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quinriva

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  1. I have been trying to configure Active Directory user accounts on my Win2008 R2 Server, and I have finally got pretty much everything working, but I'm still having trouble with some broken links on my Win7 client machine. A:\Users\Carl is mapped to --> O:\ Previously the directory was A:\Carl and the subdirectory A:\Carl\My Music was sym-linked to A:\Music. As far as I can tell I've gotten rid of all of the previous links, but when I add files from A:\Music to MediaMonkey they seem to be mapping to O:\Music (which doesn't exist), and thus playing I can't play any music. Any ideas?
  2. I'm running a reasonably fresh install of Windows 7 64bit (stripped down), but my system is using 1Gb of memory even while idling, by comparison WinXP (32bit) on the same system, uses about 130Mb of RAM. Yes, I understand that Win7 uses more RAM, but 8 times as much seems ridiculous. The primary problem I am encountering, is that many games are simply unplayable in Win7. A prime example is Dawn of War II, if I have the task manager up on another screen while the game is loading I can monitor the memory usage of the game/system, the system often reaches 98% memory usage well before the game finishes loading. When it has finished loading and it gets to the press any key to start, the game is using ~950Mb of RAM, pressing any key to start the game seems to drop the RAM usage down to about 80Mb, where it slowly increases to about 450Mb before the game actually starts. Regularly while playing the game everything will just freeze for 5-10 seconds - generally occurs when scrolling across the map. Any ideas as to what would cause such high memory usage? I have disabled all but the most essential items in msconfig, and I have very few services running. Startup: Logitech Setpoint Daemon Tools Lite Display Fusion Non Standard Services: Apple iPhone services (Apple Mobile Device, Bonjour Service, iPod Service) Nvidia Display Driver Service FLEXNet Licensing Service
  3. Why is it that so many programs insist on being installed on the system drive? For a long time I have had an 8 GB system drive partition, with a heavily customised nLite version of Windows XP and it seems that every time I install a new program I need to delete files from my system drive. I know 8 GB is not much, but it should be well and truly enough for an operating system especially considering my page file, my temporary directory and my documents are all stored on different drives. One folder that always seems to balloon out astronomically is the ~\Windows\Installer folder. I assumed this folder just contained the installation packages for files that I had already installed, however upon deleting it I lost all my icons for Microsoft office (Excel, Word, etc.) - as a side note any idea how I can fix this? Last I deleted the folder it was 2 GB, and within about two months it is already back to 650MB. Although my documents are on a separate drive, various applications still insist on using ~\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Application Data or ~\Documents and Settings\username\Application Dat to store enormous amounts of data. Call of duty world War decides it wants to install or custom maps and mods here, similarly for CitiesXL - and with each custom map being 40 to 50 MB this can easily balloon out to 2 or 3 GB. ~\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data also gets bloated with huge chunks of data from Dragon NaturallySpeaking, Solid Works 2009, and Microsoft Help. Not to mention that ~\Program Files\Common Files directory is over a gigabyte. Basically I have two questions: How were forced programs to install in the application directory rather than bloat up my system drive? At a record or registry changes made by program at installation time, so that if I reinstall Windows I only need to update the registry not reinstall the entire program. Yes I know the easiest way would be to increase the size of the system partition, however that would defeat the point. I reinstall Windows quite regularly, basically any time something weird happens I cannot diagnose I just reinstall Windows - it only takes about 13 minutes. Secondly I eventually want to move my entire system drive to a RAM Disk, so obviously anything like an 8 GB becomes quite difficult.
  4. It appears that several games that utilise SDL are crashing under Windows XP SP3 on both my desktop and my laptop (which use different although similarly customised nLited versions of XP Pro/Tablet XP). All of the problem programmes fail to run or crash on both systems (the laptop is basically a clean install with very little on it). This would seem to indicate that I've removed something that is essential for the operation of SDL. Any ideas of what this would be, or how I can fix this without reinstalling the system?
  5. I am attempting to install the drivers/software for my new Bluetooth USB dongle. When I run the setup, it proceeds to install the drivers for COM Ports, Keyboards, Headsets, etc., but when it gets up to modems the installer says that it fails. I believe this issue results from the fact that I removed Modem support when I built my current Windows version (I used nlite, and stripped out modem support). I have no need for dialup modems, Bluetooth or otherwise, but the installer refuse to complete the installation without installing the modem drivers (clicking on the 'OK' box after the error message simply removes everything that has already been installed). Does anyone know how I can install the other components without installing the modem drivers? The version I am using is Bluesoleil v2.7.0.13 VoIP release 071227. The dongle is a Laser Class I/Class II Bluetooth V2.0+EDR (model number AO-USBBD02) http://www.laserco.net/pc_acc/pc_acc/AO-USBBD02.htm# Thanks for any help.
