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The idea behind it is aux, nul, prn, also not allowed con, aux and prn stand for 'console', 'auxiliary' and 'printer' and stand for output devices. Leftovers from DOS where you could do 'copy con a.txt' and get whatever you typed in a textfile. Or 'copy a.txt prn' to send it to the...

I found the answer to the reason why you can not name a folder "con" in windows. says it is due to Dos 1.0 http://blogs.gotdotnet.com/raymondc/permalink.aspx/1f7e4f66-2889-4238-8962-37899528e211 http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/d0m1/archive/2003/10/22/2786.aspx Polar

I am having problems with SMTP. I am hoping that someone can help me out. I am running an ASP service with the cdonts.dll file (this allows you to send e-mail via ASP in a script) This script it working fine and it does not bomb my pages. yet my SMTP server is not sending out the e-mails. I...

There is 2 fans on the back of the case blowing out and there are 3 on the front of the case blowing in and there is a pci fan that is directly under the video card blowing out. And there is a fan on the side mount of the Case blowing out and the cables are rounded as to not restict the flow of...

Take a look at this pic. This is my cpu temp. I though the cpu temp was suppose to be the hottest thing in your system... It is not running any special fan either. Just the stock fan that came with the processor inside the amd box. System Specs AMD 2200XP 512 DDR PC2700 Ram GeForce 3 TI...

LOL Yah I am sure everyone would love to have one of those. Says the following "Xserve RAID for an estimated retail price of $10,999 (US) includes: dual independent RAID controllers with 128MB cache per controller and support for up to 512MB cache per controller; dual 2Gb Fibre...

Wow now this is someone with to much space 8 -120GB's Drives. Some Western Digital and Some Maxtor and a 200 GB Drive. that equals 1160GB's!!! HOLY ****!!! Polar Edit: Had to hide the drive names and letters to post it. I wanted to keep it orginal, but it broke one of the rules. Sorry

I have had the problem. I found out the issue was due to VobSub or programs that are smilar to it. So if you installed any software that you might have used for sub titles. I would uninstall it and see what happens Polar

Humm good tutorial, but that just seems like common sence to me. Normally I have mine set up on dhcp not a static ip though. It is just like networking on any other operating system. Worked for the numerous networks I have set up with Windows 95/98 machines and xp machines. Never had any issues...

I know all of that, and usernames do not matter. I found the issue. Under the profile. you need to right click and go to sharing and security. There is a checkmark that said "Make Folder Private" After unchecking this on the account "mike" the administrator was able to access it. If I wanted to...

That was really stupid posting that - Jewelzz

I use it alot. if you are using a router just go into and find port forwarding and type in 3389 (some router require a start and end port so type it in for both of them) and the type in the ip of the computer you wish to remote connect to. If you are running a server edition of ms product it...

on Dell it is the F2 key at least all the ones at our school is that then go down to "boot sequence" and use the + and - key to change the boot order around. I personally like CD-ROM first and then harddrive and I change it to Floppy and then Harddrive when ever I am using a floppy drive. I am...

not sure how you installed two operating system on 1 computer and 1 harddrive to the same folder, but I would just delete the line multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="1" and the dos promt should go away. and just load windows xp or if you are nervous about doing that I would just change...

Agreed I run a 5 boot system and in order for it to work you have to install the microsoft products first (each on there own partition is a good idea) even if the parition is only 2gb. On mine I run. Windows 2000 Professional, Windows 2000 Server (because I am learning it in class) Windows XP...

well just a sugguestion, but I use DU Meter (download and upload meter) www.dumeter.com Maybe you can install it and see if a specific computer in your place is taking the upload or download. At least that way you can limit the problem to a specific pc and possible even disconnect it from the...

Ok this is an interesting problem. I have my computer and I would created another account for my roomate called "mike" and I granted him computer administrator rights. So now when I log on I use the user name "administrator" and he uses the username "mike". As we all know windows creates...

Many Many Many Thanks That worked just fine I was just to tired to remember where to look for that Again thanks Polar

I am trying to play some movies using media player in windows 2003 server and I keep getting "Overlay mode not available" I heard that this was because server was not built to run movies and games as such, but I also heard that there was a way to fix the registry to make it play them. Any...

Well I tried that on my brothers compaq He had a 12 gb and wanted to partion 2 gigs for an OS and the rest for data so we partioned it and then put in the system restore cd and set it back up to how it was. the Orginal 12gb So I would assume that if you got the image off your harddrive using...