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Program failure with SRVANY.exe
by Guest Laura- 0 replies
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I have used SRVANY.exe to run the rmiregistry and a java program as a window service. However, if either of these services terminate (the registry or java program) then srvany does not pick up on it and the service does not restart. I have the service properties set to "restart on service failure". I tried to set up the two programs as individual services with one service having a dependency on those two. Nothing has worked so far. Anyone have any ideas?
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reinstall problem after xp crash
by Guest Walter- 0 replies
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Had xp crash & did format & reinstall of windows XP Pro- am up & running- my problem-went to reinstall Frontpage 2003 & realized it is a upgrade from version 2002- the install is looking for office 97, 2000 or xp. I have XP Pro, office 2003 but this is not what it wants- followed instructions on Frontpage disk for compliance but does not work. How do I solve this? Thanks Walter
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reinstall problem after xp crash
by Guest Walter- 0 replies
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Had xp crash & did format & reinstall of windows XP Pro- am up & running- my problem-went to reinstall Frontpage 2003 & realized it is a upgrade from version 2002- the install is looking for office 97, 2000 or xp. I have XP Pro, office 2003 but this is not what it wants- followed instructions on Frontpage disk for compliance but does not work. How do I solve this? Thanks Walter
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cdrom drive open cd but dont display cd contents
by Guest makhan10- 0 replies
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hi, when i insert a cd into cdrom, cdrom light blinks like its reading the cd, but nothing shows up in cdrom drive. i can open the drive (f: \) but no contents are shown. i tried to boot from winxp cd, it also didnt work. cdrom light blinked for long time like it was trying to read cd but then it booted into windows, instead of winxp setup. when there is no cd or unbootable cd, the system displays the message cd rom FAILURE on booting up i.e. it didnt recognize the un bootable cd or didnt detect any cd in it. i uninstalled the cdrom from device manager and winxp installed it automatically on next boot up but it didnt help also. thanks.
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Digital Video Camera not being recognized by Windows
by Guest Bob J- 0 replies
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My Sony Click to DVD software on my Sony VAIO PCV-RS530G Computer is not recognizing my Sony DCR-TRV340 Digital Video Camera since I installed Pinnacle Editing Software. When I try to capture from this Digital Video Camera, it is recognizing the Pinnacle Software instead. I uninstalled the Pinnacle Software, and the computer still wants to recognize that same Pinnacle Software that has been uninstalled. The Windows Digital Video Device box shows only Pinnacle Studio or Take No Action. How can I get my computer to recognize my Digital Video Recorder as in the past so I can capture video using my Click to DVD software? In Hardware/Device Manager/Imaging devic…
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Digital Video Camera not being recognized by Windows
by Guest Bob J- 0 replies
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My Sony Click to DVD software on my Sony VAIO PCV-RS530G Computer is not recognizing my Sony DCR-TRV340 Digital Video Camera since I installed Pinnacle Editing Software. When I try to capture from this Digital Video Camera, it is recognizing the Pinnacle Software instead. I uninstalled the Pinnacle Software, and the computer still wants to recognize that same Pinnacle Software that has been uninstalled. The Windows Digital Video Device box shows only Pinnacle Studio or Take No Action. How can I get my computer to recognize my Digital Video Recorder as in the past so I can capture video using my Click to DVD software? In Hardware/Device Manager/Imag…
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Slow copy from Vista to Domain Controller Windows 2000 server
by Guest ale.gas.71@gmail.com- 0 replies
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When I copy files from the Windows Vista clients to my Wondows 2000 server domain controller the copy/move is very slow. I order to copy a 15MB file I wait 23 seconds (21 seconds for "calculating time ramaining..." and 2 seconds for the copy). If I copy the same file on another Windows 2000/2003 server (non domain controller) or a linux/samba share wait only 2 seconds. On Domain Controller I don't have network errors (netstat -e). I have read this KB article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/321169 and this http://support.microsoft.com/kb/321098/ Thanks Ale
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Low disk space free problem
by Guest Joseph Millman- 0 replies
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I'm usually running low (~5GB free of 60GB) on free disk space, but I've noticed an 'odd' behaviour with Vista that has just hit as a 'critical' problem. When I copy files off of my computer over a network to my file server my free disk space drops. Today I was copying a 8GB VirtualPC disk image so I could compress it and copy it back and I've run out of disk space, which has caused all sorts of problems with other applications that periodically write to the disk, including other file copy / move opperations off of the computer over the network. Furthering the problem, when the copy completed the disk space used by the copy was not released. As you migh…
