Recent content by stern123

Thanks Tazuk! :thumbs up:. The standalone installer worked first time. No idea what the problem was but the fix is installed and listed in add/remove so everything's fine. :) Regarding the firewall/antivir situation, well I got into a real pickle about 24 months ago using Norton A/V on my PC...

Hello. Having probs installing the latest KB905915 fix for Win 2000 Pro. I get a message "preparing to install", but that's it. Nothing happens. Nothing shows on the progress bar,and when I cancel the install (after 30 minutes or so - it should only take 10 minutes), I get a message that there...

Two days ago, surfing the web and came accross a travel site that said "you must have the Chinese language character set for this page to display properly". So I did just that from the W2000 CD. The page then displayed okay. Today, firing up the PC again, I see that Hotmail defaults to all...

Oh yes!!!!!!!!!!!! [dazed] [thumbsup2] Thanks one million mr bcastner! Oh boy you've really saved me a TON of work! Take a couple of these [medal] [medal]. It had taken me about a day and a half to set up this new system, what with d/loading all the W2000 fixes/patches etc (on a v.slow dialup...

Thanks John, but I get the same "this operation has been cancelled due to restrictions placed on this computer. Contact your administrator" message. All I remember doing with TweakUI was unchecking the "show Control Panel on Start Menu" box as I thought it would still be...

I've just done a Windows 2000 Pro clean install on my PC. Everything went okay, and then I used TweakUI to change quite a few things. Now I find that the Control Panel has "disappeared". If I run "control.exe" from \start\run I get this message "this operation has been...