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Organisation buys a bunch of second hand computers.   Valid licenses on them for Windows 2000 Professional but no CDs come with the machines.  Hard disks have been wiped clean. OK, no pr...
I'm looking for a simple (and preferably free) way of getting remote desktop functionality between 2 windows 2000 pro machines.  I know this is available in XP, but I'm not sure how to do it i...
Hi I am trying to setup a logon script so a when a user log's on he will have 5 mapped network drives.  When I googled on how to do this it seems like I need to setup a batch file first.  I...
We're running a Small Business Windows 2000 (SP3) server.  Every 5 - 10 days we start seeing many entries in the System event log stating that "The server was unable to allocate from the syste...
 For the past couple of days, the following error has been popping up in my Application Log on my server - .  After this error is thrown, it is followed by about 1500 other errors all statin...
One of our web servers is acting weird and not letting us view the control panel to add/remove software. Question: Is it possible to uninstall software that is in the control panel "Add r...
I AM FORMATTING MY HARD DRIVE AND I HAVE LOST THE PRODUCT KEY CODE FOR MY WINDOWS 2000 PRO. I HAVE ALREADY DOWNLOADED THE KEYFIINDER SOFTWARE (I HAVE TWO COMPUTERS)AND IT ONLY GIVES MY THE UP...
What is the major Difference between Windows XP and Windows 2000 Professsional.
In our organization we would like all of our users to use a proxy server to access the internet. Reading online I was able to find suggestions using group policy to set this up. I figured it w...
How do you import updated ADM files into a GPO ?  Do you update the default domain policy ?  Does that apply to all GPO's ?  Or can you import the specifc ADM into the GPO that you want to app...
I noticed that my desktops and member servers keep getting messages that a time server could not be located.  I noticed that I do not see the port 123 listening when I use netstat.  I am also ...
I got this error in my system.log file and Network become too slow. The master browser has received a server announcement from the computer <computer Name >  that believes that it is the mast...
I am trying to write an efficient batch file to do some cleanup for systems in our network prior to recreating new systems and copying some saved files over to the new computer.   The follo...
I have a Windows 2000 file server hosting the files and folders for a large department.  We have purchased a new server for the department.  I would like to use a tool to copy the file and fol...
What is HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Cryptography\RNG\Seed and what is it used for?
hello, whats the command to delete a drive mapping with a win2k logon script? i use net use z:\\srvcms02\etc to map? how do i delete this mapping? thanks
HELP!!!!!! I have a laptop with XP Pro loaded.  Everything has been fine, and suddenly I start getting a Wirless configuration error that says: 'Notification dll has not been registered'.  ...
An event in the event log of our 2000 server states: "This machine is a PDC of the domain at the root of the forest.  Configure to sync from external time soruce using the net command 'net tim...
Dell Inspiron 5000 currently Windows 2000 SP 3 (see below) currently IE 5 (see below) 128MB RAM Every time I boot and log into Windows 2000, the desktop begins to appear and then one of ...
I have installed Windows 2000 Server SP4 on a test computer.  I have installed Active Directory also.  Everything works fine (so far).  I was testing group policies and tried to run gpupdate f...
I have a Dell Optiplex GX150 with Windows 2000 Pro SP4. When I boot up, the system takes a long time (several minutes) at the point where "Applying Computer Settings" is displayed, but finally...
We would like to use NTBACKUP as a cheap solution to backups. Scheduled to run every evening is easy. However, we also would like the .log file to be printed out or emailed and the tape to be ...
I have a production server that I need to kill a service process on without having to reboot the windows 2000 server. I can see the executable in task manager that I want to stop but gives m...
I was wondering if there is a way to restart Windows 2000 from the command prompt.  I know in XP there is shutdown, but I can find anything for 2000.  I'm sending out a batch file to install s...
Hello I have a file.tar.bz2 and need to get the tasty files inside. I downloaded untarw32.exe but don't know what then. when I click on untarw32.exe thinks  happen fast and I don't know  th...