made it!

Well doc, it scared the four letters out of me. So good advice! Zach. "ray" wrote in message news:82k42sFhp0U8@mid.individual.net... > On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 21:48:33 +0200, Zach wrote: > >> I discovered that with Windows 7, when you press Shift + FN + an arrow >> key, the display goes to pot. I searched for a feed-back e-mail address >> of Microsoft, but there doesn't seem to be one. >> >> Zach. > > Patient: Doc, doc - it hurts when I do this! > > Doctor: Well, don't do that.

Is there some way to open up the task manager to a specific application? I need to programmatically adjust a particular application priority and affinity. I can do it with a script if that application can be programmatically highlighted when task manager is opened. The problem is trying to get that application highlighted. My current method is to arrange by memory usage and move to the top of the list, since the application uses a lot of memory. But it does not always use the most memory. I could move to the top of the list and then press the first letter (key) of that application, but usually it does use the most memory, so that will put me…

I used to use TweakUI to hide a drive containing some personal information. All of a sudden the drive is now showing in Windows Explorer. I've tried uninstalling it and reinstalling it and that didn't help. I also tried to hide it using the Registry Editor and adding a new DWORD "NoDrives" but that didn't work either. There was already one there, I assume from TweakUI so I deleted it and created a new one but the drive is still showing. What could have caused TweakUI to suddenly stop working? I had some weird issues with my BIOS, but shouldn't TweakUI still work?

> Not sure if this is the correct place to post but unsure of where else i can. > > Am i able to retrieve a deleted word document file? > > I pressed shift and delete so it did not go into the recycle bin. If you had the foresight to enable automatic creation of back-up files on save then yes, you probably can get back (most) of a deleted file. Otherwise you are in very dodgy territory. Shift Delete is specifically intended to _not_ keep files you delete. You may not have dropped it in the shredder, but getting anything back isn't going to be easy. There are third party tools that attempt to recover deleted files fro…

Tipo de suceso: Error Origen del suceso: DCOM Categoría del suceso: Ninguno Id. suceso: 10000 Fecha: 10/04/2010 Hora: 17:02:10 Usuario: NT AUTHORITY\Servicio de red Equipo: PCEDU Descripción: No se puede iniciar un servidor DCOM: {1F87137D-0E7C-44D5-8C73-4EFFB68962F2}. El error: "El sistema no puede hallar el archivo especificado. " Ha ocurrido mientras iniciaba este comando: -Embedding Para obtener más información, vea el Centro de ayuda y soporte técnico en 'Events and Errors Message Center: Basic Search' (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp). Translation: Event source: DCOM Event ID: 10000 …

I would like to see if anyone could help with instructions on how to connect and run a application from the client side...I have a network setup with a server 2008, a client with accounts for users to log on. I can connect to the network...see the network....but where do i go from there.... Do I map a drive or put a profile in...thanks again... Marg

Selected NVIDIA to Delay Start within Norton 360 Startup Manager then received the error message "Error loading C:\Windows\system32\NvCpl.dll." Deselected NVIDIA from Delay Start which resolved receiving the stated error message. Thanks for identifying the error source. -- vistaplan