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Power management or ACPI seem to not function properly. So either of them isn't properly installed or is disabled in bios.

If i understood correctly, you need to clear the cache for offline files/folders. Then All you need to do is: - open any explorer windows - go to tools, folders options - offline files - then shift +ctrl +click on delete files. - then you should be prompted to reset the cache. Click yes. - then click ok and you should be prompted to reboot. - reboot and you're done.

I totally agree. I've seen virus creating this kind of problems.

You could easily make script to make domain user member of power of every computer: First create a global group in AD add all users you want to have local power users rights for example name it Powdomainusers. Create a GPO which will run a startup script in local computer policy. The script will be : net localgroup "power users" domainname\powdomainusers /add

Perhaps this Pc has a local policy. Check it with gpedit. Also perhaps there is something with the user's profile. If you're using roaming profile in your AD, you'll need to clean it after saving it somewhere. Then go to profiles dir on the PC hard drive and save again the profile dir and then remove it. It should then be created again. If the problem happens again then you'll have to investigate more.

Look for mdadd, mdcreate, mdrun commands. http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html

Of course you should shutdown them in the right order: Shutdown first the standalone servers (not in domain) if an application on another server doesn't need one of them. Then shutdown all domain members servers and the DC slave. Then shutdown the dc master. The power on the dc master and power on all other in whatever order you want.

Use defrag.exe from a batch.

Explorer doesn't support (with IE6 at least) SSL or TLS FTP connection. In fact it only support FTP protocol and no support for any of FTPS, FTP+TLS, SSL+FTP, FTP over SSL.

You can try to launch .inf installation from a dos box but it should result in the same problem as it 's what windows is launching: rundll32.exe advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %systemroot%\inf\netmscli.inf, DefaultInstall

That's a normal behaviour of the usb keyboard. When XP start, it enter in protected mode thus removing most of bios infos from memory. Then it loads its usb driver then you can use then keyboard again. So during its loading the usb keyboard won't work.

You should be able to configure XP firewall to allow only the apps you need to connect to internet. And then create another account for your roomate with rights so he can't change back xp firewall settings.

Did you tried regshot ?

When you install a network adapter(if it wasn't installed during setup) and if you're using unmodified windows XP, windows should automaticaly install "Client for Microsoft networks". If it doesn't, there is most probably either a problem with source CD or a problem during the dirver install.

It was released as BDD 2007 beta 2.

Perhaps, it's a rights problem on the printer. Did you tried to add the "domain users" rights to "everyone" in the security tab of the printer?

Why not use %* instead of %1 ? It should take care of space problems.

If you're using XP, you could also disable system restoration and enable it again afterwards. Also if your C: drive is in FATor FAT32 format, you should do a chkdsk as FAT and FAT32 can report wrong space when there are errors.

Create another local admin account, reboot loggin with the new account then delete.

Of course default XP policy is to reserve at least 20% of bandwidth.

Tain is speaking about setting a group policy in the active directory to modify the wallpaper of all your computers.

When you first install XP, "Client For Microsoft Networks" should be installed by default. If it isn't, then you should first try to reinstall (there should have been a problem when XP installed the first time). You shouldn't connect physically your computer to networks (local or internet) before setup is complete, a virus can interrupt the setup process.

Did you tried to disable the internal hard drive ? What i'll do: I'll disable the internal hard drive, boot from a dos floppy then fdisk to remove all partition then reboot then fdisk /mbr then reboot then fdisk to create a new FAT partition then reboot then copy system files on the drive with sys c: if c: is the drive letter of the drive. Hope it'll help.

If you consider that you'll be using both partition and that some application will move data from one partition to another (for example downloading with IE will use then %temp% space that is usually set on the windows partition) then those operations will be a lot longer and then slow down the computer.

As described here:, i'll try to do cd %systemroot%\system32\wbem for %i in (*.dll) do RegSvr32 –s %i regsvr32 -s scrcons.exe regsvr32 -s unsecapp.exe regsvr32 -s wbemtest.exe regsvr32 -s winmgmt.exe regsvr32 -s wmiadap.exe regsvr32 -s wmiapsrv.exe regsvr32 -s wmiprvse.exe for %i in (*.mof, *.mfl) do Mofcomp %i Then reboot and check if this solved the problem. If this doesn't work, you might try then: rundll32 wbemupgd, UpgradeRepository