Forum: General XP issues or comments
March 15th 08, 02:42 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 6
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Thousands of WPTEMP folders
Terry,
This client was someone referred to me late yesterday afternoon. I talked to
the company owner today, and he told me that someone who just started
working for him brought in WordPerfect and...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
March 14th 08, 07:04 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 6
Views: 149
Thousands of WPTEMP folders
Hello!
I was trying to help someone with a QuickBooks problem, which looked as
though it was caused by the "explorer" process taking over 400MB of memory
(512 in the system) and dropping available...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
February 25th 08, 08:37 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 2
Views: 104
XP Pro SP2 and SLOW search
I did kill the indexing service with no change. Google desktop is not
installed.
Gregg Hill
"JS" @ wrote in message ...
Try temporarily stopping...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
February 25th 08, 07:40 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 2
Views: 104
XP Pro SP2 and SLOW search
Hello!
I have a friend whose search function in Windows XP Pro SP2 has gotten
brutally slow. When he opens the search window and types in a file name or
search for text in a file, then clicks...
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Forum: Networking and the Internet with Windows XP
October 1st 07, 07:20 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.network_web
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Replies: 1
Views: 218
PC off-site backup services
Hello!
A friend asked me about an off-site backup service called Carbonite
http://www.carbonite.com and I am looking into it. I want to know if anyone
here has experience with it or if anyone...
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Forum: Networking and the Internet with Windows XP
September 26th 07, 04:50 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.network_web
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Replies: 3
Views: 275
Freaky peer-to-peer network problem
To answer both you and Chuck, yes, the router's LAN IP settings are changed
and yes, I ran an "ipconfig /all" to see from where they got their new IP
addresses, and it was from the router each time...
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Forum: Networking and the Internet with Windows XP
September 25th 07, 09:23 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.network_web
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Replies: 3
Views: 275
Freaky peer-to-peer network problem
Hello!
I just inherited a three-workstation network (XP Pro) where they wanted
Internet access set up. Their ISP is AT&T and they gave them one DHCP IP
address (routable), so I installed a Netgear...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
April 7th 07, 03:55 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 3
Views: 101
Dual-channel mode vs. more RAM
I had a suspicion that would be the answer. I suppose that would hold
true(?) unless a game were a particular RAM-hog and actually got well into
the third GB, in which case single-channel RAM is...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
April 7th 07, 04:17 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 3
Views: 101
Dual-channel mode vs. more RAM
Hello!
I have a two-year old MSI 865PE Neo2-V motherboard that has three RAM slots.
It can take up to 3GB, and I am wondering which configuration would provide
better gaming performance.
Would it...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
March 6th 07, 06:25 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 5
Views: 134
Change resolution on LCD and use whole screen
Larry,
Yes, there are some controls for size, but I do not think that is the issue.
I have two LCD monitors at home on different video cards (NVIDIA and ATI),
and I can change the screen...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
March 6th 07, 12:08 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 5
Views: 134
Change resolution on LCD and use whole screen
Hello!
On my Dell Precision M60 laptop and on a friend's Fujitsu Lifebook P-1610
Tablet PC, both running XP Pro, whenever the resolution is changed from the
native resolution to something less, it...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
March 5th 07, 09:12 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 5
Views: 77
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
March 5th 07, 03:23 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 6
Views: 155
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
March 4th 07, 09:01 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 6
Views: 155
Goo video cards for gaming?
Hello!
I have a friend whose two computers have NVIDIA cards that he wants to
upgrade. They are the GeForce FX 5700LE and FX 6200. I believe he only has
AGP and not PCIe.
If he has to stick with...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
March 4th 07, 07:05 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 5
Views: 77
Workstation hardware recommendations?
RajKohli,
Thank you for your input. I currently have an nVidia FX5500 AGP dual-monitor
card and it works well, so their quad offering will most likely be good as
well.
Ouch! That is one expensive...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
March 4th 07, 02:38 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 1
Views: 64
Cannot get WPA2-PSK support in XP Home
Duh. Right after I hit Send, I thought about the laptop wireless card
firmware. I never even thought to check it. I will do that next week.
Sorry.
Gregg Hill
"Gregg Hill" ...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
March 4th 07, 02:34 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 1
Views: 64
Cannot get WPA2-PSK support in XP Home
Hello!
I just had an encounter with an XP Home SP2 system that would not support
WPA2-PSK, even after installing the
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/917021/en-us update that replaces the old...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
March 1st 07, 11:38 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 5
Views: 77
Workstation hardware recommendations?
Hello!
It has been many years since my last hardware upgrade. I would like to
replace my motherboard, CPU, RAM, and video card.
My goal is to have an Intel-based system that will have 4GB of RAM,...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
February 19th 07, 04:45 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win2000.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,microsoft.public.windows.server.setup,microsoft.public.win2000.advanced_server,microsoft.public.windows.server.general
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Replies: 45
Views: 635
Can XP PRO join 2K domain w/o installing AD?
"I think everyone goes through this phase at some point in an IT career.
Those that get over it may become good techs. Those that don't become
managers :-)"
Now, that was funny!
It goes along...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
February 19th 07, 06:38 AM Posted to microsoft.public.win2000.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,microsoft.public.windows.server.setup,microsoft.public.win2000.advanced_server,microsoft.public.windows.server.general
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Replies: 45
Views: 635
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
February 19th 07, 01:31 AM Posted to microsoft.public.win2000.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,microsoft.public.windows.server.setup,microsoft.public.win2000.advanced_server,microsoft.public.windows.server.general
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Replies: 45
Views: 635
Can XP PRO join 2K domain w/o installing AD?
Herb,
As far as I know, installing Windows 2000 Server onto an **existing NT4
PDC** will ***FORCE it to become a domain controller*** without ever running
dcpromo. Can anyone out there confirm...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
February 19th 07, 12:30 AM Posted to microsoft.public.win2000.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,microsoft.public.windows.server.setup,microsoft.public.win2000.advanced_server,microsoft.public.windows.server.general
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Replies: 45
Views: 635
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
February 18th 07, 08:00 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win2000.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,microsoft.public.windows.server.setup,microsoft.public.win2000.advanced_server,microsoft.public.windows.server.general
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Replies: 45
Views: 635
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
February 18th 07, 06:10 PM Posted to microsoft.public.win2000.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,microsoft.public.windows.server.setup,microsoft.public.win2000.advanced_server,microsoft.public.windows.server.general
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Replies: 45
Views: 635
Can XP PRO join 2K domain w/o installing AD?
"Configuring Windows 2000 WITHOUT Active Directory is about ****making the
most of those Windows 2000 features and services that can be used
independently of AD**** -whether in an existing NT4...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
February 18th 07, 07:19 AM Posted to microsoft.public.win2000.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,microsoft.public.windows.server.setup,microsoft.public.win2000.advanced_server,microsoft.public.windows.server.general
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Replies: 45
Views: 635
Can XP PRO join 2K domain w/o installing AD?
First of all, as others have said, if you did an in-place upgrade of an NT4
PDC, I believe it forces the new 2000 server to be a domain controller,
which requires it to have Active Directory....
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