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Issues with DCHP CLIENT
by Guest sabotage_154- 0 replies
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am having an issue with what i beleive is the DHCP CLIENT service on my laptop. None of my network adapters be it wired or wireless are getting DHCP info from the router automatically. I know its not the router because other machines using the same router are getting assigned IPS and DHCP info automatically. If i input settings manually into the adapters then i am able to access the router and the internet. I am getting the following error message from Windows Wireless Service: The dependancy service or group failed to start. i am unable to view any of the adapters in the network connections area. Any help would be greatly appreciated. MS VIS…
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xp pro history
by Guest Leonard- 0 replies
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I need to be able to gain access to the users history, which they have deleted. We run a windows 2003 std server and a 2003 exchange server on a domain I have tried to run a system restore but it tells me that "you do not have sufficient privileges to restore your system" even thought I log onto xp as an administrator how can i get this history is there any software available that will generate me a report to show what websites my users have been using thanks
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Intellimouse - battery detection issue
by Guest kenkcj- 0 replies
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One of my co-workers has a wireless intellimouse explorer 2.0 that will randomly pop up a warning message saying that the batteries are low. I have been using 2 AA NiMH batteries that are fully charged. After the warning message comes up, the mouse seems to go crazy for a second and then works fine. I've tried replacing the batteries with Alkaline as well as with newly charged NiMH batteries. On the intellimouse software that was installed on the computer, the battery icon says that the battery has a good charge when this happens as well. I downloaded the new software from microsoft.com as well as tried simply syncing the receiver to the mouse, nothing seems to be…
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KB929399
by Guest yc- 0 replies
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Running WinXP SP2, system repeats downloading KB929399 and everytime success updated. how to stop it?
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Re: Outlook Express Stationery
by Guest benne_wan- 0 replies
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Actually Bruce you can have both. Get a good email spam blocker such as Choice Mail and you may have piece of mind . To: Adam50000; make sure your set your defaults in Outlook Express before you do anything else including "Send Photo With Email". I hope this helps. "Adam50000" wrote: > Thank you everyone, especially you Kath for the stationery newsgroup address. > I've posted a message there and I'm expecting a reply soon. > > "Bruce Chambers" wrote: > > > Adam50000 wrote: > > > Hello everyone. I'm trying to use the stationery option with outlook > > > express. The stationery appears good in the new message window …
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Prevent Application popup windows
by Guest Webbert- 0 replies
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I just got involved in a production issue and believe that there is a popup window that is preventing the system from running until someone presses "OK". The only indication that I have at this point is a screen shot of an event log that shows Source: Application Popup Category: None Type: Information Event ID: 26 User: N/A No other information is available. I thought that there was a way with Dr. Watson to prevent any and all popups from displaying on a server that expects no UI. Can anyone point me in the right direction to prevent the popups from occuring? Thanks, Dave
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Prevent Application popup windows
by Guest Webbert- 0 replies
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I just got involved in a production issue and believe that there is a popup window that is preventing the system from running until someone presses "OK". The only indication that I have at this point is a screen shot of an event log that shows Source: Application Popup Category: None Type: Information Event ID: 26 User: N/A No other information is available. I thought that there was a way with Dr. Watson to prevent any and all popups from displaying on a server that expects no UI. Can anyone point me in the right direction to prevent the popups from occuring? Thanks, Dave
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A strange message at start up
by Guest nasser jamal- 0 replies
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Dear members, Since three days ago I started getting the following message: -- Hard Drive configuration recovery. This menu allows you to select a hardware profile. If your system is not starting correctly, then you may switch to a previous system configuration, which may overcome stat up problems. Important, system configuration changes made since the last successful start up will be discarded. Profile 2 Profile 1 To go on I just press enter and it goes on as usual, what caused this message to appear, although I did not change anything of the setting, how can get it back to start without this message appearing.? nasser
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A strange message at start up
by Guest nasser jamal- 0 replies
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Dear members, Since three days ago I started getting the following message: -- Hard Drive configuration recovery. This menu allows you to select a hardware profile. If your system is not starting correctly, then you may switch to a previous system configuration, which may overcome stat up problems. Important, system configuration changes made since the last successful start up will be discarded. Profile 2 Profile 1 To go on I just press enter and it goes on as usual, what caused this message to appear, although I did not change anything of the setting, how can get it back to start without this message appearing.? nasser
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intermediate problems getting explorer.exe to load
by Guest UWRFREPORTER04- 0 replies
