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winspool.dll?

jsmame
an application wants this DLL file. Any work arounds or Ideas? Its for William Sonoma cookbook so more for the wfe than me but. . . My system SOYO 6ba+iv 256 PC100 20gb Maxtor HD Trident 938X ( I know, replacement soon) Voodoo2 Win2000 clean win98 (when it works!).
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WriteDVD for win2k and packet writeing?

wallaby
doeas anyone have WriteDVD for windows 2000 by it will do dvd-ram packet writeing under windows 2000. how is it? what eles can it do cdr's? i would like to get my dvd-ram up and running is this a good programe or should i wait for vob new instantwrite software to come out.
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Adaptec DirectCD 2.5/3.0?

Simon Ngan
Hi, Can anyone manage to get DirectCD 2. 5/3. 0 running on Win2K? I got the info. from Adaptec that DirectCD isn't compatible with Win2K, but I need to make copy of some files through CDRW and DirectCD is the only way to copy stuff (for me anyway).
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Shutdown & ACPI

LoRdSpawn
hello. when I try to shutdown win2k, my PC restarts always. I saw i didn't have the choice to hibernate the PC is there a link between these 2 things?. . . in win98 my system can hibernate & shutdown.
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Can't restart after installing EZCDcreator 4.02 Patch

thephatness
This just ruined my day. I installed the 4. 02 patch and then I couldn't restart. The boot up process took forever and then I got a BSOD that said there was paging problems in non-paged area. I then reinstalled Win2k and then just installed EZCD creator and the patch with nothing else on the system and the same thi ...
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Command prompt

LoRdSpawn
hello. . im using win2k @ the moment and i do not have any problems after all. i have only 1 question, about win2k's command prompt. can't I maximize the window to full-screen format? cause in mysituation, only a part of the screen is command prompt (is it actually the equivalent of win98's MS-DOS prompt?) and i wo ...
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Flash Media with IE5?

JBoDEAN
When I try loading flash pages, they dont show I went to and it doesnt download the picture. Windows 2000/ IE5 Any ideas how i can fix this?.
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Modem!!!

spad18
I have a strange problem (well i think it is strange), befor booting up windows2k to go on the net, i have to turn my modem on (external USRobitics Courier) as if i turn it on in windows, windows dosnt detect it being there so i have to reboot again! and also if i boot with it turned on and it does a scan disk and ...
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icq crashes

ACID
i constantly get icq errors it crashes all the time especially when i do a mass message its says something about dr watson!
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choosing setup drive for W98 on W2k sys

N29
How do I specify what drive to instal win98 on in a Win2K sys. When I try to instal I get a error that states that I have a NTFS drive and I need to make a MS-DOS boot partition to instal. Is there any way around this? Thanks!.
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Windows 2000 Server DNS Problem, Please Help!

denisebaker
Hello People, I am setting up a web hosting company using Windows 2000 Server. Right now I'm using 2 PCs: Primary Domain Name Server NS1. NOYEARLYFEES. COM 202. 188. 111. 74 NOYEAR-HST Secondary Domain Name Server NS2.
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AVG Virus scanner (free version)

badboy
Has anybody had prob's with the AVG virus scanner (free version) installs fine when the system reboots on loading personal setting my system just hangs. When I got back into windows four reset's later and managed to run the avg program half way though scanning it awarded me with the blue screen of death.
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Network LAG in 2000?!! HELP!!

TonyMontana
How come there is about a 3-8 sec lag on going to any networked drive on a local lan. . (Peer to Peer) If I try to access a local hard drive on my lan it lags like I said. . but if I use win98 it comes up like NOW? Its been this way in all versions of 2000 is there something I have to set so the computers are insta ...
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Profile directory names

thephatness
How do you rename the profile directories under Documents and Settings? I've reinstalled Win2k several times and kept existing profile directories and it has created new weird directory names like Administrator.
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Folder view help

Me
I dont remember how to change the view of ALL folders in explorer to 'list' instead of the big icons. ive done it before, just forgot how thanks!.
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SERVICES Screwed - DAMN !

grimm
I screwed up my services, anyone know how I can bring everything back to default. My system is hanging and I cannot start or edit sevices properties, the properties age locks up, can't acces these serrvices.
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Weird Task Manager issue...

CUViper
Hey guys. . . I don't what happened to cause this, but my task manager is screwed up. Here's a picture of what it looks like: It's really weird. I have no idea how to fix it, short of re-installing.
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98 VS NT5: DirectX performance.

DosFreak
Windows 2000 Professional RETAIL tests taken with 5. 03. 025 drivers and 5. 01. 019 G400ICD. DLL Windows Millenium Build 2487 tests taken with 5. 52. 015 drivers and 5. 50. 010 G400ICD. DLL Graphics card used in test was Matrox G400 SH AGP 32MB.
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I got bored and

antrant
made a animated pointer. it turned out cool so I decided to post here! go for download: PS must be used in win2k with pointer shadow enabled.
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