Hello Friends,I am having a problem with the ghost image which i have made recently. First there was no problem at all. After i made the ghost image i have saved the image in our server so that the next time i can directly dump it from there. Now the problem is that when i am ghosting a machine from...

Hello dear friends,I have been really fustrated with this winlogon.exe error everytime i open an internet explorer. that really fustrates me and i dont know how to correct that error. So if anybody has any idea about this please tell me how to correct this error. This keeps on coming every time i op...

Hello dear Friends,I am facing a big problem with my computer not getting bootup in the first time. The Actual problem is that when i switch on my computer for the first time in the day it refuses to boot. I have noticed that if i keep the power for some time and then later try starting the computer...

Hello all friends,My computer suddenly gets hanged up when i am in between of some urgent work and all the data which has not been saved gets lost. This is happening for the last one week. i tried running a virus scan thinking that this might be because of some virus in the system this might be gett...

Hi Friends, I am a simple windows programming person trying to do a small project. I a trying to get the Serial number (Unique to the Compact flash) through some windows function, but am not able to do it. I tried a function as GetVolumeInformation with parameters. It does return me a number but it...

Hi All,I have internet connection(direct) in my office line. I have installed a proxy software , which enable other machines in my lan to connect to Internet through my direct Internet connection(through my machine). Now i want to give proxy internet access to only few specific ip Addressess. What i...

can anyone tell me what is the best and the safest way too tripple boot a brand new hard disk. i got OS like Red Hat Linux 9.1, win 2000 Professional Edition, Win 98, win 98 SE, win XP and win ME. my system is a AMD athlon and i also have got suficient memory to do the task. so can anyone please hel...

I partioning a hard drive into sections and installing a different one on each. For example, WINME, WINXP, ETC. I want to create a bootable floppy that will give me the option of what operating system to boot. I thinking that autoexec.bat is my best bet. but I heard XP doesn't use it. The thing...

Hi,I'm trying to enable Plug n' Play for USB connected devices on locked down machines with a standard user. The desktops are all Win2000 Pro. I don't want to have to relax any permissions on HKLM\System registry keys. Ideally, I'd like PnP to be initiated by a system account...

Hi everybody!Today I have been introduced to a very strange problem that I could not find a resolution for. I started to work on the project that involves coding a client-side IE control. My development machine is running Windows XP Professional. When I had my first draft ready, I tried to run the p...

I am developing a program on my PC that will connect to the Internet via sockets. The first time that I ran it Windows popped-up a security message that said "This program is attempting the Internet, should Windows allow the connection?" I clicked yes and now my program is forever allowed to run a...

Why the system uses/shows that the specific user is having profile size in MBs?I know when we store data in My Documents, it counts. But the OS should be smart enough to detect that and reduce that usage amount from user's profile.Furthermore, if an administrator deletes the user profile it als...

i have a smart card reader installed on my machine with windows 2000. i don't want the prompt " enter your smart card" for logging on to windows at start up. but i want this prompt to come when icon for my application is double clicked. plz help. i am new to all this.thanks in advance....

This is Windows 2000. Every time that I would like to open the folder called "My Computer" and look at the hard drive, disk, CD, etc, the only thing that I see is just a white space and cursor is "waiting" (has the hourglass drawn over it.) In the end I'm forced to forcefully kill it and wait f...

I am using two operating systems. First I installed Win98 on C: drive and then I installed WinXp on D: Drive. My question is that I had to reinstall the Win98 after formating my C: drive, then with new installation, there is no option to select to OS, so I am not able to run WinXp. Whenever I boot t...

One of my friend's pc is giving error message upon running any program escept window explorer, <br/> [Program path] is not a valid Win32 application.<br/> He is using win98. He has reinstalled window formatting C:, but the problem persists;<br/> Help..

I am backing up files from a SUN application into a folder on the local C drive . i need a way for the contents of the folder to be synchronized with another folder any where on a LAN automatically, each time the original back up folder is updated .

hi guys!I Have an win2k pro installed when i turn it on and logging to it... it display a message " unable to login to the system" then after clicking ok... it displays your account was locked as a result of too many concurrent logins with the incorrect password". but it is configured with a blank p...

Hi Guys, Recently I ve Installed Xp in my Home PC. Its a dual OS Type. I ve win 98 also. Win 98 is Working Fine. When I boot from Xp it seems to be booting But Suddenly it is restarting and stands in the OS Selection screen. If I select Xp for Booting then again seems to be booting and a...

recently my previous hard disk failed and i replaced it with a new one and i installed windows 2000 pro service pack 4, i retrived my data from the faulty drive and was doing good till i start connecting to the net;now i get the error svchost.exe the referenced memory could not be accessed.i searche...

I'm Using WIndows XP, and everytime I try to run Turbo C the window freezes.<br/>How can I Run Turbo C in Windows XP?

I have a folder that I frequently access. I want to make it as drive letter.I made it using:SUBST M: c:\mydirI just wanted to know whether GUI part is available for it. I tried Computer Management (Disk Management, Logical Drives etc.).I am using Win2000, SP2.Thanx....

Hi all<br/>is it possible to make any of our file denied from being copied? <br/>i need this feature in windows.<br/>is it possible?<br/>Thanks<br/>Harinath

I'm sure we've all been there but this really bugs me. You select to move a few dozen gig of files between computers/drives and go off for a cup of tea. Returning 10 mins later only to see the message "thumbs.db is a system file are you sure you want to move it?" after only 10 MB of file...

An Interesting problem with Windows. <br/> Try to create a folder in Windows with either of these names-- "con" or "nul" or "Aux". <br/> Windows will not let u create..... <br/>any Specific reason???

