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Please do this :<br />
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&nbsp; &nbsp;1. Click Start &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;start button<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; , and then click Control Panel.<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp;2. Under System and Security, click Find and fix problems.<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp;3. On the left navigation pane, click Change settings.<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp;4. Set Computer Maintenance to Off.
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Please do this :

   1. Click Start      start button
      , and then click Control Panel.
   2. Under System and Security, click Find and fix problems.
   3. On the left navigation pane, click Change settings.
   4. Set Computer Maintenance to Off.

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Are you still facing the problem after doing this?
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Are you still facing the problem after doing this?

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Pete: I don't want to it manually. Your solution is already described in my link.
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Pete: I don't want to it manually. Your solution is already described in my link.

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Hi,<br />
<br />
I'm having the same problems as described here: <a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/978980/en-us?p=1" rel="ugc">http://support.microsoft.com/kb/978980/en-us?p=1</a>. How does one make this change with a GPO? a registry change or something
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Hi,

I'm having the same problems as described here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/978980/en-us?p=1. How does one make this change with a GPO? a registry change or something

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