windows updates stop shutdown
when trying to shut down my laptop (windows XP pro ) windows starts a couple of updates. After an hour or so it is still on the first of the two updates so I have to ignore the warning not to turn it...
View ArticleWindows flashing when the mouse moves in XP
I have a client dropping off a Toshiba laptop later today with Windows XP on it. I've recently done a wipe and reload to remove some viruses and spyware. After a few days of looking I was able to get...
View ArticleCannot ping network due to secondary nic, can I force traffic with a static...
I am puzzled why this doesn't work. I have a XP machine with two network cards. Nic 1 runs to my lan: 192.168.1.21 255.255.254.0 gateway: 192.168.1.1Nic2: this runs directly to a device with a hard...
View ArticleThe RPC server is unavailable. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800706BA)
Hello All,We have a large number of workstations in our Active Directory environment that are running Windows XP SP3. Some reporting and monitoring tools in our environment use WMI to query the...
View ArticleLocking Workstations running Windows XP SP3 on a Windows 2003 Server Domain
Hi,We have around 100 XP workstations on a 2003 Domain. I have group policy applying on some of these power users that their PCs lock automatically after 10 minutes and I'm going to apply it to the...
View ArticleUSB Thumb drive not detected on one PC
I have got this USB thumb drive that is being detected every where else but this one PC. On that same PC, it can detect other USB drives, so I am not sure what is going on. I have tried removing all...
View ArticleMany events - Success Audit Event 552
Hello,On one of our workstations, we are seeing many Event 552 events being logged. I understand what the purpose of these events are, but can someone explain a reason for which hundreds of these are...
View ArticleWorkgroup no longer accessible
I have a workgroup with 2 XP Pro SP3 machines, one W7 Pro, one Server 2003. The workgroup used to work just fine.Now, no one, not even the server can access the workgroup. I do not know what changed....
View Articleinstall lost program file
I have windows xp and during a restore it lost the WININET.dll file--I can start in safe mode but how do I restore this file?
View ArticlePDF process returning Zero MainWindowHandle
Hi all,I am having an issue with PDF process that returns zero as its MainWindowHandle. When I substitute an MS Word file for a PDF file in the same code, for instance, I get a proper...
View ArticleXP Folder Menu Options Under File > New
I do not find options for file types like Excel or Word among the listed options under File > New from the menu in a folder of Windows Explorer. Where do I change/add file types to this?Thanks for...
View ArticleWindows Xp Media Center Edition Black Screen
I have a dell inspiron 9300 laptop and about a year ago when i turned it on it wouldn't boot up and this week i started looking at it again because i have some knowledge on repairing computers and i...
View ArticleInternet Problems
I've finished making my first computer from scratch and started putting windows xp on it just for now. I want to hook my internet up to it which consists of my router and modem. No matter what i do...
View ArticleWindows XP Wide Screen Aspect Monitors, Windows Themes
Hi, Windows XP SP3 English: A client had a standard 4:3 monitor fail and replaced it with a wide-screen monitor. Problem is installed Windows Themes do not seem to support wide screen format monitors...
View ArticleRemotely enabling Simple File Sharing and opening up File and Printer Sharing.
Hello and Good Day,I am working on rolling out Vipre Enterprise. We are a novell network, with about 70 remote workgroups, so no AD. I have ran into a bit of a snag. I need to disable Simple File...
View ArticleXP SP3 fails - lack of diskspace? "Set up requires 4Mb of space..."
Slightly confused by this message. Have tried many times. Disk has been cleaned. There is 30Gb free on the drive. There are many $ntUninstall folders - wondering if there is a limit to these or...
View ArticleWinXP SP3 BSOD: 0x0000007E (0xC0000005 0xBAA58756 0xBACC342C 0xBACC3128)
POST BSOD:0x0000007E (0xC0000005 0xBAA58756 0xBACC342C 0xBACC3128) This is the stop code i recieve after installing service pack 3 on my system, all of the latest drivers where installed, if i...
View Articlemtp to usb problems
Updated windows media to latest version, installed microsoft mtp kit, installed the kindle driver and the usb port only sees the kindle fire hd 8.9 for a second then this message comes up on pc "Cannot...
View ArticleWindows XP attempts connect to old server over port 139 and port 445 when...
We brought down an old Windows NT server and then started having problems with computers with Windows xp on the network having mometary lock-ups when opening my computer.After doing a netstat -an it...
View ArticleCorrupt DLL files and SFC problems
Hello everyone. For sometime now I have had problems from time to time with DLL errors and Windows Explorer closing on me on my old HP Desktop PC running Windows XP Media Center with SP3. I first...
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