Guys, thanks a lot, but the problem was related to this: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;824226 "This problem may occur if you have installed Windows 2000 Service Pack...

The codes are 0x0000008 followed by 0x0s. . . . I just got it to boot up once and it mysteriously tried to install the Sound Blaster 128. It succeeded and I restarted, and it gave me my good old...

THx for the info, in what I have found so far this does seem to be the preferred method to bring in new hardware. Here are some links to related information that I...

John- I've seen this a few times before. First, if you highlight the application log and hit f5 to refresh, do the events become visible? Your best bet is probably to treat this as a corrupted...

From a command prompt ipconfig /all and post the result. -- Regards, Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup. Microsoft MVP Microsoft Certified Professional

Chris- Sounds like a big mess. You are probably looking at SIDs because the associations/mappings were lost. You will need to reconfigure the security by adding the users and permissions...

while attempting to boot I go through text mode ok, then I get a blue screen with an error stop:( 0x000000050.....................................date stamp 384d9b17-ntoskrnl.exe). I swiched the...

Hernan- One option is to copy the logs out once a week before they are overwritten. You can write a simple VBScript to do this and then schedule it. "Hernan s" <niidea@hotmail.com> wrote in...

Hello When I reboot my computer (windows 2000 sp3) I get the following error message "Error calling transport setup (20004) I can close the dialog box and use the PC, except that IE will now not...

To correctly show the free space on a hard drive while doing a defrag yo have to go to a DOS prompt and type the following line: cipher /Wc: where /W is the switch and c: is the drive letter. I...

You MIGHT be able to use FDISK from the Win2k CD to "remove" the hard drive, then "reinsert" by setting it to the active partition... and then finally do a format for a clean install If the CD does...

Do you mean something like using ipconfig in the command line? You can use "ipconfig /flushdns" and "ipconfig /release" to purge the dns resolver cache and your ip address. Get to a command line and...

Control Panel|Administrative Tools|Services find the service in question and check service property's "Dependencies" tab -- Regards, Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in...

Hello I just reformatted my computer. I deleted all the previous partitions and did a clean install on one partition , c:\. During setup, I encountered 2 errors 1) Cannot load the Creative SB...

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When adding windows clients to a domain the domain admin group is added to the local Admistrators group of the client computer. Is there a way to set up the server so that as client computers are...

I am actually running a TS session to attempt the install of the printer. Maybe I need to go to the console to do this... but it's a pain as the actual TS server is in another location.) The printer...

I am trying to set up WinChat on my LAN as a simple Instant Messenger between workers. I have started the necessary services to have WinChat run and set them to automatic. I do the Run/Winchat and...

After having manipulated JPG files (opened, moved, copied,...) many (only JPGs - and not all of them) cannot be deleted/moved anymore. An error message says "Access violation. The file might be...

Hi Does anyone know how I can find the default server locale (regional setting) that the server uses whenever you create a local user on the server. At the moment the server local is set to (English...