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An XP Pro SP3 client on a Windows Server 2003 SP2 domain is unable to process GPOs at login due to Event ID 1053, "Windows cannot determine the user or computer name. (The RPC protocol sequence is not supported. ). Group Policy processing...

I just created a group policy to add websites to my trusted sites.
Computer Config --> Admin templates -->Windows components --> internet explorer --> internet control panel  --> security page  --> site to site assignment list and I added the...

I try to create a batch file to run under Windos XP in a command window (or just double clicking the BAT file).

The intention is to take all files with a given extension, concatenate them and add some extra information "between the files". To...

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I have a client who cannot print to either his local or any LAN printers as the error stating the spoolsv.exe has stopped (and it has) and that the offender is ZSR.dll.  I found a bit of info here, but none of it relates to my issue. ...

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Ijust installed Win XP SP2 on a  "no name" brand computer that has an Intel (R) awrdacpi motherboard; the problem is that I only see 4-bit screen res and it has no sound.
Can someone help me get the drivers?

Thank you,

I have a batch file that automatically changes all the LAN settings for IE to point to our corporate proxy.  The only problem is, I can't find a key for the "Automatically Detect Settings" option, so if anyone inadvertantly checks it, my batch...

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i have dell inspiron 1525 laptop which has a default vista on it, i have formatted the disk and have installed xp on it.
so have i have installed, few drivers from this location
...

I have a windows XP machine that is joined to a domain.  Yesterday the user wasn't able to get their outlook connected to exchange.  So I tried to disjoin and rejoin the computer to the domain.  When i tried to rejoin the computer i was unable...

I am trying to delete a bunch of files (a profile folder, actually), but they are in use.  "Cannot delete ntuser.dat: It is being used by another person or program.  Close any programs that might be using the file and try again."  [OK]

And if...

Over the past months we have had multiple network issues on the server CT-EDM-DC-01. We have completely ruled out the entire network and have found that the server is the main culprit. The problems include but are not limited to:
- During peak...

Dear Experts

I can not find Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable - x86 Version 9.0.30729.17
Can someone please point me where to download at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/

Thank you very much in advance

Regards,
Antonio...

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I would like to update all the clients on the domain to IE8, at the moment the batch file I am using runs it in silent mode but IE8 requires a patch which when installed needs a restart, then i can install IE8.

So is there anyway to...

Administrative Tools> Services > Print Spooler   Status ("Started", or blank after failure)  Startup type (Automatic)
"Operation could not be completed.   Print spooler service is not running" after attempt to add a printer.  Status goes blank...

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I'm trying to automate the PASSWORD INPUT in a batch file that uses the RUNAS command to cpoy some files

I would like to find a way to stop it from asking for the password and continue running  teh rest of the commands.

here's a...

At the command prompt (Windows XP system), if I type in the command:

net use x: /delete /y

it will delete the drive mapping, but only if not in use.

is there a way to force the deletion *even if files are in use*??
(i know this can lead...

We get this error on a workstation:

EventID 40961
Type: Warning
Source: LSASRV
SPNEGO (Negotiator)

The Security System could not establish a secured connection with the server ldap/PERSVR03.pmom.local/pmom.local@pmom.local.  No...

Hi Experts,

I have been working on Defragmnting the hard drive remotely to Windows XP Pro workstations, and so far I am able to schedule it on the local machine using this command:

C:\WINDOWS\system32\defrag.exe c: -f

it is working...

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I am using XP SR-3 and attempting to log onto a Terminal Services Remote Desktop which I know is configured and working properly.

When I go to the site, I receive the following error message:
======================
ActiveX control...

We use terminal services extensively.

Just rolled out the SP3 patch for XP, and have discovered that it 'upgrades' the RDP client.  A side effect of this is that now whenever someone connects to a terminal server, they are getting a warning...

A dell dimension 3100 came in with the zero.access rootkit.

A combination of the rogue killer, tdss killer, hitman pro, malwarebytes, and combofix knocked down the main infection, but there are still problems, as it seems to have a lingering...

Google G Mail.  I am signing in correctly but Google does not recognize entry to my G Mail.. Tried changing password and user name and now its really screwed up.  Need clarity to correct.

Hello,
My query is regarding my operating system,
I installed windows XP prof. some time back in my pc,
I became the administrator, and made another user in it,
The problem is, I forgot the password of my administrator account,
I did not...

I need to run the network control panel as an administrator. The local user is not a local admin.

Right-clicking the control panel icon doesn't give a "runas" option.

Right-clicking the "network connections" icon doesn't give a "runas"...

Everytime i open a file (usually a .BAT or .VBS) from a network path i get a Security Warning that ask me if i want to run this file. Is there a way to remove this security warning and just have the computer run the application using Group Policies?

