I recently installed XP SP2 in a branch office on three PCs. Two of the PCs of the same model (Gateway 500L) are having problems printing to their HP LaserJet 4200n printer. The third (Gateway 500C) is having no problem. The problem the two are experiencing are extreme slowness of printing. I've...
I am trying to write a VBScript that will use local admin rights to run another script. However, for some reason I can't get the RUNAS command to take the password. I am including my script below: set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") WshShell.Run ("%comspec% /k RUNAS...
I have an interesting problem with an application. When I double click a spreadsheet to open it, it open the application, but not the spreadsheet, and gives me this error. Visual Basic complie error in module autoexecnew. I can then click on file...open...and open the spreadsheet, but it won't...
Hi Everyone, I am trying to filter/manage a gateway through a helius router for directway. We are running windows 2000 server with all xp clients, around 50 of them. We have active directory running with the domain controller handing out dns and dhcp to clients. All clients are pointing to the...
I'm looking for a usb 2.0 print server that will support a multifunction printer (Epson CX6400). Can anyone point me in the right direction?
My notebook(40gb HDD, 256mb RAM)with win xp home edition has become dramatically slow in last 1-2 months. It takes more than 5 minutes to boot even after I removed everything from startup group using msconfig. The initial screen (win XP home) stays atleast 2-3minutes. How can I manage this? Is...
I am looking to find a way to Restore Office97/Outlook 2000/Win2000 and Office XP/Outlook 2003/WinXP setting to the original state. I need it in a fashion that an instructor can walk into the training room and be able to run on their own.
I have a recurring problem with a client. He has 2 computers sitting behind a wireless router. When he tries to add his wireless laptop, he sometines only sees 1 of the 2 and sometimes does not see either. I have connected his laptop and checked everything and it all seems fine, then i get a call ...
We are moving DNS services outside and I would like to learn more about how to set this up. We currently have AD Integrated DNS server, Primary DNS server, and Secondary DNS servers set up in our AD domain. We have 2 Domain Controllers, one on Windows 2003 w/Exchange 2003 w/GC, and one Windows 2000...
hello, I have a remote users desktop that has slowed to a crawl. when I look at processor usage one program is hogging 80% of the cpu resources. I have never seen this program before and all attempts to remove it have failed. ran several diff spyware/adware removal programs, took out the entries...
after telling the operating system to shutdown, after a few seconds you receive the screen saying "it is now safe to turn off your computer". instead of just powering down on its own.
I'm doing some research on the effectiveness of Microsoft's technical support, possibly for an article on SearchWindowsSecurity.com. Our site readers continually need help troubleshooting Windows security dilemmas. Some seem to find what they need on Microsoft's Web pages, and others don't get...
The platform is Windows XP and the application is Word 2003. I have a user that when she opens a file it opens a window that says the file is in read only and would she like to continue in that format or have the ability to change the document. She clicks no and the document opens normally. When...
Last week i've asked a quistion about the task manager in XP. This question is more the oke answered.. I've managed to enable the taskmanager.. My next question is: We're still exploring the possibility to make xp the default windows for the manager network. I'm wondering i've anyone can give us...
We have a small test-group of 5 pc with windows XP. We're testing the possibility of using Xp as the main OS for the board members of our company. Monday one of the pc's crashed, after reboot the task manager was disabeld(by the administrator; according to the error message) But all users are...



