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I have windows 2000 professional and a week ago my tooltips disappeared. Even when I hove over the clock it doesnt show the date

my default registry looks like

9e 3e 00 80

can someone please help

the girlfriends laptop has a problem with the modem basically it's this,

If you try to connect to the internet the report comes back that there are two errors found on the modem. The modem makes no noises and it doesn't make any odds if the lead is attached to the modem and connected to the phone socket or not.

If you then go to the control panel in win 2k and do a query on the modem everything reports as fine. The modem is installed and it answers the query reponses.

The problem is that because win 2k says that everything is fine with the moment I am hesitant to tell her to get a new modem in case it doesn't fix the problem. But having said that it seems apparent that if windows thinks everything is O.K. with the modem then I'm wondering if it could be a software problem.

There's also the problem that she isn't exactly well off so having to buy a new modem is quite an expense for her ( I gave her the laptop but she would insist on paying to replace the modem card as from her point of view it was her who broke it ) So for that reason I'd hate to tell her to get a new modem only to find that the problem hadn't gone away.

Thoughts?

pseudonym67

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On a PC modem I always attach a telephone, in "pass through" mode to check that the modem cable is correct first of all.

If you hear a ringtone then I use Hyperterminal and enter:-

ATDT 1471

This will dial the number 1471, in the UK this is a free phone number that tells you who was the last person to dial you, or try any free phone number. Pick up the phone after dialing and see if you hear anything, you should hear something via the modem speaker.

Also try it on another phone line, i.e. at your houuse.

Or reset the modem to the factory default using the relevant AT command, see your manual and try again.

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants. - Isaac Newton 1676

I have installed a personal Firewall, I cannot open IIS, or i cannot run any application which accesses the IIS such as .NET.. or any ASP application on my local system.
Any one Help please..
Thanks
Rasa Cry | :((

Which firewall? Generally, you have to enable applications and ports individually on a new firewall.

Most software firewalls automatically inform you that a program is attempting to access the Internet and ask whether you want to allow this. If you permit it you will not be blocked again. If the one you have installed doesn't offer this, you'll need to check the documentation to find out how to enable specific types of traffic.

I've only used one type of hardware firewall, and it gave no notification of any kind; I had to manually create a table of permitted ports and traffic types allowed to pass.

If you are using MMC to open IIS, you should have no trouble (I think), but using the web interface for administration won't work until the firewall is properly configured. At a minimum you need to allow HTTP traffic on port 80, but others may be required, as well.

"The Lion shall lie down with the Lamb;
but the Lamb will not get much sleep..."
Lazarus Long

I need to create a ftp&web virtual directoryfrom my installer which I'm developing now. Does anyone have any C++ example ..... how to do that?

Thanks in advance and regard!

it's enough to post this only one time!

Don't try it, just do it! Wink | ;-)

Not sure how well everyone has been in keeping up with the story so far. So I will provide a cheat sheet.

A customer has previously been rorted by their IT company and as such had the following hardware and software in their office.

Compaq Proliant 400 (Pentium III 500 64MB) running Windows NT 4 Server PDC
Celeron 600 128 MB running Windows 2000 Professional
Pentium III 450 64 MB running Windows NT 4 Workstation
Pentium 166 64 MB running Windows NT 4 Workstation
Pentium 133 64 MB running Windows NT 4 Workstation

All of this setup in the last 2-3 years. I have been onsite a few times putting out fires and installing a Pentium IV 2.4GHz 512MB running Windows XP Professional.

This customer is not frightened to spend money if he feels he is getting something worthwhile for it. Unfortunately we ran into a few teething problems getting the new to play nicely with the old. He was pissed off and calling us all the names under sun until the QuickBooks bloke came onsite to install the 2003 version. It blew up cause the systems weren't up to minimum requirements except for the Win 2k ans XP machines.

Consequently we are supplying him with 3 new XP machies and after a RAM upgrade the server is to be upgraded with Windows 2003 Server as I believe Windows 2000 Server is no longer available.

Problem is the closest I ever got to installing Windows 2000 Server in the real world with Active Directory and all was 3 weeks. That is how close I was to being the Australian Domain Admin when my last company was doing the worldwide rollout but I was given the arse.

So I obviously don't have a spare copy (or any copy) of Windows 2000/2003 Server lying around I can install and experiment with.

