Windows XP is an operating system produced by Microsoft for use on personal computers, including home and business desktops, laptops, and media centers. It was first released in August 2001, and is currently one of the most popular versions of Windows. The name "XP" is short for "eXPerience."
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Windows Server 2003 R2 SIS Groveler start error
Hi I have a Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2 running and I need to have a WDS with mixed mode so I can deploy Windows 7 & Windows XP images. I went to setup the first image and after the wizard was done ...
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TCP buffer size analysis
Is it possible to query the current size (or some kind of graph of the buffer-size over time for that matter) of the TCP buffer of a connection?
Each endpoint of a TCP connection will have a ...
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Changing IP address via CMD on windows XP
Im trying to change a machine ip address vi CMD with this code:
netsh int ip set address name="Local Area Connection" source=static addr=???.???.???.??? mask=255.255.255.0
The problem that the IP ...
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Outlook 2010 Unable to See Free/Busy Information While Outlook 2007 can
In this office, most of us are using Outlook 2007, while a few of us uses Outlook 2010. For Outlook 2007, we are able to view other people's free busy information after hacking the registry of ...
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viewing my virtualbox redhat's localhost to my virtualbox winxp browser
I have a redhat(virtualbox) localhost working and everything,
and a winxp(virtualbox), i want to view the localhost what i made in redhat
in windows xp i got the ip via /sbin/ifconfig
inet ...
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WMI query to check setting “Reversible Encryption” in Windows XP
In Windows XP, there are two settings in Group Policy I'm looking at:
Password must meet complexity requirements
Store password using reversible encryption
Both of these settings are under Local ...
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SSL on Apache seems to significantly affect WebDAV performace
I'm using Apache 2.2 running on Windows Server 2008 R2 as a WebDAV server for clients to upload large media files (roughly 100-2000MB). I am finding that when I have SSL enabled (openSSL 0.9.8o) and ...
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Domain user periodically can't login, but only temporarily?
Ok, this is a strange one that I'm having trouble replicating letting alone solving. I have a user who uses two computers (both XP sp3) on the domain with a roaming profile. She has no problems on ...
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Save any file directly on Windows server instead of the user's PC?
I am using a Windows 2003 R2 server and an XP system. I want to save
any file (like- .doc, .xls, audio and video file) directly on the
server from XP system.
There must be no option to save the file ...
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Why won't Windows XP firewall use domain settings on boot?
Although my XP workstations are connected to the domain, after booting firewall.cpl reports they're "using non-domain settings".
Official literature tells me it's an issue with the DNS suffix of its ...
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MDT: Imaging different hardware types?
We use numerous make and model of laptops in our research. To this point we've always used "ghost" to image them (w/ XP). Im wondering about the feasibility of using MDT instead.
Would I need a ...
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How to create different printer profiles for different paper types on Windows XP?
I am often switching between different types of paper and lanscape/portrait for printing on the same computer on Windows XP. Can I create different profiles for the same printer so I can easily switch ...
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TS RemoteApp between two XP Pro machines?
Is it possible to do Terminal Services RemoteApp between two XP Pro machines?
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Windows XP Scheduler - Error Adding Another Task (data area passed to a system call is too small)
I'm getting an error "data area passed to a system call is too small" when trying to add a task to the Windows Scheduler. We currently have about 20 tasks in it.
Googling the issue, we found to ...
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Why does windows login hang up on “Applying Computer Settings” for 3-5 minutes
I have a server that hosts about 20 virtual machines. The VM's all use Windows XP. When you log in to any of them after booting them up, it will take about 3-5 minutes to log you in and freeze up on ...
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Access denied to a directory shared by a Win 7 Pro x64 machine, from all XP Pro SP3 hosts, fixed by server reboot
I recently started to manage the existing network of a small business. They have about 10 machines, with various versions of Windows (mostly XP Pro and Seven, 32 bits).
I installed a new server (a ...
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Will running this batch file cause permanent damage to a Windows 7 or Windows 2008 R2 installation?
The following "fix" is found on Microsoft's site under KB968003, but it's unclear which operating systems it's for.
The instructions call for you to run the following batch file:
@echo off
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The RDP protocol component “DATA ENCRYPTION” detected an error in the protocol stream and has disconnected the client
I have a W 2K3 Terminal Server which most of my computers can connect to without a problem. There is one computer which always fails and says:
The client could not establish a connection to the ...
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How to schedule task to run every 10 minutes, from 8:00 to 15:00 on multiple days of week (with schtask.exe)?
How to schedule a task to run every 10 minutes, from 8:00 to 15:00 on multiple days of week, i.e. on Mon,Tue,Wed?
The task I described can be defined with the GUI of Task Scheduler by using the ...
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What is causing this EXE to hang (intermittently) on Citrix Desktop sessions?
We have a small executable that does 2 things:
Read a value from the Registry
Launch a URL in Internet Explorer
I don't have access to the source for the exe to see what it is doing exactly. ...
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Windows XP shows low disk space - WinDirStat shows 50GB <Unknown> entry
We run 12 Dell Optiplex 755 desktop computers. All of them have the exact same hardware and softawre, configured exactly the same. As such, they are all:
running Windows XP
on the same network
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How do you prevent any and all access to a user's home folder by anyone other than the user in Windows XP?
We've tried editing permissions from an administrator account, but even users with all categories filed under "Deny" were able to edit their own security permissions. How do you fix this/Is there a ...
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Disabling IE Security popup with Registry entry
For an unattended installation, how could I disable the popup in IE8:
When you send information to the internet it might be possible for others to see that information?
This popup blocks my scripts.
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Installing software at large organisation [closed]
I have to give an MSI to a large organisation for it to install (presumably via GPO) on to some of their workstations that are running XP.
