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Let me start by saying that I'm not a technical person. Each month I ftp a .TXT file using the DOS prompt to our systems office. Before I can ftp the file, I have to truncate it. Up until today I was able to use the command perl truncate.pl with the name of the file. Today when I tried to truncate the file I received this error message: 'perl'...

I bought a laptop with Win MCE 2005, but the splash screen on the demo laptop at the store said it had Win XP Pro. I have to have the full networking security features of Win XP Pro in order to use my laptop at the office on the WAN, according to IT. The salesperson said Media Center Edition was Win XP Pro with an additional software feature (the...

hai arun here, iam working as a systems asst. in a company. i would like to know how to configure outlook express on a proxy authenticated system. my server 10.146.2.2 on which internet is connected n distributed n port is 8888 please help in this

Hello! Does anyone know a way to log API calls made through rundll32.exe ? Thanks in advance :)

When I test the remote access at work (lapttop computer to desk top computer) the connection works fine. When I bring the laptop home and try to connect to my desktop I get the error msg: The client could not connect to the remote computer. Remote connections might not be enabled or the computer might be too busy to accept new connections. It...

the other day i wiped a virus off my computer. Ever since then I haven't been able to just double-click my hard drives in My Computer. When i do double-click it, It opens the "open with" window. So I've just been right clicking the drive and telling it to open...that works fine. Its not really a problem just a nuisance. Anyone know what might be...

Hi folks, I'm running Exchange Server 2007 Beta2 on my W2K3 machine (and before you all say it, yes, I know it's not supported in production environment but it's the only way I've found so far to get a free Windows mail server). It's set up with Hub Transport, Client Access and Mailbox roles (I don't have an additional computer that I can...

Hi all, I use windows media player 10. I want to see lyrics in this player when I listening a song or watching music vedio . Is it possible. Grettings, Monirul

OK, I just reformatted last week and all is well but I went to back up my docs tonight and I got this message: windows encountered a problem when trying to copy this file. I have no idea why?!?! I am logged on as administrator. I can't figure out what is going on.

I need to copy an excel doc in the same directory with a new name.. That is I have got an excel file abd_Week 37 and I need to run a batch script to copy the same file to the same directory with the name abd_Week 38. Every time the batch script runs the week no has to get incremnted by 1. Could you please help me with this.

Hi, I want to know where windows stores the configuration files in which its all settings are saved like volume etc thanx

I've been sending JPEG pictures using Outlook for a long time with no problem. Now freinds are telling me that they can't open them and they are being recevied in MIM not JPEG. I have not changed anything that I know of.

Is there anyway to get a program to run in windows automatically at a given time in the regedit or do I need to find a program that will do this.

Hi all, I want to prevent downloading & installing software in my computer by others. So no one can download or Install software in my computer. Is there any optoin. Please Suggest me. And it is better If any option with Password to prevent. Grettings, Monirul.

hi, While using DOS the command "time/t" gives the time in this format 4:45p. i want the DOS to r3eturn time like 04:45 PM. what do i have to do???? can anybody help????

can i make a program in vb6.0 without installing the vb6.0 on the vista ultiimate operating system. And could ctreate the stasndard exe. wcich i can use on other computer,? Reply mme ASaP ANKAN

1. Can NAS be used for keeping Database(LDF and MDF Files) for SQL. 2. Can NAS be used for common storage (Quorum Disk) for Windows Cluster? 3. Can NAS be used for common SQL Database storage (Quorum Disk ) for SQL Cluster?

Hello Guys I cannot print from a locally installed printer that is mapped to a windows 2003 sever. I have installed the printer locally and can print locally. I connect to the windows 2003 server by using remote desktop connection. i have checked the printer checkbox under local resources, so that it maps the printer when i connect. I...

hi all, system tasks is show on the left side, when we open our dirve , like "(local disk) C: dive". Where is show also File and Folder tasks , Other Places & Details. So if I open Any drive it must be shown, but one of drive does not show system tasks , it show Music tasks . But it should be shown if i Customize a folder to bocoming a music...

I know it's probably just a setting. We have Internet Explorer 7 and are running Windows XP. When I noticed the background color was missing, I was searching the internet and saving different .gif files that I had intended on using as part of a web site I am building. I have tried restoring the system to a previous date, but was told that...

We r having domain enviornment in our orgnisation we r going to configure SUS . so can we push update from sus to clien pc,s and is itrequire to have admin rights to clients? and can we put auto update off on client side though we are pushing the updates?

When trying to View the Backup Log through the Server Management interface when logged in as Administrator, the screen reports the following error. "You do not have the correct permissions to view this page. For more information contact your system administrator. To view this page, you must be a member of the Domain Admins security group." ...

i need norton 2007 updater patch pls send me link of any website for norton 2007 & sp2 any one solved me prob

Hello Experts! I need two Shortcut Keys for Loading & Ejecting my Optical Drive Tray to speed up my Work.Please tell me the solution. Have A Nice Day To ALL

Hay you all experts! here I got some kind of problems on some pc, from the start menu means after I click start, run and search are missed, onsome normal pc,I mean they may be not infected see on the property of taskbar-> startMenu tab->customized-> advanced tab->start menu items: list I also checked,but they are not on the list. if some body...