Threads Replies Last Post 7 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7   LoadLibrary search order Hi, I used the file monitor tool to monitor the loading search order of about 400 DLLs. File monitor shows that the DLL is found (using the PATH environent variable) after sixty tries for each DLL (File monitor shows NOT FOUND for each failed try). Does this have a high cost? is every searh does a disk access or just windows used the master file table in memory? Thanks, Daniel ... 1 13.07.2007 20:34:01 CHKDSK Hangs at 46 Percent I have a SCSI drive that is hanging at 46 percent completed. Strangely, SYSTEM event viewer log shows no particular SCSI events around this. Normally I see a boatload of SCSI adapter messages of one kind or another when the drive is bad. What would this behavior indicate, and is there any likely workaround? -- Will ... 2 13.07.2007 14:12:40 Recovering files I downloaded a large file (2.7G) which took 10 hours in Internet Explorer. In Internet Explorer, the file is downloaded "temporarily", and then when it is finished downloading, it is copied to the directory you request. My problem is that I downloaded the file, but when it tried to copy to my requested location, it ran out of room and stopped. Can I go back and get the file that it ac... 2 12.07.2007 16:29:07 Very poor performance after upgrade to Win2K3 Hello: I have issue that when the workstation connect to the network share that was the new 2003 machine. When connected to Win2K3 server's share, it was very slow respond. If the workstation connect to the Win2K platform. It was faster. I have test this happen on Win2K3 servers only. Does any turning I can improve it? Thanks!... 2 12.07.2007 13:38:42 Mapping a directory to WEB: firewall / router ports Hello All. I need to map a directory in my computer that points to another machine (lets call it Server) in the WEB. That server is not in the same network, and we have full access to that machine, so User and Password and any other needed config will be ok. What I need to know is: - What ports I should enable in router / firewall to allow my machine access that Server? - Is the... 5 12.07.2007 13:18:53 If I move a file, is there a tool that can update all its shortcuts? I have a collection of many files I want to be able to locate by topic. The files live in a tree. At the top of the tree are, say, folders named Animals, Plants and Minerals. Animals contains subfolders Cats, Dogs, etc. Plants contain Flowers, Trees, etc. Minerals contain Gems, Rocks, etc. If I have a file about both Cats and Gems, I can keep the file in Cats, and put a shortcut to it i... 3 12.07.2007 12:48:42 linkd.exe - create junction of system folder I have moved the "Program Files" folder to a big hard-disk and then created a junction to it (of cource these two actions can only be performed from a second installation of windows): linkd "c:\Program Files" "d:\programs" Everything works excellent with this new configuration (I've been using it for more than an year). Programs will not even notice the change. Unfortunately some ver... 1 12.07.2007 12:13:05 Blue text file names I've recently bought a 500GB external hard drive and the file and folder names are showing up in blue font while all other drives appear in black font. Is there any reason for this?... 2 11.07.2007 16:15:52 Folder to trigger action on Windows Hi, I would like to know if the following is possible on a Windows PC.... I want to have a particular folder on my PC that I can drop a file into. When the file gets dropped into this particular folder, I want a particular application to start up. Is there a way to do this without having to poll this particular folder? Thanks ... 2 11.07.2007 03:59:37 Discrepancy between group membership and Effective Permissions Hi, I have an AD environment containing a parent domain and a child domain. I have created a Local security group in the parent domain (Group A) and nested in this, a global security group from the child domain (Group B). I have added a number of users to Group B from the child domain. However, when I assign Read/Mod rights to Group A to a folder on my file server, some users do not ... 1 10.07.2007 16:40:02 "Service Control Manager Cannot be Opened.Access Denied" Dear everyone, I have a DFS Service running in the Active Directory and is working fine. I could create new replication groups in the AD, whether the target is within the same domain or not. Lately I have a problem with adding a new Replication group while using the DFS Management Console at the hub (destination) server. The source (branch) server that contains the content I want to re... 2 10.07.2007 12:32:08 Traverse Directory Permissions We’re in the process of migrating from Novell to Windows Server 2003. In Novell when we grant permissions to the user groups at on a subdirectory they automatically get permissions to the directories above so that they traverse the file structure to gain access to the desired directory. For example we grant Sam Smith permissions to the \\Server\Vol\Department\Application\data directo... 