Greetings -- Apparently you're unfamiliar with enterprise antivirus software and the Alerter service, which depends upon the messenger service? Please stop posting potentially harmful advice. What...

Greetings -- Normally, unless the new motherboard is virtually identical to the old one (same chipset, IDE controllers, etc), you'll most likely need to perform a repair (a.k.a. in-place upgrade)...

Greetings -- This particular "sales method" is strikingly similar to the "protection" rackets offered to small businesses by organized criminals. Yes, it's a scam; no reputable business would need...

Greetings -- As Windows Server 2003 was being released, Microsoft announced, at least at the launch event I attended, that there would be no "Server2003" news groups, per se, but that...

"Charles" <cvr1@cox.net> wrote in message news:088701c36799$17ae1e10$a301280a@phx.gbl... Do you have a popup blocker installed? Some popup blockers make the sound of a gunshot when they "shoot" a...

Hi Antonio and Meir, I mis-spoke on the SP3 installation. It is SP4 that I installed. 329170 was referred to as pre-SP4. Did you really mean SP3 Meir? I don't believe it included 329170. That...

"Folklore" <Folk@nospam.net> wrote in message news:eck7kvol0q5hb0582cnh8n3eebtv54uhud@4ax.com... The font size in Win2k help files is controlled by the Internet Explorer (IE) Font Size. In IE, go...

I had the same problem but I was unable to find any way around it unless it was archived. I still can't get sp4 to work on my machine and i've tried and formatted 4 times!! It must be some kind of...

Thanks Duncan, but that doesnt seem to work. Thanks Bruce. I was changing it under windows, not windows nt. Thanks a lot. Luke

I have unintentionally "installed" 3 Windows 2000 operating systems on my one computer. I used to have Win98 and installed W2K over it. However, I now have 3 different W2K systems on my computer...

There are two users on my computer. When I am logged onto my account and then I try to sign online, it says the remote computer timed out, but when I am on my brother's account and I sign online...

Hi, I wonder why my computer shows blue screen suddenly and shows message "Stop:0x00000C2 (0x00000040,0x00030000,0x8000000,0x00000000) bad_pool_caller memory dumping" and then restart by itself. any...

A customer of ours has an MSAccess database on a server. She has created a shortcut to that database on her desktop. When she executes the shortcut, windows installer launches every time. This is...

I had windows 98 and my computre crashed and I lost everything. A friend fixed my computer and downloaded windows 2000 professional. I now have no sound and am unable to download any games?? Any...

First of all I would not suggest defaulting your Domain Admin username in that box because that is easily accessible by any user. Get a disgruntled employee and they find that out and that's one...

Check your Session Timeout settings in IIS for the web site of the app. The default is 900 seconds, but yours may be set too low. Right click on the web site, click Properties and review the...

i replaced the old network card with another. i'm not sure that it's wrong with the old network card.i guess the plug sin is not working. "Billy Madison" <bm@domain.com>...

I installed the worm patch on my PC and now it will not stop rebootng. It starts fine, and then gets to the screen prior to login, and reboots. It does it in Safe Mode, Regular, etc..

Use another, non-infected computer and download the Windows Update from Microsoft: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp? url=/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-026.asp And the removal...

You do not have to pay Microsoft to ask a licensing question. I have no idea where you got that from. I have called many times no...