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Open the VM. Click the Action menu on the VM window, and choose "Install or Update Virtual Machine Add-Ons". After that, reboot the VM. You should now be able to drag-and-drop files, or create a shared folder that points to a folder on your computer, and shows as a network drive on the guest OS.
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Now come on. He can't do squat to the bios if his keyboard doesn't work! can't press f2 to enter setup, can't use arrow keys to navigate, etc. Duh!
Now do you really mean mouse, or are you talking keyboard? Does the keyboard work at all in Windows, or not at all? More info please.
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Since Media Center has everything Home has, and then some, there's no reason it shouldn't work. MCE is BETTER than Home edition.
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The well-known AT trick doesn't appear to work unless you have Administrator privileges. Logon as a regular or power user, and type at into the command prompt. You get Error: Access Denied. I don't know much about AD or Server 2k3, but if you can logon with an admin account, run this at command prompt (not the stuff I put in ~comments~)
echo %time% ~This shows the current system time
at ~put in the current time + 1 minute or so here~ /interactive cmd.exeNow, wait for a minute and the new command window will open. It's running as NT_AUTHORITY\SYSTEM. You can figure out what to do from here - you have a command window running as system.
I dunno, this is odd. Moderators, if this is too detailed and could be exploited, feel free to PM me or delete it. But most script kiddies can't use this to hack a box since this only works from an admin account. I hope this helps.
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Ummm, oh dear. How did you order your new computer? Because when I searched Dell.com for XPS 410, and clicked on Customize, it had a button for Customize with Windows XP and one for Customize with Windows Vista. So you could've gotten XP, it appears.
So yeah, I guess that's too bad.
You've already mentioned some reasons to hate Vista. Most things (not all) that I've heard about it have been quite negative, and there have been few glowing reviews. I'm comfortable with Windows NT 5 (XP, 2000, and Server 2003) and know how to use it; all my necessary apps work on XP, so there's no need for me to switch. I've heard that UAC is annoying, and that many apps break with Vista. Drivers are still buggy. Your CDs may or may not work. It's full of DRM. It requires lots of resources just to run. It just doesn't seem worth it. So that's why I said I wish you had gotten XP. You should have. Now of course, I think there's something in the EULA about downgrade rights, so if you have an XP Pro CD anywhere, and you have Vista business or ultimate, you could in theory "downgrade" (read: upgrade) to XP. I think. Good luck! 0 -
Sorry I haven't responded until now; I was out of town. I guess now that you've gotten a new computer, this is slightly irrelevant, but heck, if you can make the old one work, too, then you can have two working computers. I agree that the reinstall was a bit of a bad deal. Next time, ask here first.
At any rate, I'm kind of stuck. Is there a neighborhood nerd or some computer shop in your area where you could go to ask for help, someone who can physically see the computer? They could help you maybe. Also if you can't get the drivers CD to work, try downloading them from the web. Dell's site has most of that stuff, usually in the form of an exe file. Good luck. I hope your new computer is better. Oh, and let us know what you got. I'm curious.
I hope you got Windows XP instead of Vista.0 -
No laptop holder thing?
They make them, you know. Pretty sweet though!
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OK, thanks. Also, is there any way (through the command prompt, I would assume) to set the account lockout policy, the password policy, etc. in XP home, since there is no group policy editor or local security settings (secpol.msc)?
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Apparently you must know at least some CSS, or at least some one does, because there's a link to a stylesheet. But none the less, I do agree that learning a bit more CSS would be a good idea. A good place to start, very useful, is w3schools. Click on CSS on the navbar at the left. Lots of good info.
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Hey all,
My mom & pop have got a ~3 year old dell running XP Home. It doesn't work so well, but that's not the point. What I'd like to know is if there's any way to use Local Users and Groups MMC snap-in on it, or any other computer running XP home, for that matter. The plug in is there, but when I try to load it, I get a message that says:
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This computer is running Windows XP Home Edition. This snapin may not be used with that version of Windows. To manage user accounts for this computer, use the User Accounts tool in the Control Panel.
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OK
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So is there any registry tweak or anything to fool it into thinking it's running XP Pro or something like that so I can use it? If so, I'd really appreciate it if someone could let me know.
