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Properties dialogue box does not pop up
Posted on November 22nd, 2003 | 0 Comments

Windows 2000. A file on the desktop, or windows explorer, I will right click on the file and select properties from the menu. No properties box pops up. it does not work if i select it from the file...

uninstall w2000 professional
Posted on November 22nd, 2003 | 2 Comments

Greetings -- HOW TO Manually Remove Win2K and Restore Win9x http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;;Q250456 Bruce Chambers -- Help us help you: http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm

reactivating a deleted user
Posted on November 22nd, 2003 | 2 Comments

Greetings -- You cannot. Create a new account for the user and then transfer/copy the files from the old user profile to the new one. Bruce Chambers -- Help us help...

Disabling Setting PC Time
Posted on November 22nd, 2003 | 4 Comments

You're correct. So unless you're running net time ... /set in the login script, it isn't getting sync'd (and even if you do run net time, the user would need the right to change the local system time...

cursor keys in dos fullscreen mode
Posted on November 22nd, 2003 | 3 Comments

Another follow-up: The problem is caused by a driver called WINIO.SYS (must be similar to GIVEIO.SYS which caused the same troubles in the past). It is installed by the mainboard driver disk...

Service pack 2 cd???? Please help
Posted on November 22nd, 2003 | 3 Comments

Orca wrote: Hi If you was able to save it to a diskette, you have downloaded the SP2 Express Installation (541 KB), and that is not SP2, only the startup stub to install SP2 over the...

Mouse Vertical Scroll Setting?
Posted on November 22nd, 2003 | 1 Comments

Geoff Stuart wrote: Hi I would think you got this effect from the security update MS03-048/KB824145. Microsoft is aware of this problem with KB824145 and looking into it. Cumulative Security...

Windows Task Scheduler stops fuctioning
Posted on November 22nd, 2003 | 4 Comments

Rebooting always works, but it would be nice to not have to do that. Unfortunately stopping and restarting the process did not fix the problem. I am pretty sure we had tried that and found that it...

Command line tool to reformat Windows 2000 disks.
Posted on November 22nd, 2003 | 2 Comments

I. E. <asdf@asdf.com> wrote in message news:<rmvtrvk050qrf21rdui0vkmsod3vcl678l@4ax.com>... You can use format.exe in a .bat script like this: echo y | format.exe /v:VOL /q /x /fs:ntfs e: (where...

Cant get on the internet
Posted on November 22nd, 2003 | 2 Comments

Greetings -- I'm afraid you'll need to contact AOL's tech support for resolution of problems with (or caused by) their product; Microsoft has no control over AOL's product quality (or lack...

explorer.exe has generated errors...
Posted on November 22nd, 2003 | 0 Comments

I am getting the following error whenever I attaempt to go into the Control Panel: "explorer.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows. You will need to restart the program. An error...

PHYSICAL MEMORY DUMP
Posted on November 22nd, 2003 | 1 Comments

Hi Don Troubleshooting bluescreens can be a bit of an art... there's a message that appears in the first couple of lines on the screen that will tell you what the bluescreen is. Can you post the...

Windows Explorer
Posted on November 22nd, 2003 | 0 Comments

On a new notebook, Windows Explorer (which I use 90% of the time to search for files and start applications)is frequently (most of the time) crashing with an message that explorer.exe has generated...

HELP!! Windows 2K Pro reinstall and Excel Word
Posted on November 22nd, 2003 | 0 Comments

I recently had to reinstall Windows 200 Professional on a Toshiba laptop. That went on fine, but now when I try to open MS Word or Excel, I keep getting the same error message: "Another installation...

Windows 2000 PRO Uninstal IIS
Posted on November 22nd, 2003 | 2 Comments

You really don't need to uninstall IIS to use Apache if you want to. Just don't let IIS listen on the port that Apache will listen on. But to uninstall you go to Windows Components and uncheck the...

Moving Files/shares alongwith their security/share permissions
Posted on November 22nd, 2003 | 4 Comments

i tried using XCOPY but i couldn't find any SWITCH that would copy the security permissions along with the files... this is what i found out when i typed c:\xcopy...

System Hangs when "Saving Your Settings"
Posted on November 22nd, 2003 | 1 Comments

"Paul Osterhues" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in news: 38A48441-F843-4EDF-885A-C451C1BDBB0A@microsoft.com Don't delete security updates. I found SP4 solved the shutdown issue. Before...

directories
Posted on November 22nd, 2003 | 1 Comments

"Randy" <rgoebel@yahoo.com> wrote in news: 3c6701c3b0af$d45261c0$a601280a@phx.gbl Drive down to Redmond, find the Microsoft Campus and tell the receptionist you have an appointment with the Windows...

Right click desktop NEW context menu problem! HELP!
Posted on November 22nd, 2003 | 0 Comments

Here is the deal, I installed the latest ATI Cat 3.9 drivers, and was playing a game, when the machine locked up due to the drivers. Now, after reboot, all seemed normal, but I lost all my Right...

Disable Media Preview
Posted on November 22nd, 2003 | 0 Comments

In folder options I have "Enable Web Content in Folders" selected which is what I want. However, can I disable the little media player that appears in the left pane when I highlight and MPS or Video...