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    - Odd Windows Explorer behavior I have a user experiencing a very strange problem with Explorer which started out of the blue a few weeks ago. He has a relatively new HP XW4400 workstation running XP Pro SP2. The issue is intermittent and only occurs on one folder which is on a mapped network drive. The user has folder view open so he can see the folder tree on the left. When he clicks on any subfolder within this folder, the contents of the selected folder appear in the main frame and the correct path appear in the address bar. The weird bit happens in the folder tree, which jumps to the folder above and tries to find the subfolder inside that folder and then brings up an error similar to 'K: \Engineering\Folder_Above_The_One_I_Was_In\Subfolder_I_Clicked_On refers to a location that is unavailable. It could be on...'. The error is correct, the folder isn't there because it's not looking in the place I clicked. This issue does not occur on any other computer in the building and there is nothing different about either of these folders. I haven't checked to see if this happens for other users logged on to the computer or for the same user logged on to other computers, but I will check it out when I get the chance. It's not user error and nothing has changed on his system (according to the user and my inventory reports). Anybody have an idea? I appreciate any suggestions you've got. Tag: Product Activation Tag: 1887463
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    - Windows XP USB Drive Letter Assignment Problem I've been browsing for a fix, and yet to find one. Hopefully someone here can help. Our enterprise is running Win Xp Sp2 and users do not have permissions to diskmngt. We're running MS and Novell network shares. When the user plugs their usb drive in, Windows automatically assigns it the first available drive letter, which in this case is a network share. I've tried putting in trash binary data for \dosdevices\drive: under mounteddevices, but Win just overwrites it. I cannot force windows to use select approved drive letters. So then I thought I would script something using subst or mountvol, but WMI will not report the removalable media, instead it sees it as a network drive. Then I tried to use mountvol drive: /l to return the volume info, but once again, it doesn't work for network shares. Mountvol /l works, but not specifying the drive letter to search. Basically I need a free solution to fix this. I'm out of options looking for help. Summary: Novell mapped drive F: Plug usb drive in, assigns drive letter F: USB does not show up for user User cannot change letter because they don't have rights WMI doesn't see removalable media correctly if it's already reporting as a network share Mountvol F: /l doesn't work because F: isn't a physical drive Subst doesn't work because it just remaps the share, not the USB device Tag: Product Activation Tag: 1887441
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    - Run as... msi Windows Installer Packages Hello all, Can .msi Windows Installer Packages be Run As... an admin? I just had a situation where a co-worker needed an msi package ran. I'm not a domain admin, but my domain login is part of the admin group on her computer. I right-clicked the package, but i didn't see any "Run as..." Thanks for any help anyone can provide, Conan Kelly Tag: Product Activation Tag: 1887440
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    - Error messgae Hello, wonder if anyone can help. Recently my PC has been displaying an error message and not performing as well as previously. I get this message, and wonder if anyone can provide a solution?: "Unable to initialize internal Com library. Error code: 0x800401f3" Thank you in anticipation Tag: Product Activation Tag: 1887433
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    - setup cannot continue because the version of windows on your compu I have two dell GX280's and BOTH of them are giving me this message "setup cannot continue because the version of windows on your computer is newer than the version on the cd" I have changed my boot order to start from CD. I am using the restoration CDs that came with each pc, (I have even tried a stand alone cd), however, once prompted to press any key to boot from CD, Windows just starts up again. I have reformatted many machines in the past and this has NEVER happened before (oddly I get two in the same day). HOW can I get these machines to boot from the CD in order to delete the partition and do a clean install?? Laurie Tag: Product Activation Tag: 1887431
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    - mobo spoilt The sympton is when I power on the pc, it goes to desktop and when I click ctart> get a dialogue box where you will be able to highlight and pick the items you want. My problem is that the hightligher will not stop moving and it will goes on in cycles. Sometimes it will stop momentarily and continue again. So thinking that it was the keyboard, I got it change. But the situation remains the same. So I reformat my hAarddisk, huess what its still the same. Is it that I did not install the XP properly or is my motherboard fired? Is there anywhere I can try and check that its not due to the xp? Thanks a lot. Tag: Product Activation Tag: 1887425
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    - Wallpaper I had a .jpg photograph as my wallpaper. Today I went to change the wallpaper to a different photograph, and windows won't let me now select any photograph as wallpaper, other than the wallpaper images that came with windows xp. Any ideas as to why? And how I can fix this so I can use photographs as my wallpaper again? Tag: Product Activation Tag: 1887411
