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I have a PC (XP Professional 2002 Service Pack 2) that works fine when connected to my Company network or when disconnected and used as a stand alone machine. When I disconnect the PC from the Company network and I connect it to an IP using remote access (no matter about the provider) and I double click a local (C:) file through Explorer, the system pauses for 60 – 70 s and then opens the file (.doc, .xls, .pdf, .txt, ...) e.g. 1kB dimension. I can open the files immediately by starting the relevant program, then opening the file. The anomaly is not related to the browser used to navigate or to the mail client. In fact the problem is present just after the rem…

I have a small though important (to me and some customers) w2k3 R2 Sp2 domain. My problem is that running dsa.msc (or dssite.msc or apparently anything that requires secure access to the dc) from member servers can take forever. Running dsa.msc just now on a member server took 14 minutes for it to open. There is no apparent related activity during the 14 minutes. If I close ADUC after the initial connection finally happens and run dsa.msc it opens quickly. If I try to open dssite.msc after the dsa.msc has finally connected dssite.msc will open quickly. Its the first connection that seems to take forever. DcDiag and Netdiag on the DC don't show any problems. Eve…

I have a user who went out and got herself a new keyboard and plugged it in. After she plugged it in, she says her mouse pauses for a couple of seconds before responding if she doesn't use it for a few seconds. I ran the install program for the keyboard, shut down, restarted, tried her old keyboard--the problem persists through all of those changes. Ideas? It's almost like the mouse goes to sleep and takes a bit to wake up. It is a USB mouse and keyboard. Thank.

Not sure this is right forum, but here goes: Runnins IIS (personal web server) and trying to update Access 2003 database via perl script using the following: $DSN = "Test"; use Win32::ODBC; $db = new win32::ODBC($DSN); $db->sql("select * from SiteVisits where script_name = "counter" "); Error: [-1032] [] "[Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver] The Microsoft Jet database engine cannot open the file '(unknown)'. It is already opened exclusively by another user, or you need permission to view its data." As best I can determine tll files/databases have "full" permissions. Help!!! If this is not the correct forum please direct me to the correct on…

Hi folks, I realise that this question is fairly trivial so I also ask you only to treat it as such! ;-) If I tell windows that I want my desktop icons arranged alphabetically, I get (about) one half of them arranged alphabetically, then stops (apparently randomly) the rest of the sort list follows on at the end but arranged alphabetically. Why does this happen? Did Microsoft have a reason for doing this? Thank you :o) Jim

I have a disk SATA disk that has two NTFS partitions on it. The disk was connected to a 3Ware 9550SX controller and set up as a "Single" drive. This seems to have done something to the drive such that now when I put it into a Windows 2000 machine it is said to be a basic drive that is "Unallocated" (no partitions). I have run FinalData Enterprise 2.0 on it and I can access both partitions and get most of the data off. The problem is that some of the file names are listed with question marks in them and I think it has to do with this being a disk that was used in a Chinese computer (WinXP) and possibly the characters are not recognized by Win2000 or possibly it…

Hi, What tools to use or how to diagnose any application running as a windows service "Unexpectedly Quitting"?? No other info in the event logs at all. All it says application so and so has unexpectedly quit. Thank you, Lit

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Any application like Trend Micro Internet security, Panda, Norton can post a dialog box for news or notification that you need to do a scan, etc and when this happens it pulls me back to the desktop while in 3D mode. This primarily applies to gaming. Is there anyway to configure windows not to do task switching while in 3d mode?

Hi, having trouble installing the reader during installtion tends to freeze up...? I have XP sp2

I joined this site because every time I sign on to my computer, I get a message saying "The procedure entry point GetProcessFlags cannot be located in the dynamic link library KERNEL32.dll". What do I do about it? Is it causing any harm? The computer seems to run OK, but I have not been able to install Adobe Reader after downloading it - the Wizard says it can't find a necessary component. I'll appreciate any help you can give me. Thanks! Barb L

I'm not sure this is the right plase, but whatever. I guess everyone need to backup utility, some of them at home others for work. Here it is. http://www.acronis.com/mag/vnu-ati7 p.s. they say it's been offered along time ago (a couple of months or so)

i have joined today this forum i have few windows problems to sort out. i hope we can be mutually helpful happy new year to all our friends here.:)

i found a great article regarding beer...beer that you really love to hate. http://www.stuffmagazine.com/articles/index.aspx?id=1390&src=gp50 stellas inclusion is odd though. its one of the most expensive beers sold, you'd think it would need to taste good.:D

I'm putting Windows 2003 Server on my Dell SC1420. It previously had Win2000 Pro on it. I've put a new (identical) hard drive in it. The old hard drive is not plugged in. I've run the CD from Dell that aids in the OS installation. The Windows 2003 splash screen comes up at boot, then I get a gray screen with a functional, but jumpy mouse pointer. Nothing else happens. Has anyone else experienced anything like this? Any advise?

