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At my work we're in the middle of migrating a few hundred users from Groupwise to Outlook 2007. The one snag we've run into is that one of the updates (KB946983) causes the email profile configuration to fail. When we ran into a Windows update that caused issues I wrote a batch file that easily...

I'm trying to reload XP on a Dell Inspiron 5100 for a co-worker but I can't get into the BIOS to change the boot order to start with the CD. The boot screen says to press F2, but it completely ignores that key, no matter how frantically I tap it. Even holding it down, then hitting the power...

There's one function I really love that WindowBlinds has: The ability to minimize windows by just right-clicking on any window's title bar. I don't really care about theming and I don't want to buy WindowBlinds for that one function. Is there any free app or registry tweak that will let me...

The situation: At my work our My Documents folders are all automatically redirected to user folder on servers, which is great. The bad, is that one of the LAN admins I work with is insisting that for folder redirection to work, the Offline Files feature must be activated. This causes all sorts...

I really don't know a whole lot of anything about VBScript, I'm just dabbling at this point. What I'm trying to do is essentially combine a couple of sample scripts I found to perform the function I need. What I want to do is to be able to get the serial number of a PC on the domain by entering...

Background: At my work pretty much all users have admin rights to their PC. (That issue's above my paygrade otherwise it wouldn't be this way...) Some sections have PCs that are used by several different users during the course of the week. The problem is that there are a few people that have a...

I'm trying to get a batch file to delete a network drive mapping and to remap to a different network share. The problem I'm having is that I can't get it to consistently delete the mapping, I have to browse to My Computer, right-click on the drive, and select disconnect from there to delete it...

I've got a an excel spreadsheet that has 4 columns of data on sheet 2 I need to display on sheet 1. On sheet 2 I have the following columns: Office #, Employee name, phone #. On sheet 1 I want a dropdown list to display the employee name. When a name is selected in that list I want to show the...

I need to get an inventory of all the software installed on a few hundred machines and management doesn't want to spring for software to do it. Instead of opening add/remove programs and taking screenshots or writing everything down I was hoping theer would be a way to export that list to a text...

I'm trying to get a terminal services session to a 2003 server to automatically connect to a local USB printer. On my 2000 machine it works just fine; I start terminal services, connect to the 2003 server, and the server has my USB printer available. However when I do the exact same thing from...

For a couple of weeks in any folder on my 2000 machine where I have the view set to "Thumbnail" it only displays the .bmps and has the default "this is a picture file" icon for .jpgs, .gifs, etc... If I select a .jpg or .gif it'll still showup in the preview pane to the left. No new software was...

I've got a few batch files that I use at work that copy several files from a server to a Windows 2000 c:\winnt directory. What I want to do is make those work with Windows XP as well and copy to the c:\windows directory when needed. I know that at the run command if you browse to a workstation...

I'm working on a Word 2000 document and one of the fonts I want to use isn't a common one. How can I set up the document that everyone I send it to will see the font I used and not the default replacement without having to download the font itself?

Part of my job includes teaching a few computer classes to users, one of them being beginning Windows 2000. It's a fairly basic class even for beginners but so help me in every single class I still get 3 or 4 people who just can't grasp the difference between a click, a double-click, and a...

I have an HP ZX5000 with teh DVD burner, but it's only compatible with DVD+R/W and I need one that can burn both DVD+R/Ws and DVD-R/Ws. I got nowhere at HP, is there any other place where I can find the burner I need? This would have to be an internal replacement for the existing one, not an...

I just took the plunge and installed Service Pack 2 on my HP ZX5000 laptop. So far I've only come across one issue: Even logged in with admin rights or doing a "run as" with the administrator account I can't disable "automatically download and install updates". Since I like a bit more control...

I'm setting up a network for training classes I run at my work and have hit a snag. I'm using laptops running Win 2k pro with built-in wireless and a Linksys wireless router that's physically plugged into a Win 2k Advanced Server box that's running Active Directory, and a Novell Netware box...

I've got an Compaq NX9010 laptop (P4 3.06, 512M RAM, ATI Radeon IGP 345M video card [64M] running Windows XP) and I'm trying to run Doom 3. I know it won't look awesome, but I know it should be better than it is. I've tried all of the latest drivers, updates, patches, etc that I could find with...

It's a slow day at work and we're in the mood to screw with one of our fellow techs. What I need are some good harmless pranks to play on his computer. Yesterday I did the oldest one in the book (Screenshot as wallpaper, hid the icons, watched him double-click icons that weren't really icons)...

Is there any way to create an answer file for Office 2000 or to create a customized installation like the IE Admin Kit? I do Word and Excel training at my work and I'd rather just reset all options for things like the toolbars, that infernal office assistant, etc automatically instead of having...

This is on a Windows 2000 machine. Lately every tme I try to go straight to a specific folder/file from the run command the Search window comes up. For example if I try to go to \\Share\folder\folder\file, it brings up the search box, but I can go to \\Share and then browse to the file with...

At my work we use HP/Compaq systems. For quite a while now we've been using the P1130 21" monitors. They're nice with a 20" viewable diplay, a flat screen and a maximum of 2048 x 1536 resolution. On our last order however we got their P1230 22" monitors. Imagine my surprise when I see that they...

I'm trying to create a self-extracting zip file, but I need it to go to C:\Documents and Settings, and then to whoever the currect user is which will be different for everybody of course. I can't use the all users directory because it has to go into the MS Office template directory which is only...

I'm building a new machine and the user is not exactly computer literate, so I want to avoid him having to enter his username and password at startup. I know that in a normal windows 2000 install you have the option of setting the user you create to logon automatically, but I'm using a disk with...

Is there any real value to taking the time to defragment an NTFS partition on a new computer on a monthly basis? The last time I did this after a few months of not having done it I noticed absolutely no improvement. The machines in question are not gaming machines by any stretch of the...

I'm having a bit of trouble with this. What I want to do is burn an ISO to a CD, but leave the CD open so I can add a file to it and then finalize it. I have Nero 5.5 and Roxio Easy CD Creator available, but both of them gray out the "Finalize CD" option with it checked so I can't uncheck it. Is...