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Customization Tweaking

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ntfs and cd burning

jwl812

I am new to the Win2k thing so please bare with me. Someone told me that you can't burn CDs if your system is formated with NTFS. Can someone please shed some light on this subject for me? Thanks. .

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Last reply by Flak, 2001-12-19 12:47

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Slowwwwww Modem Port Speed

DooDiddley

Hi folks. I'm having a weird problem with my modem port speed. I'm using a 3Com US Robotics 56k Voice Faxmodem (EXT) with Windows 2000 Pro. When I dial in, I connect anywhere between a whopping 7. 2 kbps and 115200.

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Last reply by Flak, 2001-12-19 12:40

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Command Line -> Win2k Equivalent

ancker

Could someone point me to a website or list of Win2k Command Prompt equivalents of win 9x and unix commands?? Such As: msconfig, tracert, dig, nslookup. . Thanks Ancker.

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Last reply by Flak, 2001-12-19 12:36

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Network and dial-up connections have disappeared!!!!

sk79

Hi guys, I've got a really wierd problem with my set in my workplace. It's running a dual boot with Win98 & Win2k. The windows 98 partition has no problems whatsoever & is running on tip-top form. For some reason though, in Windows 2000, I've have lost my network and dial-up-connections within the dialog box (My Ne ...

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Last reply by Flak, 2001-12-19 12:31

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Registry: Memory Management

Ron_Jeremy

Looking at the following key in the Registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet001\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management I am baffled at why the SecondLevelDataCache parameter is defaulted at 512(K).

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Last reply by Flak, 2001-12-19 12:25

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NTFS and automatic disk checks?

GTwannabe

Back in the days when I used FAT32, if Win2k would bluescreen and crash, it would automatically schedule a disk check. With NTFS, it never does a startup disk check. Is there any way to force the system to do disk checks if it isn't shutdown properly? I ask because if I startup with a dirty disk, the system hangs f ...

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Last reply by Flak, 2001-12-19 12:19

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Booting 2K with Numlock ?

marek94

Hi, I think I'm not the only one in the world who is wondering how to tell Win 2000 to toggle on NumLock. Everytime Win 2K boots up it turnos off the Numlock status. However I'd like to have it turned on so that it doesn't need to be done manually each time you boot up and log-on.

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Last reply by Flak, 2001-12-19 12:16

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Blue Screen

reversing_drive

***STOP: 0x0000001E (0xC0000005, 0xBE5E5212, 0x00000000, 0x3F3F3F4F) KMODE_EXCEPTION NOT HANDLED ***Address BE5E5212 base at BE5D7000, DateStamp 3a7a0bfc - wdmaud. sys Beginning dump of phys. mem.

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Last reply by Flak, 2001-12-19 12:12

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HDD Space

MrSlinky

I had a lot of files in a single folder that were not necessary anymore and so I deleted them. Now come the problem. My drive is 16. 0GB in size and I deleted about 700 files totaling ~10GB because I was down to about 2GB of free.

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Last reply by Flak, 2001-12-19 11:48

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Never Dial a Connection

mickbench

We have 1400 Win 2000 Laptops that use dial up networking to logon to the our network. They do this from the CTRL ATL DEL Screen. This is so that is maps network drives, logon scripts etc. . . Problem is, GP sets up Internet Explorer proxy.

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Last reply by Flak, 2001-12-19 11:31

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which file system is more efficient for windows, NTFS or FAT

shassouneh

Hi all, just wondering. APART FROM ADVANCD SECURITY AND INDEXING FEATURES avilable in NTFS, is NTFS a better file system than FAT32 in terms of stability, and / or speed ? Is NTFS or FAT32 more efficient? I have noticed that NTFS seems to be less prone to corruption in files and directories as FAT 12/16/32 (vfat) is.

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Last reply by Flak, 2001-12-19 11:19

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services help within Win 2k ... Please help

Napalm

OK, somehow I screwed up with my services. Now, Win 2k is acting screwy. . . I enabled Net logon and logical disk manager to start up automatically. When I reboot, I can't enable/disable anything in the services.

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Last reply by Flak, 2001-12-19 11:08

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Wallpaper shrinks

bobbinbrisco

After playing any game in any resolution, when I return back to my desktop, my wallpaper shrinks. That is, it doesn't fill up my whole screen as before i was playing. what could be the problem?.

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Last reply by bobbinbrisco, 2001-12-19 00:17

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Will there be life after SP3?

pmistry

Do you think Win2k will ever get a fourth service pack. Lets place bets now. I think Win2k is pretty stable now at SP2. So I think SP3 could be the last. .

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Last reply by Brian Frank, 2001-12-18 17:32

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power toys for xp

harlock

will it work on 2000? i'd really like to be able to use the multi-desktop feature like with linux that power toys has. thanx harlock.

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Last reply by harlock, 2001-12-18 12:18

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Permission a la Win2k

mote

Using Windows XP Professional: Is there a simple way to setup permissions and user access? Perhaps the same way as Win2k? Is it possible to share a folder, allowing access to various network users but not the entire network? I have not been able to find this functionality in WinXP.

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Last reply by Xiven, 2001-12-17 02:56

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AlecStaar and everyone, I have poor hd performance in XP Pro

DARTH maul

I just did a long format of my hd installing NTFS. I have the official Asus A7V 1009 bios, and my mobo is PCB revision 1. 02 and I've now installed the 1009X/FXD (temp fix) bios from braziliantech and enabled the CPU IDLE feature in the bios.

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Last reply by Brian Frank, 2001-12-16 18:34

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Defragging slowed my system down...otay

Brian Frank

Specs in sig (as usual). The Imperial Star Destroyer takes forever to boot up in XP. I know this uses 5400RPM drives, but gimme a break. I defragged 2 partitions, C:\ being one of them. I'd also noticed a slow down before going to XP under 2k.

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Last reply by Brian Frank, 2001-12-15 03:05

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IIS Setup in XP

CrazyKillerMan

Heya clutch I was wondering if you could point me in the direction for a good IIS setup (web page or a forum). I am throwing it on my LAN for exp, but I would really like to read about it before I do.

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Last reply by CrazyKillerMan, 2001-12-15 00:36

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How do I download application compatibility update?

michaeljbrooks

How do I download a standalone file for the new Windows XP application compatibility update without using the Microsoft Windows Update page? I need to download an application compatibility update file on a separate computer (which is running Windows NT 4), burn it to CD-R, and take it home to update my home compute ...

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Last reply by michaeljbrooks, 2001-12-14 17:35