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Interrupted AnytimeUpgrade
by Guest FSSChris- 0 replies
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When buying my current laptop, I inquired about IIS and was told that I would need to upgrade to Ultimate to be able to use it. So I began the upgrade, which first updated my current version, Home Premium, but then I realized that IIS works just fine on this version. I returned the upgrade to the store, still technically running Home Premium. But now whenever I turn on my computer, it displays a message telling me that my product key (which I never entered) is invalid, and that I should buy/enter a new one. So my question is, is there any way to make this message go away? In addition, when I tried the option to enter a new product key it asked me to ente…
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need help on ACCESS DENIED issue
by Guest babysoh- 0 replies
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Good day hope someone can help currently i had problem going into my other drive using the normal method (which is double click in My computer window.) it will prompt me access denied. But i can go into the drive by doing a right click of the drive and selected open manually. this problem only happen in my drive D, E, F, G ( My C and D share the same harddisk and my F and G share another harddisk and my E is an external harddisk) abit of the history : I had just upgrade a second hand PC and had just formatted the C drive yesterday, and had install it with Microsoft Window XP Pro version 2002 service pack 2 My system run on a AMD athlon xp 2400+ 2 GHZ…
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need help on ACCESS DENIED issue
by Guest babysoh- 0 replies
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Good day hope someone can help currently i had problem going into my other drive using the normal method (which is double click in My computer window.) it will prompt me access denied. But i can go into the drive by doing a right click of the drive and selected open manually. this problem only happen in my drive D, E, F, G ( My C and D share the same harddisk and my F and G share another harddisk and my E is an external harddisk) abit of the history : I had just upgrade a second hand PC and had just formatted the C drive yesterday, and had install it with Microsoft Window XP Pro version 2002 service pack 2 My system run on a AMD athlon xp 240…
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http://winqual.microsoft.com/support/?driverid=1886
by Guest JethroUK©- 0 replies
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I just had a Vista update which installed the whole world on my PC last night (50-60 files) I also have a Mio sat navigator that I have never been able to update since I've had it (free map/speedcam updates for one year - yeah right!) Whilst the world managed to install 'sucessfully' - the only one i understand/care about 'failed': Microsoft Corporation driver update for Mio DigiWalker USB Sync Installation date: ?06/?08/?2007 02:34 Installation status: Failed Error details: Code 800F020B Update type: Recommended This driver was provided by Microsoft Corporation for support of Mio DigiWalker USB Sync More info…
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Cookie problem
by Guest hugh welford- 0 replies
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Hi, I have just upgraded to Vista Ultimate with IE7. For diagnostic purposes have IE7 set to warn of cookies. I run a small community website, and I have developed a cookie problem on-line - my member registration "remember me " cookie is not getting set, although I am warned that one is about to be set. Also, cannot reset the cookie with new expiry date. Off line I have IIS7 installed and there is no problem when running my site offline - the cookie gets set and amended as necessary with the same security settings as online. Also, on another machine running XP Pro with IE6 works fine online. My webhost is running IIS5. Is there possibly a problem …
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Vista Wireless Audio
by Guest gus- 0 replies
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I've been using a Linksys WMB54G Wireless Music Bridge to stream audio from my WinXP system to a remote home theater setup. I want to move to Vista, and, after waiting for months, Linksys hasn't been able to come up with drivers for this device with Vista. There's a lot of discussions about workarounds on a Linksys forum, but I haven't been able to get any of them to work at all/very well. Can someone recommend a wireless audio solution that works with Vista? I'd like to stream as many types of audio as possible from the PC - MP3's, internet radio, etc. I'd like it to support 802.11g or better, since wireless range is an issue here ...
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mms links not working - have to use rstp?
by Guest mp3nomad- 0 replies
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Not sure if this is the right place to submit this question but here goes... We have windows server 2003 web servers configured with windows media services and it seems that the links mms:// no longer work when linking streaming media files from the server. rstp:// works but not mms://. We have WMP 11 and IE 7 on our Win XP client computers. mms:// links used to work in the past but now they don't any longer. I'm being told by others in the office that another client is using mms:// links to streaming media files and they are working for them. How can I get mms:// links to work from a Windows Server 2003 web server system? Is that possible? Thanks!
