Microsoft Windows Forum

Hi everybody! I want to search some data string of 3 to 11 characters within a hich number of files. tese files are text files with names that are not .txt but .10F etc. All are in one ffolder, but the number of files is too high to open them all. This should not be done from a server, but from an normal maschine searchin on a network drive....

Hi, I have Windows XP and I have an Imation 1GB flash drive. When I first got it, it worked just fine. Now, however, it shows that it is being recognized but when i try to open it, it says that I need to reformat it. The strange thing is that once in a while (randomly and not very often) it will open up with no problem. I really don't want to have...

Hello Everytime I change the encoding view ( View --> Encoding) to Western European it changes back to the default whenever I refresh the page. How can I make it always set to "Westeren European"? Please note that the Auto Select is not checked

I am an experienced mid-range programmer that is taking a self-paced course to attain my MCP, MCAD and MCSD certifications. I just purchased a Dell notebook to load the DVDs for the course and I keep getting an error message. I have successfully loaded Visual Studio.NET and I am attempting to load the core requirements when I get the following...

Hello, windows became unstable and slow, can anyone tell me how to reinstall windows quickly and without losing any data? I read somewhere that it's possible to install windows in the unattended mode. How's that? What's needed for that?

how to extract username of computer using nbtstat., in dos mode i use nbtstat -a computername then it list down all the workgroup,the computername,and the username was there but the problem., is there no tag to determine that it was the username., am using the windows 98

Hello, I would like to create a set of .bat files which I could use at work to perform various Windows tasks, primariy copying files, creating folders, etc. From what I've seen there are multiple languages which could be used for such tasks. Which one is straightforward in the sense that others could read it and understand what is going...

Hello guys, Is there any tools in Windows (or VC) like UNIX "tail" to trace a file. Thank you!

How can I installa program to a computer using windows if I am not an administator if it requires administrative prevelanges

Hello all I have been struggling to resolve this with no luck, so i'd much appreciate your help and suggestions. I have been trying to install and run a software mail notification server. This seems to connect successfuly to the Mail server but it doesnt work for some unknown reason. When checking the trace of the installed mail...

Hi, I have data like shown below in excel sheet. __A_____| a b c d e | ---------------| f g h i j k | A1 having a b c d e

hi all i installed window live messenger in my pc. when i installed it asked for restart then i clicked on yes.it started to restart.it prompt window upto password.then it tells that your system is loading but it doesn't go forward. please anybody help me as soon as possible. its urgent. thanks in advance jesmi

hi all!! i need to format my computer.please provide me detailed steps for formatting computer. thanks in advance jesmi

I just aquired a used computer (Windows XP) with many, many EX. files in it. I keep getting the message: "Windows must know where the file came from before it can be opened". (Wording is very close) I have the option of going online to see if windows can locate the origin of the file, but it never can. Boy, would I love some help on this. ...

Dear Sir, In ou office we are using Windows 200 Advance Server as our DC. But whenever we want to deploy Windows 2003 standard edition as ADC with administrator account of DOMAIN showing error message you have not sufficient previllage to convert this computer account to a domain controller account. Ifyou will guide me about this problem I will...

Hi, Just wondering if anyone can tell me if I get my service provider on a windows 2003 platform to tweak the settings in ISAPI to turn my dynamic urls to static ones, how this affects the sitemaps I create. Do I carry on creating them as normal? will the new urls be reflected in the results? Do I in fact need to create them anymore? Prob not...

Hi I am faceing a problem when i want to install a software on the workstation which is in domain. I am able to install the software when i log on to the system as an administrator in domain. But the domain user is unable to use the software which is being installed on the system as administrator. Now what my need is, I have to install the...

Hi All, Recently I have got an interesting problem related to virtual memory usage. Our application is crashing in the customer site when the user tried to process a report with thousands of data. Narrowing down the problem, I found that our application is using windows API VirtualAlloc( ) to allocate memory for processing. When it could not...

This is my first time working on a server, and yesterday we received our server so i tried to create a domain. I let it auto config the first time, then when i tired to setup a vista computer to connect to the domain it couldn't find it. So i went to Microsoft's site and they gave me the instrustions for a manual install (could have used more...

hi, We know that calculator path is C:\Windows\System32\calc.exe what is the path of system clock

Guys, I am using Windows XP Pro (SP1) and suddenly my printers (local & network) have disappeared from the Printers & Faxes menu. If I try to re-install any printer I get an error message saying "operation could not be completed" Does anyone know whats caused this and of any way of fixing this without having to re-load windows again ? ...

Hi all, Any body know that where the windows animations files are. Like copying animation etc. Thanks

Hi Is there a way to close many opened window with a single command. For example, you might have 10s of notepads opened. how can we close all opened notepads together instead of closing each one by one? Thanks Qi

Hi, Anyone know if you can have a custom 404 page on windows nt server. I have been told no, but wont give up. Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks Richard

I dont know about all windows but its a problem i am having with Windows 2000. Sometimes windows stops copying new text . It does allow you to copy and paste the new text but it will repeatedly be the most recent one - the new one never gets copied in clipboard. Any one has a clue why this happens? Thanks Qi