  6. Ah, that may be the problem. I used a WinXP VLK key, because the version of tablet PC that I was installing was a volume licence. I tried using the key on that came with my tablet (the one stickered on the bottom of the laptop), but I think I need a copy of a non-volume licence version of xp for that. Cheers,
  7. I've been trying to install the tablet pc version of windows XP. I've done all the basics (copying everything over from disk to cmpnents folder to the same folder that the disk 1 stuff is in). After I finished and installed it on my tablet PC I have no indication that it is the Tablet PC version (it just says XP Professional Service Pack 3 v.3311) And I have no tablet PC things like touch screen/journal. It is my understanding that for the MCE version it is necessary to add a line in winnt.sif so that under [Components] medctr = on netfx =on Is there a similar switch for Tablet PC? Cheers.
  8. I'm having difficulty connecting to the internet from within Vista. Firstly vista recognises my home network as an Unknown Network and sets it up as a public network. I have my ADSL router acting as the DHCP server and it seems fine with the other 3 computers on the network (Windows XP/Windows 2003 Server/Mac OS X); however Vista refuses to obtain it's IP from the router. If I force the Vista to use the following settings: IP Adress: 192.168.1.37 Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway: 192.168.1.1 Then I can connect to other computers on the network, and I can see the router, but I still can't connect to the internet. Does anyone know what could be preventing me from connecting to the internet? I am currently writing this through a Remote Desktop Connection to my Server (Windows 2003) from my Vista machine.
  9. Does anyone know of any programme that will monitor and record any changes to the registry. Basically I reinstall windows a lot and some applications particularly game won't run if certain registry values aren't set. Basically I want to record all the changes that are made on an initial install of the application so that when I reinstall windows I can just update the registry instead of reinstalling the whole game just for a few lines of code. Cheers.
  10. Well I figured that now I on summer holidays now is the perfect time to get that triple boot Vista, XP and Linux. You would think that following these very easy intructions (http://www.hevnikov.com/blog/2006/11/13/tr...le-boot-screen/) I could do it. Nope. Did all that and Vista refused to even recognise my other partitions. The only option in disk management was delete partition. It could see them, I just couldn't mount them or assign a drive letter to them. Which of course meant that I couldn't use EasyBCD (because I didn't have a file path to direct it to). I even did the 8 hour kill disk to make sure there were absolutely no remenents of any MBR. Well I guess I check out the VistaBootPro. In the meantime I'm heading over to the Ubuntu forums to see if I can get some help there.
  11. I'm am trying to install a dual boot with Vista and XP. Unfortuneately I get the dreaded "Windows is unable to find a system volume that meets it's criteria for installation" bug. Currently the only solution that I am aware of that overcomes this problem is to remove all other hard drives before attempting to install Vista. Although this works insofar is getting vista to install, it adds the problem that I have to remove my XP drive in order to install Vista, hence making dual booting difficult. Currently XP is sitting there but I can't boot into it (I know load the install disk and 'fixboot'). Anyone have a solution to this problem, preferably one that doesn't involve reinstalling both XP and Vista? Current builds of XP and Vista AMD Opteron 165 DFI LanParty UT NF4 SLi-DR Expert XFX 7800GT 2x512Mb Corsair XMS Pro Seagate 7200.10 320Gb (20Gb Vista Partition, 300Gb Data) Seagate 7200.10 320Gb (8Gb XP partition, 312Gb Data) Samsung SpinPoint P120 250Gb (2Gb Primary PageFile Partition, Media partion) Samsung SpinPoint P120 250Gb (2Gb Secondary PageFile Partition, Media partion) Seagate 7200.8 160Gb (Data) Western Digital 80Gb, old PATA drive.
  12. Sounds like you have a curupt disc. Anyway Fable really, really isn't worth playing. Read this: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...76&hl=fable
  13. For some reason or another I get a black screen when I run any video. Audio is fine. I used Media Player Classic, VLC and Windows Media Player (most recent version of all). Disabling DirectX fixes the problem, but it is a pain in the arse having to constantly disable and re-enable it all the time. Note, that videos running in Firefox seem to run just fine (2.0 beta 1). I’m pretty sure it is either one of two things: directx_apr2006_redist.exe or the new nVidia drivers. BTW this is not a general directx issue with SP1 on Win2003, games and stuff work just fine. Anyone know what’s wrong or how I can fix this? Relevant specs: Windows 2003 SP1 Forceware 91.31 Opteron 165 DFI LanParty UT SLi-DR Geforce 7800GT
  14. Yeh, but that will only turn off system restore (which he can already do). He wants a fix so that all computers will not attempt to set asside space for system restore not just his. This is a tricky problem and you will probably need to use modified firmware. I have no solution but you may be better off asking this sort of question at somewhere like CD Freaks. Those guys regularly screw around with the firmware on optical drives, so they might be able to help you.
  15. Hmm lets see. You either installed Daemon Tools or Alcohol 120% didn't you. They install a virtual SCSI device drive. Don't worry just ignore it, you need it to emulate disk drives.
