Recent content by rifleman

Well I installed it on the 17th, and to date have noticed no differences whatsoever! it was installed on a fresh install of W2K that was done 5 days ago and so there was no prep as such because all my data was on a separate partition. (I dual boot W2K and W xp....)

Found the answer on a newsgroup - %windir%\$NtServicePackUninstall$

I've installed SP4 which (touch wood!) seems to be working OK. I took the "backup files" option in case I wanted to un-install it. When I decide NOT to un-install, where do I find the backup files in order to delete them to free up disk space? thanks

I have 2 users set up. We are finding that when one user logs off, with the other user logged on, that the welcome screen does not appear. We get a black screen with a flashing white underscore cursor. I have to reboot the machine in order to get out of this. I have plenty of RAM, 512 MB, and it...

I have a small peer-to-peer network (W2K to XP). If I use the W2K macine to connect to the Internet, (ISDN through a USB TA) and enable ICS on the W2K machine, how can I make the XP machine control the connection on the W2K machine? Is this possible?

The major problem with this is that without the icon in the systray, and the detail in the connection window saying it's not connected, is that I can't actually disconnect without either invoking a program that will allow me to disconnect, or use Task Manager to stop the process. (What process...

OK so I can do without the connection icon in the systray, but why does the detail of the connection in "Show all Connections" window say it's disconnected when it's actually connected? Surely there's something wrong there? It never used to AFAIK.

Thanks for the quick response! Unfortunately, that's made no difference. the "Show Network Icon" is unchecked, and the network connection icon does not show in the systray, even though the network (p 2 p) is up and running. The "Show internet connection icon" IS checked and...

I have a clean install of XP Pro. The only patches I have installed are IE6 Cumulative and Blaster. I run Avast AV and kerio Firewall. I have only one Internet Dial-up Connection set up, through a USB TA. Suddenly, maybe yesterday or the day before, without any settings being altered, the...

I use the View-Day Planner view in Organizer. Is there a way of customizing it so that it shows future events (for the week, say) as well as just the day information? thanks

I think that the two disks are exactly the same, apart from the price and that the Upgrade disk looks for proof of an upgrade path. If you do a clean install with the upgrade disk, it doesn't copy anything from the old os, does it? So the CD must have exactly the same data on it as the full! (I...

Can I ask why you have done this in the first place? I can't see any advantage or reason at all in doing that!

this is very strange. I have two laptops. A Toshiba portege 7020 that had a 2GB Active partition and a 4GB NTFS partition with a clean install. In Disk management under Storage, when I right-click Disk0, there was NO option to upgrade to dynamic disk. My other laptop, a Tecra 9000 with 10GB...

I'm doing MCSA on laptops 'cos I live in a VERY small cottage with no room for desktops. Is there a way of fooling W2K into thinking it's on a desktop instead of a laptop so I can do the practice with dynamic disks? thanks Gordon

I didn't install anything for either of these - W2K automatically recognised the devices.