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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description of perfmon counters?
I'd like to use typeperf or logman to process and/or log some basic system health information on a PC (running WinXP), but I can't find a description of common performance counters, just "typeperf -q" ...
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Mapping a Drive to File Server (Win2008) results in incorrect password / username error after Reboot or Logoff/in
Here is the setup. Very small network. Windows 2008 with a single folder shared as 'Data'. Win2k8 server (called Server) has user account called Staff that is part of Users group. On a network ...
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Can I Override Multicast Address for One Specific Destination IP?
I have a Windows XP machine that is fitted with two Network cards. One card is used to access the company network and internet and its IP is assigned by DHCP whilst the second has a fixed IP and is ...
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Script to delete temp files for all users in XP, Vista, and 7
Basically, we have numerous customers running XP and 7 with a few Vista machines.
I've found this batch script, but it is limited to the current user (uses the %userprofile% environment variable). ...
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Sharing internet connection on Windows XP with 2 NIC's and seperate networks
This is the basic setup. The goal is to get Host 2 to use Host 1's second NIC to connect to the internet without using any special routing software or anything on Host 1.
What I can do: Configure ...
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Is Remote Desktop to Workstations Secure?
I have users that want to use remote desktop for remote access to their workstations. I have RADIUS connected VPN server that I use, however I remember to connect and disconnect rather than send web ...
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Gettings list of files USMT will capture
I would like to make a list of all the files that USMT will capture. The purpose for this, is that I'd like to provide that list to a user before their migration to Win7 which details which files ...
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Restrict access to All Users folder on XP and 7 via GP
I am attempting to restrict access to the All Users folder via GP. Currently I have the setting under:
Computer/Policies/Windows Settings/Security Settings/File System
configured for the ...
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WMI is showing wrong version of Microsoft Access
We use Microsoft Access for certain database functions and as most of you already know an Access database can be very grumpy when accessed by an outdated version of Access. In order to control this I ...
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Have LSA error with XP machine?
Have a strange problem.
We have a XP SP3 computer that connects remotely to our server 2008. All of a sudden users are unable to log in.
Looking at Event Viewer I am getting errors with source LSASRV ...
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Create self-signed SSL certificate for windows XP
How can I create an SSL certificate pair for a windows XP machine. Is it possible to do without enabling IIS?
Some background:
Splunk server on hardened Windows XP machine - yes I know, not the ...
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Users cannot run executables on network shares on XP
User A is in group 1.
Group 1 has Full Control over a network shared folder that contains an executable (Office installation).
User A gets the error: "... The specified path does not exist. Check the ...
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Samba 3.3.x throws RPC failed error when trying to login to XP Client
I've got a Samba Server running on Ubuntu 10 that's a Primary Domain controller for a small domain of XP Clients. this server was working on Ubuntu 6.06, and I upgrades (6 to 8 and 8 to 10) and ...
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Network shares not working from NT 5.x clients
This is a weird one for me. We have a total of 10 servers. 4 x Windows 2003 and 6 x Windows 2008. Yesterday all Windows XP machines stopped being able to access the shared printers and folders from ...
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error ocuuring ::: failed to install tomcat 7 service
While I'm trying to install Tomcat(apache-tomcat-7.0.23.exe) on my system (Windows XP SP3), which is in company's network, it is showing me the following error:
failed to install tomcat 7 service ...
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What is solicited network traffic and what is unsolicited network traffic?
I've recently read a Microsoft Technet article on how Windows Firewall works. The author of the article uses concepts like 'solicited network traffic' and 'unsolicited network traffic' for a machine. ...
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Make WPA2 enterprise connect before login?
I'm connecting my Windows XP SP3 clients to a WPA2 Enterprise secured wifi network.
The WiFi network is secured using an external RADIUS server with PEAP/MSCHAPv2 as the authentication method.
The ...
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Pointing local machine to itself through internet
I'm very inexperienced with networking, so bear with me.
I'm trying to connect to a windows service using soapclient in php, but I'm getting this error.. I believe the machine running the service is ...
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Windows Update state on fresh installations?
I can't find this tiny bit of info anywhere: is Windows Update enabled or disabled by default on fresh installs of the OS? Basically I want to know whether it's on or does one have to manually enable ...
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Troubleshoot large number of TCP retransmits / dup ack / segment lost
I have a problem with RDC slowing to a crawl or disconnecting entirely. Client is XP SP3 w/ RDC 6, server is Win 2k8 R2. Both have been scanned thoroughly and found to be virus free.
I downloaded ...
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How can I rejoin a Windows machine to the domain without losing user data if trust relationship on machine was broken
Long story short. A new machine was added to our domain with the same machine name as a pre-existing machine.
Rather than receiving an error from the domain when this was being done, it simply ...
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Windows XP SP3 and Windows 2008 R2 SP1 doesn't work
I've got a Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Active Directory with Full 2008 R2 Level Domain and a Windows XP SP3 Client which needs to join this domain.
Unfortunately the client is not able to join the ...
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how do I troubleshoot rdp
I have one Windows XP SP3 pc on the domain that I cannot rdp into.
The xp pc is enabled for rdp sessions.
Port 3389 is open in the firewall.
There are no errors in the event logs.
I have tried to rdp ...
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Why can Windows startup begin if hard drive has serious errors? [closed]
On my computer, Windows can begin startup (giving me a the option to press F8 to select safe mode) before blue screening and restarting. If I boot from an external Ultimate Boot CD, I can't read the ...
