Temporary Internet Files ( long file names – can’t delete )
In Windows if you try to delete a excessively long filename- you get a message that the file cannot be stored in ‘Recycle’. BUT it should delete. Failure to delete can be ‘Norton NProtect’, files that the local user doesn’t own (right click and check advanced on the security tab), or that are in use. [...]
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| February 29, 2012 12:17 PM
DataCenter, Desktops, Management, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows, OS, Performance management, Security, Servers, SQL Server
In Windows if you try to delete a excessively long filename- you get a message that the file cannot be stored in ‘Recycle’. BUT it should delete. Failure to delete can be ‘Norton NProtect’, files that the local user doesn’t own (right click and check advanced on the security tab), or that are in use. [...]
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| February 29, 2012 12:17 PM
DataCenter, Desktops, Management, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows, OS, Performance management, Security, Servers, SQL Server
Closing Open Access to IFS
What version of the OS are you using? What is the security level (20, 30, 40, etc) ? When you say that closing them down hurt business, what do you mean? A quick Google search did lead to some hits that may help. http://wiki.rjssoftware.com/wiki/index.php/IFS_Tools_Commands http://www.systeminetwork.com/article/databasesql/ifs-journal-monitor-7332 http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/iseries/v5r2/ic2924/info/apis/unix2b.pdf You can see more here: http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=ifs+exit+programs&oq=ifs+exit+programs&aq=f&aqi=g-v1&aql=&gs_sm=12&gs_upl=218562l223547l4l264383l4l4l1l0l0l0l135l385l0.3l3l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=54c6d44cb91ae02c&biw=1024&bih=635
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| February 16, 2012 8:15 PM
IBM POWER6 server, iSeries V5R4M5
What version of the OS are you using? What is the security level (20, 30, 40, etc) ? When you say that closing them down hurt business, what do you mean? A quick Google search did lead to some hits that may help. http://wiki.rjssoftware.com/wiki/index.php/IFS_Tools_Commands http://www.systeminetwork.com/article/databasesql/ifs-journal-monitor-7332 http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/iseries/v5r2/ic2924/info/apis/unix2b.pdf You can see more here: http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=ifs+exit+programs&oq=ifs+exit+programs&aq=f&aqi=g-v1&aql=&gs_sm=12&gs_upl=218562l223547l4l264383l4l4l1l0l0l0l135l385l0.3l3l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=54c6d44cb91ae02c&biw=1024&bih=635
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| February 16, 2012 8:15 PM
IBM POWER6 server, iSeries V5R4M5
JOB CPU TIME VS MIPS VS EXECUTION TIME
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| February 6, 2012 6:31 PM
cpu speed, IBM Z9, z/OS 1.9
Hello I am pretty,prettyshina74@yahoo.com I guess you will not surprise to receive my mail? i saw your profile and it sound well.I will like us to exchange good relationship.I am pretty by name,No kid and never marry.from here you can contact me at this email address(prettyshina74@yahoo.com )so that i can send you my pictures and [...]
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| February 6, 2012 6:31 PM
cpu speed, IBM Z9, z/OS 1.9
Slow Windows 2000 workstation
I would run a scandisk and then a defrag to eliminate any disk problems. If all else fails, use your ghost/imaging cd (whatever company you use) and reload the pc. It’s usually faster than wasting time trying a bunch of things to try and fix the problem. ============ The slow response of your Windows 2000 [...]
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| February 1, 2012 8:53 AM
DataCenter, Help Desk, Microsoft Windows, Tech support
I would run a scandisk and then a defrag to eliminate any disk problems. If all else fails, use your ghost/imaging cd (whatever company you use) and reload the pc. It’s usually faster than wasting time trying a bunch of things to try and fix the problem. ============ The slow response of your Windows 2000 [...]
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| February 1, 2012 8:53 AM
DataCenter, Help Desk, Microsoft Windows, Tech support
Slow XP Booting
I had this problem with the machines attached to my Work Network. The problem was finally found to be the DNS Server that I had placed in the Network Settings. I had placed an external IP address as the DNS and I had to put in the PDC address and use this to forward DNS [...]
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| February 1, 2012 8:52 AM
Hardware, Microsoft Windows, Software, Tech support
I had this problem with the machines attached to my Work Network. The problem was finally found to be the DNS Server that I had placed in the Network Settings. I had placed an external IP address as the DNS and I had to put in the PDC address and use this to forward DNS [...]
