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You shouldn't be messing with enum. If you need to delete the service it's under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services. What you really should be checking is HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Monitors . Usually 3rd party's added a port monitor, you should delete it from that key if it's still listed. -gosh

BIOS update? -gosh

If you cannot browse the site by ip address... http://1.2.3.4:80 then ping the website ping 1.2.3.4 If you get 4 replies, you have connectivity with the site. If ping fails, post the error. If ping fails you're looking at a problem with your firewall, router, parental control software, hosts file, or ISP, or the website has disabled icmp ping requests. -gosh

Since this is a bank site obviously you're looking at a SSL problem. Since it happens with 2 different browsers it's probably not an ie setting. Secure sites use port 443, therefore when you go to: www.bank.com Your browser actually goes to www.bank.com:443 So in your browser type: www.bank.com:80 To see if it comes up, if it does something is broken with SSL. can you go to other secure websites? It www.bank.com:80 doesn't come up, you don't have an SSL issue. Ping the website. Browse by ip address. Next do basic troubleshooting: reset everything in internet options, set the security level to default check your date & time make sure no firewalls or routers are blocking port 443 -gosh

Just replacing resources in a binary file doesn't change how the binary file behaves. All windows update does is use a control to scan your system to see what version of files you have. Since changing icons in explorer doesn't touch the version windows update shouldn't find any problems. -gosh

Check ref.chm included in the server 2003 support tools. -gosh

This site doesn't talk about wpa work arounds. -gosh

yes it sounds like that ntfs meta data is not being copied to the cd. This won't work in xp, although in might in vista since vista uses 'tags'. -gosh

What files are you adding comments to? Meta data on office files should be stored in the file itself, however for other files that would be stored as an ntfs stream i believe. Since burned cd's use the cdfs file system it wouldn't have ntfs meta data. On the cd itself in windows explorer are you enabling the comment field? Depending on the file type, that probably is not burnable. -gosh

Just install sp2 then uninstall it -gosh

Even better than hexing files is a command switch to bypass the hardware restrictions: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=99602 setup.exe /nosyscheck -gosh

I agree with cluberti. The only thing i would add is to re-register urlmon.dll. When you open a new IE windows urlmon.dll is responsible for handling this. -gosh

It's important to conceptualize this: text mode setup is dumb. It doesn't have any plug and play and no logging. Therefore everything has to be statically set. When you run test mode setup, it uses txtsetup.sif to build the windows folder, as you've noticed. Everything in txtsetup.sif is relative to the windows folder. Once text mode setup is done you only have a windows folder, not documents and settings or program files. It is in the 32 bit gui mode setup that user programs are installing using syssetup.inf. Syssetup.inf calls wmp.inf and other wmp inf's which install media player. Syssetup.inf also calls ie.inf during the inf.always phase. the file used by gui mode setup and post setup is layout.inf. This file is used to determine where the files go to. -gosh

yes you can, you rename winnt.sif to something else, i believe oem.sif or something like that. If you look at a floppy disk used for loading drivers you'll see what format to use. Microsoft's website documents what to do. -gosh

Is your xp cd slipstreamed with sp2? This happened in the RTM version, im surprised this still happens with slipstreamed media. You can change the system drive, however it's unsupported and about 50% the computer will blue screen. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/223188/en-us -gosh

Clean boot troubleshooting: 1 - Try Safe mode 2 - Try Msconfig In msinfo32 > software environment > windows error reporting , tell us what errors are listed here -gosh

Kind of right? I used to work for microsoft, i sent mps reports hundreds of times and became good at using it to troubleshoot issues. It all depends on your issue. MPS reports is good for showing what 3rd party software is installed on the computer and what is hooking into processes such as explorer, but again it all depends on the issue. Some of the log files are in .csv format, so you just open it in office and filter it. -gosh

Microsoft Product Support Reports. All mps reports is is a bunch of microsoft utilities that are run together using a batch file that puts everything in a .cab file i believe. -gosh

i would check for a desktop.ini file, and i would disable the bagsmru. By default windows will save the settings of each folder under the bagsmru key i believe. A simple way to reset it is in folder options undo the option to save folder settings, click ok, then go back to folder options and enable the setting (tweakui lets you reset this too). Otherwise i would suspect that theme or whatever shell modification youre using is causing your problem. -gosh

By default when you access a shared printer over the network, it'll silently download and install the printer drivers from the server as long as they are digitally signed. I do not know vista, but this sounds like a policy issue, or for some reason the drivers are not showing up as digitally signed. Any vista experts want to chim in? -gosh

That's probably something 3rd party hooking into the shell. Look at event viewer, try safe mode. -gosh

the zip support in xp actually came from 98 plus! It actually worked by just registering the file zipfldr.dll, so microsoft used it. I dont see microsoft investing a lot of money on a product originally meant for plus! -gosh

If my memory is right, outlook let's you customize what file types you can download, but i don't remember a windows setting that does the same thing. -gosh

Remember that ntoskrnl.exe depends on how many cpu's you have. If you have multiple cpu's setup renames ntkrnlpa.exe to ntoskrnl.exe. -gosh

Let me add my 2 cents: Admin shares are hidden by default on windows computers, very simply windows is hard coded to hide them from view. However on non-windows based pc's you can see the default shares (c$,d$...). Since you mentioned you have a mac, im curious if you can see the admin shares on the mac? Overall i would recommend keeping the admin shares because they are so useful. You would be better off removing telnet and DDE shares. -gosh