I was installing Windows XP upgrades when my PC did a reboot, but I got the message: stop c000021a {fatal system error} the windows logon process system process terminated unexpectedly. I can F8 to the safe mode selection screen, but none of the...

Original load is Vista; I ripped out and installed XP Pro SP2; ran Thinkvantage System Update but still unable to resolve unknown hardware within device manager.  2 devices showing: "biometric processor" and "unknown hardware"  is this only...

Under Device Manager there is a device called SM Bus Controller under Other devices.  It is currently disabled.  Do I need to enable it?  Where do I get the driver?  I did not see this device until I replaced the hard drive on the computer a few...

I am using .bat files for sartup scripts to connect network drives, and I just recently started getting this error when I try to run the scripts on login.

System error 64 has occurred. The specified network name is no longer available.
...

When I use Internet Explorer 8 to open http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/, I get a red window and the message  This website has been reported as unsafe
ccollomb.free.fr
We recommend that you do not continue to this website.
   Go to my home...

Over the last two weeks I've been trying to get some new HP Laserjet 4015 printers setup.

I've had many issues but this thread relates to the fact that the printer loves to print from tray 1 despite asking it to not print from Tray 1.
We have...

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I am looking for a command line command that will let me change a service from Disabled to Manual or AUtomatic.

I have searched Google but can not find the answer. Does anyone know how to do this?

Thank you

I'm looking for a solution to open the "Computer Management" MMC panel (compmgmt.msc) directly to a remote system from the command line... that is, without having to open the panel then choose the menu "Action"|"Connect to another computer..."
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I have resolved a problem with the group policies on the server but I still have the same problem on the workstations.
When I run gpresult, I get the following error;
INFO: The user "DOMAIN\user" does not have RSOP data
When I run rsop.msc, I...

Most of our users have Windows XP laptops.
Our usual practice is to synchronise user's personal drives (mapped network drive P:) so that they are available offline.
When users connect in from home, they do so via a Cisco VPN client.
As users...

I am getting the following error when I try and delete certain files in the "My Documents" folder:

“Error Deleting File or Folder
Cannot delete <file>: It is being used by another person or program.
Close any programs that might be using the...

What is the easiest way to get all necessary drivers for a Toshiba Satellite laptop? I lost the recovery disk that came with the computer and I need all the drivers and utilities that came on the recovery disk. I already installed the actual OS...

I received an e-mail in Outlook Inbox from USPS Service <status_item@usps.com> with the attachment Label_Parcel_USPS_13-114.zip

However, the ip address in the e-mail message header is 192.244.203.83

How can I find out "who is" or "what is"...

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I had to to do install REPAIR on my Legal OEM windows xp home sp3 Laptop.

Everything went fine and system boots up fine to the welcome screen only.

Then I see my 2 User accounts and when I try to LOG IN I get the message telling me...

Hi,

Been working on this for over a week and really stuck now.  Any help would be very much appreciated!

I've just rolled out 22 new XP Professional SP2 laptops for a customer and, as Service Pack 3 RTM had just been released, I thought it...

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I have a problem in my Flash Disk. When I plug it in the USB port, my PC detects it and I can see removable disk (G:) in My Computer. When I double click and open the disk, I can open it normally. BUT...

1. When I try to delete...

System:
Windows 2003 server recently upgraded from w2k and up to date on patches.
Remote desktop user with win xp sp2.

When he logs in and starts a particular application and selects the help, the help file opens and an image (part of the...

This happened after spyware/virus removal.
Network card is an Intel(R) Pro/100 VE  diagnostics test ok.

I have performed the following attempts to repair
1. remove and re-install NIC
2. delete registry keys for WinSock and WinSock2
3....

Since getting a new Dell 5400 workstation a few weeks ago with a PERC 6/i hardware RAID controller, Windows keeps giving the following error:  Controller ID:0 Battery/charger problems detected; SOH bad.  I have spoken with an experienced...

I just want to confirm the windows license code in the registry . i have checked in the local
machine/ microsoft/windowsnt and found the oem number and user and other info but
not the cd key number

I'm writing a windows batch script to uninstall some software.  I need to be able to find the GUID with my script.

I can find it other ways outside of the script but I want to know how to do it within the script.

I looked in...

I was installing a wireless router for a friend last night and had it connected to two computers, one laptop and one PC. When I typed 192.168.0.1 into the address bar on the laptop I received the typical username/password prompt typical of a...

Hello,
I'm looking for a way to extract Installshield cab files.

I've got two cab files, data1.cab and data2.cab and the content file data1.hdr.
I already tried the following methods to extract those files:

- ZipScan:
I chose data1.cab...

I just promoted 2 new domain controllers and demoted the existing DC,  each had DNS installed but not configured before the promotion,  The DC's promoted fine but DNS would not replicate the new Dns Servers.  DNS entries were made for Primary DNS...

