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Forum: Networking and the Internet with Windows XP February 17th 10, 02:51 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.network_web
Replies: 2
Views: 683
Posted By Brian
Extremely slow logon via VPN

I checked everything I could think of, and here is how it stands:

I do not use roaming profiles (i.e. no path in Profile Path in AD)
Offline File Synch is disabled for the domain admin's profile on...
Forum: Networking and the Internet with Windows XP February 11th 10, 01:16 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.network_web
Replies: 2
Views: 683
Posted By Brian
Extremely slow logon via VPN

I have several WinXP Pro stations in the following network topology:

All are part of a Windows 2003 SBS domain.
Corporate office has five computers and Windows 2003 SBS DC.
Remote office has one...
Forum: Networking and the Internet with Windows XP January 21st 10, 04:04 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.network_web
Replies: 0
Views: 410
Posted By Brian
Extremely slow remote domain logon

There is a rather extreme difference in logon time at a workstation when
comparing domain admin logon and domain user logon.

Windows 2003 SBS
Windows XP Pro client
Network
1. There is a LAN in the...
Forum: Microsoft Messenger December 6th 09, 03:31 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.messenger
Replies: 10
Views: 1,945
Posted By Brian
Display Name asked at every sign in

"JS" wrote:



"JimOPI" wrote:

On Nov 22, 9:39 am, Jim wrote:
On Nov 20, 12:58 pm, Rob wrote:

For the last week,...
Forum: Microsoft Messenger December 6th 09, 03:31 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.messenger
Replies: 10
Views: 1,945
Posted By Brian
Display Name asked at every sign in

"JS" wrote:



"JimOPI" wrote:

On Nov 22, 9:39 am, Jim wrote:
On Nov 20, 12:58 pm, Rob wrote:

For the last week,...
Forum: General XP issues or comments July 27th 09, 03:31 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 3
Views: 207
Posted By Brian
IE7 breaks Windows Media Player streaming media

I have been through that article and fully patched the system and still have
the problem.

We haven't gone to IE8 because I personally don't like or trust it yet. I
haven't tested it throughly...
Forum: General XP issues or comments July 27th 09, 02:52 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 3
Views: 207
Posted By Brian
IE7 breaks Windows Media Player streaming media

We just rolled out IE7 in our office. Now nobody is able to streaming
internet radio or streaming video from our website through windows media
player. It is happening with both WMP 11 and WMP 9. ...
Forum: General XP issues or comments July 7th 09, 03:23 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 1
Views: 75
Posted By Brian
configuration files

How do I find the Main setup .dat file. please
Forum: General XP issues or comments June 21st 09, 05:59 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 8
Views: 270
Posted By Brian
No Extract on right-click after WinZIP uninstall

Agreed. And thank you again. I just thought it was funny that I had tried
several searches with no usable hits, and then your first search hit it right
on. Sometimes the particular flavor the...
Forum: General XP issues or comments June 21st 09, 01:33 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 8
Views: 270
Posted By Brian
No Extract on right-click after WinZIP uninstall

I did manage to extract that from Shenan's post, but thank you also for the
clarification. I ran a lot of searches but never quite hit the right (and
perhaps obvious) combination of terms to get...
Forum: General XP issues or comments June 19th 09, 02:25 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 8
Views: 270
Posted By Brian
No Extract on right-click after WinZIP uninstall

Thank you. That did it. Gotta word it right to get results, though.

Who would have thought that I would not get a usable hit when searching for:

winzip uninstall windows xp restore,

windows...
Forum: General XP issues or comments June 19th 09, 02:01 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 8
Views: 270
Posted By Brian
No Extract on right-click after WinZIP uninstall

I uninstalled WinZIP from a client's PC (Windows XP SP3), since Windows has
ZIP file extraction built-in. However, the Extract All option is not
available on right-click of ZIP files, and ZIP files...
Forum: Security and Administration with Windows XP May 19th 09, 09:10 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin
Replies: 2
Views: 301
Posted By Brian
Kill single thread

Thank you, John. That looks like it should do what I need, and with much less
effort than I had been expending on these.

