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Now that makes sense. Thanks Dr.

Hi all, I have a Compaq D510 Tower with Windows XP installed. As I undertsand it, you can have up to 10 monitors in xp. I recently connected 1 pci video card (so now I have the one pci card and a built in video card). I tried booting but the built in card became disabled and therefore I...

Thanks Ryan, maybe it is best to do the servers first then.

Thanks Denny.

Hi all, I have just finished and passed my XP exam but I am a bit confused as to where to start next. I'm looking at doing the Windows 2003 Server route (not the messaging or security route). Which should I tackle next (I say this because maybe it's best to do a certain one first so that it...

Thanks. I'll try that now.

Dear all, I need to connect to one of our windows 2000 servers via remote desktop connection. Am I right in thinking that I need to buy a license for terminal services in order to do this? I know I can connect to xp and 2003 servers as it already has the software built in. Thanks in advance...

Thanks very much - that was the issue. A star is on it's way! :-)

Hi all hope you can help. I have installed the Protection Pilot on an XP machine SP2 to use as the server (version 1.1.0). I added computers to it fine (although it has picked up the netbios name of the computer it hasnt picked up any other details like ip address etc). When I try to deploy...

Anything at all?

Sorry, completely forgot about my original post. I already have SP2 so its not that. any other ideas?

This whole issue regarding SID's is interesting. At my previous company, we used Ghost to deploy images but never used anything to change the SIDs. All computers were on the same domain and we never experienced any problems. What type of problems should occur? I'm very interested to find out.

Sorry to tell you this, but I got this from the Microsoft XP MCP book: "If an administrator removes the password on a user account, the user account will lose all EFS-encrypted files, personal certificates, and stored passwords for Web sites or network resources. Each user should make a...

Hi all, I have a laptop with XP Home edition installed. I tried to make use of the hibernation feature for the obvious benefits it provides. The problem is when I turn the computer back on after hibernation the os becomes unresponsive and sometimes no sound works (the sound section becomes...

Thank you for the advice.