Threads Replies Last Post 9 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9   problem getting new hard drive to work I have had to replace the hard drive in my HP Pavillion pc, I fitted a new Hitatchi Deskstar 80GB 3.5 drive,put my windows XP Home installation disk in the drive and booted up, windows needed to format the drive, after formatting it tried to install windows but I keep getting the following message NTDR is missing, Press ctrl-alt-del to restart. I have done this but still keep gitting me... 2 23.04.2007 22:06:04 error when selecting diagnostic/safe mode hi there- i want to select the diagnostic/safe mode so i can do a manual uninstall of my adobe reader 7.0. but i am getting the following error when i attempt to do this: "an access denied error was returned while attempting to change a service. you may need to log on using an administrator account to make specified changes." okay, i only have one account on my computer and it's su... 3 23.04.2007 11:00:23 Delte Block? (No, (Yes) I just recently bought a refurb laptop with XP Home Edition (all updates current.) Now in Outlook 2003 as well as Word I get a message when I highlight a block of text to delete. Specifically I get: "Delete Block? No, (Yes)" Then I have to hit the "Y" key on the keyboard to delete the selected text. Where did this come from and how do I turn the feature off? Thanks----- ... 2 23.04.2007 07:46:04 Adding shortcuts to sidebar of "Open File" dialog box Hello everyone, Is there a way to add shortcuts to the sidebar on the left-hand side of the Open File dialog box? By default, I see My Recent Documents, Desktop, My Documents, My Computer, and My Network to the left of the current directory. How would I add, say, Program Files to that set of five shortcuts? Apologies in advance if this has been answered somewhere, but I hunted around... 3 22.04.2007 14:54:02 connecting the shared printer Hi all,, We have domain & workgroup environment. Printer is installed on domain environment pc. Now I have to install this shared printer on workgroup pc. I have done this. But each time I restart the workgroup pc, I have to connect to domain printer by providing login ID & password. What should be solution for permenantly connecting the printer. ... 4 22.04.2007 06:46:00 A bit slow -- how do I test? I've got a Toshiba laptop with XP Pro/MCE2006 on it. Just recently it's been running slow. I've got 1 gig of memory. Sometimes I have Photoshop, Word, an OCR program and WMP open at the same time, switching between them. It used to handle that okay, but now it's slow. The hard-drive is 80 gigs, and it's just over half full. I'd like to figure out what's making it slow. Run some dia... 3 22.04.2007 01:16:01 relocating Documents and Settings folder Hi all, I'm trying to move my entire Documents and Settings folder to a different drive (the current Windows drive is running out of space). I've found and read KB314843, and understand the issue of needing to log on as user2 in order to copy the profile of user1. But I can't figure out how to deal with the 'LocalService' and 'NetworkService' profiles. They are open no matter what ... 2 21.04.2007 16:56:35 Change Power Option When No User is Logged on I want to chnage power option, when no one logged onto system. Can I do? How? I am using Windows XP Professional SP2. -- I like Microsoft Newsgroups, Which provides help me. Thanks you Microsoft... 6 21.04.2007 05:23:53 did syst restore w xp, can't access office 2003. HELP did syst restore, and lost all my office 2003 programs. get error message 1706 when i try to open one. bought computer from a tech pro who delivered it installed with xp. cannot find the disc he gave me then, and he is on vacation. still have all my docs, but can't open them have nod 32 2.7, run it weekly tried to undo restore, didn't work tried to rest to prev dates, 3 x, didn't ... 2 20.04.2007 22:05:04 Server Name do not appear on My network places hi, I have a domain setup of one Windows 2003 Server & 40 Windows Xp as clients. Recently I have formatted my server and added all the clients to the Domain again. Now My server name (Domain Controller) do not appear when I browse through "My Network Places". But I am able to see all other computer names on the " My network Places". Before formatting it was (Server Name) displayed the... 1 20.04.2007 05:26:03 memory problem when computer is first turned on the instruction at "0x7c918fea" referenced memory at "0x00000071" the memory could not be written... 2 20.04.2007 01:41:58 Application Data folder Hi, I want to know if we can move the whole Application Data folder from the Documents & Settings\%User Profile% to some network drive. The reason I want to do this is to make my users' profiles light enough so that roaming profiles among workstations is easy. Everyone of these users has a home drive mapped to their profile and that's where I want to move the Application Data folder!!! ... 