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- Windows XP Security >> Pop Up MessagesPlease tell me how to get rid of the annoying pop up
windows that keep showing up. They are from
www.messagestop.net, www.endmessage.com and
www.messagedestroy.net. How do I get rid of them without
changing my internet settings. Can they be blocked?
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- Windows XP >> Number of windows limitation in XP?I have windows XP SP2 and 4GB of RAM. I like to run lots of Applications at
once (call me a manic multitasker). I seem to always get to a point where I
can no longer open more programs. I either get no error, or sometimese
errors like, "unable to get windows handle." I used to think it was a
memory issue but since I currently have 4GB and am no where near using it all
up, it has to be something else. The Video Card? An XP limitation?
Anybody know what is going on with this?
Computer Dell 9150, 4GB Ram, 368GB Free disk space, ATI X600 w/ 256MB
running dual monitors.
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- Windows XP Network >> Problems logging in to Windows 2003 domainHello:
We manage several hundred client networks. None of these client network are
connected. They are separate customers. All of the networks are very
similar in that most are Windows 2003 domains, Windows XP desktops, Exchange
2003, WSUS deployments SQL, etc. A very typical Microsoft setup. Recently,
we have seen a spike in a very specific issue - a very significant spike.
At about 10-20% of our client sites over the past 1-2 months, users have
been having an issue logging in. When they initially login in the morning,
they don't get their desktop. In other words, they type in their username
and password, press enter, it goes thru the applying settings stuff, then
they just stare at a blank desktop. They can wait 1 minute or an hour, but
the desktop never appears. They then press CTRL-ALT-DEL, select Logoff, and
RE-login, and they can login perfectly fine in a few seconds.
Unfrotunately, we have not been able to narrow this down much. In all cases
that we have sampled, there are no errors or warnings in the Application or
System log at the time of login. There are varying login scripts at each
site, but we have verified the login scripts all run to completion.
Although I can't say for certain, all desktops are Windows XP SP2 as we keep
up to date pretty regularly. The problem is intermittant in that it will
happen to USER-A one day, then USER-B the next, but not USER-A. As noted
these are different networks and it's happening at multiple sites.
I certainly don't expect someone to come up with the a wiz-bang answer
(although that would be nice), but we are at the end of our troubleshooting
method. I need some better logging info than the Eventlogs and ECHOing
lines in a login batch file to a text file. How can we better troubleshoot
the Windows XP login process to a Windows 2003 domain? If you do have any
suggested solutions or known issues, that would be great too.
Any help is much appreciated.
Thanks,
RichF
rfandma@newsgroup.nospam
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- Windows XP >> help with invisible folders ???With my settings checked for "show hidden files" and unchecked for "Hide
protected operating system files", I have lost a lot of folders under my
Michael folder in "Documents and Settings" ... the most noticeable ones that
are missing are "Application Data" and "local settings"... but there are
several gone. There is information in my Application data that I need to
help
solve a problem that I'm havingwith Nero.
Does anyone know how I can get those folders to show again? I've tried
clicking "restore defaults", but that doesn't seem to help.
Thanks in advance ... Michael
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- Windows XP >> PrefetchingMy system takes over 2 minutes to boot up. I just ran
bootvis.exe and it shows that 55 seconds are being used
for "prefetching". I understand that prefetching is
supposed to speed up the boot process, but in my case it
is definitely not helping. Is there any way to turn off
prefetching? Thanks for your help.
P.S. I have been to blackviper.com and he says com + event
system is tied to prefetching. I have it disabled, could
that possibly cause the long prefetch time during bootup?
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- Windows XP Setup >> XP Sysprep File loses windows product keyHi i have a sysprep file with no problems except the windows key. I put the windows key in to the file through the sysprep setup manager and yet after the machines are sysprep it always asks to put the key back in again, i have checked everything and it seems ok
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- Windows XP >> TIME WON'T SYNC!When I try to sync to time.windows.com i get a message saying:
An error occured while windows was synchronizing to time.windows.com. The
time sample was rejected because: The peer's stratum is less than the host's
stratum.
I have an internet connection and the other host i have: time.nist.gov never
works when i sync it and it never did on my other computer either. My time on
the computer is 2 minutes off from the real time
SOME HELP PLEASE
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- Windows XP >> gdiplus fix: HP Software Update reported Installation failed in SP1, but direct install workedIn case others have had this gdiplus installation failed problem
I found a partial workaround. On WinXP SP1 (not SP2)
HP Software Update was repeatedly reporting Installation failed
when trying to install
Critical Update to resolve a potential security risk condition
This update was the gdiplus fix described in MS04-028.mspx.
For some reason my Win XP SP1 had unfixed gdiplus.dll
despite Windows Update having been run last year,
and despite my own manual installs of the fix from Microsoft.
MBSA 2 did not report any missing security updates (except SP2 as
usual).
I first searched for all gdiplus.dll and found that although there
was a fixed gdiplus.dll in the OFFICE folder there were also two
unfixed files in HP folders and one in C:/windows/system32/,
so I ran HP Software Update, which failed with this popup:
FEAD(R) 2.5 Optimizer(C)
HP has detected a corrupt file (checksum error). The program has been
closed without installing. Please contact HP to report this problem.
Repeating the update after rebooting gave the same error.
I gave up searching for the cause or any fix, and went to
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Home.jsp
and searched for
"Critical Update to resolve a potential security risk condition"
and found
GdiplusUpgrade_Rev1.1.exe
from HP:
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=US&swItem=oj-37641-1
After downloading and running, I found it had fixed not only the
two HP gdiplus files but also the /system32/ file (I did dir /s and
checked each one).
I then ran a MBSA 2 scan which told me:
* I had not updated to SP2 (I know, I'm delaying until I have a good
backup)
* No security updates are missing.
Administrative Vulnerabilities
* No incomplete software update installations were found.
Off topic for this xp group, I did find that the HP fix had somehow
dropped Overland.cab containing an unfixed gdiplus inside!
But that's a matter for a hp group.
I'd be interested in any comments or similar experiences. I was
surprised that
my PC had unfixed gdiplus after I'd always been running Windows Update
manually
for all security fixes and using MBSA to double check.
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- Windows XP >> passthison.comWhen trying to go online (I use yahoo.com) I click on the
icon to take me there and I am taken instead I am taken
to "passthison.com" Is this a virus, I have Norton on, at
all times and it doesn't show up....I can get to Yahoo but
not without effort. Can anyone tell me how to fix this?
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- Windows XP MovieMaker >> Windows Movie Maker 2Helllllp . I payed for the download but do not have the disk.I have the product Activation key still however.The problem is it keeps locking up.....And Im trien to make a movie of our vacation pictures almost have t done but I have to save costantly . it did not use to do this? Help please
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Gregory A. Hall
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- Windows XP Support >> MSI isn't installing or uninstalling programsI noticed a couple of days ago when I was trying to install MS Project 2003
that I am having a problem installing and uninstalling programs. It appears
that msiexec isn't working properly. I get a message saying that the
installation package could not be opened. When I look at the install log I
see error 1619. I am unable to install any program that uses msi and I am
unable to uninstall any program that uses msi. Also when I attempt to
install the MSI Cleanup Utility it gives me an error 1324 saying that the
C:Program Files folder path contains an error. I have tried installing a new
version on installer (3.1) but it didn't help. I have also tried doing a
system restore to just get rid of the problem, but my restores don't go back
far enough.
I've searched Google for two days and haven't seen anything similar to this
problem. Does anyone have any ideas?
Thanks,
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- Windows XP >> Local Group added to local Administrators groupHi
We are using Windows XP clients in a Active Directory. With the use of Group
Policys we have created a local group named "LocalAdmins" this group is then
added with Group Policy to the local Administrators group. The reason we do
this is to autmaticly add some groups to the local Administrators group.
But members (Active Directory Members) of the local group doesn't get local
administrator privileges.
How do I get members in a local group wich is added to the local
Administrators group to get Administrator priviledge by only adding a local
group?
Please Help
Jonas
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- Windows XP >> Unable to Continue - No profiles?Windows XP Media Center
I have a realitive who seems to have lost all his settings. Dell PC
with multiple accounts. I haveit set up so each person has an icon on
boot and they just go inthere and have all their Outlook settings. All
their outlook settings are gone - except for the the one person I set
up as administrator.
When somebody logs on, there is an error saying it can't continue since
there are no profiles. What the heck happened and how do I get rid of
this profile junk?
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- Windows XP >> Re: System Shut Down (RPC)Problem. BIG Problem.
I had to re-install windowsXP and during install the
system came across a file that it needed to install. I
could not find where to install the file. (I don't recall
the file)So I clicked cancel and continued on with the
install. It stoped after a while and I went through the
same prosses again. Now everything is running fine except
my system shuts it self down. Be for it shuts down, it
gives me a message that basicly reads system shut
down "NT\Authority\System" "Remote Procedure Call (RPC)"
Can anyone help me with this?
Gregory.
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Posted: Thu Jan 01 18:24:02 CST 2004 |
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Windows XP >> Setup.exe won't Install
I'm having problems installing a Program ( Norton
SystemWorks Pro 2004 ) onto my computer.
My operating system is Windows XP Pro SP1, I have plenty
of disk space and memory, so that can't be it.
Whenever I try to install the SETUP.EXE Folder it doesn't
do anything, no sound, no nothing.
I've actually have gone as far as to change the name of
the folder by adding an extra extension to it so that it
looks like ( snswsetup.exe.exe ) . I know dumb idea, but
it worked. At least for a moment or so until it stopped
with an ERROR message that reads ( "Norton SystemWorks
Pro set up has stopped because of an error") I've looked
at the logs in the Event Viewer and there are 2 errors
that take place, they are as follows; ( Type; Warning!,
Source; MsiInstaller, Event; 1015, Description; Failed
to connect to server. Error: 0x800401F0). The other is;
( Type; Information, Source; MsiInstaller, Event;
11708, Description; Product: Norton Antivirus-
Installation Operation Failed ).
Can anyone help. Thank you in Advance.
Casey
Windows XP1078
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Windows XP >> Setup.exe won't Install
Hi Casey,
You should be contacting Symantec support with this issue with their
software. There are a few things you can do first:
Delete the contents of the temp folders, there may be a file in there
interfering with the setup routine of the installer. Get both:
C:\Windows\temp
C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\local settings\temp
Turn off all other running programs, especially your antivirus software. Use
ctrl+shift+escape, if necessary, to "end task" on everything.
Now retry installing the software.
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Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Win98 Help - www.rickrogers.org
"Casey" <EMail@HideDomain.com> wrote in message
news:00cf01c3d0ae$c0e9f1b0$EMail@HideDomain.com...
> I'm having problems installing a Program ( Norton
> SystemWorks Pro 2004 ) onto my computer.
> My operating system is Windows XP Pro SP1, I have plenty
> of disk space and memory, so that can't be it.
> Whenever I try to install the SETUP.EXE Folder it doesn't
> do anything, no sound, no nothing.
> I've actually have gone as far as to change the name of
> the folder by adding an extra extension to it so that it
> looks like ( snswsetup.exe.exe ) . I know dumb idea, but
> it worked. At least for a moment or so until it stopped
> with an ERROR message that reads ( "Norton SystemWorks
> Pro set up has stopped because of an error") I've looked
> at the logs in the Event Viewer and there are 2 errors
> that take place, they are as follows; ( Type; Warning!,
> Source; MsiInstaller, Event; 1015, Description; Failed
> to connect to server. Error: 0x800401F0). The other is;
> ( Type; Information, Source; MsiInstaller, Event;
> 11708, Description; Product: Norton Antivirus-
> Installation Operation Failed ).
> Can anyone help. Thank you in Advance.
>
> Casey
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- Windows XP Update >> Product recovery after SP2?I think when I updated to Windows XP Home, SP2, it did something to my puter.
I tried to reformat using my Product Recovery CD, and it said it was for a
different machine, even though these are the product recovery CDs that came
WITH the machine!
I was told that SP2 changes something so that the Product Recovery CD
program no longer recognizes the computer? Can this be so and how do I get
the Recovery to start? It simply says WRONG COMPUTER and aborts!
It is a Toshiba M30 laptop that came with XP Home pre installed.
Any ideas how I can reformat and reinstall it all back to square one?
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- Windows XP >> Refresh/display of IE6 in XPRunning XP Home Edition on one machine and Win98SE on
another with both having the exact same versions of IE6
and sharing the same internet connection. When the Win98
SE IE refreshes, it does it in realtime without resetting
the page to the top and displays some realtime updated
graphics that do not show up when viewed on the XP
machine. When XP machine IE refreshes, it does it every
30 or 60 seconds and completely resets the page to the
top and does not show any of the realtime graphics that
the Win98SE IE6 machine does.... Is there some setting
that I am missing out on? This has been driving me nuts
since installing XP.. Any help greatly appreciated!
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- Windows XP Perform Maintain >> Problems after SpybotAfter running spybot and other software such as Ad-Aware I noticed a big
difference after "fixing problems". Computer is slow to respond and acts very
strange. How can I reverse these changes and what can I use to remove spyware
and such without causing problems with my pc?
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DSB
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- Windows XP MovieMaker >> creating a music videoHi all--
I would like to add a "music video" to the end of a
birthday film I'm making. Here's how I'm doing it and it
seems to be working, but I thought maybe there was an
easier/better way you all could let me know:
I play the song and have people sing it. I do this from
several angles and with different people, etc...all using
the same song file that they're listening to.
After I import the video files I lay down the audio of the
same song on the audio track. Then I mute all the clips
and arrange them in the order I want and "nudge" them by
clipping until they seem to match up to the audio overlay
track.
It's a bit tedious, but it seems to be working. I know, I
know...if it ain't broke don't fix it; so maybe I should
leave well enough alone, but is there an easier way that
someone would suggest??
Thanks!
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- Windows XP Update >> 1 or 4 updates for Win98-ME?There had been no updates for the WinMe computer since the flaky 891711 in mid
March. (At that time, I soon uninstalled kb891711, after a few tries to proceed through,
and note, errors.)
