Hot Solutions

I have a user that has had a windows xp workstation for years. We are running WINDOWS 2008R2 servers in our domain environment. Yesterday he picked up some kind of virus, then kind that tries to sell you a AV software, but is really a virus in...

I have been seeing notices pop up on my desk top computer from Compucare, as follows:
CompuCARE - chrome Edition  -   Important Update Available  -  You should consider installing this update  in order to keep your computer running smooth. ...

Hi,
I am trying to run a game on windows xp, it is giving me this error
the procedure entry point memmove_s could not be located in the dynamic link library msvcrt.dll
Please advise

Greetings,
I'm receiving the below message in Microsoft Deployment Toolkit when running a Standard Client Task Sequence for an OS Refresh.

"Dirty Environment found
An existing ins deployment was found but is not in an expected state.would...

I've installed latest wuin xp and office 2007 updates/patched

Application log:


Event Type:      Error
Event Source:      Microsoft Office 12
Event Category:      None
Event ID:      5000
Date:            2/8/2012
Time:            3:05:24 PM
User:            N/A
Computer:...

Hi,
Quick summary is that user had a virus. Could not see files on their Windows XP desktop although could still get online.

Normal practise for use, just remove hard drive, backup image, run scans externally.
We run things like Malware...

Dear Experts

Related question

http://www.experts-exchange.com/OS/Microsoft_Operating_Systems/Windows/XP/Q_27706221.html

I can not find  

Security Update for Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 on Windows XP, Server 2003, Vista, Server...

I would like to block an IP address in my routing table. . how can I best do this?

I know there is a command route, but I am not sure how to use it. Say the EXTERNAL ip address I would like the xp box to be prevented to going to is 12.12.12.12

I had installed the SCCM client a few Panasonic Toughbooks as part of a test to check if we can get the new computers managed as soon as they are joined to our new domain.

The way I did the client install is by copying all the following...

Hello and thanks for everyone's help in advance.

My laptop has caught the following virus and I can't seem to get rid of it.  

Trojan Horse PSW.Banker6.UHV

I ran AVG Internet Security 2012 in safe mode and it is still showing up.  

My...

Just installed a new monitor on an older Dell Optiplex PC, 20", native res is 1600x900.  I installed the drivers and rebooted, that resolution is not given as an option.  I installed power strip, created the custom res, rebooted and it is still...

I need a list of all of the Identifying characterizes that uniquely identify a file.

I've heard that one of these is the MD5 checksum (or something like that).

What other unique identifiers are contained within files that can be used to...

Hi Experts.  I am working on a computer that at first, the scans showed 3 trojan infections that were removed by RogueKiller.  After running additional scans with OTL and RogueKiller, they show no infection.  When I review the log files, I see...

Security updates for MS .NET Framework 1.1 SP1 (KB2656370) and (KB2656353) failed to successfully install.  Only trick I know to clear these jams to to look in programs installed, enable Windows updates and uninstall the specific updates that...

Hi,
I'm running a Win XP Pro SP3 box.

When windows loads, I get stop error 0000007B.
(0xF78AA524, 0xC0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)
No other info is given.

I think it may be a corrupted MBR???  I had to fix the MBR via Recovery...

Running Windows XP SP3 on VMware Player v4.0.2 b591240
Ubuntu 10.04
Windows Installer v4.5.6001.22159

Question: Can you tell me how to Uninstall the Windows Installer manually using the Registry, so I can then do a clean reinstall of it?
...

A client brought a laptop to me and said that the symptoms were that she couldn't send emails from one of the offices she freelances out of. The IT tech for the office told her her computer had a virus that was bringing the network down. When she...

Having another computer with SuperAntiSpyware on it .. Tonight doing update and cleaning, the computer booted and came into Windows XP BUT the monitor is still blank and not on.  It is a digital Samsung monitor..  

The hard drive light is...

We have some third-party Citrix servers we connect to via an ICA file that includes three TcpBrowserAddress fields consisting of two different server names and one IP address.

The app in question is being moved to some new Citrix servers in a...

