jaclaz

No. Your "normal" Outlook Express will likely need the SMTP protocol which has nothing to do with IIS or SMTP virtual servers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Mail_Transfer_Protocol Check the SMTP server in the Outlook Express account(s) you are using, likely it is a server provided by your e-mail account provider (i.e. your ISP or some other third party server). You are running (without knowing actually "why", thus I presume by mistake) an Internet Server, and this is evidently mis-configured. Those SMTP virtual servers are (clearly) not working since they cannot be even logged into, so *whatever* they are supposed to be doing, they are currently NOT doing it, since you didn't provide reports of any other issues (like mail not being received or delivered) it is clear enough that they have no use on your system. You have IMNSHO two alternatives: 1) stop running senselessly that IIS instance. 2) learn how to configure it properly, and then run it without any need or use for it. jaclaz

Ah, well, if you remove it from you XP Jumbo DVD using nlite, then it is not needed. @glnz Try following the given suggestions. Resetting/restarting the IIS should replicate the issue.. If - as expected - the issue is related to a badly configured IIS, the events will happen on restart. In any case there must be something in your task scheduler (or somewhere else) making it happen at that time. The data from the W3SVC logs is enough to know WHAT creates the issue, there is no need to netstat anymore, what needs to be understood is WHY this happens, and prevent it from happening, and again netstat won' tbe of any use for this, while resetting and reconfiguring IIS (or disabling it since you don't use it) and checking scheduled tasks is what you should do (that is if you want to solve the issue). And of course the shoes have nothing to do with this, the umbrella may. jaclaz

It is NOT a botnet, it is NOT a NSA backdoor, it is a misconfigured IIS attempting to start. Really Dibya, you should not post this kind of FUD. jaclaz

D@mn, I was hoping to be able to get some nice cups of coffee for free jaclaz

It is probably not the 64 Mb of total memory it is the "real DOS" memory, like the 640 Kb or the 1 Mb: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS_memory_management Use another volume, have less files per volume, or as suggested earlier try with another filemanager, but I doubt that it will solve the issue with so many files and directories. What you report here: http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=37021&start=20#p456296 however will need some clarifications, DOS 6.22 does not support FAT32. jaclaz

Should the app also make some coffee? In case, it should be black, strong and with two cups of sugar for me, thanks. Just to understand the theory, if (and when) such a program will be written, what would be the intended use of it? jaclaz

I am more dissatisfied with the: "Over 300 million people have already upgraded" As always meaningless (and very far from being reliable/credible) https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2016/05/05/windows-10-now-on-300-million-active-devices-free-upgrade-offer-to-end-soon/ is 300 million the WHOLE Windows 10 installs or just those that upgraded? Or in some two months since May 2016 hoards (literally) of people upgraded, tricked by the previous sneaky approach? The growth rate has been evidently (from the data available): https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-10/65759/build-2016-now-270-million-active-windows-10-devices around 34 million/month increase (whole install base), 8 months * 34= 272 =~ 270 million until 30 March 2016, then since 1st April to 5 May 2016 (roughly one month) it went up again to around 30 million/month increase. To be picky (as I am), in January it was (reportedly): https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2016/01/04/windows-10-now-active-on-over-200-million-devices/ already 200 million, so the rate is 70 million in roughly three months, i.e. around 23 million/month in the first three months of 2016. And earlier than that it was 110 million in October: http://www.windowscentral.com/windows-10-officially-installed-over-110-million-devices-over-125-billion-visits-windows-stor So: August 2015-September 2015 2 months x 55 million/month=110 October 2015-December 2015 3 months x 30 million/month=90 January 2016-March 2016 3 months x 23 million month = 70 April 2016 1 months x 30 million month= 30 Not really a "growing trend", rather an initial spike then stabilizing to arounf 25-30 million/month. Now how many devices might have been sold with Windows 10 pre-installed (not "upgraded") since August 2015? I would guess tens of millions, that should be detracted from the "whole" 300 millions reported in early May 2016, unless all those machines had been "downgraded" to an earlier MS OS or installed a different OS, and I doubt that all those devices could be compensated by "upgrades" in May and June.... To be fair, there may be a lot of people (like many members here) that did upgrade (to get the free license) and then promptly re-imaged the previous Windows 7 or 8/8.1, but I doubt that they are millions... jaclaz

