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  1. Trance

    that is exactly why I would need a bootvis because there can be a milion reasons. I also went into MSCONFIG in disabled all non microsoft services and startup items and nothing helped. In device manager all is ok.

    pa. about the bootvis. It works on X32 just not on X64

  2. Trance

    that's the first thing I do on my fresh Windows install.

    it's not just the shutdown its also the start up. Its sitting there for almost 10sec doing absolutely nothing during boot. Not to much it takes about 3min to get into safe mode

  3. I know bootvis is no longer public but I don't want to use it for the

    optimization system, I want the boot time details. Because my shutdown now takes more than half a minute and bootup around 1 min. So I wanna see which app/driver is the problem. Does anyone know where I

    can find a piece of software, if there is no bootvis for x64?

  4. Today I was playing with some settings for the visually impaired and after I set everything back the way it was (normal fonts, blue windows theme, normal icons). But Office 2003 programs (Outlook, Word, Excel) are still all grey and not blue as they were.

    How do I fix this so that Office 2003 programs don't use the clasic theme?

    ps. on this machine there is no uxtheme patches or any other non microsoft stuff. the themes installed are the default ones which came with windows (silver, olive green, blue).

    solved:

    had to disable high contrast in accesibility option.

  5. I got a Win2k3 enterprise server at my home. And since I do alot of OS installation to various computers I was thinking if it was possible to set up a network install. So that I would mount an OS image in Win2k3 and a client machine supporting PXE boot would just boot of that image containing an OS and install from network.

    Keep in mind that I would be installing LINUX aswell as Windows OSs.

  6. Hello!

    Thus far I have been using a pirated version of Win2003 SP2 enterprise edition. So now finally our school admin has set up MSDNAA so I am now able to receive a student free of charge license for almost all of Microsofts products.

    But when I tried to change the serial number in Win2k3 with the one I got through MSDN Academic Alliance, Windows 2003 said the serial is invalid. This is the guide I used for changing serials:

    http://www.petri.co.il/change_the_serial_in_windows_xp.htm

    I also called at MS support center and they said that this is impossible. But an in-place upgrade would change the serial. Unfortunately she couldn't be more specific about it because that would require a paid support and then she would redirect my phone call to england where they are experts. But she did say that I should check on web for this.

    Is the in-place upgrade the same thing as a repair install and would thus erase all my drivers and such?

  7. I'm not too sure, but can't you just make a static ip address for your xp machine, giving the dns address of your server running dns, then add host records in dns for all the machines on your network.

    Sorry my answer is so brief, I'm in a hurry.

    I could try. But how do I do that?

  8. I added a laptop, JONSON, to my LAN and pinged it from WinXP machine and also accessed its shared drives. And then launched

    'ipconfig displaydns'

    and there was no mention of such computer.

    But when I pinged and accessed the same computer on W2k3 server 'ipconfig displaydns' just said:

    jonson

    ----------------------------------------

    Name does not exist.

    what else can I do?

  9. so if you resolve a name on your win2k3 server and type ipconfig /displaydns you see the pcs listed that you have resolved?

    no I do not.

    this is what I did on the W2k3 box:

    ipconfig /flushdns

    then I accessed '\\acer-travelmate' and click on some of his folders and also pinged it by its dns name which gave me the IP '88.200.110.xxx'

    then I did

    ipconfig /displaydns

    and this is the output:

    Windows IP Configuration

    1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa
    ----------------------------------------
    Record Name . . . . . : 1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa.
    Record Type . . . . . : 12
    Time To Live . . . . : 482949
    Data Length . . . . . : 4
    Section . . . . . . . : Answer
    PTR Record . . . . . : localhost


    tomi // the name of my WinXP box
    ----------------------------------------
    Record Name . . . . . : tomi
    Record Type . . . . . : 1
    Time To Live . . . . : 482949
    Data Length . . . . . : 4
    Section . . . . . . . : Answer
    A (Host) Record . . . : 192.168.0.2


    acer-travelmate
    ----------------------------------------
    Name does not exist.


    2.0.168.192.in-addr.arpa
    ----------------------------------------
    Record Name . . . . . : 2.0.168.192.in-addr.arpa.
    Record Type . . . . . : 12
    Time To Live . . . . : 482949
    Data Length . . . . . : 4
    Section . . . . . . . : Answer
    PTR Record . . . . . : tomi



    localhost
    ----------------------------------------
    Record Name . . . . . : localhost
    Record Type . . . . . : 1
    Time To Live . . . . : 482949
    Data Length . . . . . : 4
    Section . . . . . . . : Answer
    A (Host) Record . . . : 127.0.0.1

  10. hmm, if you can connect to them by IP not name then that would suggest that the 2 routes we put in are working.

    this has been working prior to adding those routes. I jmentioned this in my original post. That is way I put the name of the thread 'Can't resolve DNS'.