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    - What is Windows registry (Registry Keys) Find this tutorial and more on http://thedotnetsource.blogspot.com Reason of this project: I wrote this tutorial in order to help the hundred of programers searching on the web for Windows registry. This is an like introduction, if you are seeking how to use and deploy the registry keys with Vb.net, just see the next tutorial (It'll be tutorial 6). In this tutorial I'll show what is the windows registry system and why use it. Project details: 1- What is Windows registry and why use it 2- How to read, write and change the registry 3- HIVES and their use 4- Definition of registry values 1- What is Windows registry and why use it. You can compare the Windows registry to a database. It stores informations related to Windows and other installed application on your system, but also Hardware. Think now if someone need to change the computer name via programming. How can he do this? Programmers can think of files (text files) to store the computer and windows information. But when file get big and heavy, Database will be more secure. And then they had (Windows builder) the choice of a database "Windows Registry". Microsoft Dot Net Frame 1.1 and higher have implemented a great solution for registry on their classes. This will replace the hard work and long lines of code that programmers have to write if they are using Visual Studio 6.0 for example. 2- How to read, write and change the registry Windows has a wonderful tool on it, named "Registry Editor". But you won't find it, unless you open the System32 folder on the Windows folder. But we can easily run it through the execute command it the start menu. Just type "regedit" (without quotes). Now the registry editor will open. Please before doing any changes on your registry make a backup. To do a windows registry backup: File > Export > Give a name for the file and select the All option box. The backup may block your pc from working for a short period of time. You'll see that there are 5 folder. Those are the main folder (named hives) and you can't add another main folder. Now you can select any folder and right click on it, then add a new sub-folder or value. By selecting any folder and right clicking, you'll find a list of action that you can do. If the action is blended (made not selectable), then either it's impossible or you don't have the rights to do this action. You need administrator rights to change registry keys. 3- HIVES (main registry folders) and their use The registry is split into a number of logical sections named "hives", those are the top main folder that can added, edited or renamed. They all start with "HKEY" prefix. HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT Stores information about registered applications, such as Associations from File Extensions and OLE Object Class ID's tying them to the applications used to handle these items. HKEY_CURRENT_USER Stores settings that are specific to the currently logged-in user. The HKCU key is a link to the subkey of HKEY_USERS that corresponds to the user; the same information is reflected in both locations. On Windows- NT based systems, each users' settings are stored in their own files called NTUSER.DAT and USRCLASS.DAT inside their own documents and settings subfolder. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE Abbreviated HKLM, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE stores settings that are general to all users on the computer. On NT-based versions of Windows, HKLM contains four subkeys, SAM, SECURITY, SOFTWARE and SYSTEM, that are found within their respective files located in the %SystemRoot% \System32\Config folder. A fifth subkey, HARDWARE, is volatile and is created dynamically, and as such is not stored in a file. Information about system hardware drivers and services are located under the SYSTEM subkey, whilst the SOFTWARE subkey contains software and windows settings. HKEY_USERS Contains subkeys corresponding to the HKEY_CURRENT_USER keys for each user registered on the machine. HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG Contains information gathered at runtime; information stored in this key is not permanently stored on disk, but rather regenerated at boot time. 4- Definition of registry values Binary Value REG_BINARY Raw binary data. Most hardware component information is stored as binary data and is displayed in Registry Editor in hexadecimal format. DWORD Value REG_DWORD Data represented by a number that is 4 bytes long (a 32-bit integer). Many parameters for device drivers and services are this type and are displayed in Registry Editor in binary, hexadecimal, or decimal format. Related values are DWORD_LITTLE_ENDIAN (least significant byte is at the lowest address) and REG_DWORD_BIG_ENDIAN (least significant byte is at the highest address). Expandable String Value REG_EXPAND_SZ A variable-length data string. This data type includes variables that are resolved when a program or service uses the data. Multi-String Value REG_MULTI_SZ A multiple string. Values that contain lists or multiple values in a form that people can read are generally this type. Entries are separated by spaces, commas, or other marks. String Value REG_SZ A fixed-length text string. Binary Value REG_RESOURCE_LIST A series of nested arrays that is designed to store a resource list that is used by a hardware device driver or one of the physical devices it controls. This data is detected and written in the \ResourceMap tree by the system and is displayed in Registry Editor in hexadecimal format as a Binary Value. Binary Value REG_RESOURCE_REQUIREMENTS_LIST A series of nested arrays that is designed to store a device driver's list of possible hardware resources the driver or one of the physical devices it controls can use. The system writes a subset of this list in the \ResourceMap tree. This data is detected by the system and is displayed in Registry Editor in hexadecimal format as a Binary Value. Binary Value REG_FULL_RESOURCE_DESCRIPTOR A series of nested arrays that is designed to store a resource list that is used by a physical hardware device. This data is detected and written in the \HardwareDescription tree by the system and is displayed in Registry Editor in hexadecimal format as a Binary Value. None REG_NONE Data without any particular type. This data is written to the registry by the system or applications and is displayed in Registry Editor in hexadecimal format as a Binary Value Link REG_LINK A Unicode string naming a symbolic link. QWORD Value REG_QWORD Data represented by a number that is a 64-bit integer. This data is displayed in Registry Editor as a Binary Value and was introduced in Windows 2000. This tutorial doesn't contain any source. See http://thedotnetsource.blogspot.com for the latset tutorials and updates. The Zip file contains: -The readme.txt file -The tutorial.txt file Still have question: Go to our blog (http://thedotnetsource.blogspot.com). Select the tutorial post. Post a comment describing your problem. Tag: Product Activation Tag: 1887409