Greetings Experts,

I hope that this third time trying to post this is the charm. I have a user that is getting a pop-up that is requesting activation of Windows Warding System. My gut tells me that it's Malware but I wanted to throw it out...

Hi,
One of our users updated their PC yesterday and after the reboot everytime he opens excel he gets the following error message with the title Micrososft Visual Basic;
"Compile error in Hidden module: modMain"
I have read that it's an Adobe...

Can I grant a user a Rename permission and deny the Delete permission at the same time?

I have downloaded netnbeans 7.1.1
I want to do some mobile pgramming with Java ME using netbeans.

I am confused on how to add J2ME to Netbeans, is this it below?

http://netbeans.org/community/releases/36/J2ME_Support.html

I dont get how...

I just bought and installed a Radeon HD 6850, but no matter what I do, the driver won't install properly.  I've tried removing all old drivers and installing, but it still installs with an error (or warning) and when I click the report, the error...

I am trying to run rsop.msc on an XP machine.

Each time I run it it loads up fine but then it gives an error:

"The following error occured in C:\WINDOWS\Inf\AER_1044.ADM on line 189.

Error 64 Help string specified more than once.

The...

I'm working on a Win XP Pro system that got infected with a rootkit.

I performed the folowing:
1. Ran RogueKiller
2. Ran TSD Killer
3. Ram ComboFix

Browsers run properly. No provy servers found, no popups being displayed.
ComboFix...

I need to get the command line command to shut down Win 7 OS WITHOUT installing the Windows updates first.

On a recent reboot, this pc blue-screened with the following:

Stop: c0000218 {Registry File Failure} The registry cannot load the hive (file): \SystemRoot\System32\Config\SOFTWARE or its log or alternate

I found a solution on Micorsoft's...

Just moved users over to Windows Server 2008R2 from Windows Server 2003. When I went to run remote desktop on the user's computer (they are running Windows XP SP3), I get the following error when trying to log into the server via Remote Desktop...

how do i print from iPad to a printer connected to Windows XP?

Printing to a Canon Imagerunner 2525

I use printopia on my Mac at home, but my office computer is a PC. Is there an equivalent to Printopia for the PC?

Hi,

We tried setting Group Policy to map the drives for users on our network - this was so we could get rid of the logon scripts which were initially mapping drives for users.

We had problems with users drives not always mapping correctly,...

Hi,

We are trying to get a local app (on an XP PC in either IE or FireFox) to initiate from a browser.

We have a link on the webpage, coded like this:

"file://localhost/C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Richard/Desktop/LSStext/LSSRobot.fp7";...

My System
My machine is XP SP3 running in a VMware Player virtual machine. The main OS is Ubuntu Linux 10.04 installed on a 2-disk mirrored (not striped) RAID.

Background
I deleted a user from Windows User Manager then found out I needed the...

User reported a PC that takes 20 mins to boot up and start Outlook, Bloomberg and IE8.

When the PC is past bootup (e.g. 20 mins after boot up), the performance is fine i.e. HDD LED blinks only when there is activity, open/close Outlook, Word,...

Is there anyway to take a screenshot of a citrix session from the PC of which I am connecting to citrix from? If so can you detail how? For info the system I am using to access Citrix is windows XP

We have Outlook Express on an up to date and secure Windows XP box.  

This issue just occurred out of the box yesterday...no new software or changes to speak of...

In Outlook Express, if you send a piece of mail without an attachment, it...

I have Sage 50 2010 installed on a PC, with the Sage data on a network share.

When logging on as the user, opening sage results in "waiting to open file setup.dta" forever.

-Have opened Sage on another PC and it works fine
-Have logged on...

Ok. Here is the issue. I've searched several solutions and haven't been able to figure out the problem.
 
We are running ESXi 4.1 and I'm using the VMware vCenter converter version 4.2.0. I have sysprep setup for Windows XP SP3 (all our XP...

Hello,

I am about to deploy a test virtual network with VMware ESXi server.