1 09.07.2007 13:26:07 File sharing uninstalled - Windows XP Home Edition I have uninstalled the 'File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks' service from the properties of my LAN connection and cannot seem to get it back. Is there any way of getting this back?... 4 08.07.2007 22:35:07 file download I need the service packs for xp, but at this point after a crash I cannot get online. Is there a place to download the file and install later?... 2 07.07.2007 17:38:10 windows 2000 recover I puchased a second hand computer w/windows 2000. I have somehow deleted my;<windows2000root>\system32\ntoskrnl.exe file, which means I am not able to run windows 2000 without reinstalling this file. May I have an email copy from someone so I can burn here and install there? Pretty please???? thx a bunch, -- katybeth... 2 07.07.2007 08:52:05 File version detection utility Does anyone know of a utility that can scan a file or folder and display the version of the file(s) in that folder? Mainly exe and dll files. Thanks.... 4 06.07.2007 18:31:48 Performance hit after large files copy I'm running a certain search engine on a Windows 2003 server, with 1.5GB of RAM (which is enough for the processes). The search engine uses a 15GB index. The index is updated about once an hour, using this method: an updated index is copied to a temporary directory from another server; then the new and the old indexes are renamed so the new becomes active; and finally the old is deleted. ... 3 06.07.2007 18:09:18 why ntuser.dat file time stamp is not updated for over a year? Hello, I am trying to find out under what circuimstances ntuser.dat registry file will not be time stamped, even when user login into Windows daily and performs regular tasks such as running programs. I have checked on my 3 computers running Win XP and soon after I start Windows, few minutes later, ntuser.dat will update time stamp to the current date. However, over last few... 14 06.07.2007 18:00:15 USB Flash Drive Manager 'm attempting to change the drive that the backup image is stored on. In the program, I clcik the Settings tab. I enter the drive and folder name, click save. When I click on the backup/recovery tab. It displays an error message, stating that it can't find the old drive. An example: old G:\backup new: D:\backup. It keeps looking for G: Do I need to uninstall and then ree-install the soft... 2 05.07.2007 15:45:31 XP "Help and Support" missing ... Not simply disabled in Menu Items, the whole thing has disappeared. How to re-instate the facility?... 5 05.07.2007 09:52:04 Home Drive Architecture I have ~30,000 users who's home drives we're going to migrate to a central location? I'm trying to determine how best to layout these folders. Ideally I would like to simply use \\server\share\%username%, but that would create a folder with 30,000 folders in it. That seems like it would be hard to manage, and might not be a good idea. Other idea's I've had is to do \\server\share\%fi... 1 03.07.2007 18:37:51 HELP: sorts out & cleans up NTFS security permissions I used SysInternal's AccessEnum and found it quite useful for Windows 2003 Server admin work, but laborious. I have 2 HDs, C:\ & D:\. What if another admin played about with the NTFS security permissions of C:\? Is there a "revert back to system defaults" option? Currently the only way I see is to install Windows 2003 Server on another PC and compare NTFS security permissions on all fil... 3 30.06.2007 04:07:26 0K files Hi, I have a program (IPView Pro) that comes with my Trendnet Camera. This software creates small video files. One problem I have is that on a Windows 2003 machine, 0K files are created. The same product running on top of windows XP creates "proper files". On both machines I am logged in with full administrative rights. Can anyone explain what this happens? My understanding is that bot... 2 30.06.2007 03:03:16 Is there any method to detect change in system clock? Is there any method by which one can detect a change in the system clock? May be some place where such sort of log might be maintained and we can check this log? The clock was changed 2 months prior to the present date, and then again restored back to the present date. This activity needs to be proved in the court of law in a certain case. Your help will be very helpful to get the i... 8 30.06.2007 00:22:59 Deleting Desktop Shortcuts Any deletions made to desktop shortcuts are not being saved. When my machine is re-booted the deleted shortcuts re-appear. Also I deleted a file from Program and all associated references, and it too reappears when my machine is rebooted, even though the files have been un-installed. What am I doing wrong? ... 4 29.06.2007 14:10:58 7 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7