"John Wunderlich" wrote:

=?Utf-8?B?QnJpYW4=?=...
Forum: Security and Administration with Windows XP May 19th 09, 02:54 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin
Replies: 2
Views: 301
Posted By Brian
Kill single thread

Is there a way to kill a single thread in a process?

Occasionally, I will run into a piece of spyware that is running as a thread
in a system-critical process. All my usual efforts at removal fail...
Forum: General XP issues or comments April 22nd 09, 11:45 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 7
Views: 218
Posted By Brian
Unable to set new owner

Long story. The actual file was a DLL in system32. Normally, I can simply
deny access to the file to everyone, then reboot, and the file cannot be
loaded because nobody has rights to it. Then, I...
Forum: General XP issues or comments April 22nd 09, 06:09 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 7
Views: 218
Posted By Brian
Unable to set new owner

Both.

Malwarebytes' Anti-malware finds the registry entries pointing to the virus
file (which has been removed) but cannot. remove the registry entries. When I
attempt to remove them manually, I...
Forum: General XP issues or comments April 22nd 09, 06:04 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 7
Views: 218
Posted By Brian
Unable to set new owner

Thanks for the tip, but it found no null registry entries. I then tried
RootKit Revealer, which found, among other things, but most notably, a
"security mismatch" on a particular WinLogon entry...
Forum: General XP issues or comments April 22nd 09, 07:06 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 7
Views: 218
Posted By Brian
Unable to set new owner

I am working on removing a very stubborn piece of spyware. I got rid of the
DLL that was at the heart of the problem; however, in attempting to remove
the registry entries that call it, I have the...
Forum: Windows XP Help and Support April 8th 09, 10:39 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Replies: 2
Views: 246
Posted By Brian
USB Root Hub Ports

John - Thank you for all of this information. However, I have yet to create
I and J
drive letters for the two USB ports on the front of my computer. Again,
connecting and disconnecting the USB...
Forum: Windows XP Help and Support April 7th 09, 11:26 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Replies: 2
Views: 246
Posted By Brian
USB Root Hub Ports

I have six of these ports, four on the back of the computer (two of which
are in use) and two on the front. For the past couple of years, each time I
connected a USB cable to a front port, I hear...
Forum: General XP issues or comments April 4th 09, 03:39 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 1
Views: 178
Posted By Brian
Windows XP Update KB967715

Each day I get an update message to install update KB967715. (Since February
2009). I install it, turn the compter off for the night, and the next day it
says I have this same update to install. ...
Forum: Hardware and Windows XP March 21st 09, 06:35 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
Replies: 5
Views: 263
Posted By Brian
CD/DVD drive has completely vanished--MS fix does not restore it

I had the same issue. Details:
AOpen PC
WXP Media Center
Internal Panasonic DVD drive ATA
No customization on this machine, very little software installed outside
media and music playing programs....
Forum: Networking and the Internet with Windows XP March 19th 09, 04:49 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.network_web
Replies: 6
Views: 322
Posted By Brian
max number of connections - sharing question

"Malke" wrote:

slothy wrote:

Hi im curious on how the limit of 10 connections works for xp pro. My
question is if im sharing a folder and with 4 users and each of those
users open...
Forum: Networking and the Internet with Windows XP March 19th 09, 04:49 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.network_web
Replies: 6
Views: 322
Posted By Brian
max number of connections - sharing question

"Malke" wrote:

slothy wrote:

Hi im curious on how the limit of 10 connections works for xp pro. My
question is if im sharing a folder and with 4 users and each of those
users open...
Forum: General XP issues or comments January 19th 09, 02:28 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 1
Views: 70
Posted By Brian
Other PCI Bridge Device Error

I bought a computer on sale and didn't realize that at the time it had
Windows Vista. I did not like Vista and decided to purchase a copy of XP and
install it instead. I had all the usuall problems...
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