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    - How safe is my BIOS Power-on Password? Hi - A short while ago I learnt that if I transfer my data from an NTFS to a FAT32 harddrive I lose all my security features on the files. Since I use a BIOS power-on password to protect the data on my laptop I am now wondering if there is any point to doing so at all. Could an unauthorised person not simply access my PC with a bootable Linux CD such as Knoppix and copy all of my files over to a FAT32 external drive? Or will BIOS be smart enough and prevent the evil-doer from doing this? If yes, how? If no, is there anything else I can do to be safe against data theft in case of laptop theft? Thanks in advance for your advice. Pat -- pat_mc Tag: Product Activation Tag: 1887408
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    - Device Unit Letter? How can I determine the device unit letter independently? When I connect a flash memory, it persists to use a reserved letter (G:), not next available. The device is then not visible. Tag: Product Activation Tag: 1887369
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    - error VsTskMgr.exe I have been tidying up a friends laptop,now when the laptop is started the following error comes up. VsTskMgr.exe Encountered a problem and needed to close. This error occurred on 27/03/2008 at 12:50 it may have something to do with Mcafee, Which is one of the things that I uninstalled by means of add/remove then used the Mcafee Uninstalling Tool. Advice Needed on how to cure this error please. If you think this question should have been posted in a different Group please advise. -- Regards tonyq Tag: Product Activation Tag: 1887360
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    - Win XP upgrade and OEM limitiations I have a Dell and accompanying XP disc from Dell. It's limited to being reinstalled on my Dell. I have another computer, a non-Dell, I'd like to install XP on. My question is, if I buy a Windows Xp Pro Upgrade CD, is that install limited to my Dell, or can I use it to install on another computer? is the upgrade limited to my Dell? (This is the only kind of XP disc I can get through schoo.) Many thanks Ben Tag: Product Activation Tag: 1887350
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    - Tell XP to use the wifi card NOT the lan card? I have both an wifi PCI card, and an onboard 10/100 rj45 network port. I have the wifi card getting internet just fine from my neighbor. I have my rj45 port connected to my router, so that I can connect to other pc's on my router too. But the router isn't connected to the internet, nor do I want it to be. It's just internal only LAN. The problem is- if I plug my pc into the router, then internet explorer (and every other network needy app) tries to connect to the internet using my router, instead of my wifi card. I can see that by pinging an ip, I can see that it's trying to use my router for DNS, which of course fails. When I unplug my PC from the router, I can get on the web, because it uses my wifi card since there's no router. How do I tell windows "Use the wifi card for the web, please, not the rj45 port, even when I'm connected to a router." ? I have Winxp sp2. Thanks. Tag: Product Activation Tag: 1887347
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    - Which for Ad-Aware & SpyBot, safe or normal mode? I need an option on which is the best Windows ZP home mode to run Ad-Aware and SpyBot full scan in safe mode, safe mode without network, or normal mode. Any information would be useful. ***************** Thank You kGbAT@msbx.net To reply to this email please remove the AT after the kGb in the reply to address as shown above. Tag: Product Activation Tag: 1887331
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    - Can I build a stand-alone system? I want to set up a system that will never be on-line and would like some advice on how to do this. The advantages that I think apply are: 1. No malware will ever infect the system 2. I will not need a firewall, any internet-security software or anti-virus software, meaning that few resident security routines, loaded at start-up, will be required leading to greater system performance. 3. I will not need to continually install security updates to system and application software, again resulting in better performance as well as easier set-up 4. I will not be tempted to load on the latest level of software 'enhancements', most of which are really not useful additions to software which is already seriously over-bloated to start with (for example, I doubt whether there are many things in PS CS3 which were not in PS 6.5 and which are critical to my work). This will mean I spend far less time maintaining my system, learning new software and battling with system instabilities. 5. I don't need to move inexorably to newer hardware every 12 months, as I have been doing for the past 10 years. Ms Word and/or competitive equivalents ran with acceptable performance and acceptable function 15 years ago on my 120 Mhz, 32 Mb RAM Pentium system. But there are problems I can foresee: A. Windows XP will not work without an on-line activation (I suppose I could revert to Win 2K - that was equally stable, but some of my software is XP (and later) only). Some apps. are moving (or have moved) to a similar requirement. B. I fear some, as yet unspecified, problems with web-browsers (which are required accessing html help files for example). C. Some major apps. (like those in MS Office) require on-line connectivity to provide help support. D. There is the obvious problem of getting data into and out of this system. Yes, I could use R/W CD media (a throw back to the old pre-LAN days of 'sneaker-ware') - but it's not really attractive. IF I have any LAN connectivity, there is always the risk that malware will migrate across the LAN - isn't there? E. I can't do LAN printing or back up data to my in-house 'server'. I'm sure there must be a smart way of meeting my objectives. Can somebody point me in the right direction? Thanks. Tag: Product Activation Tag: 1887330
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    - Can Not Display Control Panel Properly I have recently re-installed Windows XP. Now, when I select Start - > Control Panel the panel is not displayed. Instead, The Control Panel folder appears. Also, should an item labelled something like Settings be displayed ? Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated. John E Tag: Product Activation Tag: 1887311