I had deleted a program that I realized I needed, so I did a system restore to an earlier time that same day. The computer started the restore process and then when shutting down to restart I heard an error beep, but the computer still shut down. When it restarted I was left with a blue screen with only the windows XP flag icon in the middle. No error message- nothing. Cant click on anything, tried the F8 with the 'safe mode' as well as 'best known good' (or something similar to that phrase) both doing nothing to bring my computer back. Any idea as to what happened? I contacted dell whom after 2 attempts to figure out the problem stated that if he took me to the next step…

A security scan by (shields up) showed port 515 (printer spooler) OPEN, leaving me a sitting duck, and I have not been able to find any info on how to control a port. I'm on broadband with several security softwares, and a belkin 4 port router. Can anyone address this situation? (Speak slow and clear, I'm old and uneducated) olddog

my java was not working properly so i tried to reinstall it, and now i am getting an error message "error applying transforms. verify that the specified transform paths are valid" and it is not working at all any help would bee great, thank you:)

when my windows xp loads and I log on I get (Remote Precedure Call) error and my system shuts down and recycles allover.???:(

About a year ago I had bought a Gigabyte nVidia 6800 to go along with my gaming rig. Three or so months later my computer suffered a massive power surge knocking out mostly every piece of hardware in my PC. At this point I had bought a new computer but the video card is extremely out of date (6100). I'm wondering if there's any way of testing to see whether my old video card was affected by the power surge. I'm thinking I can test it in my new computer but I'm not sure if a dead video card would screw up my current PC. That’s of course pending whether or not it's even working. Thanks for the help, I really appreciate it.

Hi everyone, I apologise if this question has already been asked on the forum, but the Microsoft help and support page has so far been useless. My CD/DVD drive is having trouble reading audio or data CD's - it doesn't recognize that there is a disk in the drive. I've tried numerous CDs, all of which worked until a couple of days ago, and it doesn't recognize them. It only plays the utilities CD-ROM that came with my computer and DVD's. I've already been through all the related troubleshooter instructions and the Microsoft website and as far as I know I have the most up-to-date driver. Please, if anyone has any ideas or advice, they will be much appreciated! Thanks…

First I'm gonna warn you, i am completely stupid to computers. When i start the computer a message reads ERROR SOME STUFF EXE. its different every time. Also limewire opens itself even after i close it rapeatedly. THis happens continously until i just leave it open, even then it will sometimes close itself and then open up again. Also tons of pop ups and web sites just randomly pop up. I'm having a difficult time typing this due to the constant interference by the pop ups. Ive scanned my computer with the usaull norton antivirus and spy ware. although i do recieve messages about my registry when i run nortons. NOTE: none of this started happening until i tried to d…

I hope someone can help me with this problem. I have a VPN set up between 2 users with 2 QB Pro 2005 licenses. When the "power" user or administrator login was done from one user, the other user could not even open the program at all the next day. It just freezes with no error msgs. ALL programs were removed and re-installed on the computer in question to NO AVAIL. Please, I've searched all over to find help on this and the QB Help Desk are no help, and then want $250! Can anyone tell me what's wrong here???

I have Directx 8.1 and need to put on DirectX 9.0c. But I don't know how to remove it without getting a memory dump warning. I run xp home so how do i do this without destroying my computer?

I am trying to play World of Warcraft. I recently had to reformat my comp and now I installed everything just the way I did before and nothing works now. WOW keeps giving me an error saying I don't have Directx 9.0c but i do. So i tried updating it and no updates are found for it. But WOW still doesn't play. Why did it play before the reformat and not now? What do i have to do in order to make it work? PS please let me know in a step by step manner to fix. I am a noob with comps...:confused: