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- Windows XP >> Local folder mapped as network drive goes away if no network device activeWe have a rather unusual requirement to map a folder on a
local drive as a network drive in order to give it a
different drive letter. We are doing this on a stand alone
PC for the sake of consistency for a specific appication
with others in a network that it ocassionally VPN's into
via a dial-up connection.
The mapping solution works well EXCEPT that the mapped
drive is unavailable if there is no active network device
installed in the PC. We discovered this when we removed a
wireless PC card from it and could no longer access the
mapped drive. We are mapping a folder on the c: drive as
the T: drive. There is also a NIC but it is unplugged.
Is there some way to keep the mapped drive active? Is
there another way to get a T: drive on the HD. The free
space on the HD is fully allocated to C.
TIA,
Ken
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- Windows XP Setup >> Changing the Date formatI am doing an unattended instalaltion of XP I am also using sysprep.inf for
the ansers. When I havbe set the date correctly in the OS to MM-DD-YYYY and
run sysprep it does not save the changes but reverts back to the US standard
of DD-MM-YYYY. Here are the settings I have used in my sysprep.inf file. Can
someone tell me how to fix it please?
[RegionalSettings]
LanguageGroup=1
Language=1409
UserLocale=1409
Thanks in advance.
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- Windows XP Hardware >> subwoofer/USB problemI have a harman/kardon subwoofer (USB) that I cannot get to play
simultaneously with my laptop speakers - the device is recognized, says
it's working & that the driver cannot be updated because the most current is
already installed. I'd assumed it was just plug & play (as the subwoofer
acted on my older computer), but I couldn't find anything useful in the
troubleshooting window - I can get the sound to go only through the
subwoofer, but not through both the built in & external at the same time.
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- Windows XP Perform Maintain >> Problem with installing an updateHello!
My computer automatically downloads updates from
Microsoft. For the past month, it downloads an update,
but I am unable to install it because I am getting the
following error:
"MDAC Hotfix Installer has encountered a problem and
needs to close."
There is a link to the following Microsoft Knowledge Base
Article:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=837188
Under "Resolution", it says to "Delete the Dahotfix.log
from the C:\WINDOWS folder or the C:\WINNT folder." I am
unable to find this file!
Thanks ahead of time!
Kevin Snow
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- Windows XP Hardware >> Screen behavior or ?Hello Experts,
I'm facing a problem on my PC regarding my screen that flashing,
every 20-30 seconds screen blinks/flashes like doing some refreshing.
For example when open (from tray) the date & time properties (double
click on the clock):
1) picking another month from the combo box
2) waiting 30 seconds
3) automatically returns to current month (March '07)
This blinking is obvious anywhere in windows. Another example is that
the language indicator in taskbar, disappears and then appears again.
Finally, some times when working on MS Access 2003, I'm trying to copy
a value from the datasheet of the table and paste it somewhere else.
Copy fails in first or second time.
I think that some spyware might cause this, but I have installed
a good Anti-Spyware to protect my PC. Of course not all Anti-Spywares
protect us from all spywares. I always keep it up to date.
Can you please help me with that?
Hardware:
- MONITOR: SAMSUNG SyncMaster 173P (Intalled as Digital not Analog)
- RAM: GOLD OCZ (1GB)
- CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo 2,4GHz
- ATI Radeon X1650 (PCI Express)
- MOTHERBOARD: ASUS P5W DH DELUXE
- HDD: WESTERN DIGITAL SATA II
- EXTERNAL HDD: WESTERN DIGITAL MY BOOK ESSENTIAL (USB 2.0 ONLY)
Software installed in my PC:
- Windows XP SP2
- VNC Server 4.0
- SQL Server Developer Edition 2005 SP1 (Full)
- SQL Server Migration Assistant for Access
- MS Access 2003 SP2
- Office 2003 SP2
- IE 7
- Windows live messenger Ver. 8.1.0178.00
- Norton Antivirus 2006 Ver. 12.2.0.13
- Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Professional
- ATI Display Driver Ver. 8.342-070202a1-041238C-ATI
- DirectCD, InCD
- Google Earth
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- Windows XP >> !Perdita X. Dream/Nitt!If you've ever had your head ripped off by Perdita X. Dream/Nitt, Amethyst,
Cassandra or any other of her aliases, just forget about it. She is (as my
sig says), a self-righteous, ruthless net-cop. Now, I'm not saying that her
information is incorrect (and vise-versa), just that she tends to explode on
people a little too much. So just like in the real world, just ignore
people like them, (unless they are actually a cop :-P), make sure that you
are not actually doing something that is horribly wrong, and keep on typing.
BTW, you may find the below interesting:
OP:
my current win xp Pro user interface is in Lithuanian.
how can i change it to English please?
Me:
I heard something about a Multilingual User Interface component for Pro.
It's from MS, but I'm not sure if it's included in Pro.
PXD:
You are wrong (again!), no such thing exists. There is a MUI for Office
(applies to VL only) but not Windows.
Me:
Maybe you need to do a little research (again!)
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/howtobuy/choosing2.asp
it's right down at the very bottom.