What are best practices for building and deploying a 100 virtual XP workstations as quickly as possible?

My conventional method of creating a new copy of a VM...

Dear Experts

I have more than 5 computers and  I am updating all of them, but I do not want to use "Windows Update"

I am collecting all the hotfix in a CD

But KB931125 for XP is drive me crazy, I do know if I installed or not in all...

We are having to connect to a remote server to send sensitive information to a remote site. The data CANNOT be sent unencrypted... ever.

Problem is... the VPN connection we have to that system drops occasionally for reasons we cannot figure...

I am runing MS MAP tool to gather softeare inventory for my domain. It runn successfully but most of the PCs it failed to gather the information and giving an error msg "failed connection timeout". I have attached the screeen for the dialog...

Not sure the difference of fixmbr and fixboot. From my understanding, FIXBOOT writes a new boot sector onto the system partition; The FIXMBR command lets you repair a master boot record (MBR)

MBR is not located in boot sector? if I run...

We migrated our CA to Windows 2008 R2 some time ago as part of our migration to Windows 2008.  As part of the migration the old Windows 2003 CA was removed from our environment.

Today our Office Communicator 2007 clients started having...

I want to run a batch file from Group Policy that uses the Robocopy command. Do I need to install Robocopy on each desktop or just the server?

Thank you,
Lori

I would like to write something in AutoIT for IE that would refresh a page at a predetermined interval but without taking focus off the window you're in. For example, if I want www.yahoo.com to be refreshed every 10 seconds, but if I'm typing in...

Hi All

Can someone please explain how to create simple Vb-script to copy files from a network drive to users application data folder.

for eg -

source file - \\server_name\templates\normal.dotm

destination folder - c:\documents and...

The company is currently running an off site hosted Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 for our email.  End users upgraded to Microsoft Outlook 2010 as their email client.  This issue has to do with one user specifically with Outlook 2010 on one...

I am in the process of expanding my knowledge on Citrix and am currently stumbling on a Streaming VDI issue. My layout is as followed I have one NAS attached to a Xenserver 6.0 then a separate NAS attached to my Provisioning server. Every time I...

when i plug the ipod, immediately it starts backup process..

i am not able to cancel or skip it..

where is it putting the backup in? (directory in xp)

is it possible to avoid that step all together?

Hi,

I have just installed a second hard drive on windows 2003 server on a mirror raid 1 enabled. I can check the status of the raid on computer management & everything is correctly done. How can i receive an automatic notification if one...

We have one Dell Optiplex 780, I need to replace the data drive as only 300Gb and it is full.  Dell told me that the largest hard drive I can put into this machine is a 500Gb drive.  This sounds ridiculous.

Can't I simply purhcase a SATA 300...

My wife sprayed some Windex counter spray on the keyboard and then this started happening.  
I have a Macbook that will only boot into Windows.  I also have to attach a separate keyboard to type in the password.  The caps stay on if I don't use...

How do I switch off the warning in IE8.0.6 which says "Do you want to view only the webpage content that was delivered securely"?

Dear Experts

I am downloading all the hotfix offline I am not using Windows Update, and I do not want to use it

I can not install KB968930 the extension is .msu a msg box appears
"Windows cannot open the file:"
"File:...

Hi all


When installing xp i press the shift and f10 key to get into command promt. i cant change from  D:\windows\ system 32 to c:\windows. What is the command for change to c:\windows

Hello all, an alert from avast! antivirus popped up on a client PC and says "Rootkid Found" but the file name is pointing to MBR: \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE0\PARTITION3 and the action to take is Delete Now or Ignore. I am fairly certain that on my one...

I'm re-installing an old Dell XPS Laptop with Windows, and I'm still missing a few drivers.  Determining the correct driver for some of the devices is easy (ex. Ethernet Controller).  Some aren't so easy (ex. PCI Device).  I often take a look at...

My pc is an HP DX2300 running Windows XP pro.  
Windows Essentials is installed on this pc  It reports all updates are installed.
So, I am confused.  The error message  (see below) is displayed many times in the Event viewer.

