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memory dumps.

Geoff McDowall
I recently tried to install SP4 for w2k. It had a serious problem with a driver for my scanner and windows was unable to load until I booted in safe mode and uninstalled the service pack. Has anyone had a similar problem with earlier sps.
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NDIS Proxy, what is it?

Curley_Boy
Can anyone tell me what the NDIS Proxy driver (ndproxy. sys) does please? I checked the MS knowledge site and didn't understand a word of it. Whilst tweaking my system I disabled this driver. . . however when i replaced the registry entries for this service from an XP Home machine to reacrivate it.
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XP Pro System Restore Crash

bugface
My Windows Media Player 9 crashed few times so I reinstalls it. As it reinstalls it adds system restore point right. . . Anyway here is the deal after that I noticed it still crash so I wish to revert back.
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Update Service Packs Centrally

Rattlesnake
hi, We have in our firm Windows 2000 professional clients(around 150 clients) and a mix of WinNT and Win 2K servers. We have Service Pack 1 installed on the clients. I wanted to know the best way to CENTRALLY install SP 3 on these clients.
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Win2000 compatibility wizard

riggidy_bo
hi, i know that the compatibility wizard isnt automatically enabled and that the administrator has to enter a comand line to activate it but how do i do this? can anyone help?
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How to delete unused pagefile.sys?

prum555
Hi. . I have 2 hard drives in my system and I assigned the pagefile to my second hard drive. When I ran Perfect Disk it reported that the pagefile. sys in my first hard drive is still there and is very fragmented.
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Laptop - need to run XP or 2000 on it!

Nick601
Hi I have an intell pentium 400 mhz with 256 mb of ram in the past i have had windows XP running on it when i recently came to install xp OR 2000 on it it crashes when the blue installation screen apprars in the xp/2000 setup any ideas why?? , i would really like to have xp or 2000 on my laptop
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Prionter issues - keeps asking for login info - user / pass

Mr.Guvernment
Hey all i havaa 2003 server print server. Last night i set up all system to connect to the printer - upon doing so, i was prompted for a user /pass to log onto the print server (via the network) - i put in the user / pass i use to log into the print server and it works, i also asked the computer to remeber the logi ...
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ClearType on Windows 2000

Alan2003
The ONLY feature about WinXP that I'm bothered about having is ClearType. Otherwise I can't stand XP, it's Fisher-Price interface is inhibiting and it runs far too slowly. I am a Win2000 man. Has anyone attempted to rework the ClearType feature backwards into Win2000? I am not alone.
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V-Com SystemSuite 5

Christianb
Hi Gang, I'm wondering does anybody own this? If so what do you think? What isn't included from V-Com's major software suites? It looks like there's no partitioning, backup, or multi-boot functionality.
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Something went weird after NTFS format

Anonymous
Hi all, Yesterday I formatted my non-system partition, D, in Win2K Command Prompt with this command: format d: /fs:ntfs Formatting went smoothly. Immediately after the format, I checked drive D's properties and was shocked to discover 51 megs of space have been taken up! 8) How could that be? Drive D was empty afte ...
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XP SP1 trouble

mak-uk
Hi I recently followed a guide on the Net to get SP1 installed on to my Windows XP. That works great. I then came across a pre-integrated SP1 build and obtained a serial for it to try it out. It worked, installed etc.
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Help HElp!! Windows XP Pro Hotfix

Echo
I'm upgrading my computer tomorrow, new CPU, motherboard and HDD. I want to do a complete reinstall of XP Pro from scratch on my new drive. What I don't want to do is spend hours downloading the updates for XP and IE6 that I've already got on my current machine.
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NT 4.0 Boot Problem

actsh
Folks, Looking for a steer. NT 4. 0 Server with Raid 5 controller booting as far as the NT 4 Blue screen. Getting no periods (dots), hangs for about 6 seconds and proceeds to reboot. Does the same in VGA mode.
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