Please keep your rudeness and ignorance to yourself.
PXD:
That's for OL/VL only. This http://tinyurl.com/iz3k is a link to at least
three dozen people who agree with me. Guess I'm not the ignorant one, huh?
Me:
Hey ignoranus, thats not what you said. You said, "There is a MUI for Office
(applies to VL only) but not Windows."
It just goes to show, that having more than one opinion is important. It's
great that the OP didn't only hear PXD's 'expert' (her words not mine)
advice. And for someone with an English degree, you would think that she'd
read a little more carefully.
No doubt however, I will receive replies from PXD, Bruce Chambers, and a few
others, saying how I am a 'fuckwit', 'moron', or 'lazy cretin, but read this
for yourself, and make you're own decision.
--
Check out http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com for amazing tweaks and fixes
Member of "Newsgroups are for everyone" (Perdita X. Dream is a
self-righteous, ruthless net-cop too!)
Email address is fake to prevent SPAM.
Real email address is pcyr2000 AT hotmail DOT com
Change the obvious to the obvious.
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- Windows XP >> Restore pointsMy computer has lost all of it's restore points. I create
one and the next day it's gone. I am running xp sp1
Thanks
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- Windows XP Setup >> explorer.exe not respondingI've recently had to repair my Windows XP and now have an annoying
"explorer.exe not responding" error whenever I log out or shut down, making
the process long and tedious (this wasn't present before the repair). Windows
appears to perform normally otherwise, so I'm assuming the error is something
to do with the re-installation. Anyone got any bright ideas?
Thanks in advance.
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- Windows XP Setup >> Error message when deleting partitionHi there
I have Win 98 and Win 2000 on the system. I want to delete
them both and install win XP PRO, but when i get to the
screen where i can delete the selected partition and
press "D" to delete it the following error message comes
up: " Setup is unable 2 perform requested operation on the
selected partition. This partition contains setup files
that are required to complete the installation."
Please help me
I want to delete the other OS before installing Win XP Pro
and not an upgrade.
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- Windows XP >> XP pro and Office2000 ProI have Outlook running on my XP pro box, but I do not get the option
of setting Outlook as my default email manager, all the "Set Programme
Access and Defaults" selection windows offers me is Outlook Express.
It also won't let me put my contacts into the Outlook Address Book -
can anyone help me please?
Until I can sort this configuration, I cannot sync my SonyEricsson
P800 with my Outlook Address Book, Calendar, Task list etc
etc......Hellllpppppp - please.
Thanks,
Trevor
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- Windows XP Support >> Can't get Netmeeting to work, please helpHi,
I have netmeeting installed and the video seems to work fine. However it
says it cannot connect to a directory once I am in. I've had friends
manually type in my IP Address and and it tells them that I am not able to
connect to NetMeeting. Any ideas on how to fix this up? I am at a loss! I
don' t understand why I can't connect to a directory. Thanks.
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- Windows XP Setup >> XP setup failureI just installed a new Intel motherboard (D875PBZ) and P4
processor, with 2 256 dimms (333--these are the correct
dimms for this P4), and I can access the bios, but when I
start the xp install, I get to the agreement page, press
f8 to install, then I get the following error message:
PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA
STOP: 0X00000050 (0XC2F00000, 0X00000000, 0X809013D1,
0X00000000)
I have read the Microsoft Knowledge Base article re:
0x00000050 stop errors, and I have switched the dimms,
but that has not helped. I cannot access the cached
settings in the bios--there doesn't seem to be a way to
do this in this particular bios. Can't get to a dos
prompt, either, with Fix-It Utilities.
Any suggestions??? Thanks in advance.
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- Windows XP Hardware >> Problem with PC cardPlease ignore previous post. I recently installed a Type
II PC card USB 2.0 and FireWire card Bus on my notebook.
I installed all the drivers as instructed, but when I
installed the card, I got a message that said, "This
device can no be started (Code 10)." and when I added a
USB 2.0 Zip drive to the USB port in the card, I got a
message that read "Hi-Speed USB device is plugged into a
non-Hi-Speed bus". I've been to the website of the
card's manufacturer and downloaded the latest drivers,
and I searched without success for applicable updates on
Microsoft's wabsite. I have exhausted all available
options on my computer's troubleshooter without any luck.
Can anyone suggest anything that could help my computer
recognize this card as a Hi-Speed device? And what the
heck does "Code 10" mean?
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Zoltan
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customize >> Windows Update
After doing some tweaking in my WinXP registry and
services, I have effectively disabled windows update. I
consider this a bad thing. If anyone could help me figure
out why the download process initiates up to the point of
the license agreement then stops abruptly, I would be
greatful. Chris
Windows XP464
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Matt
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customize >> Windows Update
sound like you've got the blaster or welchia worm?
"JC" <EMail@HideDomain.com> wrote in message
news:205201c379c6$962e7b60$EMail@HideDomain.com...
> After doing some tweaking in my WinXP registry and
> services, I have effectively disabled windows update. I
> consider this a bad thing. If anyone could help me figure
> out why the download process initiates up to the point of
> the license agreement then stops abruptly, I would be
> greatful. Chris
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- Windows XP Support >> SMART Says Drive is GOOD, but is making noises?According to the S.M.A.R.T. Stats my drive is in VERY GOOD shape.