Any know of an easy way to to view a remote computer's IE History. We are seeing some discrepancies on our CensorNet server and it seeming as though some of our clients are bypassing the proxy or some of their traffic just isn't be registered. We...

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...

Alright this one has baffled me for quite some time. It has to do with the Task Managers reporting of the pagefile usage.

Ok I know what the Official MS line says about this but what MS says seems incorrect. No way is the Kernel Paged memory...

Where can I download the Sharp Desk program from?

I have performed many google searches but none of the links take me to an actual legitimate website where I can download the Sharp Desk program from.

Please provide me with an exact URL...

I have 50+ desktops running on the same network, but most of this type laptop IBM ThinkPad T43 with Broadcom Gigabits Nic, are receiving this error message and GPO processes is aborted.
This laptop is geting DHCP ip and DNS registered on...

In previous versions of Windows you could type in "sysconfig" in the RUN dialog box found in the start menu... and it would bring up a window with "Autoexec.bat, config.sys, win.ini, (and another file I forget)" and now in XP it no longer works ?...

I am going to lose my mind over this...Someone help!!! Please..I keep getting this error

Generic Host Process for Win32 Services has encountered a problem and needs to close.  We are sorry for the inconvenience.

szAppName : svchost.exe...

I've been getting random restarts (1-3 times per week) of my Windows XP system with Event ID 1003 and error code 100000d1. In researching this problem a number of people listed bad RAM as a possibility, so I ran Memtest86 overnight with no errors...

Due to some reasons, I want to rename a Windows Service. I do not have access to the original installer which was used to install the service. Is there a way to rename the service which has already been installed?

I wiped an ASUS p4p800 system and re-installed XP from a XP-PRO with SP3 CD-rom.  The Realtek sound driver would not install with the error message "driver missing"
The UAA files from KB 888111 are not on the hard drive.  According to KB946480...

I would like to discover machine details using a tools (PlateSpin PowerP2V) that is based on WMI, but always i receive an error that the "Access is denied".
The machine that I would like discover as Win XP SP1 and Win XP SP2 the other, Firewall...

Created user account on the domain named Scanner.  We've enabled (PC)SMB shares on each computer (c:\scan), assigned the share permissions to Everyone (full), and Scanner (full).  From the NTFS Share we've configured the account Scanner (Full)...

How to delete a specific cached domain group policy setting when  using a laptop at home without login to the the corporate domain ?

I believe, it's somewhere in the registry ?

TIA,

Mike

I'm looking for the port # for the built in "Remote Desktop" feature of Windows XP -- I need this port to enable port fowarding on my router so I can get in remotely...thanks!

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I am having some trouble deploying Desktop wallpaper settings using GPO for Windows XP clients using Windows Server 2008.  I have placed the JPG image in a "Wallpapers" share on the file server, and given "Everyone" full control over...

We have a hosted Exchange 2007 with Outlook 2007 clients.  One client keep getting these synch messages that fill the mailbox space.  That laptop has been rebuilt for another reason so that mean Outlook profile has been rebuilt also.  
Does that...

1.     i used RegWork to clean up my registry this AM.
2.     since then,  i've been unable to access certain applications at a secure website that my medical center uses.
3.      i've removed and reloaded software for the two websites...

I'm trying to change the password on an existing UltraVNC installation. There is a repeater on a server and UltraVNC clients running on client computers (I think as services). There is already a password. I would like to switch it.

When I go...

I have been receiving the error message "Windows Explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience." everytime I right click a file or when I'm browsing the directories of my hard drive. I have ran Norton...

I have a strange one here.  A user has a notebook that used to belong to a domain.  A very restrictive Group Policy had been applied (no local drive access, context menus, run dialogue, task manager, control panel).  User was given the...

When trying to join our 2008 domain from and XP laptop I get:
the following error occurred attempting to join the domain rpc protocol sequence is not supported

This machine worked fine yesterday on the domain.  Today Outlook would not...

After installing Outlook 2010, when we print multi-page Office docs, the print fails after several pages with the following error printed on the page:
ERROR: invalidfont
OFFENDING COMMAND:  xshow
STACK:
[45 46 45 45 21.......

- I can not...

I am trying to copy some files into the %SYSTEMROOT%\system32 folder.

I DO NOT want to over write any existing files (skip existing files).

I need to include this command in a batch files.  I have gone through all the xcopy commands, but...

Windows XP machine.
Process being performed: Creation of a new roaming profile which has folder redirects back to main fileserver. Exact error listed on event log for this particular machine/new user: Actual error is within the two breaking...

Using the control userpasswords2 command, I unticked "Users must use a user name.........", but forgot to put in a password.  Now on startup the system cant find a password so it prompts for a password, which I have not entered. So I am locked...