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    - File Types not showing proper icon for html / htm Running Window XP MCE SP2 HTML and HTM are configured to show Firefox icon for all modes, edit / print / open I've even hit advanced and checked to make sure the icon is set right. Yet in windows explorer I still don't get the icon. I get a generic window looking icon. Not the fireball. I googled and found reference to shelliconcache errors, but can't find the file and the help is old like this is a win98 issue. Tried Tweak UI -> repair. Changed the icons to IE then back to firefox and still no good. Tag: Product Activation Tag: 1887309
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    - Re: "Convert" NTFS to FAT32 after Saving HDD Contents Hi, I do have a very good reason for doing this, in order to access the HDD contents without launching WinXP, using a bootable CD rom (created using a bootable floppy disk on a Windows 98 computer). Why would I want to access the HDD without Windows "running"? For matters of security (out of "reach" of all types of spyware) in order to view (and/or edit) sensitive personal information that is scrambled/encrypted. The program I use will not run unless in real Dos mode. A NTFS HDD is not accessible after booting via bootable CD rom. However, you may know something that I don't know regarding access to the NTFS HDD without WinXP "running"? Brad On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 07:51:24 -0400, in microsoft.public.windowsxp.general you wrote: >Only with 3rd-Party Disk Management tools, such as Acronis Disk >Director or others. Is there a particular reason why you want to use >FAT32 instead of NTFS ? > >Doing a non-destructive format conversion has some risk involved >so you wouldn't want to attempt this without a verified image to use >if something fails. > >"Brad" <bpetria@verizon.net> wrote in message >news:47eb95d2.888439@news.verizon.net... >> Hi, >> >> Is it possible to save WinXP HDD (NTFS) contents such as "WINDOWS", >> "Program Files", "Documents and Settings", (etc.) folder "trees", format >> the >> HDD as FAT32, then transfer saved contents back to HDD without causing >> problems? >> >> Thanks in advance, Brad >> >> Before you type your password, credit card number, etc., >> be sure there is no active keystroke logger (spyware) in your PC. >> > Tag: Product Activation Tag: 1887306
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    - Send Fax Wizard no longer able to queue multiple recipients I used to be able to queue an arbitrary number of fax recipients with the Send Fax Wizard. Now it still lets me make a long list of recipients, but no more than one or two recipients actually appear in the fax queue. Sometime I get the following application event error entry (but most of the time none): > > Event Type: Error > Event Source: Microsoft Fax > Event Category: Outbound > Event ID: 32090 > Date: 3/26/2008 > Time: 10:09:15 AM > User: N/A > Computer: HP119NASHUA > Description: > The Fax service print monitor has failed to submit the fax. > > The following error occurred: 4. > This error code indicates the cause of the error. > > Sender Machine Name: \\HP119NASHUA. > Sender User Name: fleischer. > Sender Name: <sender> > Subject: . > Recipient name: <name> > Recipient number: <number> > Number of Recipients: 15. > > For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp. (The Help and Support Center offers no help, by the way.) The net effect seems to be that I can submit a fax to one or two recipient destinations at a time, but the rest if there are more do not show up in the fax queue. I have removed and re-installed the XP fax service; I have deleted and re-created the fax printer and queue; I have re-installed the modem. Everything was working fine on this system with no changes and then this happened. My guess is that on this multi-core system there is some sort of synchronization failure with a long list of recipients. Even so, it used to work on this system. Thanks, Bob Tag: Product Activation Tag: 1887305
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    - Announcing the Windows Search 4.0 Preview http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2008/03/27/announcing-the-windows-search-4-0-preview.aspx Notice that they acknowledge the bugs, that the vista fanboys claim didn't exist? LOL idiots... lets hope this one will be better than the extremely bad designed and implemented CRAP search of vista (this installs on non vista OS too, like XP) Tag: Product Activation Tag: 1887299
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    - Large files I am running out of disk space. Is there some easy way to list the largest files on the disk? Bob Tag: Product Activation Tag: 1887292
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    - Registry data shared between partitions. Hi, I copied mu OS XP to a new primary partition. Now I have 2 primary partition with the same XP installation. I did all that through PartitionMagic 8.0. From the new partition I tried to uninstall Office2003 and... almost magically I unistalled it also in the old partition!!! It is as the registry shares data among partition (primary, only 1 per time is visible and active). How does it could be possible? Is there a way to hide totally this registry information among partition? Camelot Tag: Product Activation Tag: 1887289
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    - System Error, Event ID: 1003 what cause System Error, Event ID: 1003 ? here is error log: Event Type: Error Event Source: System Error Event Category: (102) Event ID: 1003 Date: 2008.03.28. Time: 11:45:23 User: N/A Computer: User Description: Error code 0000007f, parameter1 00000000, parameter2 00000000, parameter3 00000000, parameter4 00000000. For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp. Data: 0000: 53 79 73 74 65 6d 20 45 System E 0008: 72 72 6f 72 20 20 45 72 rror Er 0010: 72 6f 72 20 63 6f 64 65 ror code 0018: 20 30 30 30 30 30 30 37 0000007 0020: 66 20 20 50 61 72 61 6d f Param 0028: 65 74 65 72 73 20 30 30 eters 00 0030: 30 30 30 30 30 30 2c 20 000000, 0038: 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 00000000 0040: 2c 20 30 30 30 30 30 30 , 000000 0048: 30 30 2c 20 30 30 30 30 00, 0000 0050: 30 30 30 30 0000 Tag: Product Activation Tag: 1887288
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    - Process state information in winXP Hi, Is there any tool/MFC API available in windows XP to know precisely how much time a process spent in wait queue and how much time it spent in the "Ready to Run" Queue. I need the two times individually wheareas GetProcessTime gives the total wait time which is teh sum of both. Thanks in advance Tag: Product Activation Tag: 1887287