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I've been experiencing intermediate problems on Windows XP Pro machines with the desktop not loading correctly. I've figured out explorer.exe doesn't load. There is a work around if I type "explorer" under new task, but I would like to fix it. Basically a user logs in and it brings up a blue screen with no desktop, startmenu, task bar, etc. You're able to use ctrl-alt-delete to log off or shut down. I tried running sfc /scannow on my own machine. It prompted me to load my xp disk regarding a dll cache. I don't know if this fixed anything or not. I also read somewhere that deleting a registry file in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\Curre…
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wallpaper reverting back
by Guest UWRFREPORTER04- 0 replies
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I'm experience a small, but annoying problem where sometimes after you restart the wallpaper reverts back to a basic blue background. Under the settings the correct wallpaper is selected and it takes affect once you click ok, but can't figure out why that happens. This may or may not related. There are times where the desktop doesn't load either. It comes to a blank blue screen with nothing on it, not even a task bar. I'm able to hit ctrl-alt-delete and either log off or shut down or enter "explorer" to load the desktop. Most of these pcs were reformatted with a clean install of windows.
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wallpaper reverting back
by Guest UWRFREPORTER04- 0 replies
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I'm experience a small, but annoying problem where sometimes after you restart the wallpaper reverts back to a basic blue background. Under the settings the correct wallpaper is selected and it takes affect once you click ok, but can't figure out why that happens. This may or may not related. There are times where the desktop doesn't load either. It comes to a blank blue screen with nothing on it, not even a task bar. I'm able to hit ctrl-alt-delete and either log off or shut down or enter "explorer" to load the desktop. Most of these pcs were reformatted with a clean install of windows.
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IDE_USB
by Guest ind_123- 0 replies
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The IDE drive is from a laptop and runs with the USB cable power. I can hear the drive running when I hook it up. It was working on the laptop before. I have seen the Disk management but nothing there. The problem seems to be that the windows fails to install the new hardware. It gives me message that recognised "USB-IDE" then as "USB Mass Storage " then it pops up saying "Failed to install new hardware" reason being that device is not recognised. I dont know how to solve it.
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IDE_USB
by Guest ind_123- 0 replies
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The IDE drive is from a laptop and runs with the USB cable power. I can hear the drive running when I hook it up. It was working on the laptop before. I have seen the Disk management but nothing there. The problem seems to be that the windows fails to install the new hardware. It gives me message that recognised "USB-IDE" then as "USB Mass Storage " then it pops up saying "Failed to install new hardware" reason being that device is not recognised. I dont know how to solve it.
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Roaming profile errors
by Guest Jake Ruddy- 0 replies
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I am trying to setup roaming profiles and 1 computer is causing me problems. This user account has been logged onto via 3 different machines and I am trying to setup roaming profiles from the main machine and get that profile to update on the 2 laptops. I am working on the main machine and getting errors.. looked for about 45 mins and cant find a solution.. hoping someone can help. Here is the Userenv.log file.. USERENV(27c.280) 15:58:42:875 CUserProfile::CleanupUserProfile: Ref Count is not 0 USERENV(27c.280) 15:58:42:875 CUserProfile::CleanupUserProfile: Ref Count is not 0 USERENV(27c.280) 15:58:42:875 CUserProfile::CleanupUserProfile: Ref Count …
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Roaming profile errors
by Guest Jake Ruddy- 0 replies
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I am trying to setup roaming profiles and 1 computer is causing me problems. This user account has been logged onto via 3 different machines and I am trying to setup roaming profiles from the main machine and get that profile to update on the 2 laptops. I am working on the main machine and getting errors.. looked for about 45 mins and cant find a solution.. hoping someone can help. Here is the Userenv.log file.. USERENV(27c.280) 15:58:42:875 CUserProfile::CleanupUserProfile: Ref Count is not 0 USERENV(27c.280) 15:58:42:875 CUserProfile::CleanupUserProfile: Ref Count is not 0 USERENV(27c.280) 15:58:42:875 CUserProfile::CleanupUserProfile: Ref Count is n…
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security center
by Guest PWB- 0 replies
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I am running windows vista home premium but every anti virus i have installed including the ones recommended in the security center by MS has told me none can be found. Is this a problem with the security center and can it be rectified. My current security is Bullguard internet security which is up to date but it still shows the same thing. and it is updated for vista , my pc is 32bit. Any suggesions please
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Custom Installs and Vista
by Guest burn033@gmail.com- 0 replies
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I have a question about customizing Windows application installs than installing them on Windows Vista. For example I customize the install for Thunderbird to have all the default values set so when we setup a mail account we do not need to change any options. Now the problem that I am having is after I install Thunderbird on a vista computer each time they run Thunderbird it prompts a security certification issue. Now there is an option to remember this setting but even though I put the check box in that each time I run Thunderbird it still prompts asking if they want to run it. Is there anyway that I can add this program to a list somewhere so it won't ask …
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DATA is Gone ??? what happened ?