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| February 1, 2012 8:52 AM
Hardware, Microsoft Windows, Software, Tech support
Scheduling defrags and chkdisks across data centers
Diskpart has Enterprise Scheduling options for defraging. You could use a GPO to schedule chkdsk. ============= If we talk about defragmentation or other utility software, it would be better to purchase a customized software with that feature of maintenance schedule. Also, you can hire a computer programmer to do the job of customizing your software.
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| February 1, 2012 8:52 AM
CHKDSK, Data Center management, Data center operations, Defrag, Defragmentation, Scheduled Tasks
Diskpart has Enterprise Scheduling options for defraging. You could use a GPO to schedule chkdsk. ============= If we talk about defragmentation or other utility software, it would be better to purchase a customized software with that feature of maintenance schedule. Also, you can hire a computer programmer to do the job of customizing your software.
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| February 1, 2012 8:52 AM
CHKDSK, Data Center management, Data center operations, Defrag, Defragmentation, Scheduled Tasks
Perfect Disk or Disk Keeper
ESuazo I do not have any experience with Perfect Disk..but I did check it out on their website. It looks like a good solution. Of course it looks good…it’s their webpage;) I do use Disk Keeper on my network PC’s and have used it for about 3 years with good results. I like Disk Keeper [...]
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| February 1, 2012 8:50 AM
Application software, Content management applications, DataCenter, Development, Hardware, Help Desk, Knowledge management applications, Services, Special-purpose software, System utilities, Tech support
ESuazo I do not have any experience with Perfect Disk..but I did check it out on their website. It looks like a good solution. Of course it looks good…it’s their webpage;) I do use Disk Keeper on my network PC’s and have used it for about 3 years with good results. I like Disk Keeper [...]
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| February 1, 2012 8:50 AM
Application software, Content management applications, DataCenter, Development, Hardware, Help Desk, Knowledge management applications, Services, Special-purpose software, System utilities, Tech support
General Windows XP Home reinstall question
Uninstall all unused programs. Run ‘msconfig’ from the Run box. On the start up tab, uncheck everything. Remove all the items from the start up folder in your start menu. Also, use task manager to determine any resource hogs you can remove or services you can disable (like Ipod service, spooler if you’ve no printers). [...]
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| February 1, 2012 8:48 AM
Graphical User Interfaces, Hardware, Tech support
Uninstall all unused programs. Run ‘msconfig’ from the Run box. On the start up tab, uncheck everything. Remove all the items from the start up folder in your start menu. Also, use task manager to determine any resource hogs you can remove or services you can disable (like Ipod service, spooler if you’ve no printers). [...]
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| February 1, 2012 8:48 AM
Graphical User Interfaces, Hardware, Tech support
Defragment when CPU drops below 5%?
Using the native defrag utility, no. Using DiskKeeper’s tool, I believe so. However the odds are that you won’t get that much benifit from defragging that often, and you’ll end up just burning out your hard drive faster that normal. ============== Your computer might need a lot of CPU power to process its deframentation process. [...]
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| February 1, 2012 8:40 AM
CPU, CPU overload, Defragmentation, Windows Server, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server Management
Using the native defrag utility, no. Using DiskKeeper’s tool, I believe so. However the odds are that you won’t get that much benifit from defragging that often, and you’ll end up just burning out your hard drive faster that normal. ============== Your computer might need a lot of CPU power to process its deframentation process. [...]
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| February 1, 2012 8:40 AM
CPU, CPU overload, Defragmentation, Windows Server, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server Management
Defrag 725 GB ona Windows 2000 Server: Pros and Cons
We have succesfully defragged dynamic disk with no problems. 250GB was the max. 725 will probably take the weekend to finish. Analyze the drive first, look at the report and see if you can clean up some junk files and then defrag. ============== The best thing you can do is to backup all the important [...]
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| February 1, 2012 8:38 AM
Desktops, Help Desk, Information risk management, Operating system platforms, Servers, Tech support, Windows 2000 Server
We have succesfully defragged dynamic disk with no problems. 250GB was the max. 725 will probably take the weekend to finish. Analyze the drive first, look at the report and see if you can clean up some junk files and then defrag. ============== The best thing you can do is to backup all the important [...]
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| February 1, 2012 8:38 AM
Desktops, Help Desk, Information risk management, Operating system platforms, Servers, Tech support, Windows 2000 Server
Backup started running 2x longer
You should look at your disk IO while the backup is running as well as before and after. Maybe someone scheduled a defrag which would sure slow things down (or some other sort of processing). ============= The most possible cause of your hard disk drive to take longer is because there might be a few [...]