Well, you would have tricked that young, naive, but otherwise intelligent person into taking a path without warning him/her of what lies ahead of him/her before reaching the expected destination. Not that much different from what Microsoft did when they put together the trap in which you fell. Omitting information or making it not clear enough. If at the time you got that MCE add-on license they had clearly told that the key had to be activated within (say) 6 months (or before January 2013) would you have attempted to install the add-on? Or if they had told you that there was no uninstall feature and you'd betteer make a backup before attempting the install? More information means more informed choices. But I will give you maybe a better example. From where I live to Florence there are two main roads, the first is going through a (toll) highway, and in about 15-20 minutes you get to the North area of the city, then from the North to the center it takes - it depends on traffic - 15-30 minutes more. The second goes through a (panoramic) road, some 10 km longer, and in about 40-45 minutes - regardless of traffic - you get to the center of the city. With these informations you can choose, if you are lucky with traffic the first one is a little faster, easier to drive but you have to pay a small toll, and once into town navigation is more difficult, the second is a little longer, it takes maybe 10 minutes more, but is free and very beautiful and while more difficult to drive it is much easier to follow. jaclaz

I am not protecting the world from your windows advice. I am protecting your windows advice from the risk of being misunderstood by the rest of the world. And sure you are not the only one, there are quite a few members that shared nice tweaks for the one or the other OS in order to make it better. Your statement taken without being familiar with the forum and your (and other members' and non members') contributions is what actually sounds not giving yourself (and the other members) enough credit (like none at all), while my nitpicking at least provided links to a (partial) list of the work by you (and other people) that made your OS so good. jaclaz

Well. the good news is that - as expected - noone is attempting to hack you. Those are seemingly created by IIS attempting to start. IIS has a long story of being particularly picky with a number of access rules (or permissions), if you google for that you will find tens of similar reports . What those (internal/local) IP correspond to on your network? 192.168.1.10 192.168.56.1 The two sets of message having a different timestamp may be because one is UTF/GMT and one is "local time": Event Type: Warning Event Source: W3SVC Event Category: None Event ID: 100 Date: 6/28/2016 Time: 5:30:13 PM #Software: Microsoft Internet Information Services 5.1 #Version: 1.0 #Date: 2016-06-28 21:30:13 21-17=4 hours, if you are on the East Coast of the US (say New York) that would be accurate. You may want to try resetting the IIS manually: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb742502.aspx very likely it will produce the same "set" of entries in the various logs. jaclaz

Actually both. Without knowing you, your statement seems like a full endorsement of "stock" Windows 8.1: we know that it is not the case. Without context this could provoke two kind of reactions: 1. people may think that you are one among the blindfolded MS fanboys (and thus I am protecting you from this possible mis-characterization) 2. people may think that your enthusiastic endorsement, since it comes from an experienced user is accurate and reliable and might decide to follow it (but without the tweaks/addons/fine-tuning) and they will find themselves with an awful looking, much less productive that a "stock" Windows 7 OS. (thus I am protecting them) Once they know that with some work 8.1 can be turned into a more than decent OS, comparable with Windows 7 (with which presumably they are already familiar), they will be correctly informed. jaclaz

https://www.microsoft.com/technet/support/ee/transform.aspx?ProdName=Windows+Operating+System&ProdVer=5.2&EvtID=4226&EvtSrc=Tcpip&LCID=1033 Try running netstat -o or netstat -p TCP -o, the "periodical" (once every 24 h or so) nature of the issue may actually be connected to *something* in scheduled tasks, it is well possible that *something else* is stuck (keeping a number of open connections) and that when a process starts (every 24 h) it maxes out number of connections because there is a permanent high level "ground noise". The recorded attempts for Administrator, administrator, Admin and admin don't sound that good, but not necessarily they mean an hacking attempt, similar Warnings can be generated by "normal" services in case of issues with folder/file permissions try checking (if there is one) the files in: \system32\LogFiles\W3SVC??? A hacking attempt with a few attempts every 24 h doesn't seem really-really a "hacking attempt" (or the hacker is VERY patient ) jaclaz

Well, (at least this is what I do personally when monitoring an address for a test) normally one inserts a timeout so that there is no more than a ping per minute or so, in this case having a 40 seconds interval between pinging the same host sounds just about right to me. To each its own of course, personally (of course it depends on the specific case) I notice a lot of people usually asking for (polling and receiving) much more data than what they actually *need* just because they can.[1] But nothing prevents to have - say - four command prompts open, each pinging a subset of 10 addresses. Anyway the Nirsoft little thingy you linked to seems just about right for the core jaclaz [1] I mean, say that you ping every second each host. Suddenly one out of the forty fails the ping. How long is your "reaction time"? Nanoseconds, milliseconds, second or minutes? How long it take the "intended remedy"? As an example rebooting a device or PC? Nanoseconds, milliseconds, second or minutes?

