Threads Replies Last Post 9 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9   dirty bit Have usb drive that has succumbed to the dirty bit horror. i can't defragment it because it is supposed to be chkdsk'ed. I use chkntfs /x k: and it no longer tried to chkdsk it at boot time but, apparently, the bit is still set so I can't defrag it. Is there some way to actualy reset the bit rather than just ignore it at boot time? (Other than run the chkdsk... it's a 300 drive and woul... 1 06.07.2007 13:48:27 Windows XP Themes won't work > This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. --B_3266261862_536950 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit Dear All I have an XP Pro SP2 machine that has suddenly stopped allowing the Luna theme (or any others) to work. For several days I have bee... 5 06.07.2007 06:42:43 What is the Blue pop up at lower right of screen Every so often I see a small blue rectangular window, sort of ghostly, at the lower right hand side of my screen. I did have Windows Messanger installed for a while, but removed it last week. The blue screen is still showing every so often. Today it displayed message that normally comes in my email. Once last week it gave me a message that was rather lewd. Is this spy/ad ware or som... 4 05.07.2007 18:55:41 Windows XP - Copying folder permissions I have set up a directory structure for a project and set varying permissions for different subfolders. I would like to copy this directory structure for each new project I set up, and to have the permissions remain with the new copy. Simply "dragging and dropping" the directory structure doesn't copy the permissions. Is there a way to easily copy these permissions?... 4 05.07.2007 18:42:45 Scheduled Task fails when not logged in. I have a scheduled task that runs a batch file to copy a single file from one location on the local C drive to another location on the same C drive. The job runs fine when I am logged in. When I am not, it appears that the task is running but the file copy fails. I think the task is running because, when I do log in, the last run time reflects a time when no one was logged in. I've t... 1 05.07.2007 17:38:00 folder name Hi, I have win XP why names of some of my folders in "My Computer" are written in blue and some in black color? does it have to do anything with sharing and networking? Lesio ... 4 05.07.2007 16:52:54 wmi to set FTP permissions Hello. we have a large number of servers (over 700) that need to have FTP installed/activated. I have used WMI in some management tasks and from what I have read, you can use it to set permissions. We are not running AD and the servers are not in a domain. I can't seem to find much information on this. Does anyone know: 1) can this be done with WMI or do I need another method? 2) ... 1 05.07.2007 13:52:07 windows script host When I email an invoice from Quickbooks, I get a message "windows Script host Access is disabled on this machine. Contact your administrator for details" How do I rectify this as I am the administrator. Thanks Petros... 4 05.07.2007 03:10:00 Compact command yields zero files At the command prompt, I tried to use the compact/c command (followed by the file name) at the command prompt to compress a file. I got the return message: 0 files within 1 directories were compressed. 0 total bytes of data are stored in 0 bytes. The compression ratio is 1.0 to 1. The file was not already compressed. Why didn't it work, and how do I get i... 4 04.07.2007 17:17:10 PC Restore In Windows XP I wanted to do a "system" restore where I could go back the settings from the previous day and ended up in Dr. Watson asking me if I wanted to do a PC restore. Unfortunatley I hit "yes" now all my infromation under my profile only is gone... If I try to do a system restore the points are gone. Is there any thing I can do to revert back to the way my PC was a couple of day... 1 04.07.2007 15:54:00 Startup Aplication Hi everyone, I need some info.On windows XP i need to have only one application running.When Windows starts i will setup aoutomatic administrator login,application will start and after close application i need to get windows to go to shutdown.How to do this? Thanks in advance ... 2 04.07.2007 07:03:02 Annoying Installer at Startup Hi, I have an annoying installer at startup - comes up with message saying it is installing an app (sonic activation module - whatever that is!!). If I click cancel it then goes on to do something else and then prompts me with a message stating it cannot find the source file (activate.msi). I need to click cancel several times - each time it seems to repeat the process. Eventuall... 