Recent content by cjhacon

I've re-installed the shut-down fix from Microsoft many times on my 98 machines. It holds for a time and then the shut down problem returns. I finally established a shut-down procedure for my 98 users that offers a work-around solution. When they shut-down instead of choosing 'Shut down' they...

Are you still having trouble? I may be able to help

I actually used the search tool and found answers myself. Next time I'll search before I post. Thanks Carr!!

Why is it that IE only will let me save images as bitmaps?

Thank you all. Restored to May 1 and all is as it should be!!

There was no access to the administrator account set up in XP. Only one user. when I boot into safe mode and log in as admin I get a blank black safe mode screen. Ctrl Alt Del gives me task manager and that's it. I tried to restore...but it won't accept a blank administrator password.

Hi, After log in the active desktop wallpaper shows but no task bar, start button or icons? What's up with that? Can access the task manager and access drives and directories through it, but can't find the control panel. Any ideas???

It works fine in safe mode. The offensive file opens and calculates and behaves itself perfectly...now what? I haven't been to the site yet so haven't removed any old personal.xls files. Is that the next step?

In answer to Wray69...it happens on all excel files on this particular system. All other systems on the network function properly in excel...unless they open the file saved on disk by this machine. Then their excel defaults are overridden. Regional settings are as they should be..the Norton...

I thought so too...the system checks out virus free by Norton.

When we open documents on one system in our office the following happens. When viewing the formatting for the workbook the default shows as General. When we change the formatting to Number no decimals etc. and try to enter data in the fields, completely unrelated numbers with decimal places...

doesn't look like you're running SBS but there is a chapter in this doc on setting up proxy on an XP client. It may help http://www.microsoft.com/sbserver/techinfo/deployment/45/WinXPClt.doc I know I had trouble with one Win2K Professional client. The mspclnt file on the client needed to be...

Is it an IBM system? I had a Win95 install that had serious problems with the display. I recall trouble with resolution and display settings and weird stuff happening with the screen saver. This particular install was on an IBM G350. The problem ended up being IBM related not Windows at all...

All of a sudden my internet connection has stopped working correctly. NT4 running service pack 6a. The ISP changed some information regarding dial up settings and numbers and now when clients try to access the internet or mail, the server hangs up before it can authenticate. If I establish the...

Do you have virus protection installed on the new pcs? I had a similar problem. Once I disabled the virus software at start up I was able to connect to the domain.