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If I understand the question correctly, the way to resolve this is to make sure you have selected the correct paper size in the page setup menu, located under the File menu. If your page size is set to say 'letter' but your printer only has A4 it cant automatically select the correct paper...

I actually just used Upromote to do exactly this and it works like a charm. It's really worth having

There's an article here that discusses how to create strong passwords and gives examples. Hope it's what you're after http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/WindowsServ/2003/standard/proddocs/en-us/windows_password_tips.asp

Happy it worked for you pickletech. Just on the scan disk suggestion. This is a good idea but I meant to mention that scandisk was the first thing I tried when this happened and it didn't fix. In my case it looked like it was caused by a huge directory tree and extra long folder names.

Glad it worked for you Pet35. Unfortunately I don't know how to repair a corrupt log file. Have you tried opening them in event veiwer now it's working again? You might get lucky. Maybe someone else on the board can help with this?

Probably a corrupt log. I've had this happen before and this fixed it. Go to services and stop event log service. Backup all your *.evt files in winnt\system32\config Delete the evt files. Restart services then reboot the server. This should get the logs working again and you may be able to...

I recently had the same problem and it was a case of a corrupt directory. It would save fine to anywhere else except a couple of directories. They were a long way down in the directory tree and had a super long directory name. I restored from backup tape and cleaned up the structure, it was OK...

Possibly a problem with text format. I've found some mail servers wont recieve attachments when sent in rich text format. Usually the actual email will go thru but it will turn the attachment into a win.dat file. It's worth a try though. Change it to plan text format and try that. You can find...

If it's Outlook you're using and not Outlook express it could be the size of your PST file. If it's close to or over 2Gb it can cause all sorts of problems.

Hi Gary Interesting. I just checked mine and see the same kind of thing. I'm only guessing here but maybe when you check the size on the PST file you're looking at it's entire contents including configuration (mail server settings that kind of thing??) but when you check the folder within...

Win2k and XP have (under "computer management") a section called "performance logs and alerts". I believe you can set this up to email various alerts to a pre defined email address. The only thing is that you'd have to set this up on every work station unless it can be scripted somehow.

Hi Udir There is a command line tool called PSTools that amongst other things will do exactly what you're after. I just did a google search on "pstools" and it gave heaps of sites where you can download it from. It's all free. Hope this helps you out

Say the file you want to delete is called TEST.TXT and lives on 'C' drive. A simple batch file to delete this would be as follows: del c:\test.txt You can add various 'switches' to customise EG you can make it ask for confirmation before deleting by adding /P after the above. To write the...

One way to approach this would be to setup a batch file that will delete the file you want then you could use task scheduler to run the batch file at the time you want. Also, you can use the browse button when setting up a new scheduled task to browse for and run anything you want.

Just a post script to this discussion. I have a Dell latitude C600 that does this all the time. It seems to be a design fault that when the screen is closed it press's on the num lock button. Sometimes it starts with num lock off sometimes on. The bios setting was the best solution.