2 02.07.2007 15:12:11 Unable to install IIS via Add and Remove Programs in XP I have been trying to install IIS for 3 days now using the Add and Remove programs feature. 1. I go to Control Panel and call Add and remove programs. 2. I click on the "Windows Components" button and when the list appear I select IIS. It greys because only some components will be installed without manual selection 3. The Install starts and runs untill it's time to copy the 1st file fro... 2 01.07.2007 22:02:49 File Types Advanced Edit Action Accelerator Key Crossposted to Windows XP General and Windows XP Configuration and Manage. I have found what I consider to be a bug in Windows XP. It would affect almost no one, but still a bug. As an example, assume that Microsoft Word is already installed and a person installs the Microsoft Word Viewer also. 1) You go to the Folder Options dialog for example by in Classic Menus mode by Start->S... 5 01.07.2007 18:40:15 Why does my mouse change to a "pointer" and a cd image? My mouse keeps blinking from a regular pointer to a pointer with a CD image to the top right and then back to a regular pointer. My guess it's telling me to insert a CD, but I have no idea why it would want a CD inserted. Anyone know how to turn it off???? Thanks in advance. -stv... 2 30.06.2007 17:56:50 Validating windows I am having serious praoblems validating Windows in order to download a media player codec. It was suggested that I uninstall Explorer 7 which I did but this has not helped and now I can't reinstall EX7. I do not get the ActiveX window when I try to validate my version of Windows. Now using the alternate method gets me to page saying that page cannot be displayed.... 1 29.06.2007 14:48:02 Built in administrator login I want to login using the built in administrator id , but not seeing this id from the user login main page .Only see the user id or other id that have been created. How to login using the built in administrator id ? ... 2 29.06.2007 13:27:13 About user rights in Windows XP Hi all! Windows XP: is it possible to create an account with all the privileges of administrator except the right to change network settings (IP, submask, gateway, DNS of local network adapter)? if so, how? ... 2 29.06.2007 04:07:27 profile corrupt I have a main profile (mia) under which I can access the master files (C:/documents and settings/diaco) however this profile has become corrupt (I think it's the registry keys) where every time I log into it, it has to make a temp profile. I can access the diaco folder using this profile. Then I made a new profile and even gave it admin rights, and when I try to open the diaco folder from it... 4 28.06.2007 18:32:36 taskbar I am trying to get a virus off of my boss' computer, but he has the taskbar hidden and I can't get it to come up to savfe my life(or job). I have tried to lift it with the dbl pointed cursor, I have tried to open it with a shortcut. Please help Thanks, Jeff ... 2 27.06.2007 21:24:08 Roaming Profile and Offline Files + Folder Redirection I have My document folder redirected to network drive. I have enabled Offline files. I see synchronization that happened, I see local copy of offline e files. I can open local copy of file, when I disconnect my self from network, problem is following. When I click document, it takes cca 10 minutes, before I can edit file. Computer looks for the file on network server, where my document f... 1 27.06.2007 13:06:01 Where does this video file get stored on my system? I see swf mentioned in the url but when I do a search under .swf this file doesn't appear. It must be stored somewhere since when I bring the same url up again it loads immediately. Thanks. http://www.chilloutzone.de/files/player.swf?b=10&l=197&u=ILLUMllSOOAvIF//P_LxP92A42lCHCeeWCejXnHAS/c ... 13 27.06.2007 12:58:02 RPC problem Please help!!! I have a problem with the RPC causing a shutdown. All of my research says WORM Blaster/lovesan I can't do anything because the system is shutting down too quickly. Can anyone help me get this laptop back up. Thanks in advance, Jeff ... 5 27.06.2007 12:06:47 Can't read dvd Hi, i have this problem, when inserting a dvd (movie or data) nothing appears, it seems like my combo dvd didn't notice that a dvd disc were inserted. Thanks for your comments...... 8 27.06.2007 01:28:01 Unable to view network properties We have 2 servers running lagoto, windows xp server. Recently we lost the ability to view and/or change our network configuration. All we get when we try to select the properties of the network card is an error. Any Ideas? Thanks... 9 26.06.2007 14:40:26 9 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9