Forum: General XP issues or comments
February 9th 09, 09:49 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 1
Views: 98
Permissions query, setting
Is there a command-line tool for querying and/or setting the NTFS permissions
on folders and files?
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Forum: Security and Administration with Windows XP
November 14th 08, 05:38 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin
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Replies: 0
Views: 457
SceCli Event 1704 in Application log
The message is:
"Security policy in the Group policy objects has been applied successfully."
I see this when invoking the gpupdate/force comman and at random times
throughout the day, but the...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
October 23rd 08, 02:17 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 4
Views: 270
How to hide Command window when batch file runs
On WinXPSP3, fully patched.
I would like to execute a small batch file by executing a quicklaunch
toolbar shortcut whose target is a .cmd file on the C:\ drive. Everything
works as intended, but...
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Forum: Networking and the Internet with Windows XP
April 3rd 08, 03:33 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.network_web
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Replies: 3
Views: 340
How to lose "domain"/"primary DNS suffix"
You should be able to dis-join the domain by adding it to a workgroup. Just
go back to the Computer name - change window you previously described and
change the domain membership to workgroup...
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Forum: Networking and the Internet with Windows XP
April 3rd 08, 02:31 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.network_web
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Replies: 0
Views: 216
Strange Network access auth failures
I can successfully run the systeminfo command against a remote machine,
whether it is a DC or member workstation, with the exception of one
workstation.
The command is: systeminfo /s machinename. ...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
February 13th 08, 05:23 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general
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Replies: 11
Views: 515
Website authentication problems IE6 vs. IE7
Yes, I completely understand this. The labbing I did was on the same
machine, only with one XP image using IE 6, the other IE 7.
It is the beauty of the Virtual environment which permits such...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
February 13th 08, 04:10 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general
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Replies: 11
Views: 515
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
February 13th 08, 12:32 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general
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Replies: 11
Views: 515
Website authentication problems IE6 vs. IE7
You're not gonna believe this...
I am using IE 7 on my "primary" installation of XPsp2 and IE 6 on a Virtual
installation on the same physical machine running under Virtual PC 2007. But
what I...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
February 12th 08, 06:40 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general
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Replies: 11
Views: 515
Website authentication problems IE6 vs. IE7
UPDATE:
I went back to my change logs to see if there were any changes I had made to
my system, which I had not yet reverted in testing my initial authentication
failures when using my Windows...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
February 12th 08, 05:50 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general
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Replies: 11
Views: 515
Website authentication problems IE6 vs. IE7
Thank you. Unlike some others who would deride a less experienced user as
myself for the LOCATION of my post and not its technical merits, YOU have
both addressed my issue AND selflessly addressed...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
February 12th 08, 05:40 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general
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Replies: 11
Views: 515
Website authentication problems IE6 vs. IE7
Thank you for your suggestions. I did reset all of my Zone settings to their
defaults, but to no avail. Also, i rolled back to IE 6 and everything worked
fine with no additional config changes. ...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
February 12th 08, 05:32 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 5
Views: 156
Emailing directly from Office applications
Paul,
The two individuals who posted before your curt response provided useful
information, so perhaps THIS newsgroup was an acceptable location for my
post...unless of course YOU have determined...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
February 11th 08, 09:49 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 9
Views: 169
Reinstall XP or repair?
"Crap" and "useless" may NOT have been...
If the deleted files exist in the Recycle Bin, restore them. Alternatively
if you have System Restore enabled, roll back to a restore point which
existed...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
February 11th 08, 09:40 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 6
Views: 99
Silverlight and Flash
After repeated pop-ups from MS to install Silverlight (the *******s wore me
down!), I did so. Is this a functional replacement for Flash? Can I
uninstall Flash in lieu of Silverlight?
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
February 11th 08, 09:37 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 11
Views: 515
Website authentication problems IE6 vs. IE7
Like many people, I do my banking online via a secure (SSL) connection to my
bank. Since updating to IE 7, I cannot access my bank's secure site - I
receive a session timeout message immediately...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
February 11th 08, 09:28 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 5
Views: 156
Emailing directly from Office applications
Recently, I became aware that when attempting to email a document (as an
attachment) from within an open Office application, the text I typed in the
body of the email was lost. If I FIRST open a...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
December 3rd 07, 07:01 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 7
Views: 167
USB hard disk access.
Can you see the G: drive in safe mode and explore it from there?
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"RON" wrote:
HI.
I get no eror message at all. The drive comes up in "my computer", if I
highlight that drive and...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
December 1st 07, 12:49 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 2
Views: 130
Adobe Reader 8
Uninstall any earlier versions of Adobe, if the 8.0 installation was an
upgrade. Then attempt to reinstall 8.0.
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"ovcsoccercoach" wrote:
I need help...when I try to open Adobe Reader 8 I...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
December 1st 07, 12:21 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 5
Views: 111
All avaliable network drives are mapped
Did you VERIFY the applied policy(ies) using RSoP.msc? Almost sounds like a
slow network connection or policy background refresh which is mapping the
drives, yet even so, the behaviour you...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
December 1st 07, 12:10 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 7
Views: 167
USB hard disk access.
When you try to access the G: drive, do you get a permissions error? Was the
"rebuild" of your machine done by pushing a Ghost image to it? Was drive M:
formatted as NTFS, or FAT32? Can you take...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
November 30th 07, 02:48 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 4
Views: 134
logoff user remotely
That is correct, but why would you? If you're on the remote machine, via RDP
for example, you have already knocked off the remote user. And once there,
just logoff with the GUI. Now if shutdown...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
November 30th 07, 04:30 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 7
Views: 493
The Product Key problem, again
So long as the executable resides on the laptop and is in the %path%, OR you
execute it from whatever directory you copy it to, yes.
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"kurmugon" wrote:
v2win:
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
November 30th 07, 01:59 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 4
Views: 134
logoff user remotely
Not aware of any logoff option, but you can DISCONNECT sessions under the
Shares node; as a courtesy, you can also send a console message to the target
machines to warn users that their sessions...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
November 29th 07, 06:39 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 7
Views: 493
The Product Key problem, again
I stand corrected. The newest version DOES work with Vista as well...
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"v2win" wrote:
That's easy...
Download this free keyfinder; doubleclick it and Voila! Your key is
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
November 29th 07, 06:35 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support,microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers
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Replies: 37
Views: 626
Backup Software Recommendation
Start Run - Ntbackup.exe
Excepting your first criterion, it is a VERY reliable backup utility (I
think it was licensed from Veritas), is already included with XP. I use the
task scheduler to...
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