So does anyone have any idea how I can figure out what I need to do to get all this to work? Theory only isn't ideal, but I don't seem to have any other option and I don't want anyone else in to do the job. I want the experience and more importantly I want the money for doing the job.

Michael Martin
Australia

"I personally love it because I can get as down and dirty as I want on the backend, while also being able to dabble with fun scripting and presentation games on the front end."
- Chris Maunder 15/07/2002

I have a copy of Win2003 Server RC1 sitting on my shelf here. How big is your inbox? Big Grin | :-D

"The Lion shall lie down with the Lamb;
but the Lamb will not get much sleep..."
Lazarus Long

2000 Server is still available, but obviously it's closer to the end of its support lifecycle (by three years).

Server 2003 I've not yet really used 'in anger', as it were. Installation was no harder on my old PII-300 than any previous version of Windows, really.

You're upgrading a PDC. I'd recommend backing up the server before you begin - but then you should do this when upgrading anything. On upgrading an NT 4.0 domain, Server 2003 will start off in Mixed Mode on the domain. To migrate to Active Directory is a bit more painful.

You can get an evaluation copy of Server 2003 from http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/evaluation/trial/evalkit.mspx[^]

I suggest reading the upgrade notes at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/upgrading/nt4/default.mspx[^].

Hope this helps.

Not long got home (02:15 02-Aug-2003) from installing the server. Fresh install not an upgrade. Back there in about 7 hours to finish configuring the clients and connecting them to the domain. After that copy all data back to the server and new clients and install a bit of software. Sunday we take them from my company premises back onsite reconnect and hope all is well.

Windows Server 2003 (as David Stone told me it was called) installed OK. But the wizard that set the role of the server bit me. I took the typical settings as it was my first time through and it was getting late. Bad move as it created a DHCP server, didn't want it as we have hardware doing it elsewhere. Removed it, activated it and updated it. Looking good so far.

Thanks for your reply.

Michael Martin
Australia

"I personally love it because I can get as down and dirty as I want on the backend, while also being able to dabble with fun scripting and presentation games on the front end."
- Chris Maunder 15/07/2002

How can i let my system need password when delete a file(not folder)!

login as adminstrator, set the file access attributes, logout and login as user for example....

just asking for password is not possible as far as i know!

Don't try it, just do it! Wink | ;-)

i mean the file opertions hook which i can use in my code!
and for example the shell programming(copy hook handler) just can handle folder,but for file,it seems not work Smile | :)

any other suggestions?

sorry ,my english is poor,the copy hook handler can handle the operations of folds,but cant useful for files,i just want the file's operations 's hook
thanks

use a file system filter driver!

Don't try it, just do it! Wink | ;-)

shall we discuss it more in detail?please mail to me:yanyuejin2003@hotmail.com
i dont know the detail ,i need your help ,My dear sir!

Has anyone ever, or know how to set up Windows Media Services to serve content from a capture card such as ATI TV Tuner?

^Matt Newman
Sonork: 100:11179

Signiture 2.0 Coming Soon!

what is the exact problem?
does the capture software not detect the card?

try virtualdub(http://sourceforge.net/projects/virtualdub/[^])

Don't try it, just do it! Wink | ;-)

I figured out I needed Windows Media Encoder to create a live stream. That caused a problem with CPU usage would be equivelent to powering the space shuttle with the engine out of a Geo Metro.

^Matt Newman
Sonork: 100:11179

Signiture 2.0 Coming Soon!

I have error message "Apache.exe: module "mod_jrun20.c" is not compatible with this version of Apache (found 20020329, need 20020903). Please contact the vendor for the correct version".

/* I downloaded the last version */

apache 2.0.42 is not the lastest version!

Don't try it, just do it! Wink | ;-)

I was downloading some MS stuff the other day and was informed my 'activation profile' had been collected.
what the H is this?
Is it what I think it is ?

Regardz
Colin J Davies

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This could be addictive
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It's a real shame that people as stupid as you can work out how to use a computer. said by Christian Graus in the Soapbox

It's simply a file that contains every email address you've ever saved, all your passwords, a list of all the hardware and software on your machine, your credit card and bank account numbers, and the URLs of all the porn sites you have ever visited. Don't worry - it's only accessible to the Marketing department. Perfectly harmless, it says here on the label.

"The Lion shall lie down with the Lamb;
but the Lamb will not get much sleep..."
Lazarus Long

Does anyone know what this file is?

It magically appeared on my desktop. Unsure | :~

peernet.exe

Tony