Recent content by kwrankmore

Hi all changing the keyboard was spot on. The keyboard i use is multifunctional which must have some incompatibility with the switch. I have the same keyboard at work as i do at home so i never clicked when testing. I found an ordinary PS2 keyboard and tried that and what do you know, it...

Hi guys Thanks for your help. In all honesty i've never thought of changing the keyboard. Silly me! "mainegeek" yes i have as they sent me brand new cables. This is not a plug, but Belkin offer amazing product support. I'll try replacing the keyboard tonight and let you guys know...

Hi all Hope someone can help. I purchased a Belkin KVM switch so that i can save space in my room and control more than 2 machines. At the moment i have two machines and when booting them the mouse on both work but the keyboard on the one that i boot last doesn't work. I phoned Belkin support...

Hi bobafet I'll give it a try. Thanks for your help. Kent

Hi all I have a home network and want to install Veriats 8.6 so that i can learn how to use it as well as backup my various servers. Only thing is that i don't posses a tape drive in any of my servers and was wondering if anyone knew how i could overcome this and perhaps backup to a seperate...

Hi everyone. I've noticed on a users machine running Win XP pro with Office XP that he has an "OLK2" shortcut that points to a folder with old word and excel documents. The shortcut points to the documentsandsettings\user\application data\microsoft\recent folder. I've looked on the...

Yes it is connected to and Exchange server! In the Office XP fix there was a tweek in the registry, so i'm thinking something along this line or a corrupt file somewhere. Anybody have any ideas?

Hi all When trying ot start the Out of Office Assistant in Office 2000 SR-1 it comes up with "the command is not available" I've looked for a fix but have only been able to find a fix for the same problem in Office XP 2002, which unforunately doesn't apply to Office 2000. Can anyone...

Hi guys I'm having a problem with one of our above printers. When ever printing a specific PDF document the 4500 comes back with this error( 49 error (196A) cycle power) I then power off and on again at which point it prints out the document. The document is 780kb so this should pose no...

Hi Guys Thanks for your help. In response to "thatrenowned" YES it is. It always comes up with the same STOP error. I unfortunately have lost the number but will post it next time it happens which shouldn't be too long! I remember looking for the STOP error reason and it saying...

Can anybody help. I'm having a few machines at work blue screen on me. They're pretty standard P3's, 128MB, 20Gb H/D. They don't run very CPU/Memory intensive software. Internet access, Office, Adobe Reader, Winzip and usual network connectivity. I've run SP6A on them previously when they've...

Thanks John for your help. Re-Applying SP6a didn't work but the registry tweek did. Cheers kent1

Hi all I've noticed a couple of machines in my office running CHKDSK whenever restarting, after shutting down in the correct manner. The manner in which they are shut down is like this. Start - Shut down the computer(at which time they wait until the machine shuts down and comes up with the...

Sounds good to me too! so i think that it's worthy of another star although i haven't tried it i'm sure it will work as the last time wolluf helped me it worked great! Cheers wolluf, you're a star:-)

Hi all I'm having a problem dual booting with 2000 and XP. Here's how it goes. I originally dual booted NT4 and 2000 on my hard disc. I then upgraded the 2000 partition to XP. The NT4 partition was the active partition. Using partion magic i stupidly deleted the NT4 partition without making...