What is this...

Hi everyone, I'm just doing some planning for our migration to server 2008.  Currently we have server 2003, and an AD domain with XP machines.  Currently we use roaming profiles.  Reason being is that if we have to redo the machine, it makes it...

my laptop is running win 7 but after installing some anti virus virgin media software the problem seemed to have stemmed from there!!

issue:  recieving 'bsod' showing some single error

resolution:

- i attempted to run a previous disc...

Windows XP SP3 Running in a VMware Player virtual machine on Ubuntu 10.04.

Several versions of .NET installed: (according to Add or Remove Programs)
2.0 Service Pack 2
3.0 Service Pack 2
3.5 SP1
4 Client Profile
4 Extended

Problem...

I have a computer that is not doing anything, I recieved it dead in the water, I tried on battery and on 2 different power supplies and neither have done anything. I tried reseating the ram and I tried hooking the hard drive to a different...

I have a laptop configured with a VPN connection to my job. I am able to connect just fine to my job location from my home using the VPN connection.

However, I am not able to use "Remote Desktop" to connect to my actual work desktop computer....

We have internal and external users on Lync and they have no problems.  Only one user tries to connect with Lync and gets this error message:  

Cannot sign in to Lync
Cannot sign in because the server is temporarily unavailable.

I've tried...

Hello,

I have some PDF files that contain sensitive information.  I would like to transfer these to my sister who lives out of state.  She does not want me to use email because she uses free email (yahoo, etc.) and does not want the file on...

IESHWIZ Download Page and InstructionsI am trying to customize the appearance of one particular folder (already given the system attribute). Most of my desktop.ini file works fine, but I can't figure out or find the property name that changes the...

Environment:

Windows XP machine with an HP LJ 1022 installed locally and shared.  

Windows 7, 64-bit machine on the network.

From the windows 7 machine, when I try to add the shared printer on the XP machine, I get an error about there...

We have 3 Dell Precision T3400 PC's of different specifications but OS is XP Pro 64bit, All were really quick until we upgraded Kaspersky AV from 6.0. to Kaspersky Endpoint security ver 8.0.

On these three PC's (thankfully so far no others) in...

I need to create a CD that AutoRuns a HTML file when inserted into the computer.  I need this to work on both MACs and Windows operating systems.  

I currently have an AutoRun that works with windows, but not MACs:
File name:  Autorun.inf...

Hey guys,

I have been working on a script to back up data to a zip file for recovery later. Although I have found most of the information I need online, I am having an issue finding a complete answer to my problem.

I have this bit of code:...

I have a PC that I added a hard drive controller to.  It asks for Activation now, and then logs off.  Safe Mode will not work.

I have access to a Windows PE boot disk and a registry editor.  Is there any way I can reset the activation?

I need to know how to set up Server 2008 R2 & Windows XP 64-bit to automatically logon using an Active Directory username and password.

After these computers automatically logon to the domain, I have already run the command below which has...

I have a user who recently got a virus (one of those ones that keep popping up saying your computer is infected, and click here to buy the virus removal software) I cleaned the virus and now scans are coming up clean, but the shutdown and restart...

I need to recover missing emails from an Inbox.dbx that has grown over 2GB.  Please see the attached for details.

Can you please advise?

Thanks!

Base Machine: Ubuntu Linux 10.04
VMware Player
Virtual Machine: Win XP SP-3
Canon MF4370DN Multi-Function Printer/Scanner/Copier

Problem
System Restore contains multiple restore points for a printer driver being installed.
This is...

I have a windows xp pro computer that is part of a Windows Server 2008 domain. I have several desktop shortcuts on my PCs desktop. Yesterday the compnay owner decided to rearrange the files and folders on the server. Next thing I know my desktop...

how to configure hyperterminal on windows 7 with ip

I am replacing a windows XP machine with Windows 2008.
I have lot of scheduled task in Windows XP SP2 machine and I want to copy them to windows 2008 machine.
How can I do that without re creating the tasks in windows 2008 machine.

Thank you.