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Much, much better! I like it. It now validates, too.
But I think you need to move that to the home page, because going to http://www.yentiming.com, it doesn't look good.
Kick off that guy doing the front page right now and put yours in place. It's better. And whatever you do, don't let him keep using his crapola web page software. Yuk. One little thing: "Untitled Document" is not a very good title. At all.
You should fix that. But otherwise, it seems pretty good.0 -
Hahahahahahahahahahahaaaaa!!!!! Well, then just right-click and choose "Forward" when you get to the one you can't do!
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Replying to Idon'twantspam:
I still haven't received my external backup device. Hope you have a grand vacation!
I did!
Now that I'm back, let's see what I can figure out. It sounds like you might have some "bigger" hardware issues going on here. I'm not that big of a hardware person, I know way more about the software than the nuts and bolts. None the less, I can still pitch in my $.02 First off, is this an internal hard drive you're talking about or an external one? That could make a big difference. Now I'm not sure, but it could be that this is all tied together on the hardware (CD, HDD, etc) problems. I hate to say this, since I really don't know, but it could be that there's a problem with your motherboard. That would really, really suck. So here's what I'd like to ask you to do for us:
- Write down type up all of the hardware you have. That would mean:
- What exact kind of computer. I think you said before, but let's just get all this info in one place
- What hard drive(s) you have. What size. Internal or external. Etc.
- How much RAM do you have
- What optical drives do you have? Floppy? CD? Is it a CD-RW or a CD-ROM drive? DVD? Is it DVD-R or DVD-RW? Etc.
- Monitor. Type (LCD/CRT), size (this probably won't help, but just so we can know, who knows, it could pop up later)
- ANYTHING else that is pertinent. Any other hardware basically that could be at all related.
[*]Type up all of the CDs that you have in your possession that are install-like CDs. Such as:
- Windows XP Installation disk
- Dell Diagnostics
- Drivers
- Microsoft Office
- Photo software
- CD burning software
- ANY other software (Whatever applications you had)
[*]ANYTHING else that might be important and related that you haven't told us.
- What exact kind of computer. I think you said before, but let's just get all this info in one place
I think all that info will probably help us. I know you've said some of this already, but I just think it would help to have it all in one place for quick reference, rather than spread out in the thread. Like your 60gb hard drive you said you have. Is that the only one. That sort of thing. Thanks!
I hope we can help you. OH! And I almost forgot! About the "attrib -h -r -s *.* /S /D" thing. I haven't ever had to do this specifically, but I think I know what he's trying to say.
Do this while logged on as the corresponding user:
- Open Command Prompt (cmd.exe)
- Type
CD "%userprofile%"
- Press Enter
- Now type
attrib -h -r -s *.* /S /S
- Press enter
- Type Exit and press enter
- Reboot. All the files in your profile folder should be non-read-only now. I hope. I think.
OK, that's all for now. Good luck!
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I have no idea about the CDs, sorry. It seems like there may be some problems with the CDs being screwy, or it's possible that your computer is causing all the trouble. Here's what I would say. First off, can you tell us what happens when you put in these non-functional cds? I think we've made it clear that you can't save data to a CD like you can to a hard or floppy drive, so that may be the problem. Next time you get an error message related to ANY of these problems - access denied or CDs - press Ctrl+C. Then, open up notepad and press Ctrl+V. Copy or save that text, and post it here to show us what exactly the errors you are getting are. It might help us to see exactly what errors you are getting. You can also take screenshots and upload them if that could help. In case you didn't know, to take a screenshot, press the print Screen button on your keyboard, or Alt+Print Screen to capture only the current window. Then open paint or something and paste it in. Upload as a PNG file please, as those work best for screenshots. Also if you still don't have this solved, we could consider having one of us who also has XP doing a remote assistance session and actually connecting to your computer to see what's actually happening on your screen, and if necessary, change things for you. I hope this helps.
Now about when you were reinstalling with the owner screen, if i recall correctly, that's the screen where you just enter all the accounts you want to have, right? Stupid dell tech should've told you more than just click OK. I don't think that's very likely to be part of the problem.
