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Cannot delete sound files

ECO
After recording a few things from a tape deck, using my soundcard ofcourse, I can't delete some sound files I don't need. Every time I attempt to delete any of them I get a Error Deleting File or Folder error, stating that I Cannot delete : There has been a sharing violation.
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Bad Sector recovery

mthaler
I have a clients computer that has developed some bad sectors on the hard drive (WD 40gb 7200rpm) and when it runs chkdsk on boot up, it finds quite a few unreadable sectors, and the OS looks pretty messed up.
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Trace Log

GAEILL
I have Windows XP Pro. I have recently noticed that the trace. log found under C:\Windows\System 32\LogFiles\ WMI has been growing way out of proportion- up to 1. 5 gigs in size. I have all counters disabled with exctrlst.
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Win2k hardware compression during backup

VirusP
I am trying to back up data of Win2k server using HP SureStore 24 backup hardware. Although the HP supports 24x tapes, i can't use the hardware compression feature, even while using Verita software. I enabled the hardware compression within the Win2k and the backup hardware, but it doesn't seem to work at all Does ...
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>> windows xp & windows 98 ??

david321
I would like to know if its posible, to install on a new hard drive D: with another operatin system ( windows 98 ), on a computer that allready have windows xp. C: I would like to have the two systems on differents hard drives, and also restart the computer from the hard drive (operating system) that i chosse.
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nt 4 and smtp

ws6
Hi, I am working on a older server that is running NT 4. I have installed SP 3 with the NT 4 Option Pack and then SP 4. I am having a problem with the smtp service. It is always getting a error with the smtp service about file not found.
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60 Hz refresh rate bug in win2k

mave
The fix presented below include only editing of windows registry hence no need of running any third party apps of unknown origin. Theoretically this fix should be display-driver/adapter indenpendent since it modifies settings for the monitor rather than display-drivers/adapter itself.
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32 Bit Color

gilgamesh
I just had a quick question. Does 32-bit desktop color depth have any adverse affects on performance or does it make no difference? I was just curious.
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Font problem under Win2000 sp3

@mt@
Hi all. In these days I am experimenting my overclock so during some boots my system lookups cause the vcore is inconsistence or the FSB and frequency are too high. One of all these times my system crashed and when it rebooted the scandisk program have solved some missing or truncated paths and other small problems.
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MCP Secured Site

teenguy
I've got the MCP certificate around August, 2002. Received the welcome kit also. But today when i tried to enter the MCP secured site with the old passport signin username it is giving me some error.
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Page file bug -- Can't seem to change it?

synic
I wasn't able to change the size and location of my swap/page file, no matter what it would stay on the last location I had properly set it. I looked at the control to switch it and it says what it was supposed to put it to, but you back out one panel to where it just says the total and the button to change the vir ...
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LCFINST.Exe (????)

ZEHN
Greetings everyone I have just finished a freash install of XP Pro and keep getting an error that windows can't start the above exe. I have done a google, MS, NTComp, 2CPU search with only one reference (German forum).
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