I had a saying for that, that I cannot remember right now, but that essentially means "that ain't be cheap": http://www.whatsupgold.com/buy/global/index.aspx € 1,727 per year for 25 "points", and OP would need the 100 "points" version for a mere 2,484 €. Sure the trial version could be used (if it will be used at the most for 6 hours), but (haven't checked) most probably it also has a number of hosts limit. Now I remember, that saying, it was "as expensive as the cannon needed to shoot at flies". Seriously now, a simple script for pinging a few hosts might be more suited . Something more or less along the lines of: Unfortunately most of the snippets posted have been corrupted by the last (or maybe the one before the last) board update. This (basically) would do: @ECHO OFF SETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONS :Endless_loop FOR %%A IN ( 192.168.0.1 10.2.7.5 8.8.8.8 ) DO ( ECHO Pinging %%A PING -n 1 %%A|FIND "TTL"||ECHO.&&ECHO %%A NOT Reachable&&ECHO. ) GOTO :Endless_loop One might insert a delay before the GOTO to slow it down, so that it pings the list of targets every x seconds or minutes. jaclaz

I will have to repeat the needed disambiguation for the casual onlooker. What NoelC finds "the best Windows OS" is NOT "Windows 8.1", it is Windows 8.1 BUT ONLY after having been accurately tweaked and tuned, with a number of third party add ons (related to GUI/Shell) and numberless tweaks implemented by himself, i.e. basically completely unlike what the "average user" receives from MS. See more details here (and following): And here: jaclaz

Strangely enough, some good news ;): http://www.seattletimes.com/business/microsoft/microsoft-draws-flak-for-pushing-windows-10-on-pc-users/ jaclaz

Well, it could be a MS lottery ticket (congratulations,you have won Google Play Music) or more simply a non-disclosed form of A/B testing (one of the stupidest approaches EVER to software development): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A/B_testing jaclaz

Out of curiosity, BIOS or UEFI? jaclaz

There is a follow on: http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/fight-companies-pushing-nonsense.html jaclaz

If you have a few files, it is not "massive". If it is "massive" then probably batch is going to be too slow for the activity. There are several dedicated tools. Usually they would be better and easier: http://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/Main_Intro.php There is also a command line version that you can use from batch. In "pure" batch it will depend on the specific naming scheme (current) and specific naming scheme (after processing), that would be, in the case you provided (which I doubt is actually the way you have files named) a simple for loop to separate the "main" name from the suffix, then recreate an incremental suffix and possibly add the extension that you omitted in your sample. There are (there will be) any kind of complication, as soon as someone will post a small batch doing exactly what you asked, you will try using on your actual data and it won't work (because you didn't describe accurately enough the data, because of file/directory permissions, because of non ASCII filenames, etc.). jaclaz

Try cleanspl: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/6de177db-df34-4801-be93-1a8e4231f183/how-to-reinstall-print-spooler-service?forum=winserverfiles There used to be a newer "fixit": https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/askperf/2012/02/24/microsoft-fixit-for-printing/ but it has to be seen if the new version for 7 still works on XP. The actual link to it now resolves to a "generic" fixit help page: http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9662904 The file is/was MicrosoftFixit50126.msi it is seemingly still available here: http://mycontactinfo.net/index.php?action=artikel&cat=26&id=85&artlang=en jaclaz EDIT: Ok, the file is still on MS servers, for the usual reasons (carelessness, utter stupidity, etc.) they only broke the dynamic go.microsoft link: http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/6/2/562F8B81-5288-4098-ADED-D4027464D130/MicrosoftFixit50126.msi

@Dave Naah, the plural is normally used for the single character or key on keyboard. In English also, the "double quote" (singular) or "inverted commas" (plural for the actual character/key on keyboard) are actually a (singular) "quotation mark". The plural is ambiguous: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/inverted_comma Also in computing the single quote mark is actually an apostrophe: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html And of course if you want to write an apostrophe you use the U+2109 "right single quotation mark" jaclaz

A Brazilian nitpicking on the usage of quotes by the Americans (BTW one of the very few cases where - by pure chance BTW - they have it "right"[1]) as opposed to the British: https://www.scribendi.com/advice/when_to_use_double_or_single_quotation_marks.en.html .... and an Italian nitpicking on the nitpicking, they are actually called "inverted commas" by the British (you know the good people that just voted to be not anymore in the EU, and as a side note: ahh, the good ol' times when twelve pence would make a shilling and twenty shillings a pound ): http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/words/inverted-commas I guess we have now seen it all and we can shut down the Internet for good . jaclaz [1] virgolette in Italian, comillas in Spanish, aspas in Portuguese, they are all plural (because they are double quotes)

The Convenience Rollup is very different from a Service Pack: 1) it is NOT cumulative 2) it needs - besides "itself" AND the previous SP1 - a specific update as a prerequisite 3) it is not "all inclusive", what is inside it is a subset (the most relevant) of updates issued after SP1 Calling it SP2 is - besides inaccurate - giving it a "dignity" that it completely lacks. But if you are happy calling things NOT with their names, you are very welcome to do so, of course :). jaclaz

To be picky that is NOT a SP2 DVD (MS terms are already confusing enough, let us not add to the mess, if possible). A Windows 7 SP2 will only exist when (IF) the MS guys will release a Service Pack 2, what you made is still a SP1 fully updated to June 2016. jaclaz