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| February 1, 2012 8:37 AM
Backup, IBM, IBM Ultrium 3580, OS/400, SSRS
You should look at your disk IO while the backup is running as well as before and after. Maybe someone scheduled a defrag which would sure slow things down (or some other sort of processing). ============= The most possible cause of your hard disk drive to take longer is because there might be a few [...]
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| February 1, 2012 8:37 AM
Backup, IBM, IBM Ultrium 3580, OS/400, SSRS
Direct queries to mysql 5.0 on Windows Server 2003 from Oracle 10g on Solaris 8
I haven’t tried this before, but all you should need to do is install MySQL-ODBC and configure a connection between the MySQL and Oracle databases by modifying the odbc.ini files on each server, create an Oracle database link to the MySQL data source, then you should be able to insert, update, delete, and select from [...]
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| January 31, 2012 9:20 PM
MySQL 5.0, Oracle 10g, Solaris 8, Windows Server 2003
I haven’t tried this before, but all you should need to do is install MySQL-ODBC and configure a connection between the MySQL and Oracle databases by modifying the odbc.ini files on each server, create an Oracle database link to the MySQL data source, then you should be able to insert, update, delete, and select from [...]
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| January 31, 2012 9:20 PM
MySQL 5.0, Oracle 10g, Solaris 8, Windows Server 2003
Windows XP virus Query!
I’ve found this approach helpful in many cases. Boot the machine in Safe Mode (w/NO network support) and log in as administrator. Then go to the folder(s) in question and take ownership, and force that change to propagate. Because the permissions can be tightly locked by some of these pests, you may have to do [...]
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| January 30, 2012 8:45 AM
Access, Availability, Bandwidth, Desktops, Hardware, Interoperability, Management, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows, Networking, OS, Security, Servers, Software, SQL Server, Tech support
I’ve found this approach helpful in many cases. Boot the machine in Safe Mode (w/NO network support) and log in as administrator. Then go to the folder(s) in question and take ownership, and force that change to propagate. Because the permissions can be tightly locked by some of these pests, you may have to do [...]
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| January 30, 2012 8:45 AM
Access, Availability, Bandwidth, Desktops, Hardware, Interoperability, Management, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows, Networking, OS, Security, Servers, Software, SQL Server, Tech support
VIRUS Scan
Fair warning – I’m going to be irritated with you. /rant ON There are 3 or 4 major vendors (depending on how you count them), and dozens of smaller vendors in this (anti-virus) marketplace. You’ve provided ZERO information on your O/S, your brand, style and version of anti-virus, and you expect us to somehow magically [...]
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| January 30, 2012 8:34 AM
Auditing, Cooling, Data center operations, Disaster Recovery, Electrical, Information risk management, Physical security, SAN, Security management, Security products, Software Quality Assurance, Space/structure
Fair warning – I’m going to be irritated with you. /rant ON There are 3 or 4 major vendors (depending on how you count them), and dozens of smaller vendors in this (anti-virus) marketplace. You’ve provided ZERO information on your O/S, your brand, style and version of anti-virus, and you expect us to somehow magically [...]
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| January 30, 2012 8:34 AM
Auditing, Cooling, Data center operations, Disaster Recovery, Electrical, Information risk management, Physical security, SAN, Security management, Security products, Software Quality Assurance, Space/structure
USB External Hard drive and Windows XP
You might want to check in disk management and see if the system is seeing the drive and what drive letter is assigned – Windows tries to assign the next drive letter – even if it’s already assigned to something. If you see the drive in Disk Management – then just assign it a different [...]
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| April 19, 2013 8:28 AM
Adapters/Interfaces, Billing and customer care, Billing Support Systems, Desktops, Development, Disk drives, Fibre channel, Hardware, Management, Microsoft Windows, OS, Security, Servers, SQL Server
You might want to check in disk management and see if the system is seeing the drive and what drive letter is assigned – Windows tries to assign the next drive letter – even if it’s already assigned to something. If you see the drive in Disk Management – then just assign it a different [...]
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| April 19, 2013 8:28 AM
Adapters/Interfaces, Billing and customer care, Billing Support Systems, Desktops, Development, Disk drives, Fibre channel, Hardware, Management, Microsoft Windows, OS, Security, Servers, SQL Server
The Ever Constant Restart
format this puppy and reload…. Virus or not. ============ There are many possible reasons why a computer restarts continuously. Most of the time, this is an operating system error specifically boot error. During the installation, there might be an incomplete or corrupted system files installed into the computer system. The best thing you have to [...]