I already know that my application is not allowed to write ...
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PPTP VPN - users cannot access internet via the server (Failing before DNS)
I apologize to be opening another question with such a similar title, but
PPTP VPN - users cannot access internet via the server
does not quite cover the issue I'm encountering.
I have a VPN Server ...
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Set Windows Theme Settings Globally?
Long story short, we have a small thin client infrastructure setup using Windows 7 and XP for educational use (not Server 2008/2003).
My question is if anyone knows of a way to set the Windows theme ...
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How can I remotely list installed programs on a Windows XP system, while it is in use?
The title pretty much covers it all. There is a Windows XP system on the network which is currently in use by another user. Since XP only allows one active user session at a time, I cannot use RDP ...
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Server 2003 anonymous time sync
we've got a DC on Server 2003 the domain is running fine and all but I've got a problem with our external sites which are connected via the MPLS but not on the domain.
The shops are running thin ...
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IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL after moving Windows XP guest to new virtual machine host
I have two Virtual Machine Servers, both are similar spec 64 bit machines, same processor, etc. Both are running KVM with LVM based disks. One machine is using CentOS 6 Minimal as the Host OS, the ...
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Local printer redirection problems in Terminal Services
I have several WinXP clients that are connecting to a Win2003 Terminal Server. I've had trouble getting them to map their local printer into the Terminal session.I have tried so many things but only ...
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pciide.sys not found - drivermax issue
I have a weird issue. I turned on my laptop in the morning today and I was shocked to see a \system32\config\system not found message - The OS on it (WindowsXP) would not boot.
So, I read a few ...
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Group Policy Preferences File Association on older Clients
I have a GPP for file association aka "open with". It works as expected on Server2008/Win7 but does nothing on Server2003/WinXP that has both the GPP Client KB943729 and GPP hotfix KB982051 installed. ...
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What setting in XP stops executables being run unless you're an administrator?
If I go to a workstation in a certain large organisation and try to run an executable from a USB drive it doesn't let me.
What setting is this in Group Policy or wherever else that does this?
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Administrator/Guest Account Status “Not Applicable”?
I've never seen this before, and hope someone here can help explain this.
The following screenshots were taken on a computer that is not a member of any domain, and therefore not having any Group ...
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XP server allows all domain users to c$ share
I have an XP Pro computer acting as a Quickbooks server. I've noticed that any user on the domain can access the computer via \\quickbooks\c$. I've looked in the local Administrators group on the ...
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Server 2008 GPO not applying to Windows XP clients over site-to-site VPN
I have a Server 2008 R2 based Active Directory domain. Our default GPO has a few printer/network drive maps that both work fine locally for clients running Windows 7 as well as Windows XP (after ...
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What sort of network problems can a single NIC host cause?
A remote office has a Cisco ASA 5505 connecting the LAN to our HQ LAN via VPN.
When a particular Windows XP PC is connected to the ASA via a switch, the VPN tunnel drops, and after a short while, all ...
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Performance gains of putting Windows pagefile on separate partition (same disk)?
I am making a drive image that will be deployed to several computers, and I'm tweaking it for performance. It is a Windows XP image.
Considering there is only one hard drive, will the machine gain ...
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Bind server port to local ip address [closed]
Here is the situation:
A Windows XP machine running as server - accessible from outside
A device(camera) which is locally(from LAN) accessible
What I need is this - if I access a specific port on ...
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%sessionname% returns incorrect session name
I have a virtualised Windows XP SP3 machine, which I am connecting to over Remote Desktop.
One of my scripts needs to use the %sessionname% variable. However this returns incorrect information.
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Nat over windows xp pro [closed]
I've this situation: 1 pc running windows xp pro with 2 nics, one connected to the wan, the other connected via a crossover cable to another pc. I want to redirect all incoming trafic from the wan to ...
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On IIS on windows xp what is considered a single connection?
On IIS running on Windows XP what is considered a single connection? If there are only 10 connection allowed on a single computer running windows xp (according to the MSDN website) what is considered ...
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check for ping reply - unexpected result
I am running this within windows xp batch file:
ping -n 3 10.1.1.2 >nul: 2>nul:
if %errorlevel%==0 (
echo ping reply arrived
) else (
echo no ping reply.
)
sometime, it seems ...
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Hide network path displayed in mapped drive name
Is there a way to hide the network path that is displayed by default in a mapped drive name?
We've got Windows 7 and XP machines and we're migrating from a fileserver to a SAN.
Currently in My ...
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How do I stop Windows from sending random data to serial port on startup and shutdown? [closed]
I have an Epson DM-D110 display pole connected to COM1. When Windows XP starts up and shuts down, a small bit of random character data is sent to the display pole. Some times it's the fish symbol, ...
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What else disables changing IE proxy settings besides Group Policy? [closed]
Something is disabling access to the proxy settings in IE on my (work) laptop. IE is set to use the corporate proxy, so applications that use IE's proxy settings don't work when I take the laptop ...
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How to force Windows XP to login into the domain upon boot, and then self-lock
Is it possible to force an XP machine on a domain to login as a certain user and then lock upon boot?
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How do I automate the installation and configuration of a local printer?
I'm running Windows XP SP3.
I have a fleet of laptop computers that I'm creating a master clone for.
Each of these computers will have a different function when deployed so I've created a series of ...
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What does the windows XP end of life mean for a business and it's domain?
I am hoping someone can explain in simple terms, what it really means that windows XP will be end of life?
It looks like SP2 is already not being patched, but maybe SP3 is going to be patched up ...
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PC Anywhere & reboot issues
We are having a "custom" way of updating OS & software on some world wide deployed systems, that is all updates are wrapped as an installer and deployed through a download channel to those ...
