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If any of you gave up on this due to verification failure of the resulting image file, lemme know. I may have solution. Dave

If any of you gave up on this due to verification failure of the resulting image file, lemme know. I may have solution. Dave

Windows Photo Gallery keeps will not run. After adding a new photo folder I get the message "The following folder cannot be found - C:\ A-EG Group" and "find the folder" or Remove the folder" "Cancel" and before I can click on anything freezes and goes to the MESSAGE: "Photo Gallery Has Stopped Working". When I click to send "Send Information and Close Program" nothing happens - even after five minutes. Is there anything soft of totally restoring my system that can be done? Everything else is working perfectly and I hate to mess up a good thing. Thanks

I am suddenly seeing error 0x80240019 during the analysis portion of Windows Update on a Server 2003 system. This code translates to "Attempt was made to install an exclusive update with other updates at the same time". However, nothing has even downloaded. I see several posts related to the same error code and Windows Defender, but Defender is not installed on this system. Any idea how to proceed other than wait and hope the error goes away. -- Van A. Martin

There was a post back in the middle of June, and I'll cut and paste the contents. The question I have is that I have the TEMP directory on the C: drive. I have changed the environment variables TMP and TEMP to point to C:\TEMP. Within the Temp directory I have created a LOW directory as suggested. I still can't print from IE7. Questions: Do I need to create the low file in C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local\Temp\Low when I have the environment variables pointing to C:\TEMP ? Do I need to run the following command as entered here or can I run it on the C:\TEMP\LOW directory? icacls C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\Temp\Low /setintegritylevel (OI)(C…

Okay. I installed an update this past thurs or friday, June 28/29.. This included an update to nVidia. I use my computer as a Media Center PC hooked up to my TV... Well I went out of town and turned the computer off. I did not notice any problems. Sunday, I noticed that the computer shut off on it's own while I was out of the room. It did not shut down. Just completely shut off. Well I restarted and everything was fine until tonight. While using Media Center, the blue screen of death came up and said a ton of stuff that I couldn't read except nvstor.sys... I restart the computer and everything seems fine.. then 15 mins later... the same thing h…

Hello, I am on a Small Business Server Premium Edition Domain/Network. currently have one machine running Windows Vista Business Edition. The issues I am having are: Windows Fax and Scan keeps crashing when I open it. I removed the fax modems, including the one for the SBS server, removed the fax client for SBS. Uninstalled & Reinstalled Windows Fax and Scan and the error persists. ***I cannot add items to the internet explorer favorites. Keep getting "Access denied error messages" ---- ok fixed this one added my username to to the security settings for the favorites folder and uncheck the read only check box. I cannot install Business Contac…

Downloaded this but have not been able to get it to work. Can someone help? Control Your Desktop Icons 11.05.02 When you temporarily change your desktop to a lower resolution-while using Safe mode, for example-Windows can wreak havoc with your careful positioning of desktop icons. A free download, available at http://www.pcnineoneone.com/tweaks/layout.zip, lets you save and later restore your icon layout. Download Layout.zip and unzip it to extract two files. Move Layout.dll to the Windows\System32 folder. Double-click on Layout.reg to add it to the Registry. If you now right-click on almost any of the standard desktop icons you'll see two new items…

Downloaded this but have not been able to get it to work. Can someone help? Control Your Desktop Icons 11.05.02 When you temporarily change your desktop to a lower resolution-while using Safe mode, for example-Windows can wreak havoc with your careful positioning of desktop icons. A free download, available at http://www.pcnineoneone.com/tweaks/layout.zip, lets you save and later restore your icon layout. Download Layout.zip and unzip it to extract two files. Move Layout.dll to the Windows\System32 folder. Double-click on Layout.reg to add it to the Registry. If you now right-click on almost any of the standard d…

Is is possible to connect to a session on Windows Server 2003 and be able to interact with a dialog-based application that was started by a schedule (running on console 0)? I've scoured the web and have found nothing, but still hold out hope that there is some solution. Thanks, Ryan

Is is possible to connect to a session on Windows Server 2003 and be able to interact with a dialog-based application that was started by a schedule (running on console 0)? I've scoured the web and have found nothing, but still hold out hope that there is some solution. Thanks, Ryan

Hi All, If you have set Windows Security Center to alert you when your Anti-virus program is turned off and it is off when I booted up the computer, it alerts me that Anti-Virus is off. Anti-Virus is McAfee VirusScan 10.0.27 Problem is, after you turn on your Anti-Virus program and have it start up at boot, Windows Security Center is still reporting that my Anti-Virus program is turned off, when it is running. Is there a way to force Windows Security Center to rescan, rather than to reboot the computer, everytime? -- thecreator

I have a problem with offline folder synchronization, which worked under XP, and is not working with Vista. My network folder is on a network server in a SBS2003 domain. No problems accessing the folder and its documents. When I enable offline sychroniztion, I get hundreds of error messages (one for each file) in the Synch Results panel, saying, "the system cannot fine the path specified," and no synchronization occurs. Huh? Not sure what to do, as I can find the path without any problem. Thoughts ?