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| January 30, 2012 8:25 AM
DataCenter, Hardware, Help Desk, Installation, Networking, Tech support, Windows 2000 desktop
format this puppy and reload…. Virus or not. ============ There are many possible reasons why a computer restarts continuously. Most of the time, this is an operating system error specifically boot error. During the installation, there might be an incomplete or corrupted system files installed into the computer system. The best thing you have to [...]
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| January 30, 2012 8:25 AM
DataCenter, Hardware, Help Desk, Installation, Networking, Tech support, Windows 2000 desktop
storage
If you don’t know much about storage, then I do not understand why you plan to build your career on it. However, start by looking for “white papers” on the web, and reading up on various storage vendors. Storage is an odd (unusual) choice by itself. There is a lot to learn, but unless it [...]
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| January 30, 2012 8:24 AM
Arrays, Backup & recovery, Commvault, Computer Associates, Disk drives, EMC, Fibre channel, HP, IBM, NAS, Optical, RAID, SAN, SCSI, Storage, Storage management, Storage products and equipment, Tape drives/Libraries, Veritas
If you don’t know much about storage, then I do not understand why you plan to build your career on it. However, start by looking for “white papers” on the web, and reading up on various storage vendors. Storage is an odd (unusual) choice by itself. There is a lot to learn, but unless it [...]
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| January 30, 2012 8:24 AM
Arrays, Backup & recovery, Commvault, Computer Associates, Disk drives, EMC, Fibre channel, HP, IBM, NAS, Optical, RAID, SAN, SCSI, Storage, Storage management, Storage products and equipment, Tape drives/Libraries, Veritas
Report from check disk on active NTFS partition
In the event log. The name on the event will be: winlogon this will be found in the system event log. === Event log is also possible to record the checkdisk execution of your computer system. However, the best thing you can do is to perform a regular checkdisk scan to avoid any future problem [...]
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| January 30, 2012 8:17 AM
DataCenter, Desktops, Disk drives, Hardware, Management, Microsoft Windows, OS, Security, Servers, Software, SQL Server, Storage, Storage products and equipment, Storage servers, Tech support
In the event log. The name on the event will be: winlogon this will be found in the system event log. === Event log is also possible to record the checkdisk execution of your computer system. However, the best thing you can do is to perform a regular checkdisk scan to avoid any future problem [...]
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| January 30, 2012 8:17 AM
DataCenter, Desktops, Disk drives, Hardware, Management, Microsoft Windows, OS, Security, Servers, Software, SQL Server, Storage, Storage products and equipment, Storage servers, Tech support
One computer cause another on the network to slow down
This sounds more like a hardware problem, or maybe faulty share settings. First, I would see if there is a diagnostic for the network card in computer Three. If it is a motherboard ethernet port, install a seperate PCI card and disable onboard. Also, test the cable going to computer Three with a cable tester. [...]
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| January 30, 2012 8:09 AM
Dell, malware, Network, shared files, virus, Windows XP Professional
This sounds more like a hardware problem, or maybe faulty share settings. First, I would see if there is a diagnostic for the network card in computer Three. If it is a motherboard ethernet port, install a seperate PCI card and disable onboard. Also, test the cable going to computer Three with a cable tester. [...]
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| January 30, 2012 8:09 AM
Dell, malware, Network, shared files, virus, Windows XP Professional
Open IT Forum: What do you want to see from IT Knowledge Exchange in 2012?
Some hot topics I would like to know more about are Virtual Desktop technologies (VDI), SQL Server 2012, and Cloud Computing. It would also be nice to be able to search across all TechTarget Search*.com sites at once when researching a topic. -Tech Talker
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| January 28, 2012 2:26 AM
AS/400, Business Intelligence, Channel, CIO, CRM, Database, DataCenter, Development, Exchange, Linux, Lotus Domino, Microsoft Windows, Mobile, Networking, Open IT Forum, Oracle, SAP, Security, SQL Server, Storage, Virtualization, VoIP, Windows Server
Some hot topics I would like to know more about are Virtual Desktop technologies (VDI), SQL Server 2012, and Cloud Computing. It would also be nice to be able to search across all TechTarget Search*.com sites at once when researching a topic. -Tech Talker
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| January 28, 2012 2:26 AM
AS/400, Business Intelligence, Channel, CIO, CRM, Database, DataCenter, Development, Exchange, Linux, Lotus Domino, Microsoft Windows, Mobile, Networking, Open IT Forum, Oracle, SAP, Security, SQL Server, Storage, Virtualization, VoIP, Windows Server