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    - Hotmail Hello, This may be a strange question on this newsgroup, but I am trying to find a newsgroup for Hotmail users (I cannot find one). I need to find a way to transfer all folders (and the emails stored in them) from a yahoo account to a Hotmail account. Thank you. Tag: Product Activation Tag: 1887179
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    - VIDEO DELETION Hi, I have an iPod Nano 3rd gen and it shows on the 'summary' screen that there is space being used up by videos. There aren't any video on my iPod. I've deleted any video podcasts and it still shows space used up by videos. Is there a way to find out what is taking up this space? Thanks, MKO Tag: Product Activation Tag: 1887157
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    - Missing services I'm missing my smart card helper service and the smart card resource manager service. I can no longer use my smart card reader. Can I re install the service? Thanks Tag: Product Activation Tag: 1887156
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    - not require password upon bootup Task Scheduler required me to enter a password so I could have a schedule task run. I only have one account on this computer and I think the guest account is disabled. Is there a way to bypass the password prompt and have the user be logged into windows upon it booting up. Thanks, Pete Tag: Product Activation Tag: 1887152
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    - Any way to escape parenthesis characters in a batch file? if "%PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE%"=="x86" ( set PROGNAME=Program Files ) else if "%PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE%"=="AMD64" ( set PROGNAME=Program Files (x86) ) This fails because of the parenthesis in (x86). I have a workaround already, but I'd prefer using the method above for readability. Any way to escape the parenthesis characters so this will work? -- Bill Baker Tag: Product Activation Tag: 1887142
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    - Calc.exe digit grouping doesn't work Does anyone have any ideas why digit grouping isn't working in the Windows Calculator (Calc.exe and CalcPlus.exe)? Even though digit grouping is checked in the calculators on my work computer and my home computer, the calculator won't display commas. I'm running XPSP2. Thanks, Kirt Tag: Product Activation Tag: 1887128
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    - cache of unwanted photos Unwanted photos (JPEG) are cached to Photo Shop from my home page and sites visited on the net. How do I stop this,turn it off? Tag: Product Activation Tag: 1887125
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    - is my hyperthreading working ? My XP Home ...all up to date, ...Task manager | Performance shows two graphs :-) Device Manager says that "ACPI Multiprocessor PC" is working properly. http://www.intel.com/support/processors/tools/htu/ test utility reports that my cpu, bios and chipset failed the test ! Well, my motherboard, cpu and bios are all acceptable for hyperthreading, according to Intel's specification requirements. ...I patched with KB896256 ages ago, ...can't remember why ! ...could it just be that Intels test utility *.exe is a pile of c**p ? any thoughts appreciated, regards, Richard Tag: Product Activation Tag: 1887122
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    - Rename destination file with Robocopy Is there any way to have robocopy name a destination file different from the source? For example, if I want to copy c:\Temp\temp.log to c:\Temp\temp.bak. So far I can't see any way of performing this simple operation. Does robocopy actually not allow this? Thanks, -- Bill Baker Tag: Product Activation Tag: 1887117
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    - Recent Folder Files Is there any limit to the number of files that can be accumulated in the Recent folder? What are the files in the Recent folder used for? Tag: Product Activation Tag: 1887113
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    - BSOD ? I get a blue screen of death shortly after inputting my password, it reboots my PC way too fast for me to read the text. How can I determine the cause of the BSOD and fix it? TIA...Les Tag: Product Activation Tag: 1887106
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    - System Time Issue I have one XP SP3 system that will not display the correct time. The clock setting is set to Mountain Time (-7:00) with the Automatically adjust DST box checked, but for some reason is always displaying one hour earlier (like the box is in Central Time.) The box is part of an AD domain and all systems are syncing with the DC but this is the only one that is off. When I run the command net time \\domaincontroller /set /y from a command line, the system shows -6:00 Central Time in the output line. I have no idea where this is coming from. Has anyone else seen this? I checked the BIOS system time and that seems fine. We are well past the original DST date and the system has been fully patch with even the optional patches. Any thoughts? Tag: Product Activation Tag: 1887102
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    - BSOD I get a blue screen of death shortly after inputting my password, it reboots my PC way too fast for me to read the text. How can I determine the cause of the BSOD and fix it? TIA...Les Tag: Product Activation Tag: 1887082
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    - Point DVD-RAM Drive Letter To Hard Drive? I have a proprietary backup system that backs up it's data to a dvd- ram drive formatted as ntfs and the system sees it as a large floppy/ superdisk-type drive. This system is wasting a lot of disks, and, to make a long story short, I want to force the backup software to write to a hard drive instead of the dvd-ram disk. I've heard this is possible by editing the registry. Can anyone point me to some information on this? I know I'm on my own and unsupported by MS by doing registry-editing. Tag: Product Activation Tag: 1887079