Hello all: I know that with Windows Server 2003 you can simply add additional architectures to install 64-bit printer drivers when you have a 32-bit server system and 64-bit clients. However, is there a way to do this with Windows 2000 Server? There is not selection available for WinXP 64-bit. Thanks, John

Hello all: I know that with Windows Server 2003 you can simply add additional architectures to install 64-bit printer drivers when you have a 32-bit server system and 64-bit clients. However, is there a way to do this with Windows 2000 Server? There is not selection available for WinXP 64-bit. Thanks, John

Hi all, I need to download all the updates and save them somewhere and then install on differnet servers, rather then downloading on each server. I have Windows 2003 SP1 and ISA 2006 running. Is there a way I can do that rather then running Automatic updates as it just installs on single Server? Thanks in Advance A

I have installed a number of programs including Adobe Reader 8, Open office suite and Blackberry desktop which are compatible with my Vista Premium environment. They install OK and will initial run but the stop executing after a couple of occurances. When opened there appears to be a window opening very briefly but it closes before being readable. Any ideas

Hello, I know bootvis is no longer public but I don't want to use it for the optimization system, I want the boot time details. Does anyone know where I can find a piece of software, if there is no bootvis for x64, that could tell me at least how long takes my computer to boot. I have already thought about a watch but it's not accurate enough for my purpose ^^ Thanks. Regards, Fabien

I am using XP Pro SP2 with all updates. I have the Powertoy "Calculator Plus" installed. It worked fine. I installed a Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 and now the calculator will work and then just stop working. In other words, I will start performing calculations and then it will quit responding to keystrokes or mouse clicks. I don't know that this is related to the keyboard but Any ideas? The standard calculator with Windows still works fine. Bob

I am using XP Pro SP2 with all updates. I have the Powertoy "Calculator Plus" installed. It worked fine. I installed a Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 and now the calculator will work and then just stop working. In other words, I will start performing calculations and then it will quit responding to keystrokes or mouse clicks. I don't know that this is related to the keyboard but Any ideas? The standard calculator with Windows still works fine. Bob

I have an XP PRo computer connected to a Win 2000 domain, with offline files configured (My Documents and Desktop). Both folders are redirected and Available Offline. This is setup in a GPO and works fine. Except I have one Sony VAIO laptop that has a problem synchronizing offline files when coming out of Hibernation. The user hibernates her PC, then comes into the office plugs it in and brings it out of hibernation. The system aquires a new IP address and can get on the internet. But the little blue and white computer icon down by the clock keeps telling her she needs to sync her offline files. If she double clicks this icon and starts a sync, then everythi…

I have an XP PRo computer connected to a Win 2000 domain, with offline files configured (My Documents and Desktop). Both folders are redirected and Available Offline. This is setup in a GPO and works fine. Except I have one Sony VAIO laptop that has a problem synchronizing offline files when coming out of Hibernation. The user hibernates her PC, then comes into the office plugs it in and brings it out of hibernation. The system aquires a new IP address and can get on the internet. But the little blue and white computer icon down by the clock keeps telling her she needs to sync her offline files. If she double clicks this icon and starts a sync, then…

http://www.zebracomputers.co.uk/genius-wireless-twintouch-19e-nb-usb-keyboard-mouse-set-silver-i607054.html Hi, I´m a Delphi programmer,So I have to type a lot of alt-key combinations like alt-f10 alt-f7 and etc. This keyboard does not have the single alt key only the AltGr one. I can´t imagine that there is a keyboard that I can´t type alt-f10 in the year 2007 so I guess I might be doing something wrong. Any help,before I burn it and put the video on YOUTUBE Regards, Marcello Dias

I had a windows no boot problem which I was able to correct with chkdsk /r from recovery console. In event viewer I found four errors that seem significant: 1st error, 1 occurrence about 3 months ago: "The device 'WDC WD16 00JS-00MHB0 SCSI Disk Device' disappeared from the system without first being prepared for removal." 2nd error, several occurrences over 3 month span: "An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk0\D during a paging operation. " 3rd error, coincides with 2nd error: "The device, \Device\Scsi\viasraid1, did not respond within the timeout period." 4th (final and fatal) error, 1 occurence: "The file system structure on the disk is c…

I've been tasked with setting up a network of WinXP clients. They're dual core desktops from Dell with 2GB RAM. They will be reading files over the network (CIFS), processing them and writing them back to the network drive. The files are large (400MB) and the reads will be sequential. Network is GbE. Assuming no server bottlenecks, how fast can I expect the WinXP clients to run? I realize best case is 400/125 ~ 4 seconds per file. But I have to wonder if the client can read that fast. Has anyone here run performance benchmarks of large file reads? Thanks, Sandman