by Guest ThvdWood- 0 replies
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Hi, I have 2 questions, but only the second is realy important actualy :( (1. Somehow all of a sudden everytime I doubleclick on a map it wont open, instead the search option begins :S...anyone know how I can fix that ?) 2.Yesterday I looked at Disk Management and I saw I had free space left. I wanted to make a logical drive from that...that didnt work. But now my E: partition is unaccesible and when I do a chkdsk in prompt it sais: "chkdsk is unavailable for RAW drives". I have a lot of data on that drive...but how can I get it back ???
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error in enable nic card with command line tool
by Guest babak via WinServerKB.com- 0 replies
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hi all. i'm trying to enable a DISABLED NIC CARD , with NETSH commant line tool as you know , you can enable or disable a lan card with netsh tool in this form : netsh inerface set interface "Interface name like: local area connection" ENABLED or DISABLED. but when i type this command i recieve an error : "an interface with this name is not registered with the router" . this error indicate that you r not typed INTERFACE NAME correctly , but it's true !! what is your suggestion to correct this problem ? what is your suggestion to enable a NIC card by command line tools ? -- regards babak fruzanfar Microsoft Certified Professional Message posted via Win…
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error in enable nic card with command line tool
by Guest babak via WinServerKB.com- 0 replies
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hi all. i'm trying to enable a DISABLED NIC CARD , with NETSH commant line tool as you know , you can enable or disable a lan card with netsh tool in this form : netsh inerface set interface "Interface name like: local area connection" ENABLED or DISABLED. but when i type this command i recieve an error : "an interface with this name is not registered with the router" . this error indicate that you r not typed INTERFACE NAME correctly , but it's true !! what is your suggestion to correct this problem ? what is your suggestion to enable a NIC card by command line tools ? -- regards babak fruzanfar Microsoft Certified Professional Message posted via WinS…
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How To Increase Internet Download Speed From 100-200kbsec
by Guest John Napzter- 0 replies
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Few steps to setup, try this for free click this link http://123enter.blogspot.com/2007/07/how-to-increase-download-speed-from-100.html
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Error Messages
by Guest Chance- 0 replies
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I have been using VISTA for a month on a new Dell system. Yesterday I started getting the two following messages when the system boots up. "InstandWrite Control Center has stopped working" & "Tray Starter has stopped working" If I attempt to read a file from the CD/DVD or even view a file on a CD the systems hangs. I assume the two situation are related. Any thoughts on how I can correct the problem? Marv
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Nvidia 162.18 WHQL
by Guest Maratonmannen- 0 replies
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For GeForce 8 and GeForce 7 series. http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp64_162.18.html http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp64_162.18.html -- Asus P5WDG2 WS Pro (i975X Express) Coreâ„¢ 2 Extreme X6800 RAPTOR 2x150 GB RAID 0 4GB DDR2 800MHz GeForce 8800GTX (162.18+165.01) Enermax 1000W 75A@+12V LAN 100/100 XP x64 dualboot Vista x64
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Renaming a folder under DFS causes My PC to reboot
by Guest MattG- 0 replies
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We are running W2K3 R2. Under a newly created Namespace I create a folder, when I change the name of a folder My PC running XP SP2 with the latest updates reboots. This also happens on other PC with the same config. The PC also reboots when modifing files say make a change to a word doc click save the PC Reboots. Any Ideas??