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Shutting down system using task scheduler feature
I am working on a network with multiple systems with windows XP. My aim to schedule a system shutdown at a specific time, but i don,t want everybody to set it manually. Just a click on the .cmd file i ...
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Why might Windows falsely claim a self-signed root CA certificate is revoked?
I created a self-signed root CA cert for internal test use, using openssl. This has been successfully installed and used as a trusted CA on a number of machines and platforms (Windows, Linux, various ...
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Windows XP NTP client authentication
I'm trying to configure a Windows XP NTP client to authenticate to a local NTP server on our closed network. How can I make this happen?
One article I've found for configuring the client to talk to a ...
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Total disk use of various antivirus solutions (not just installations) [closed]
I'm running a Windows XP VM with very limited disk space. But due to network connection it requires a real-time virus protection. A decent one.
Microsoft Security Essentials uses only about 16MB in ...
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SMB Alias Lookup on Windows XP
Should Windows XP be able to do a SMB lookup on an Alias.
I have an XP machine that cannot find the files on \Alias but can find them on \host.
If I do a ping or nslookup it can resolve the Alias.
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CVS Access +Windows XP
I have installed CVS server cvsnt-2.5.03.2382.msi. I am getting below error while connecting using eclipse
"I/O has been interrupted.Timeout while reading from input streamThe most likely cause of
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When are large enterprises planning to upgrade to Win 7 from XP? [closed]
Support for XP ends April 2014. When are most large enterprises planning to go live with Win 7?
I would imagine they would probably be wanting to do it sometime late 2013.
I need to know because I ...
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Change users wallpaper without logging in as the user in XP
I have admin access to the computer.
What I want to do is change a users wallpaper to something else but without logging in as the user.
There must be a config file or something where these settings ...
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Migration: Office 2003 > 2010 | Windows XP > 7
My company will be migrating from Windows XP/MS Office 2003 to Windows 7/MS Office 2010.
We will have a set of Excel and Access files and we should be sure that all works perfectly after the ...
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GRE Tunnel between Linux server and XP client
I want to set up a simple unencrypted tunnel between a linux-server (running SLES9) and a client (running XP SP3). The reason for this is that there are many network devices in between and the client ...
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Distributing Files using a Group Policy on Windows Server 2003
A piece of software that we use at our office has recently moved to a new licensing system. This means that from now on a new set of license key files will need to be distributed to each of our 25 ...
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Mount NFS on Windows XP
I want to know if anybody have done any hands on test mounting NFS on windows xp using "Windows services for unix" http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=274
I know that it should work ...
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Sharing and Security model for local accounts: Any reason to use this Setting in a domain?
I am trying to solve an issue I have with logging into computers with local users remotely, and stumbled on this setting in GP on our Domain controller:
This might solve my problem, but than there ...
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How to block outgoing traffic (HTTP) from VMs?
I am playing with vmware ESXi v5 and installed a Win XP 32bit as one of the VMs inside.
I wish to block outgoing access (especially http) from the VM (maybe some form of firewall?), yet still allow:
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IIS Admin Service is disabled
I had installed IIS 5.1 in windows XP and it was working fine. But it stopped working. Then I installed it again. Now i can see it installed in my computer but I still can't go to http://localhost.
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Does MSDaRT restore domain information?
It's a Windows XP Box.
If I run the system restore through MSDaRT, will the domain information will be restored?
Say, if user left the domain, after the restore, user will be part of the domain ...
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WSUS with proxy that requires authentication
I have a Windows XP system that needs to connect to a remote WSUS server to get updates. This system can only access the server through a proxy that requires a user name and password. I don't have ...
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How to Add a Client System To a Server
I have recently installed Windows Server 2008 R2 on one my system and now want to add my client to that server.
Almost all the systems have been added but two of them are refusing to add by showing ...
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Out-of-date data with a Samba server and a Windows XP client
I'm exporting a directory tree from a Linux server to a Windows XP client over Samba. Sometimes, when files are modified on the Linux side, the Windows side keeps seeing an out-of-date version. It ...
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Disable Security Center on SYSPREP-ed Windows XP
I am deploying Windows XP SP3 images in a stand-alone environment using SYSPREP. I am updating an existing image with patches, drivers, etc. Although my first images never launched Windows Security ...
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Windows XP cannot make VPN connection
i want to make a VPN conenction from my windows xp machine but after i go to network connections and try to add new - the radio buttons are greyed out like in the picture here
is there anything i ...
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Booting from VHD harddrive [closed]
I created a .vhd file with disk2vhd.exe from the C system partition with Windows XP as a backup.
Will it work to boot from that vhd file in virtualPC? I created new virtual machine
from existing vhd, ...
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Remove old backup.bkf 's backups
I always used ntbackup on WindowsXP for saving my data on a daily basis.
My backup type is incremental.
Now my external hard disk storage is full.
How can I delete old backups?
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What is the difference between Windows XP services and Windows 7 services?
I have downloaded an open source C++ application. This application run as a Linux daemon, listening at a port, and waiting for connection from client PC. Someone has compiled this application under ...
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find file newer than yesterday using batch script
I am trying to write a batch script that can find the files created/modified/newer since yesterday and/or any specific day from today in a particular folder. Then those files need to be copied to ...
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WINXP/AD GPO: Allow non-admin user to log off existing locked session
I'm looking to create a policy that would allow
non-administrator users the ability to log off other non-administrators who
have left and have a locked screen. I really don't want to give the users
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