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    Graphic Card Options For Ultra Small Form Factor PC (Dell Optiplex 755)

    I'm trying to source a graphics card for a USFF PC that has 1 x DVI, 1 x Analog port. Unfortunately the onboard video is disabled whenever you insert a external card. Otherwise the Nvidia Quadro NVS 55/280 card would have been suitable, however this has only one DVI port. We've tried using...
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    Strange font problem in Office 2003

    Wonder if you could help...I've come across a weird problem.... We're running an W2k network with XP clients (SP1) with each Office 2003 - the problem we have is that a number of our users's machines are hanging (not even task manager or process explorer would close Outlook.exe or any of the...
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    NTFS folder permissions query

    Is there any way of protecting explicitly defined permissions for a sub-folder? e.g. Example folder structure \PERSONAL DATA (read/write) \PERSONAL DATA\USER 1 (inherited read/write) \PERSONAL DATA\USER 2 (inherited read/write) \PERSONAL DATA\SHARED DATA (inherited read/write) \PERSONAL...
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    Local Admin Query

    Wonder if you could help? We're running a XP clients on our 2k-based network and we've come across a piece of software that requires users to have local admin access to their PCs, we've tried virtually every permission change on the clients but none have worked, so we're left with giving the...
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    Stopping USB/LPT Printer installs

    Wonder if you could help? We're running a Windows 2000 Network with 1000+ XP Pro clients and we're looking at stopping users connecting Parallel/USB local printers at their workstations. Anyone know of a way we can stop users adding local printers, but still enable them to use cameras...
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    Microsoft MOM Event Problem - KDC Request problem

    I wonder if you could help? We've got over 50 mom events coming up on one of our core domain controllers - "The Security Account Manager failed a KDC request in an unexpected way. The error is in the data field. The account name was ????????????" and lookup type 0x100". I've checked the usual...
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    SAN help, please... (Storage Area Networking)

    I hope you can help. We've got a number of SAN drives setup and running on one of our servers, however in Disk Management they're all present and correct (all dymnamic disks), however when I look in Explorer, Disk Defragmenter and at the command line, can't see any of the new drives. Help...
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    More than 4 IDE devices on system?

    I wonder if you could help? I've got 1 x 80GB (Main XP drive), 2 x 120GB drives and a CDRW and have no room left on the onboard IDE channels. It is possible to buy a seperate disk controller so that I can utilize another 2 x 120GB HDD's? I may need to upgrade my PSU from 450w to 500w or...
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    Alcohol and DVD-RAM recording

    Can you use Alcohol to record DVD-RAM double-layer, double density DVD's in the same way that you use Easy CD/Nero, etc. to write CDR's? Thanks Dan
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    DVD-RAM Software??

    I would if you could help? I'm trying to get my head around DVD-RAM. I want to record a DVD-RAM disc (double-layer, double-sided 19GB disc), in theory, I am right in saying that you need a specific type of DVD-RAM recorder and DVD-RAM specific software? Im I also right in thinking that only...
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    Changing Services in XP back to defaults?

    Anyone know of a utility that can reset the status of the window xp services back to their factory defaults (i.e. manual/automatic/disabled) I've made a few changes, some good, some problematic, some making no difference at all and want to start again. Any ideas? Thanks Dan
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    Scripting Scandisk/Defrag/anti-virus etc.

    I want to setup the PC at home so that at say 1am - the PC is defragmented, 2am - scandisk + full surface scan, 3am - virus scan the PC, etc. It is possible to automate the whole process using a series of scripts? Thanks Dan
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    Windows Shuts down at will!

    Anyone come across this problem? We're using XP workstations on our 2k network, all Compaq EVO PCs (P4, 1.8Ghz,256MB RAM). For the past 2 weeks, we've had over a dozen PCs restart themselves while users are working (in various apps). We are unable to see a pattern that could be causing...
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    Hibernation Path change?

    Anyone know how to change the path on a local PC where the hibernation files are stored? I.e. d:\hibernate Thanks in advance Dan
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    Slow PC startup

    I wonder if you could help? I'm looking at a slow startup problem on one of our customers Compaq Deskpro PCs (p3-450, 128mb RAM). I've noticed that one file - CPQDFWAG.EXE is running between 94 - 96% CPU usage, bringing the PC to it's knees! I've found out that this app is part of the Compaq...
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    PCL drivers for HP printers!

    We are having intermittent driver problems with customer's networked HP4050 printer (garbled text, spacing errors, etc.). At the moment, are still using the PCL 5e drivers. How advantageous would it be to update/migrate to the PCL6 drivers? I've always thought that the PCL6 drivers take...
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    Unbelievable customer comments!!

    We've just had a conversation with one of customer regarding a password reset, goes something like this: Coversation between ICTS Technician & customer on Monday 5th August 2002 Technician:- I have reset your password to MONDAY. You'll be prompted to enter a new password when you next...
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    MP3 Sharing sites

    With AudioGalaxy out of action, anyone know of any similar sites/utils? Dan
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    Splitting up a Primary Partition

    Like a fool, I've created a single partition for XP and need to ghost an partition image to another partition. Anyone know of a utility that can spilt up a 60GB HD to say, 50GB and a 10GB partitions? I know you can write the image directly to a CDR using Norton Ghost, but every time I've...
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    Having problems saving Window positions

    I wonder if you could help? My My Computer, Explorer window positions are saving fine, however the Recycle Bin, Control Panel and printers windows are going back to their factory default positions and changing back to the icon view. I've tried changing them to set positions a few times...
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