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Hi all, You all have seen that if you delete your explorer file from windows directory after some minutes or seconds it will recreated by windows. I want that how can i diisable that recovery facility so that windows cannot rebuild it. I need it badly for my tweak which i have ade on vb. Thanx a lot

Hello all, My first post as a SysAdmin (I am more used to C* programming). What I am trying to do is create a script that will scan PCs on my network and check for a file and verify that it's size is correct. If the file size is != 1,101,824bytes in size, the name of that PC should be logged - that's it. I am just not too used to...

can someone tell me about symlink or softlink or symbolic link in windows? i want to access network drives using softlink, can i do this? how? thanks in advance.

how to set path from dos command i know set path=c:\something but it is for the current session.when you open a knew command prompt and type path it shows only the previous path. how to set path permanently.

Hi, I got a new PC with Vista, OS(C:) 290gb and RECOVERY (D:)10gb. Can I add XP in C:? If you say yes, please tell me how to do that step by step, or tell me where I can find help? Thank you in advance.

I have a website now o want to set a domain name for it and make my pc a web server how can i do this. Thanx to all

Hello all, I need some help from the users of Vista. In your vista directory like in C:\windows search for *.ocx and send me the ocx file you have found in search results. I want them badly please can some body help for such thing. Thanx a lot

as stupid as it seems i cannot reset my password(hotmail) after i failed guessing it correctly (3 times in row) for my future attempt Microsoft responds me with this monotonous msg every time i attempt to reset it again using the secret question technique. msg: This option is temporarily unavailable because incorrect information was entered...

PSA: The service "Application Layer Gateway Service" (alg.exe) is a big sham. It was configured to auto-start by default. The internet says "don't stop this or your internet won't work" well I never saw a problem in everyday use. BUT after many months of being confused I discovered that it DOES affect my FTP. If ALG starts with the PC and...

Hi My sound driver is Sigma Tel High Definition Audio CODEC. My computer model: DELL inspiron 1420 and my os is win xp professional. but I can not find any suitable sound driver for it,could u plz help me? thanks elnaz

Hi I have 4 .bat files which each run in there own cmd window, each delete a file and then call a different perl script which runs in the cmd window. The problem I have is that I need a script that will do the following: 1) Kill the open cmd windows (i.e perform a ctrl c on each cmd window) 2) Execute the 4 batch files each in a seperate cmd...

Hi... I am looking after a lan . I am i am not able to access one particular system , by another one particular system. But from these computers i can access all other systems in my lan and vice- versa.only the communication between these two computers is affected. Error is " A duplicate name exists on the network " I searched...

I changed the default code page of my machine from 437 to 850 by typing following command on command prompt. CHCP 850 But the new code page is not refelected. Any idea why? I am using Windows XP Professional OS. After changing codepage also when I typed ALT+181 on the command prompt it shows that character ╡ (which is codepage 437...

PSA: The service "Application Layer Gateway Service" (alg.exe) is a big sham. It was configured to auto-start by default. The internet says "don't stop this or your internet won't work" well I never saw a problem in everyday use. BUT after many months of being confused I discovered that it DOES affect my FTP. If ALG starts with the PC and...

Whenever I logoff, shutdown, reboot then the system32 folder opens on startup, can any one point me why it’s happening? Note : I checked startup path there is no any *.exe. Below is the list of exe runing in my task manager. Thank you

my Internet explorer getting 20 bs on top left corner. It is a virus called W32.Arpiframe. i deleted that on my computer, but after I connect to our network it will get infect again. is anyone had that issue before and how to delete it from network? Thanks

I am running XP home. I noticed that office 3 has been trying to upgrade thru automatic downloads and has failed numerous times. My pc is telling me I have a corrupt file C:\documents and settings\all users\application data, this has only shown up since the downloads started. I have uninstalled office and also done the Windows installer clean up...

I have a Compaq Presario SR2170NX runing Vista (arrrrrg!). If I put a music CD into the DVD/CD drive, it will spin up and read the song titles but it will not play any tunes. The tunes that came preloaded with Vista play fine. Data CDs are no better. The diagonistics on the DVD/CD drive says everything if fine. I have done everything I know of...

I'm new around here so I'm just hoping I'm in the correct place. Today I installed the latest Python for windows (2.5.1) from python.org. That went well but I lost my internet and home network connections and cannot restore them. I have Windows XP, a Belkin G wireless networking card and Belkin G hub. I have removed Python, removed and...

HI ALL HOW CAN I PREVENT THE ADMINISTRATOR FROM READING MY FILES IN WINxp OR 2003 SERVER BEST REGARDS IMAD

I have a computer on a LAN that I cannot ping from any other machine on the LAN, nor can that machine ping other machines on the LAN. The machine can get out via the gateway to internet, can send e-mail, etc. It just cannot be directly reached via it's internal IP address. Any ideas what I need to configure to change this? BTW, this...

hello, i want to know how can i remove administrator password in windows xp? i do not now what is it's password now. my seccond question is: is there any way to remove Bios pasword wothout knowing it's current password? please guide me. thank you

I'd like to be able to display the same image on a second monitor, as is on my laptop. I can make it work on one laptop, but not another. Is this because of the video card? (The laptop that works is about 3 years old - doesn't work on the 1 year old one. Both are running XP)

hi, if i have selected view hidden files and folders option from the folder option it is not enabled. at the time of applying it works but if i close that window and open it again its not enabled. it automatically goes to dont view option hidden files option. what could be the problem for this. can any one help me in fixing this problem.

Hi guys I am wondering if anybody know how to open a .ODT extension with office 2007 or wordperfect 12 without installing any additional software such as open office. The machine is limited by a network policy so I need a work around. Perhaps a free online (website) converter? Let me know, Cyberdyne.