1 19.04.2007 19:51:30 Roaming Profile and Redirected Folders Hi all I have an issue which is driving me insane. My work laptop (XP Pro) is connected to a Win 2003 server using Active Directory. We have roaming profiles setup here with folder redirection for the folders My Documents, Application Data, and Desktop, which are redirected to \ \server\users\MyName\<redirected folder>. The corresponding folders on my laptop are set to be available ... 1 19.04.2007 08:35:12 Why WindowsXP does not accept the correct NIC driver I have a serious problem with my PC. I had to format my disk and reinstall Windows XP (with SP2), but I can not get to in web because Windows thinks that my network card is of Asound, but its of Realtek. I tried doing update driver using the Realtek RTL8139/810X Family PCI Fast Ethernet Card driver on the device manager. I tried uninstalling the driver, and then letting Windows find it ... 4 19.04.2007 08:12:01 Cannot Run XPsp2 Setup CD to add windows components Windows XP SP2 Whenever I try to run XP Setup to add and remove components I get the following error: "Setup was unable to open information file hide-4. Contact your system administrator. The specific error code is 0x7b at line 2088999592." I've updated and run my anti-virus program. If I only knew what the actual name of the information file is called I could reload it onto my h... 6 19.04.2007 07:30:37 Error message - windows cannot find . . . when i click on an icon to a specific site that is on my desktop, an error message appears with a large red button with an x in the middle: Windows cannot find . . . . Make sure you have typed the name correctly and try again. After I click 'OK' the site I requested appears. How do I disable the error message? Thanks!!!!... 1 18.04.2007 20:10:02 About time Error message, "The time sample was rejected because the peers stratum is less than the hosts stratum." Occurs when windows tries to update the time, does it from several time servers I have tried such as pool.ntp.org, not just time.windows.com. Seems to have become a problem since the update on daylight savings time. Error happens on two system I have, XP Home and XP PRO with the late... 1 16.04.2007 23:22:47 Outlook problems I have Outlook 2003 and when I start it up I get an error message that says "MANAGED MAPI Service Catastrophic failure" Could not initialize CLR Unknown error. This thing will pop up like ten times. I hit ok everytime and eventually it stops. But this is very annoying. I have deleated Outlook and re-installed and it still does the same thing. HELP!!! ... 2 16.04.2007 20:12:40 RAMASST error box Every time I boot my machine, I get this error box window titled RAMASST with a message that starts out "The windows xp standard cd-r/rw writing function is active" and continues asking if I want to deactivate it. (Note: I recently turn this feature on so that I could record a CD-R. But, now I'm puzzled why it would continue asking this question everytime I reboot.) So... 1. I do no... 2 16.04.2007 19:43:10 Uninstall apps Sometimes you cannot remove program from Add/Remove Programs in Control Panel. Microsoft has an untility that can be used to do this job. I used it before but I forgot the name and where it can be downloaded. Anyone knows it? Thanks.... 2 16.04.2007 18:55:16 USB hard drive not seen automatically? Hi all, I must have deleted some needed servic(s) on my XP Home machine that I need. When I plug in my external usb hard drive it does not automatically see it. What do I need to add/ change to get it to automatically see it like it used to? thanks, charles..... ... 1 16.04.2007 10:43:42 All hidden files all appeared Well I dont know what happened but I turn on my computer today, and all the system files that are usually hidden (like the desktop.ini, album art jpeg, thumbs data base files), they all unhide. Its not that they were hidden but I chose to view "hidden files" but they actually become Unhide I dont know how it happens but please help me fix it because it's really annoying Thanks... 2 16.04.2007 01:42:57 Net User /Times With XP home, net user Susan /times:m-f,6am-9pm I'm using this command to limit logon times for my kids, but it doesn't seem to log them off when the time is up, 9 pm in this example. What am I missing? Thanks. Craig ... 3 15.04.2007 19:24:26 Offline Files and disconnecting from the network We have notebook with offline files enabled. If we disconnect from the network, the little offline computer icon appears in the sys tray and tells us we're working offline. Fine. If we reconnect to the network (say a few minutes later) the sync manager will not run for a few minutes. In this time if the user tries to print or browse the dfs they can't (unless they use the FQDN). Is this a... 1 15.04.2007 12:52:48 Missing registry entry for imaging devices - pls could someone create a reg file I recently installed the driver for my new Epson perfection scanner and when I plugged the scanner in, got the message: Cannot install this hardware. There was a problem during the installation of this device. The required section was not found in the INF. The problem and part of the solution is described at http://tinyurl.com/2erh8g In short, somehow I've lost the entry in the registr... 11 15.04.2007 12:01:33 9 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9