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    - Korean Languange Issues ... Hello, I am having peculiar issues with configuring a Windows XP SP2 system to use the Korean language. The original install was in English and Korean input works well. However, certain programs do not show up in Korean; they show up as processed Unicode. But Office XP and Internet Explorer shows Korean text just fine. I have enabled support for East Asian and checked out all of the options listed in "Regional and Language Options" in the Control Panel to no avail. Any other places I should check? Anything I need to download? Thanks for your time. Regards, Christopher Koeber Tag: Product Activation Tag: 1887077
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    - Windows Installer When Windows starts, Installer automatically kicks in, but gives me the following error message : "Unexpected termination". I have already tried the Installer Cleanup utility to no avail... Can you help? Tag: Product Activation Tag: 1887065
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    - Down loaded and ran nuidfltr.inf I have XP and a MS 6000 wireless keyboard that I can't get the enhanced keys to work. If I look at the properties for the HID Non-User Input Data Filter I see: Windows cannot initialize the device driver for this hardware. (Code 37) At this point I'll try anything. I found on MS and update that may help. To run it I right click on the .inf file and select: Open With/Windows Setup API. Is that right? If any thing happens it is very fast. How can I tell if it did anything? Also, looking at the list below I see an "Include=hidserv.inf". Should I try to find that update? Thanks for any help ; nuidfltr.inf ; ; HID Non-User Input Data filter driver INF ; ; (c) Copyright 2007 Microsoft ; [Version] Signature="$Windows NT$" Provider=%Microsoft% ClassGUID={745a17a0-74d3-11d0-b6fe-00a0c90f57da} Class=HIDClass CatalogFile=nuidfltr.cat DriverVer=01/09/2007,1.0.0.0 [DestinationDirs] DefaultDestDir = 12 [Manufacturer] %Microsoft% = MS.Mfg,NTx86,NTx86.6.0 [MS.Mfg.NTx86] %DeviceDesc% = NuidFltr, HID\VID_045E&PID_0059&COL02 %DeviceDesc% = NuidFltr, HID\VID_045E&PID_006A&COL02 %DeviceDesc% = NuidFltr, HID\VID_045E&PID_005F&MI_01&COL02 %DeviceDesc% = NuidFltr, HID\VID_045E&PID_005F&MI_01&COL03 %DeviceDesc% = NuidFltr, HID\VID_045E&PID_0061&MI_01&COL02 %DeviceDesc% = NuidFltr, HID\VID_045E&PID_0061&MI_01&COL03 %DeviceDesc% = NuidFltr, HID\VID_045E&PID_0063&MI_01&COL02 %DeviceDesc% = NuidFltr, HID\VID_045E&PID_0063&MI_01&COL03 %DeviceDesc% = NuidFltr, HID\VID_045E&PID_0065&MI_01&COL02 %DeviceDesc% = NuidFltr, HID\VID_045E&PID_0065&MI_01&COL03 %DeviceDesc% = NuidFltr, HID\VID_045E&PID_0070&MI_01&COL02 %DeviceDesc% = NuidFltr, HID\VID_045E&PID_0070&MI_01&COL03 %DeviceDesc% = NuidFltr, HID\VID_045E&PID_0071&MI_01&COL02 %DeviceDesc% = NuidFltr, HID\VID_045E&PID_0071&MI_01&COL03 %DeviceDesc% = NuidFltr, HID\VID_045E&PID_0072&MI_01&COL02 %DeviceDesc% = NuidFltr, HID\VID_045E&PID_0072&MI_01&COL03 %DeviceDesc% = NuidFltr, HID\VID_045E&PID_0073&MI_01&COL02 %DeviceDesc% = NuidFltr, HID\VID_045E&PID_0073&MI_01&COL03 %DeviceDesc% = NuidFltr, HID\VID_045E&PID_009F&COL01 %DeviceDesc% = NuidFltr, HID\VID_045E&PID_00B9&COL01 %DeviceDesc% = NuidFltr, HID\VID_045E&PID_00E5&COL01 %DeviceDesc% = NuidFltr, HID\VID_045E&PID_00E1&COL01 %DeviceDesc% = NuidFltr, HID\VID_045E&PID_009D&MI_01&COL01 %DeviceDesc% = NuidFltr, HID\VID_045E&PID_009D&MI_01&COL03 %DeviceDesc% = NuidFltr, HID\VID_045E&PID_009E&MI_01&COL01 %DeviceDesc% = NuidFltr, HID\VID_045E&PID_009E&MI_01&COL03 %DeviceDesc% = NuidFltr, HID\VID_045E&PID_00E3&MI_01&COL01 %DeviceDesc% = NuidFltr, HID\VID_045E&PID_00E3&MI_01&COL03 %DeviceDesc% = NuidFltr, HID\VID_045E&PID_00E4&MI_01&COL01 %DeviceDesc% = NuidFltr, HID\VID_045E&PID_00E4&MI_01&COL03 %DeviceDesc% = NuidFltr, HID\VID_045E&PID_00F1&MI_01&COL01 %DeviceDesc% = NuidFltr, HID\VID_045E&PID_00F1&MI_01&COL03 %DeviceDesc% = NuidFltr, HID\VID_045E&PID_00F2&MI_01&COL01 %DeviceDesc% = NuidFltr, HID\VID_045E&PID_00F2&MI_01&COL03 %DeviceDesc% = NuidFltr, HID\VID_045E&PID_00F9&MI_01&COL01 %DeviceDesc% = NuidFltr, HID\VID_045E&PID_00F9&MI_01&COL03 %DeviceDesc% = NuidFltr, HID\VID_045E&PID_00FA&MI_01&COL01 %DeviceDesc% = NuidFltr, HID\VID_045E&PID_00FA&MI_01&COL03 [MS.Mfg.NTx86.6.0] %DeviceDesc% = NuidFltr, HID\VID_045E&PID_0059&COL02 %DeviceDesc% = NuidFltr, HID\VID_045E&PID_006A&COL02 %DeviceDesc% = NuidFltr, HID\VID_045E&PID_005F&MI_01&COL02 %DeviceDesc% = NuidFltr, HID\VID_045E&PID_005F&MI_01&COL03 %DeviceDesc% = NuidFltr, HID\VID_045E&PID_0061&MI_01&COL02 %DeviceDesc% = NuidFltr, HID\VID_045E&PID_0061&MI_01&COL03 %DeviceDesc% = NuidFltr, HID\VID_045E&PID_0063&MI_01&COL02 %DeviceDesc% = NuidFltr, HID\VID_045E&PID_0063&MI_01&COL03 %DeviceDesc% = NuidFltr, HID\VID_045E&PID_0065&MI_01&COL02 %DeviceDesc% = NuidFltr, HID\VID_045E&PID_0065&MI_01&COL03 %DeviceDesc% = NuidFltr, HID\VID_045E&PID_0070&MI_01&COL02 %DeviceDesc% = NuidFltr, HID\VID_045E&PID_0070&MI_01&COL03 %DeviceDesc% = NuidFltr, HID\VID_045E&PID_0071&MI_01&COL02 %DeviceDesc% = NuidFltr, HID\VID_045E&PID_0071&MI_01&COL03 %DeviceDesc% = NuidFltr, HID\VID_045E&PID_0072&MI_01&COL02 %DeviceDesc% = NuidFltr, HID\VID_045E&PID_0072&MI_01&COL03 %DeviceDesc% = NuidFltr, HID\VID_045E&PID_0073&MI_01&COL02 %DeviceDesc% = NuidFltr, HID\VID_045E&PID_0073&MI_01&COL03 %DeviceDesc% = NuidFltr, HID\VID_045E&PID_009F&COL01 %DeviceDesc% = NuidFltr, HID\VID_045E&PID_00B9&COL01 %DeviceDesc% = NuidFltr, HID\VID_045E&PID_00E5&COL01 %DeviceDesc% = NuidFltr, HID\VID_045E&PID_00E1&COL01 %DeviceDesc% = NuidFltr, HID\VID_045E&PID_009D&MI_01&COL01 %DeviceDesc% = NuidFltr, HID\VID_045E&PID_009D&MI_01&COL03 %DeviceDesc% = NuidFltr, HID\VID_045E&PID_009E&MI_01&COL01 %DeviceDesc% = NuidFltr, HID\VID_045E&PID_009E&MI_01&COL03 %DeviceDesc% = NuidFltr, HID\VID_045E&PID_00E3&MI_01&COL01 %DeviceDesc% = NuidFltr, HID\VID_045E&PID_00E3&MI_01&COL03 %DeviceDesc% = NuidFltr, HID\VID_045E&PID_00E4&MI_01&COL01 %DeviceDesc% = NuidFltr, HID\VID_045E&PID_00E4&MI_01&COL03 %DeviceDesc% = NuidFltr, HID\VID_045E&PID_00F1&MI_01&COL01 %DeviceDesc% = NuidFltr, HID\VID_045E&PID_00F1&MI_01&COL03 %DeviceDesc% = NuidFltr, HID\VID_045E&PID_00F2&MI_01&COL01 %DeviceDesc% = NuidFltr, HID\VID_045E&PID_00F2&MI_01&COL03 %DeviceDesc% = NuidFltr, HID\VID_045E&PID_00F9&MI_01&COL01 %DeviceDesc% = NuidFltr, HID\VID_045E&PID_00F9&MI_01&COL03 %DeviceDesc% = NuidFltr, HID\VID_045E&PID_00FA&MI_01&COL01 %DeviceDesc% = NuidFltr, HID\VID_045E&PID_00FA&MI_01&COL03 [NuidFltr.NT] Include=hidserv.inf Needs=HIDSystemConsumer CopyFiles=NuidFltr.CopyFiles [NuidFltr.CopyFiles] nuidfltr.sys [NuidFltr.NT.Services] AddService = NuidFltr, 2, NuidFltr_Service_Inst Include=hidserv.inf