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hello Could anyone advise me on how to use SMS to push out a new corporate screensaver for XP to over 100 PCs? If in doubt get the Ball Pein Hammer out

Hello We have a setup whereby local profiles are intermittantly being recreated to .000 .001 etc. As mentioned above the users are 1st logging into domainA with a generic account, they then launch some lab software ( Analyst) which requires a logon to a different domain with the users specific...

hello thinkpad x31, screen res perfect on 1024 x 768 off the laptop display. however, when i conenct a 17" flatscreen externally and up the resolution to 1280 x 1024 it does the change but instead of making the icons smaller and fitting on the screen its making the actual desktop space...

Hello xp does not hold the above setting for our dialup connection, as a consequence cant get network drives mapped over dialup. any ideas how to force the dialup network properties to hold this setting in WINS ? once connected with dialip running ipconfig /all confirms that netbios over...

Hi there I am having problems with communicatiing with my palm pilot m500 with easysync software. i am running notes 4.6.3. Comminication is fine through the hoysync software supplied with the palm but anytime i try to synch with easysync it wont communicate. when i press the hotsync buttin on...

Hello I have a small problem with 4.5.1 with latest DAT on my THinkpad t30 laptop. On reboot/shutdown I get a task error when NT tries to close vshieldwin_class, I can click end task and NT will eventually but its a pain. any ideas? Thanks Rob If in doubt get the Ball Pein Hammer out

hello IBm Netvista p4's ( 6792) are falling over at the login screen on NT 4 SP6a. after ctrl+alt+del and trying to enter password machine locks up, get mstask.exe caused a GPF. we get this with both the full novell client(v4.83) and the standard microsoft novell client. any ideas? its the...

hello Occasionally getting dark smudging down the left hand side of prints, mainly happens on graphic intensive pages. thoughts? Cheers Rob If in doubt get the Ball Pein Hammer out

hello i have IE 5.5 and every time i open up a page it opens up a duplicate? If in doubt get the Ball Pein Hammer out

Hello Getting a printing error in Lotus NOtes 4.6.3 when trying to print, error is 'error printing' ( handy huh!). It's the same for any printer. the printers are on a Novell server. I can print OK from any other application. have tried latest LJ 5m driver, pcl5e and 6. no change. would...

Hello Getting a printing error in Lotus NOtes 4.6.3 when trying to print, error is 'error printing' ( handy huh!). It's the same for any printer. the printers are on a Novell server. I can print OK from any other application. have tried latest LJ 5m driver, pcl5e and 6. no change. would...

do i only have to have the username added, say jbloggs on the w2k machine? I can't really put jbloggs and a password in place as the users have to change there password at least once every 30 days. as it stands the w2k machine uses : administrator password and on the win95 its jbloggs animal...

the error i get in DOS is: you do not currently have access to this file. the file may be marked read-only or it may be part of a shared resource such as a folder, a named pipe, a Q or a semephore. you can use the ATTRIB command to change the read only attribute, or try again. PS: the mapping...

Hello I cannot map one of our win2000 WS. It's prompting for a password , which i enter correctly but it won't connect. I think it's because the username on both PC's dont match up, as win95 wont give me a choice to enter 'administrator' then the password. i've tried a DOS net use command (...

hi how can i change my local drive letter ( this instance drive d:) to drive f: ? i need to do this as a specific app needs drive d: for the network mapping thanks Rob If in doubt get the Ball Pein Hammer out