PS: I will be on vacation for a while, so no I'm not ignoring you, I'm just not here. I'll catch up when I get back. Good luck!
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Glad to help!
So did you end up turning it off, or do you like this feature? I personally love it.
Thanks for the cyber-sandwhich and beer offer. Unfortunately, I don't eat beef
, and I'm too young to drink beer . But I appreciate the offer and the thought! 0 -
OK, I just never noticed before. I don't mind; I actually kind of like the idea of keeping the bad words out. One thing though. Your analogy is off. 4th graders don't curse a lot, but 6th and 7th graders do. WAY too much. Those little *******! (I typed those as stars). What happens when it's part of another word? I can't think of any examples right now.
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I noticed that I typed i-d-i-o-t in a post and it got changed to id***. Huh? Is MSFN censoring now, or did I just never notice before? I don't mind; I'm not really a huge fan of bad words (although id***'s not that bad) but that does seem kinda odd. Anyone?
And upon testing, it's interesting to see that d-a-m-n (****) gets totally blacked out, whereas the F-word still shows the F (f***). Oh and how do you do that? I'd be interested to know for my own use...
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I've had similar issues, so I know how you feel.
It's somewhat hard to tell what exactly is wrong here, in part because it appears you aren't entirely sure. So let me sumarize what I think your problem is, and give you what I think a solution could be.
- You had to reinstall Windows XP. Some id*** Dell technician was "helping" you.
- You have a bunch of files that you aren't "allowed" to have full control of
- You've poked around in security, but not really done anything but look
- There was only ever one account. It's name was Sam and it was a member of the Administrators group.
- You are trying to
- Burn some outlook files to a CD
- Read some old CDs
- Burn some outlook files to a CD
right?
OK, first off, let's talk about ownership. Basically, some user account "owns" each file. Yes, each file got 0wn3d
when it was created. That goes for folders, too. The owner is the user who created the file, in other words, Sam. But, the thing is, in Windows NT (and thus XP), when ownership is concerned, the OS doesn't look at the user NAME, I.E. Sam, it looks at your SID, which is another can of worms. Basically, it's a unique number representing your account, and even if you were to delete Sam and create a new Sam, it would have a different SID, and not own those files. So, your account, or really, your SID, which we will call 1001, needs to either own the files to open them, or have permission from the owner to open them. Taking ownership is actually pretty easy, and I'll make a quick walkthrough with screenshots and all when I get a chance but that won't be until the weekend. Finals in school Basically, log on to an account that is a member of the Administrators group. Now you could try this, and I would if I were you, but I have not done anything like this in a while. Also, I've never tried to take ownership of a whole user directory before, but it could work. Go to Run and type %userprofile%, which will take you to somewhere resembling C:/Documents and Settings/Sam, but use the former just to be safe. Now, press the UP button in Explorer, the green arrow. Right-click on the folder with the username, probably Sam. Click properties, go over to Security, and now for the fun. Click on Advanced. Go over to the Owner tab. Do you see yourself? If not (or even if you do), highlight your username and then click OK. Make sure to check or say OK to anything that says apply this to all sub-anything or something like that. I don't remember exactly what, it's been a while. So, you should now have ownership. Your whole user profile just got 0wn3d by you. Now, click OK in the security box. Next, open the security box again, with the same right-click procedure and all. Find the username "Authenticated Users". If it's not there, click Add, click Advanced, Click Find Now and select Authenticated Users, and click OK, click OK again. Now, select it. Put a check under the Allow column for Full Control. Now find your username and make sure you have full control, too. Click OK, and then see if that helps. You should own all your files now. I'm too tired right now to talk about the CDs, but I might drop by tomorrow to try and help there. In the mean time, good luck, I hope this helps.
Oh, and since I don't think anyone ever said this: Welcome to MSFN!