    Can your w2k3 box resolve the other pc's hostnames?

    yes

    if so then i think that the DNS server that it has should also be the DNS server that the xp box has.

    I am using DNS server service on W2k3 box. So my DNS for client machine is 192.168.0.1 (servers IP).

    I did try manually adding DNS servers to XP box but it doesn't help.

  11. I don't know what 88.200.110.128 is. And if I ping it it says the destination is invalid.

    And also when I deleted it from the ROUTE table there was no ill efects.

    Restarted the server and this is the basic ROUTE TABLE

     Active Routes:
    Network Destination Netmask Gateway Interface Metric
    0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 88.200.110.129 88.200.110.154 20
    88.200.110.128 255.255.255.128 88.200.110.154 88.200.110.154 20
    88.200.110.154 255.255.255.255 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 20
    88.255.255.255 255.255.255.255 88.200.110.154 88.200.110.154 20
    127.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 1
    192.168.0.0 255.255.255.0 192.168.0.1 192.168.0.1 20
    192.168.0.1 255.255.255.255 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 20
    192.168.0.255 255.255.255.255 192.168.0.1 192.168.0.1 20
    224.0.0.0 240.0.0.0 88.200.110.154 88.200.110.154 20
    224.0.0.0 240.0.0.0 192.168.0.1 192.168.0.1 20
    255.255.255.255 255.255.255.255 88.200.110.154 88.200.110.154 1
    255.255.255.255 255.255.255.255 192.168.0.1 192.168.0.1 1
    Default Gateway: 88.200.110.129

    And this is the route table when I add those 2 entries you suggested:

     Route add 192.168.0.0 MASK 255.255.255.0 192.168.0.1
    Route add 88.200.110.0 MASK 255.255.255.128 88.200.110.154

     
    Active Routes:
    Network Destination Netmask Gateway Interface Metric
    0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 88.200.110.129 88.200.110.154 20
    88.200.110.0 255.255.255.128 88.200.110.154 88.200.110.154 1
    88.200.110.128 255.255.255.128 88.200.110.154 88.200.110.154 20
    88.200.110.154 255.255.255.255 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 20
    88.255.255.255 255.255.255.255 88.200.110.154 88.200.110.154 20
    127.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 1
    192.168.0.0 255.255.255.0 192.168.0.1 192.168.0.1 20
    192.168.0.1 255.255.255.255 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 20
    192.168.0.255 255.255.255.255 192.168.0.1 192.168.0.1 20
    224.0.0.0 240.0.0.0 88.200.110.154 88.200.110.154 20
    224.0.0.0 240.0.0.0 192.168.0.1 192.168.0.1 20
    255.255.255.255 255.255.255.255 88.200.110.154 88.200.110.154 1
    255.255.255.255 255.255.255.255 192.168.0.1 192.168.0.1 1
    Default Gateway: 88.200.110.129

    And my IP is 88.200.110.154

    edit: Forgot to mention this but I can connect to other computer from the Windows XP machine thru their IP numbers just not by their DNS name. How come?

  12. sorry for not replying sooner had midterms.

    Any way your route add table worked somewhat.

    On the client machine I can now see some of the computers but I can't connect to them nor can I ping them because it says the host is unavailable. But I can ping them or connect to them on the server itself.

    So we are on a good road just something is still missing.

    My W2k3 server is connected to the RJ45 socket located in my room.

    here's the new 'route print'

    IPv4 Route Table
    ===========================================================================
    Interface List
    0x1 ........................... MS TCP Loopback interface
    0x10003 ...00 d0 b7 0c 2c d4 ...... Intel(R) PRO/100+ Management Adapter
    0x10004 ...00 11 2f b5 ba 13 ...... CNet PRO200 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter
    ===========================================================================
    ===========================================================================
    Active Routes:
    Network Destination Netmask Gateway Interface Metric
    0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 88.200.110.129 88.200.110.154 20
    88.200.110.0 255.255.255.128 88.200.110.154 88.200.110.154 1
    88.200.110.128 255.255.255.128 88.200.110.154 88.200.110.154 20
    88.200.110.154 255.255.255.255 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 20
    88.255.255.255 255.255.255.255 88.200.110.154 88.200.110.154 20
    127.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 1
    192.168.0.0 255.255.255.0 192.168.0.1 192.168.0.1 1
    192.168.0.1 255.255.255.255 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 20
    192.168.0.255 255.255.255.255 192.168.0.1 192.168.0.1 20
    224.0.0.0 240.0.0.0 88.200.110.154 88.200.110.154 20
    224.0.0.0 240.0.0.0 192.168.0.1 192.168.0.1 20
    255.255.255.255 255.255.255.255 88.200.110.154 88.200.110.154 1
    255.255.255.255 255.255.255.255 192.168.0.1 192.168.0.1 1
    Default Gateway: 88.200.110.129
    ===========================================================================
    Persistent Routes:
    None

    thank you

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