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Is it safe to remove the windows installer service?
Posted on March 6th, 2004 | 0 Comments

No and no. -- George Hester __________________________________ "Brian Welch" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:BC7206C5-2856-4F64-92F0-5BCCB013761D@microsoft.com...

Impossible to import srch.reg
Posted on March 6th, 2004 | 0 Comments

Look for srch.reg in the Registry (Start | Run | regedit | OK | Edit | Find...}. When you find it let us know the key where it resides and try to determine from the value on the right where and if...

Both CD Rom drives dissapeared
Posted on March 6th, 2004 | 1 Comments

At any point in time have you had EZ-CD Creator installed (or tried to uninstall it)? "towjoe 42" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in...

saving a download
Posted on March 6th, 2004 | 2 Comments

Your harddrive is that disk that is in your computer. It is the non-removable storage which holds your operating system and all other "files" you may use. The harddrive does have a name but that is...

Shortcut and exe files
Posted on March 6th, 2004 | 2 Comments

Yes i did and i got this info on there .COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH I got this info only. one thing more when i want to make a shortcut i got an other error...

W2K SP4 Hosed our PC - Need Help !!!
Posted on March 6th, 2004 | 32 Comments

Usually issues such as you describe are applications running in the background causing the sluggishness. There is an issue similar to this installing IE 6 and using Windows Explorer. That is the...

Pathing Information
Posted on March 6th, 2004 | 2 Comments

Thanks and apologies for my myopia. Ed

Check Disk for Errors Log - oddity?
Posted on March 6th, 2004 | 2 Comments

Yes, my Chkdsk output looks just like that (in the link you gave, I'll paste it again http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=255008 "Windows 2000 Chkdsk Reports Cleanin Unused Security...

File access times and dates
Posted on March 6th, 2004 | 5 Comments

anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com wrote: I don't think I'd place much faith in the file system's access date and time. There seem to be any number of system processes which might to something...

Cannot read autoexec.bat during bootup
Posted on March 6th, 2004 | 2 Comments

"Homer" <123abc@de> wrote in message news:Xns94A3774C31B85abc123de@207.46.248.16... Autoexec.bat does NOT execute under Wind2000 - it is simply parsed for the Path statement. What are you actually...

C:\Recycler
Posted on March 6th, 2004 | 14 Comments

I thought that it might, but I was too afraid to suggest it. :] Thanks Gary. Ray at home "Gary Smith" <bitbucket@example.com> wrote in message news:%23B3hxazAEHA.3436@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...

help
Posted on March 6th, 2004 | 1 Comments

ronaldhenry1@msn.com wrote: Perhaps you mean Start > Settings > Control Panel > Accessibility Options? -- Gary L. Smith gls432@yahoo.com Columbus, Ohio

PLEASE HELP install-harddisk
Posted on March 6th, 2004 | 2 Comments

DL <dl@spoofmail.com> wrote: I'm sure we're all sorry to hear that. You need to work on getting more serenity into your life. Developing some patience would also be a good move. You post three...

changing places bar in common open dialogs ?
Posted on March 6th, 2004 | 1 Comments

Peter <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: TweakUI can do that. http://www.microsoft.com/ntworkstation/downloads/PowerToys/Networking/NTTweakui.asp Or you can edit the registry directly. ...

Jar file download
Posted on March 6th, 2004 | 1 Comments

"Erik" said in news:OH8H2UwAEHA.2404@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl: JAR = Java ARchive Sounds like you are visiting sites that want to run a Java applets. Java applets run locally; i.e., you'll see a...

Question on HyperTread
Posted on March 6th, 2004 | 1 Comments

Yes, although not as well as 2003 does. As long as your system BIOS properly implemented hyperthreading, 2000 should be fine. Sunny wrote:

Slow Shut Down
Posted on March 6th, 2004 | 6 Comments

Mike <hornerm@esquimalt.ca> wrote: Maybe this is what you need: Windows takes a long time to shut down -- the message box that says "Saving your settings" persists for a minute or longer. The...

Using NTBackup
Posted on March 6th, 2004 | 3 Comments

"Scallica" said in news:JSx1c.46714$5M6.13514550@news4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net: Which would be on your backup tape(s). I've never bothered using the crippled backup program that Microsoft dumps in their...

help
Posted on March 6th, 2004 | 0 Comments

can anyone tell me how to diable the handi cap wizard? my screen is real dark now.

AVSYNMGR
Posted on March 6th, 2004 | 1 Comments

That's the McAfee AV software NT Service. It is NOT something to "get rid of". It is something you want to fix. You should try removing and reinstalling the McAfee AV software, then update...