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mms links not working - have to use rstp?
by Guest mp3nomad- 0 replies
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Not sure if this is the right place to submit this question but here goes... We have windows server 2003 web servers configured with windows media services and it seems that the links mms:// no longer work when linking streaming media files from the server. rstp:// works but not mms://. We have WMP 11 and IE 7 on our Win XP client computers. mms:// links used to work in the past but now they don't any longer. I'm being told by others in the office that another client is using mms:// links to streaming media files and they are working for them. How can I get mms:// links to work from a Windows Server 2003 web server system? Is that possible? Thanks…
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Ballmer on the defensive
by Guest David- 0 replies
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,138308-c,vistalonghorn/article.html
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Offline files
by Guest Jerry Fortenberry- 0 replies
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We have begun using Windows Vista Business. Our servers are 2003. We have user folders on a server named like this: \\servername\users\username When the folder for a Vista user is first created, it looks normal. After you enable Offline Files for on that user's computer, then the user folder on the network is changed to "Documents" with a greenish/blus icon beside it. As a network admin. , I cannot determine whose folder it is just by looking ....
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how do i get the security center...
by Guest David- 0 replies
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to stop complaining that I've turned off auto updates? Norton now shows a "Fix" request, due to windows updating being disabled. I know ive been able to stop other security center items from reporting that they are disabled, but i can't find a way to stop the update feature from "complaining". Dave
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Remove CA certificates from a Certification authority
by Guest vbchewie- 0 replies
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Is there a way to remove CA certificates from a Certificate authority? It looks like the person before me was having real trouble setting up the Root Certificate Authority. If I go into the Certification Authority (Local) ->Properties -> General tab. I see this Certificate #0 Certificate #1 Certificate #2 Certificate #3 Certificate #4 If I view the certificates it looks like #0 will expire in 2029 and #1-#4 will all expire on the same date in 2031. When I go into the certificate snap-in under trusted root certification authorities it see all of these certificates with the same Cert Auth. Do I really need all these Certificates? How do I remove #1…
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Remove CA certificates from a Certification authority
by Guest vbchewie- 0 replies
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Is there a way to remove CA certificates from a Certificate authority? It looks like the person before me was having real trouble setting up the Root Certificate Authority. If I go into the Certification Authority (Local) ->Properties -> General tab. I see this Certificate #0 Certificate #1 Certificate #2 Certificate #3 Certificate #4 If I view the certificates it looks like #0 will expire in 2029 and #1-#4 will all expire on the same date in 2031. When I go into the certificate snap-in under trusted root certification authorities it see all of these certificates with the same Cert Auth. Do I really need all these Certificates? How do I rem…
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[Windows 2003 TS] Hide Folder Options -> View / File Types
by Guest RedCellNL- 0 replies
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Hello, I an using an Windows Server 2003 terminal server to host applications. Some of the users complain that an exporer windows opens with every click on a folder. So i would like to enable: " Tools -> Folder Options " so that they can enable the single window. But I don't want them to change the File Types / Offline Files options. So i would like to hide those options. I have found that HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\ CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\Folder can hide it but i don't know how. can someone explain to me how this can be set so that the users can change the folder options but not the File Types / Offline Files options. …
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[Windows 2003 TS] Hide Folder Options -> View / File Types
by Guest RedCellNL- 0 replies
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Hello, I an using an Windows Server 2003 terminal server to host applications. Some of the users complain that an exporer windows opens with every click on a folder. So i would like to enable: " Tools -> Folder Options " so that they can enable the single window. But I don't want them to change the File Types / Offline Files options. So i would like to hide those options. I have found that HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\ CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\Folder can hide it but i don't know how. can someone explain to me how this can be set so that the users can change the folder options but not the File Types / Offline Files option…
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Re: Getting Source: Dcom Event Id: 10016 error after sp1 install
by Guest darkhelmutis- 0 replies
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This thread is probably dead, but here is a KB article that should fix your problem: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931355/en-us -- darkhelmutis ------------------------------------------------------------------------ darkhelmutis's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/member.php?userid=32772 View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=585266 http://forums.techarena.in
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Can't Install Anything
by Guest Gerb68- 0 replies
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Lately I cant install anything. Anything I try finishes saying error or that it was interrupted or the following; "msiexec.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience". I assume something I installed was bad so I tried the Windows Installer Cleanup Utility but this removes nothing. I tried to redownload Windows Installer but to no effect. It installs ok but doesn't fix the issue. I uninstalled any programs I recently installed but still the same. I followed the Knowledge Base article here http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;555175 but no fix. Can anybody Help Thanx in advance