Hi Gurus,I want to know if this is possible to program and use. Here is a typical situation that explains the problem at hand:Say, I have a folder with personal documents on a USB jump drive or an iPod. When I connect this drive to a machine, it recognizes the directories in the drive and displays t...

I keep seeing Event ID 4226 in my event's list and there's always a message that pops up too. It usually happens when I'm using P2P programs. Does anyone know what this means? Or better yet what can I do to fix it? Someone told me it had to do with the XP SP2 and not having enough soc...

Can I set a boot password on my WinXP machine, and when it gets to the account paasword, also ask for a hardware key? Also, what's an illegal operation? And what's telnet?

Hi Guys and Gals,I was wondering if someone could help me.As part of my duties, at work, I have to setup a test lab with numerious PC's. I have baught a few and some have SATA drives. Now I have no problem insalling XP, 2000 and 98 but I can't install windows NT4.I either get, after copyin...

HiI am not able to hear sound from my head phones.By mistake i have removed some software from my machine. Before that i use to hear.I don't know what i have removed and how to reinstall it.Pls see the attached doc.I am not able to set "Volume" and "Voice" setting in start->setting->contr...

Say we have a chunk in the physical RAM. A page(page1) is allocated at that chunk. Say the page extends from memory location - 0x0000 to 0x8888.At that time, another process(say, page2) is compiled. The MMU will generate addresses from -0x8889 - 0xffff for it.(whenever I say MMU generating addresses...

I believe dynamic loading means that loading of the process into RAM(from secondary storage) takes place at run time.<br/>Am I correct?<br/>What does static loading mean?<br/>Thanks<br/>Vikram

.. i have aproblem with IIS . [using WinXP]i installed IIS with default settings, havent set up any passwords, but when i try http://localhost, it says either that it cannot find that page, or sometimes i am asked to introduce a password.. but i havent set any passwords. HELP! plz...later edit: oh a...

When a page cannot be loaded and the session times out I get a message saying "Your current security settings prohibit the running of ActiveX controls. As a aresult the page may not display correctly". I keep getting this very frequently. Does anyone know why this happens ?

How do you get rid of the stupid search bars in IE. Is it something with the registry or what they are erally amkin me mad! :mad: <br/>Also, I might add, The people who make these bars should burn in ****

I have given special users launch- and access-permissions to Word-Files under Windows 2003 via DCOM (with dcomcnfg).I have an ASP.NET-Application which runs in the user-context (impersonation=true) and which uses a component (Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.dll)to create Word-documents on the server....

I recently upgraded to XP (I'm finally in the new millenium), and I am having a bit of a problem. 99.9% of the OS works just beautifully, but this one thing is driving me mad. When I connect to the internet and try to play some of the free games on msn.com, I get a security error. I have trie...

Hi, My application runs fine if Hyperthreading is disabled and crashes if hyperthreading is enabled in the BIOS.Is it advisable to disable hyperthreading?Some other application running in that system might require hyperthreading.Can any one help me out in this problem.Please rply ASAP....

Hi ,<br/> I have mac address with me . Is there a way to find out the IP address corresponding to this mac address?<br/>Is there any API for that?<br/>Please help me out ASAP.

Hi,<br/>I am having a problem with Remote Desktop. I cannot use Remote Desktop after having Microsoft Outlook open. Anyone ever hear of this problem?<br/>Any help appreciated,<br/>Royce

As I've found out, IIS is necessary in order to make your ASP pages compile in .NET. Unfortunately I am currently running XP Home edition and not professional (IIS is built into that.) So here's my question, how can I get IIS for XP home edition?

Hi.<br/>I am new to this as I just took up some asp VBscript, javascript course...<br/>Just wondering if I format a harddisk, does anyone know which one to choose: FAT, FAT32, NTSC and what is the difference?<br/>Thanks..

i have seen that XP has a feature that enables the user to run non-xp compatible softwares in XP but changing its compatability to some other older versions of windows. but still there are some softwares like chessmaster 4000 that still dznt work in XP. what is the solution to thatcan anyone please...

well i didn't had any idea where to ask this one so i'm asking it over here.whenever i try and play certain .mpeg files in my windows media player9 the media player gives the message-- error loading codec, though the song comes on, the video doesn't. i tried it with some other .mpeg f...

The ms article 248019 states:If you call a method on a COM server from an MFC COM client application and if the method takes a long time to process and return back, you won't be able to do anything on the client application and the OLE Server Busy dialog box pops up.You get the option to switch...

1)I know how to add items to context menus for various file types in Windows by editing the appropriate registry entries under the ROOT hive. What I would like to do, however, is group items under a folder or whatever you call it. I want it so when you right click over a txt file, for example, there...

Hi all,I have a very generic question related to Windows Operation system?What happend when a user right clicks and triggers Refresh menu item? I want to know what is happening internally in the OS?Whether it is refreshing the memory / registers / stack / related to paging...?What happens exactly?T...

Hi all,<br/>I have roaming profiles set up on my 50 users Windows 2000 network. I moved the location of the profiles to a different server. Any idea how can I point all the users to the new location without changing it one by one in Active Directory?<br/>Thanks,

I want to be able to automate the task of setting a User Rights assignment to any user. I'd like to do this in a batch file. For example: set user "testUser" to "Act as the operating system."I've seen ways using secedit, but I don't understand how to use it. Can anyone lay out for...

I am referingt to this... http://www.updatepatch.info/I received a Messenger service message that I am infected with something and that I should download a patch from that site. I just wondered if those are legal patches, why isn't they located inside any Microsoft site since they purportedly pa...