you know this is a Windows 2000 newsgroup... ....and yahoo messenger isn't even close to MSN messenger !!! :) But... it's in the preferences. When Yahoo pager is open, go...

Mike245 wrote: under group policy. I did find a way to disable windowsupdate for all users, but that's the opposite of what we need. -- Mike Block Banner Ads...

did you look at the built in Help? click on any blank space on the desktop and then press F1... ....browsing through the "Contents" tab in the left hand pane will reveal a host of basic...

dcdon wrote: Oops! Sorry. My bad. :)

Hey, I just got some help on this recently. Here's what "John John" gave me" The uninstall entries in the add/remove programs can be removed under this registry...

I have a question about the history file that drops down when you click in the dialog box of a search site. I mean the list of past search topics that seems to be permanent, not temporary internet...

Thanks George, The QFECheck says I need to reapply only 2 items... hmm... well that's a good start. Thanks again. Chris

I thought I read somewhere that Microsoft was going to implement symbolic links, like in Unix. Can somoene tell me if Win2k does this, and how to do it? Chris W P.S. I am NOT talking about...

Hi, I am having a very strange issues with my Win2K servers. I have two Win2K server in a singles domain and some clients. Both servers also run SQL. Terminal services is installed in remote...

In my PC, there are 2 NIC, one act as external IP (202.185.112.79) and another act as Internal IP (192.168.11.50). I already configure the 2 NIC configuration. Then, I go to set a range of client...

Hi All, I would like to know is port 443 enabled by default in Windows 2003. I have tried to use the telnet command telnet xx.xx.xx.xx 443, and it gives an error "Could not open connection to host,...

You may want to ask this question in the microsoft.public.cert.exam.mcse newsgroup. -- Thanks, Marc Reynolds Microsoft Technical Support This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and...

Hi, I am unable to disable my administrative shares. I have applied the registry modification i.e: ======== Removing Administrative shares By default, if you delete the C$, D$, etc.....

I have a Win 2k Pro box. For some reason now, no matter what application I try to start (including Control panel, explorer, etc) I get an error msg that says Iexplore.exe has generated errors and...

GetSetting/SaveSetting use a limited area of the registry: HKLM/Software/VBA Settings, or somesuch. You can't just give them a root key ID, & expect that to work. Check the parameter...

If you have WinXP, why are you posting this in a Win2K News Group ? Try: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general Dave "Aparna" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in...

Hi, I run a dual operaying system on my machine (2000 and XP). Today I downloaded SP4 for windows 2000 and my machine will no longer connect to the internet ot shutdown correctly. (i am currently...

Sorry, but I won't even pretend to know any more about that. I came across this tool (Depends.exe) and found it useful in troubleshooting a particular problem. It surfaced the case of the infamous...

Wayne wrote: Hi Yes, but it is a server side setting: Mapped Drive Connection to Network Share May Be Lost http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;297684

But did you connect to internet prior to winupdate, activating firewall, activating AV I have seen numerous sys become infected within 30secs of making...