Weird one.  OK, I have a client that has 3 MPC (brand) ClientPro 585 PCs.  Within the last, say month and a half, they are each getting about one BSOD a day, sometimes more, sometimes they can make it through a day without one.  I'm running out...

I got a problem that I have researched quite a bit on the web and found many others with the same problem but no fix has been found.

When I open System Information it says

"Can't Collect Information
Cannot access the Windows Management...

Ok, I have looked at multiple other EE threads but thus far had no luck applying what I have seen to my organization. Here is what I am trying to do...

I need to edit a registry value located at HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\USBSTOR...

Shot in the dark here since I know noone else who uses this technology, but I have some questions regarding the Imaging and PXE booting of Thin Clients (I have HP thin clients 4320t and an HP Device Manager Console that supposedly works to...

Is there a command to restart a computer in 'Safe mode with Windows networking?'  I need to initiate a command over a network for the machine to restart.  I can log into the machine using RDP but I don't know how to run the command.

Hi,
I've posted my inquiry sometime ago, but got as of yet no response.
The whole story is reported below, but let me phrase my question is the simplest term: Is there anyone who knows how to solve a WMI problem based on a WMI Diiag report?
I...

The Terminal Services Active X control (mstscax.dll) does not match the version of the Client Shell.
After you apply a Windows XP service pack, the remote desktop session fails
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After installing windows updates my machine now BSOD. I can find no info regarding this BSOD error message 0x05001309.

I'm unable to boot into Safe mode. I also decrypted my machine, which had pointsec on it in order to run a Windows...

Hi all,

I've been tasked with getting WSUS working again on our network, as it had lain unused for quite for some time. Initial investigation simply revealed that all was working fine, but that the updates were set to only download once...

I am having WMI problems. This originally came up while trying to install SMS Client. When trying to install the log shows the following errors:

MSI: Setup was unable to create the WMI namespace CCM
The error code is 8007007F      ccmsetup
MSI:...

When I attempt to install AVAST by downloading the software from their website I am immediately redirected to another site. This tells me that this computer is infected. Even if I take a copy of AVAST burn it to a CD load it onto the infected...

I have a LaserJet 4250 printer device networked on my print server. Tray 1 is a manual feed that is unused. Tray 2 holds Letterhead and Tray 3 holds plain paper. The print device is used by roughly 30 people who need to be able to choose between...

As at 24/02/2010 I have just done some MS updates on a windows XP pro desktop pc.

One of the updates that got downloaded was kb976002, the Browser Choice application.

I have IE8 on the PC, I want to keep IE8, and in short I want to make NO...

It would seem that there are a lot of updates to C++ and are they all needed?
Mmaybe they should be removed and the 2/3 vcredist be reinstalled by themselves
2005, 2005 sp1, 2008.
JPGs attached of the the nero error, msicuu listing. The Nero's...

I have an end-user that was having some system problems.  She was setup and using IE7 under Windows XP SP2.  In order to resolve the system problems she was having, I ran the OS repair by booting from the Windows XP cd.  All seem to go fine, but...

i'm using winxp sp2. i'm trying to copy my [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main] to [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main2]

so i exported the Main-key to main.reg and changed "Main" to "Main2":...

I have a Windows XP envirionment with Office 2003 and Office 2007.  The Screensaver timeout is controlled via a GPO, and requires password to unlock.  Some teachers have started using PowerPoint during their classes, and would like the time...

I am trying to establish an SSH tunnel through plink and it works just fine. However, if I am connecting to a server or IP I have not connected to yet, I get this message:

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The server's host key is not cached in the registry....

I can get to the server (different domain) by FQDNS or I.P. but not by name.  I do have a wins server in place and a static name and I.P. for it.  Any idea on how to solve the problem ?  This is what event viewer shows.

so if I type \\prntsrv ...

When I installed Microsoft Visio, the product key that I used was apparently already in use. I have a new key, but am not sure how to change the product key so that I can register the product online.  Do I have to uninstall and reinstall the...

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. ...

I have a customer who has to re-authorize Trusted Sites on a daily basis.  She is running Windows 7 32 bit in an environment of otherwise all XP Sp3 machines.  All machines are running IE 8 and trusted sites are controlled through a Windows...

Windows XP 64 bit.  The ftp.exe program has been working, driven by 3rd party software, for years including a couple hours ago.  Tried to send the same files (with slightly different content) failed about an hour ago.  There don't appear to be...

Anyone know how to untick (or disable) items in the inside the properties of a Network Connection via a registry modification?

In our domain we are using Lumension Sanctuary Device Control for controlling access to any peripheral end-user...

Trying to sync my Outlook 2007 calendar with my online Google account and get the error message that I have outdated time zone information and run MIcrosoft Windows Update or manually restore, which is a link to this kb article ...