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Windows '98 user cannot access Windows 2000 PC on Network
It was a *clean* install, but it says I still have the old OS under windows.old.. could I go in and change the name of the VISTA install to windows.old and the other back to windows, would that work? "Bill Davis" wrote: Jules Are you trying to access a hard drive on another computer? If you are you do not need a

Old Help. Password please
I know its been asked a thousand times before but I never needed to know then. My Broth-in-Law's win95 has been password protected by a daughter's friend who is no longer around. I've can't access Windows at all but have just managed to get <Explorer> onto the desktop. Any ideas please?? Cheers -- David Smith.

Accessing Windows 95 on CD
Mike M...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows server networking A release and renew is not fixing the problem either. It appears that the Windows clients keep reverting back to the old scope options for DNS servers so they are not able to access AD for authentication. I have reviewed some technet

How to format FAT32 in Windows XP?
Ronnie Vernon MVP r...@invalid.org microsoft public windows vista administration_accounts_passwords If you used the EFS file encryption and did not perform a backup of Hi, My old laptop died, and I'm accessing the HD from my new computer. Now I can't access a handful of files I think I encrypted a long time ago;

win 98 userlists
I always think back to a sign an old program manager had posted over our common terminal: "Jesus saves every 5 minutes. Thanks Robert, I tried, but the problem seems to be effecting other parts of windows. For example, I cannot access the run command, nor can I access the Control Panel (I just get the standard

IE 5.5 error when accessing Windows Update
Steve Winograd winog...@pobox.com microsoft public win98 comm dun In article <4d8e01c0f6b8$31b14390$9be62ecf@tkmsftngxa03>, "art fadri" <afa...@mail.com> wrote: Hi, We have an old PC running on 486 CPU WITH 12 mb RAM, 400 MB hard drive and a US Robotics Sportster 14 Kbps internal modem. The computer has DOS 6.22

Problem accessing windows update
And yes, Windows goes first in the installation. No, it's not what Samba is for at all. It's for accessing windows domains and workgroups from a linux box. They might have stuff in the latest version to access NTFS partitions from linux too, but since there's read- only support (And write-support for those who

Accessing Windows Registry...
I can find the samba machine in Network Neighborhood but both smbclient and Windows client can't access the share. Also, smbclient can access Windows share but it can't access its share. Here is the error. tree connect failed: ERRSRV - ERRinvnetname (Invalid network name in tree connect.

web database newbie
If it finds this file, right-click and Rename it to wupdinfo.old. If you do not find it, then continue on with the next step. 5. Hopefully one or other or both of these will now allow you to access the Windows Update site. -- Posted via news://msnews.microsoft.com Please do not send an email unless asked to do

Converting an Old PC to A server or Buy Home Server?
Okay so here is what happened I was having problems accessing websites telling me "error page cannot be displayed etc. (Recovery Console) At the command prompt type: ren c:\windows\system32\config\system system.old copy c:\windows\repair\system c:\windows\system32\config Reboot Let us know how it worked Clark.

how to backUp a 3-4 day old registry
david@epsomdotcomdotau microsoft public access multiuser Signed network packets (a security measure) require packet serialisation, which means each database lock has to I have changed the old server (Windows NT 4) to a new Windows 2003 small business server. With the old NT server saving an invoice (within a

Can't Access Windows Update Site
However right now both hard drives are back on my computer (im not a big hardware technician) but i managed to do it... but i cant find the way to acces the old drive's windows registry. How do i get the registry from the second hard drive? Ive booted windows 98 from my new drive. I dont know how to boot it from

Installed VISTA now need to go back to XP Media Center Edition
Jeff compue...@sympatico.ca alt windows98 I have replaced one of my older machines with a new one loaded with Windows98SE (this needs to run Windows98 becasue of some old dos apps). I cannot get this machine to access my Windows 2000 server. The server is running Windows 2000 Pro using a workgroup and static IP's

Cannot access Windows.old folder
Set up a network of computers, yes, access the hda1 partition of my hard disc, no. If anyone can give me idiot-level instructions I'd be grateful. I can then use GIMP, the main purpose for my it's working fine. Copied an updated version of GIMP from Windows and updated the old version in Linux. Philip Morgan.

Slow Domain
Now I'm having problems accessing Windows Explorer. A tech support servide I subscribed to told me to reformat my HD and reinstall the operating system. Not before I exhaust all other options. No way in hell. So, my question is can I reinstall the SE upgrade over the old without formatting or uninstalling Windows?

Q 400Gb HDD with Windows 98/ME
I tried to delete the folders (User, and a couple of others) but I received an error stating that "Access Denied" (I cannot Access these folders at all) As I'm running D drive as the windows Drive, I actually have User and Guest, etc on D drive. I thought I could simple Format the C drive.

access windows network from os9
... I would like to retrieve the Windows directory using the newly introduced Vista API: SHGetKnownFolderIDList What's wrong with plain old GetWindowsDirectory? Usually this buttons shows a dialog which asks for higher access. I don't understand what that has to do with determining the Windows directory.

Windows Vista at One Year (Dark Side Report)
My Travelmate (which is only 3 years old) cannot function with Windows Service Pack 2 (SP2 for some reason knocks out most of the function key on the Acer - I know I tried it and had to reinstall SP1 - Acer told me this was the only solution). Since installing Norton 2006, I cannot access the windows update page,

Windows update does not work
How, do you view old archived email? I remember in the old days having Outlook express, you could drag the emails into a regular windows explore folder, or visa verses. Thanks. View it/them normally, by selecting these folders and clicking on one. -- -bts -Friends don't let friends drive Vista.

Event 1011- multiple domain controllers detected
Looks like you found a minor bug in the icacls tool - when no permissions are set, all users have no access, not full control. Looks like the permissions on those files got messed up somehow durring the installation process. Executing these commands should give you access to the files: cd f:\windows.old\program