Yesterday I ran the update site for WinMe, but only noted that winupdate site found and
installed only two updates. One was the replacement 891711, the other was new (I
assume it was new).
I conclude: Only one new update for WinMe, right?
However, today auto-update on WinXp listed these (below). Note that 4 are said to also
apply to 98,98se,me. So I just now ran winupdate site on WinMe computer, yet it says
there are no new updates.
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=43944
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS05-020.mspx also 98, ME
Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (890923)
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=42467
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=893803
Windows Installer 3.1 only 2000, 2003 server, XP
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=39895
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS05-018.mspx also 98, ME
Vulnerabilities in Windows Kernel Could Allow Elevation of Privilege and Denial of
Service (890859)
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=36661
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS05-019.mspx also 98, me
Vulnerabilities in TCP/IP Could Allow Remote Code Execution and Denial of Service
(893066)
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=43001
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS05-016.mspx also 98, me
Vulnerability in Windows Shell that Could Allow Remote Code Execution (893086)
(Some of these dated 12 Apr 2005.... or 10? Apr 2005)
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- Windows XP MovieMaker >> Searching...To help find info on my website, I added a new Rollyo search engine
feature... there's a new 'Search This and Related Websites' link on the
main page which opens a page with Google and Rollyo search utilities.
I've customized the Rollyo feature so the search includes my website, and
the websites of SimplyDV, WindowsMovieMakers, and WindowsPhotoStory...
selected sites that I moderate forums at or frequent.
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PapaJohn
Movie Maker 2 and Photo Story 3 website - http://www.papajohn.org
MM2 Tips and Tricks: http://www.simplydv.co.uk/simplyBB/viewtopic.php?t=4693
Online Newsletters: http://www.windowsmoviemakers.net/PapaJohn/Index.aspx
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- Windows XP Support >> Windows XP Pro x64 Install errorI just attempted a clean install of XP Pro 64 (trial version) and got a blue
screeen with the following error:
file\amd64\ntkrnlmp.exe could not be loaded. The error code is 4 Setup
cannot continue.
Anybody have any idea what this means?
I am using a Asus A8N-SLI Premium and a AMD 64 3500 with 2 GB ram installing
on a Maxtor 40 GB drive .
Thanks
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- Windows XP Setup >> High page file usage despite tons of free RAMHi, I have recently installed an AMDx2 with Win XP Pro x64. From the off the
box was sluggish. I put this down to it only running on 1GB and plugged in
another 2GB of RAM, ie the box now has a total of 3GB of RAM. Performance
remains sluggish, however. I am highly suspicious of the memory management.
Whenever I look at task manager, there always appears to be 2GB of free mem,
ie it will not seem like the m/c using the available memory. Moreover, right
after boot-up with next to nothing running, the m/c begins to use the page
file. I read somewhere that XP by default creates a page file 1.5x the size
of available RAM. Well, my box has a page file of 1.44MB... Just to be
clear, when I look at My Computer/Properties/General, it shows 2.93GB of RAM.
I tried things like /PAE in boot.ini to no avail. Does anyone out there
have any ideas?
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- Windows XP Support >> installion problem w/new printerunable to install hp photsmart all in onve.
Have been on phone for hours w/hP and decided it is a computer problem.
Error keeps saying "installation in progress", altough when i try to insall
hp cd the program just stall.
Any one have an idea??
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- Windows XP MovieMaker >> Error Message problemI have an error message when trying to capture vidio....it reads......"An interface has to many methods to fire events from
I have no idea what the problem is ...can someone please help,I have wedding pics i would like to put on my pc..
Thank
Bobdaz
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- Windows XP Network >> problem with TS and printerGood day,
I have this problem. If i connect by vpn to TS.
(W2000Server) from windows xp. printer is added on server
like HP LASERJET 2100/pcname/session 1. This printer is
conected to my pc by LPT1. When i want print from TS on
it thats display error message "there was an error found
when printing the document NAME to TS001"
But when i change on TS in printer properties port from
TS001 to TS002 (it our network printer thats i have
localy conectted) that document from TS is printed OK.
Many thank for help
Tomas Pflanzer
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- Windows XP >> Scanner DialogThe current Fax/Scanner dvice I have is automatically
recognized by windows XP. When I try to scan something,
it brings up the standard windows dialog box. As the
machine has a feeder, I can scan legal size documents,
but legal is not a page size available in the drop down.
Is there a fix for this?
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- Windows XP >> Windows XP books with trial?Hi there,
I'm wondering if anyone knows the name of a book that comes with a trial
version of Windows XP (professional, or home edition, it does not matter). I
read that the 180-day trial is no longer available for download from
microsoft.com, but that there are a few books that come with an XP trial CD.
Thanks.
Jeff.
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