But the Drive makes noises that are a sign of failure soon.
Here is a Link to the SMART stats for my hard drive, it is a small
graphic.
http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/8227/smartyl0.png
My hard drive is the following:
"Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3320620AS, 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA
3.0Gb/s"
Can anyone help me make sense of the SMART while considering the drive
is making Bad noises?
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- Windows XP Security >> File Sharing won't work - Please help!I am using XP Pro SP2 on a desktop & a laptop connected under a wireless
router. They are both visible from network neighborhood, but when I try to
access the (shared) files & folders from the desktop (or the other way
around), I get the following message:
"\\Laptop is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this
network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you
have access permissions.
Logon Failure: The user has not been granted the requested login type at
this computer"
How do I manage the access permissions for external users?
Jim Berglund
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- Windows XP Setup >> Duplicating OS from one HD to another.I have an XP system that the HD is showing preliminary signs of failing. On
previous versions of non-NT windows I have done the following and would like
to know if this works for XP. I remove hard drive from the system and set
it up in a second system along with the new hard drive. With the setting to
display all files including system files in Windows explorer I copy all
files from the old hard drive to the new hard drive. I then install the new
hard drive in the old system. I would like to do this as opposed to
purchasing a third party product. Will this technique work on XP?
Thanks,
Tom Haughton
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- Windows XP >> How can I recreate prefetching in Windows XP? Please help...Please help me, I deleted contents of Prefetch folder, and then the Prefetch
folder itself. I don't know how to force system to recreate folder and make
it working again - my system is critically slow now. What is responsible for
Prefetch to work in XP? Chksdsk does not work.
Regards
Jared
P.S. I'm sorry for crossposting.
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- Windows XP >> Run Prompt/Address BarI've noticed that I can type things like "My Computer" "Control Panel" and
some other folders into the Run prompt and Address bar in Windows and it
knows what I'm talking about, but if I type in "OFFICE11" or something like
that it doesn't know what I'm asking for. How would I set up some other
folders to be opened that way without typing the whole folder path?
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- Windows XP Security >> Trojan.Bookmarker.GenI am running Norton antivirus 2004, with current
liveupdates installed. Every day when i turn on my PC Nav
advises of this trojan and certain .bin and .dll files
were 'unable to repair'. When i run a full system scan
Nav reports no infected files. Does anybody know whats
going on? I have followed Nav removal instructions
several times.
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- Windows XP Security >> My Identity stollenI'm the Administrator/User1 of my computer running Win XP Home. There were
no other users until a day ago, when I inadvertently, while in the Safe Mode
at the Security Tab, granted a Full access to <user1.YOUR-xxxx>.
Now I have a new <System> folder for <User1.YOUR-xxx> in the Documents and
Settings. Every time on a start up, machine signs on automatically to this
folder. As a result, I cannot get an easy access to all my old files stored
in the <User1> folder. Outlook Express 6 "does not see" the old mailboxes
and messages, the Address book is empty and so on. The <User1.YOURxxx>
folder cannot be deleted because it is a system folder (that what the
message says when I try do delete it!).
So, here are my questions: How do I get my <User1> identity back? How to
delete the <User1.YOUR-xxx> folder?
But this is not the only problem I'm heaving now. In the past, on a start up
in the Safe Mode, there was an option to continue as Administrator or as
User1. Not any more... Looks like I still have the Admin privileges, but
without this option on the start up.
Question: How to get back the start up options for Admin or User in the Safe
mode?
TIA
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Ilya Zeldes
Fort Myers, Florida, USA
ILYAZ@EARTHLINK.remove.spam.NET
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- Windows XP Setup >> Error during install, system stuck in loopI have a friend's laptop (hp omnibook 5700ct) which I'm
trying to fix. She tried to upgrade from Win98 to XP but
it get's an error during the 'installing windows' phase,
something to do with 'an invalid character was found in
text content'. When you click close after the system log
window it reboots and goes through the same thing like
it's stuck in a loop. It doesn't seem to read the cd or
floppy drives, or at least I can't get it to. I wanted to
just wipe the slate clean and reformat the hard drive but
I can't get to a DOS prompt to do it. If I can get past
this problem, I will actually need to install an older
version of Windows in order to run my older DOS based
salon program. It doesn't do so well with the newer
windows/DOS versions. Can you help?
Shanda
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- Windows XP >> Windows Installer IssueHello,
Each time I try to install a program an unrelated MSI package is
invoked (in this case Turbo Tax) saying it cannot located TURBOTAX.MSI
and directs me to point to the location of file.
I've uninstalled the TurboTax program yet the message remains. Is the
installer corrupted?
Does the installer have a cache that can be cleared?
Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks.
-Dave
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- Windows XP MovieMaker >> MM2Help! I've been going in circles now for hours. After
editing my movie, I try to save to "my computer" but, the
program just freezes, no error messages, nothing! I've
tried to reload, same reaction.
Paul
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