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That's a laptop, right? Does it have a synaptics touchpad? Is there an icon in the task bar that looks like this:
That's exactly what happened to me when I first got this laptop. Visit this page, and then drag your finger down the right side of the touchpad, right next to the edge. If you're using IE, it will change to that icon (firefox doesn't for some reason), and it will change in most other programs to that icon, too. why does it look like that? Well, you should have figured out by now that what it does is it scrolls the page up and down. So that little bar is supposed to represent the scrollbar. You can use the touchpad to scroll right and left, by dragging across the very bottom of the touchpad, or up and down, by dragging on the right side of the touchpad. I find this really useful; it's like having a mouse wheel, but if you don't like it, right click on that icon above and choose Pointing Device Properties. You can change all sorts of settings. Also, if it seems your mouse is randomly clicking, right-click on the icon and uncheck "Tap to Click". If you tap the touchpad, it registers a click, which is usually very annoying and causes unwanted clicks, so I always turn it off. I think that is the issue. Hope that helps.
PS: Welcome to MSFN!
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I have never really used Server 2003 much, and I'm totally just throwing this out there as a wild guess. Look and see if there is a winbrand.dll file in system32, and poke around in it. Probably won't work, but that's where the Windows XP MCE and Tablet PC logos are, so maybe it's a similar deal.
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Although it appears there aren't as many females on these forums as males, there do exist females on the forums. Remember this thread? I think we pretty much got the point across that yes, there are indeed some women who visit MSFN, use nLite, etc. Besides, what about all the people who leave their little icon grey, and don't disclose their gender? Perhaps there's more females here than you think... I see a poll coming. And no, I'm not a female, even though I haven't indicated that on my profile.
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True.
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Actually, I think it's just that the shutdown dialog doesn't read the ginaDLL tweak in the registry, assuming you're using that. Because regardless of the gina you use, that box is always the same. Always. UNLESS you totally replace GINA in which case it's the changed version.
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You've already mentioned some reasons to hate Vista. Most things (not all) that I've heard about it have been quite negative, and there have been few glowing reviews. I'm comfortable with Windows NT 5 (XP, 2000, and Server 2003) and know how to use it; all my necessary apps work on XP, so there's no need for me to switch. I've heard that UAC is annoying, and that many apps break with Vista. Drivers are still buggy. Your CDs may or may not work. It's full of DRM. It requires lots of resources just to run. It just doesn't seem worth it. So that's why I said I wish you had gotten XP. You should have. Now of course, I think there's something in the EULA about downgrade rights, so if you have an XP Pro CD anywhere, and you have Vista business or ultimate, you could in theory "downgrade" (read: upgrade) to XP. I think. Good luck! 
At any rate, I'm kind of stuck. Is there a neighborhood nerd or some computer shop in your area where you could go to ask for help, someone who can physically see the computer? They could help you maybe. Also if you can't get the drivers CD to work, try downloading them from the web. Dell's site has most of that stuff, usually in the form of an exe file. 
I hope you got Windows XP instead of Vista.
Kick off that guy doing the front page right now and put yours in place. It's better. And whatever you do, don't let him keep using his crapola web page software. Yuk. 
You should fix that. But otherwise, it seems pretty good.
when it was created. That goes for folders, too. The owner is the user who created the file, in other words, Sam. But, the thing is, in Windows NT (and thus XP), when ownership is concerned, the OS doesn't look at the user NAME, I.E. Sam, it looks at your SID, which is another can of worms. Basically, it's a unique number representing your account, and even if you were to delete Sam and create a new Sam, it would have a different SID, and not own those files. So, your account, or really, your SID, which we will call 1001, needs to either own the files to open them, or have permission from the owner to open them. Taking ownership is actually pretty easy, and I'll make a quick walkthrough with screenshots and all when I get a chance but that won't be until the weekend. Finals in school 
Virtual PC 2007 networking doesn't work
in Software Hangout
Posted · Edited by Idontwantspam
When I try to setup a network in VPC '07, I get problems. I set each machine to use one network adapter; "Local Only". The idea is that they are the same as having an ethernet cable going to a router between each machine. Now the problem is, the different machines don't seem to "see" eachother. When I have three VMs open at once, all using the local only, all connected this is the setup:
None of the computers see each other! When I ping one computer from another, there is no response, the server, which is configured to be a DNS server, is not seen when I try nslookup from one of the workstations - nothing! I'm confused. Anyone know what I can do?