Needs=HIDSystemConsumer.Services [NuidFltr.NT.6.0.Services] AddService = NuidFltr, , NuidFltr_Service_Inst Include=hidserv.inf Needs=HIDSystemConsumer.Services [NuidFltr_Service_Inst] DisplayName = %NuidFltr.SvcDesc% ServiceType = 1 ; SERVICE_KERNEL_DRIVER StartType = 3 ; SERVICE_DEMAND_START ErrorControl = 0 ; SERVICE_ERROR_IGNORE ServiceBinary = %12%\NuidFltr.sys [NuidFltr.NT.HW] ; run the directives need by the port driver Include=input.inf Needs=HID_Inst.HW [NuidFltr.NT.6.0.HW] ; Add the device upper filter AddReg = NuidFltr.6.0.HW.AddReg ; run the directives need by the port driver Include=input.inf Needs=HID_Inst.HW [NuidFltr.6.0.HW.AddReg] HKR,,"UpperFilters",0x00010000,"NuidFltr" [SourceDisksNames] 1 = %DiskId1%,,, [SourceDisksFiles] NuidFltr.sys = 1,, ; ;--- NuidFltr Coinstaller installation ------ ; [DestinationDirs] NuidFltr_CoInstaller_CopyFiles = 11 [NuidFltr.NT.CoInstallers] AddReg=NuidFltr_CoInstaller_AddReg CopyFiles=NuidFltr_CoInstaller_CopyFiles [NuidFltr_CoInstaller_AddReg] HKR,,CoInstallers32,0x00010000, "wdfcoinstaller01005.dll,WdfCoInstaller" [NuidFltr_CoInstaller_CopyFiles] wdfcoinstaller01005.dll [SourceDisksFiles] wdfcoinstaller01005.dll=1 ; make sure the number matches with SourceDisksNames [NuidFltr.NT.Wdf] KmdfService = NuidFltr, NuidFltr_wdfsect [NuidFltr_wdfsect] KmdfLibraryVersion = 1.5 [Strings] Microsoft = "Microsoft" DiskId1 = "NUID CD" DeviceDesc = "HID Non-User Input Data Filter" NuidFltr.SvcDesc="NUID filter driver" Tag: Product Activation Tag: 1887063
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    - 450MB for ".NET" runtimes????? Control Panel Add/Remove Applications says I have two big apps on my PC: .NET Framework 2.0 SP1 (185MB) .NET Framework 3.0 SP1 (245MB) Is this really just 245MB with a confusing report or is it really a total of 430MB? Wow. I didn't need any .NET until recently when I installed two small-ish open source apps; CDBurnerXP Pro 3 and Filezilla (ftp). Can I uninstall 3.0 and see if these apps work with 2.0? Can I uninstall e 2.0 and get 185MB back? This is an old laptop that needs the disk space. Thanks -- Al Dykes News is something someone wants to suppress, everything else is advertising. - Lord Northcliffe, publisher of the Daily Mail Tag: Product Activation Tag: 1887040
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    - Cookies Where are cookies stored in XP Pro & IE7? Tag: Product Activation Tag: 1887037
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    - "Access Denied" I have a folder on my D:\backup sector that is named 23125eda25a7e5c21a2d8547, Mousing over it shows it to contain a folder named "update" size 0 bytes, attempts to open it result in the above message. Any ideas what it is, and if it's likely to be malignant? Tag: Product Activation Tag: 1887033
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    - event id 4226 tcpip I know of the limit of 10 incomplete inbound connections, is there a supported way to raise this limit? Regards CARL Tag: Product Activation Tag: 1887031
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    - "Ending Programme" : - "should not see me" I got this message on my PC when shutting down with nothing open. Is it something I should be worried about, my PC is freezing a lot in IE7, but has twice in the past few days been declared clean of malware. Tag: Product Activation Tag: 1887030
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    - No arrow on shortcut icon Hello I have recently reinstalled Windows XP SP2 on my PC. I can't see arrows on the shortcut icons. No help on Internet 'cause all is there about getting rid of them. How do I get them back? Thanks in advance. Regards Ishtiaque Tag: Product Activation Tag: 1887027
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    - Desire stop office critical patches from upgrading outlook Hi, I have office 2003 and Outlook version 6.0 I had said yes to update patches for office, and on install said ok to update Outlook. After install and due to problems long story (with hotmail) I do not want Outlook updated. I restored system and again have ver 6.0 and wish to stay there. I installed update again to try to get it to work (with hotmail problem - doesn't work)..and second time installing - it did not prompt/ask if desire update outlook, as now is in my system file somewhere due to choosing yes before, on the first install; a file is telling microsoft I want to update Outlook when installing the critical patches. I restored again, back to ver 6. I would like to download the critical patches for office 2003, but the system now has in a file somewhere that on installing critical updates, to not ask me if desire to update outlook (to new version), as system has set it to yes somewhere, due to the fact I said yes the first time. So, if I allow the patches, it no longer asks if desire to update outlook, it will just update to the new outlook which I do not want. Does anyone know the file, where it tells microsoft that I had chosen yes before, so I can change it to prompt me on installing critical patches for office 2003 that no, do not update outlook? And if do know which file, how do I edit the file and what value do I put in, so that on update of patches I will be prompted and asked if desire to upgrade outlook? Thanks for reading and for your help, Casey Tag: Product Activation Tag: 1887014
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    - Windows Media 11 problem - error msg Hi, Have xp, win media 11. When clicking on videos to watch I get the following: Windows Media Player cannot play the file. If the file is located on the Internet, connect to the Internet. If the file is located on a removable storage card, insert the storage card If I go back to the link and repeat process (click, get error, close error msg, click on video); if do that 4 or 5 times; will play. All file types are selected in wmp 11 (i always double check and always are.) Does anyone know how to resolve this issue. Is same for any video I play on wmp11. Thanks! Casey Tag: Product Activation Tag: 1887012
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    - Registry key to turn on automatic spellcheck in Outlook 2003? I'm trying to write a script to automate Outlook 2003 configuration, and I'm getting tripped up in one spot. "Always check spelling before sending" needs to be turned on, but for the life of me, I can't find the registry key that controls that. Any ideas? Thanks. -- ironcladlou Tag: Product Activation Tag: 1887011