  16. I have a DFI LanParty UT SLi-DR Expert motherboard and onboard Karajan Audio (Realtec AC850 (AC'97)). Everything works fine except that the rear left and rear right speakers are reversed. I think this may have only occured since I reinstalled Windows but I am not sure whether it was like this before. Unistalled the driver and reinstalled it. The driver version is 5.10.0.5890 (22/07/2005). I am pretty sure that it is not the connection is the rear speakers are reversed on both my 4 Home Theatre loud-speaker setup and my Creative X530 5.1 setup. Both run through different amps so I am sure that it isn't a problem with my speakers or amp. The connector sensing crap they have is useless and never detects that I even have speakers plugged in. It keeps telling me that I have a microphone plugged into the front speaker regardless of which amp is plugged in there. I know that I could always swap the speakers around at the amp end but that just ends up a mess, particularly because I have more than one speaker system. Oops, wrong icon. My bad.
  17. Yeh, I have similar problems, but I think this problem is much easier to solve. tguy is probably right, so here is the solution: [*] Goto Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management [*] Under Storage select Disk Management [*] You should now see your portable hard drive - Right click and select change drive letter and paths [*] Add a new drive letter If this doesn't work then it may be a result of compatibility issues between NTFS on Windows 2003 and NTFS on WinXP. I have no solution for this as of yet.
  18. I have Win Server 2003 slipstreamed with SP1 and I had these problems at first but I figured it out. Go to Display Properties -> Settings -> Advanced -> Troubleshoot, and set Hardware acceleration to full Run dxdiag, go to Display and where it says direct draw acceleration click enable. Direct 3D acceleration and AGP texture acceleration should also be enabled now. That's it, everything should work. Although you should probably make sure that direct sound acceleration is also enabled by going to the sound tab in dxdiag. It took me ages to work this out, but it is very simple and does not require any work arounds/restarts/regedits/etc.
  19. That fix looks like it might actually work, but I got p***ed off and reinstalled Windows before I read your post. I'll keep it in mind for next time.
  20. Well, if it is a fully functional usable version of windows I'll eat my words.
  21. Actually that's a good comment. I like the idea of a gamers edition version of winXP/2003, but what use is it if I can't run any of my other programmes. As much as I want to get the most out of my games, I also need to be able to use my printer for uni and trillian etc. for comunicating with people. I also want my bluetooth dongle to work so that I can transfer documents to my phone/PDA. I don't know if getting a 1-2% performance boost in games is worth the annoyance of not being able to use my computer to do anything else.
  22. I didn't bother reading everthing here, but I once had the exact same problem. It turned out that the rentention clip on the heatsing was backwards. Anyway this means that the heatsing actuall sits about 0.5mm above the CPU (well on the old Althon XP socket A), and doesn't actually make contact (even though it looks like it does, and the thermal paste is smeared is if it did make contact. Double check to make sure that it is definately the right way around. Booting to BIOS was fine because it didn't heat up enough, but running windows always failed. When I checked my CPU I noticed that the edges where all chiped from overheating. I reversed the Rention clip and seated the heatsing correctly and everything worked fine after that (even with all the holes in the CPU). Anyway other then that you could always check that the bios isn't set to power off on CPU fan failure (the fan speed monitoring wire could be faulty).
  23. The device manager is empty. I open and it is completely empty. I have used regedit to check the system permissions, and yes the system does have permission so that isn't the problem. I have also checked to see if plug and play service is running, and it is (Started & Automatic). However I can't stop the plug and play service. The options for stop/restart are both greyed out, so I think that this may have something to do with the device manager issue. I first noticed this problem when I attempted to install the drivers for my i560 printer, and I believe that this may be the cause of the problem, as I regularly use the device manager to disable my cd drives, so it must be a recent occurance. How can I forcibly stop/restart plug n play or is there another solution that I am not aware of. I disabled the service through msconfig, restarted then re-enabled the service, but this had no effect. BTW, I am running Win 2003 - but this problem is exactly the same in Win XP and I figured it would get more views here. Also I have spent ages reading this page, but I have yet to find anything helpful there. Title edited -- Please, use [TAGS] in your topic's title. Please follow XP Forum Rules from now on. --Sonic
  24. I found the solution. Apparently Win 2003 SP1 uses a different version of NTFS the pre SP1 and Win XP SP2. This is for compatibility with Intel's EFI (the thing that is supposed to replace the aging BIOS). I'm not entirely sure why it happens, however and I don't know of a work around other than backing up all the files and re-partitioning the hard drive. My solution was to buy a new hard drive, install windows on that drive and copy all the files from the other drive onto it (it was 250Gb of files, so burning to DVD wasn't really an option). This way I managed to recover all my files without any issues. Apparently there was nothing wrong with the system partition (I never installed anything here so I didn't realise it was ok), only the old files partition. So just back up and reformat and everything is good. Oh, so that means that this post should probably be in the Windows 2003 forum. I knew it had nothing to do with nlite.
  25. I found another problem. I downloaded some nVidia nforce drivers and saved them onto E: drive (the partition with all my files, i.e. not the windows partition) and I installed the drivers without any trouble. The next time I reinstalled windows (this time the I used nlite to integrate RyanVM's hotfixes and didn't change anything else), I received the access denied error on all the files that I had previously download. It's almost as if every file is encrypted, and only runs on the particular version of windows that it was originally saved on. I am going to do a complete wipe of the harddrive but this is going to be a pain in the arse because I have to backup 240Gb of stuff to DVD.
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