Hi,

I have a user with a bunch of Zone.Identifier files on their local HDD under Win XP Pro which I cannot delete.

I have searched and read-up on what they are, and how they arose, and I understand all that, but the advice on getting rid of...

Hello All,

Is there a way to install another web browser or upgrade the current web browser in Windows XP Embedded? The Version of Windows XP embedded is at Service pack 2 and is running internet explorer 6.0. I've tried installing IE8 and...

Does anyone know how to Backup and restore a SID in Windows XP?  I am trying to set up a Virtual desktop environment and need to create a SID for each desktop only once and save the SID so I can restore again later if I need to rebuild the image.

I am trying to install activeidentity software (smart card reader) on a Windows XP Virtual machine on Windows 7.  I install the software, but it prompts me for drivers for "activcard virtual pc sc 01 driver" .  I googled the drivers and it took...

I have a user who can't open any emails that have SMIME content or signatures.  No one else in the company is having the problem.  I cannot locate anything that she  has changed as far as security goes.  When I look at a reading pane or Preview...

i built a new virtual machine on my esxi host, its a windows xp machine, when i try to copy files to/from network locations, or from the internet, i get around 1kb.
the esxi host is fine, but the guest is the issue.
other guests that are...

I'm having an issue fixing a laptop.

I get the STOP 51 error (REGISTRY_ERROR) when it boots into Windows XP.

Here is what I have already tried.

**Check Disk on slave computer (No issues)

**Manual System Restore (no effect)

**Repair...

We have a client that used an Symbol LS1902T-1000 barcode scanner in their PS/2 port with QB POS.

We just replaced their computer (used Dell PC with new XP load) and purchased a PS2 to USB adapter since the new computer didn't have a PS2 port....

Something I haven't seen before

Compaq PC.  ASUS Puffer2 motherboard

DVD and DVD rewriter.  Both drives are detected in the BIOS.

Drives do not appear in Windows Explorer

Drives do not appear in Disk Management

Device management...

Hi Experts,

I am currently using the below script to deploy desktop icons to a mixture of PCs at my clients school via GPO. The server is 2008 and the PCs are winxp and win7. The winxp are using office 2003 and the win7 are using office2010....

I have a batch script that runs cacls commands to reset permissions on files in the system32 directory of an Win XP domain computer.   The script is run as a machine startup script from an Active Directory GPO.   The script is not working...

Hi

I have Windows XP SP3 workstation which is part of the domain. Users complained that this pc is slow. So, I have noticed that svchost.exe process is using around 50% of CPU all the time. The workstation had recently problems with applying...

In environments that use SCCM and currently XP as the client but will in future be Windows 7 - we have a HR policy that says users can only take data onto encrypted USB. Is there any technical way to enforce this? I.e. an approved model of...

Not quite sure what is happening.
I am creating a web page in Dreamweaver cs3  .asp
When I run the page in Dreamweaver F12   I am getting 2 Spotify labels pop up as per the attached image.

Can anyone say why this is an how I can prevent this...

Very often I can't cut/paste or delete a simple windows folder because it reports  folder or file is open in another program....when I have closed every file and folder and any visible open programs. I have to reboot my PC in order to delete the...

Hello
I have a Win7 PC with a shared Folder.

I have four PCs with Win XP prof from which I want to map a Network path to this folder. I do this in the Windows Explorer > Tools > Map Network Drive...

On the first PC I can map the drive and...

I am getting the following error for only one user on only one computer onto which he logs.

The folder is configured to be redirected from <\\mysvr\folder redirect\jdoe\desktop> to <\\MYSVRDC1\folder redirect\jdoe\Desktop>.
The following...

I know that there has been much written about how to access a printer's current status/error state via WMI. Having written the code to do this I've seen the limitation of it myself (i.e. getting 'unknown' states when I can see the printer is...

One of my co-workers does all of her work from home using an XP home computer named CPUAtHome.

She gets corporate data from OurDomain using a VPN  network share that is mapped to the s: drive.

She has two user ids, CPUAtHome\Jane which is...