When I turned on the computer a notice popped up saying I needed to activate
WindowsXP Home.I have not changed or added any hardware that would require
reactivation?

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Re: Product Activation by Colin

Colin
Fri Mar 28 13:04:33 PDT 2008

Go ahead and activate. If internet activation does not work, leave the
activation window open and call the activation center.

"Oldtech" <Oldtech@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1A5E6371-661A-4F5F-9925-632FA3124081@microsoft.com...
> When I turned on the computer a notice popped up saying I needed to
> activate
> WindowsXP Home.I have not changed or added any hardware that would require
> reactivation?

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Re: Product Activation by smlunatick

smlunatick
Fri Mar 28 13:13:48 PDT 2008

On Mar 28, 2:52=A0pm, Oldtech <Oldt...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> When I turned on the computer a notice popped up saying I needed to activa=
te
> WindowsXP Home.I have not changed or added any hardware that would require=

> reactivation?

Physical hardware changes are not the only thing tracked. I've
encountered PA requests when updating video card drivers or disabling/
enabling Ethernet (wired) network adapters. PA seems to be "flawed"
periodically. Hope that MS will somehow "remove" this when XP is
"retired" completely.

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Re: Product Activation by Jack

Jack
Sat Mar 29 08:53:10 PDT 2008

"smlunatick" <yveslec@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:63f52450-0076-4b37-a0ad-365c77f0d8fd@u69g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
On Mar 28, 2:52 pm, Oldtech <Oldt...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> When I turned on the computer a notice popped up saying I needed to
> activate
> WindowsXP Home.I have not changed or added any hardware that would require
> reactivation?

Physical hardware changes are not the only thing tracked. I've
encountered PA requests when updating video card drivers or disabling/
enabling Ethernet (wired) network adapters. PA seems to be "flawed"
periodically. Hope that MS will somehow "remove" this when XP is
"retired" completely.

I connected a friends LCD monitor to my system to test it. Had to
re-activate after re-connecting my LCD monitor. Seems strange that would
happen.

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