System Admin

Michael Dunn wrote: System Restore Guess it's on Win2000 then? (because I run to OS) I wonder if it's safe to delete the _RESTORE directory? What exactly is stored in the fiules? Is it last working configuration perhaps? Rickard Andersson@Suza Computing C# and C++ programmer from SWEDEN! UIN: 50302279 E-Mail: nikado@pc.nu Speciality: I love C#, ASP.NET and C++!

The "." directory is used to reference the current directory, while the ".." directory is used to reference the parent directory of the current directory. Chris Richardson C/C++ Include Finder[^]

When you re-install Windows, it seems to do a good job of detecting and preserving your previous settings. That's unfortunate in this case. Try using the Regional Settings applet in Control Panel to reset the settings for your preferred language. This applies specifically to Win2K, but I believe other versions have a similar function. As an afterthought, you might also want to check the startup files (config.sys, win.ini, etc) for a CODEPAGE= command. You shouldn't need one, but if it exists it may override the Windows settings; try REMing it out. Nobody wants to read a diary by someone who has not seen the shadow of Bubba on the prison shower wall in front of them! Paul Watson, on BLOGS and privacy - 1/16/2003

Well 1) First make a virtual directory called anonymous in you ftp root which should point to c:\publications. you can do this from ISM ( microsoft control) 2) in ISM find out who the anonymous user for your web site is. say its IUSER 3) Not open explorer c:\ 4) For Publications directory give write/read access to IUSER but only on that directory and not to its children. Having write permission on that directory IUSER can upload and read files. But not having write permission on the children of that directory i.e. files and sub folders ... he can't delete any files. Swarup Das

It runs correctly on Windows XP. The problem only seems to be located on Windows 2000 Server/Pro. But I'm starting to think the same as you, in that the OS decides that the application is taking to much processing power and removes a CPU from the app.

The database is the INF files in \windows\inf I don't know about reading them, though. --Mike-- The Internet is a place where absolutely nothing happens.   -- Strong Bad 1ClickPicGrabber - Grab & organize pictures from your favorite web pages, with 1 click! My really out-of-date homepage Sonork-100.19012 Acid_Helm

The CABs folder holds the files that are usually in the \win95 (or \win98 or \winme) dir on the CD, so you can just put that whole directory on a CD and install from it. (Note that there might not be a setup.exe there. Some OEM CDs don't have setup.exe - you have access to the CABs to install other Windows components, but you can't do a fresh install from the CD.) --Mike-- The Internet is a place where absolutely nothing happens.   -- Strong Bad 1ClickPicGrabber - Grab & organize pictures from your favorite web pages, with 1 click! My really out-of-date homepage Sonork-100.19012 Acid_Helm

hi thats no problem. suse is a "easy" ditribution. suse gets notice pf you win partitions and even make mountpoints for it. at home I have 2 hdd. one for win2k and one for suselinux 8.1 simply start with windows and then install suse.. but: if you want to have a "free data way" between win and suse make a win partition as FAT and not as NTFS... linux can read ntfs but not write.. but fat is no problem... read/write ok... hope you are still alive (my english..) :o) life is fun! Johannes //still a newbie

benjymous wrote: Have you tried just leaving your computer on, but not using it at all, to see if it crashes when unattended and unused? Yup. It does. :( Nobody wants to read a diary by someone who has not seen the shadow of Bubba on the prison shower wall in front of them! Paul Watson, on BLOGS and privacy - 1/16/2003

Have you got lots of free disk space? Windows needs at least the same amount of swap space as physical ram, if not twice as much. If you haven't got enough swap space, then your machine will crawl, even though you have lots of physical memory -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!

A quick update. Well in the end I managed to get Windows Explorer and Internet Explorer to work. Also found a shit load of spyware which I removed. I went to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Extensions and removed all the keys (there was only one) beneath it. At this point everything started responding and I was able to get to the internet. I ran Ad-aware and Spybot - Search & Destroy to remove crap including Qcbar which added a whole lot of toolbars to Windows. I then updated his virus definitions and downloaded 23 MB of WindowsUpdates and all is now well. Michael Martin Australia mjm68@tpg.com.au "I personally love it because I can get as down and dirty as I want on the backend, while also being able to dabble with fun scripting and presentation games on the front end." - Chris Maunder 15/07/2002

Good idea. According to my ISP, though, the remove programs option also wipes out the repair option and corrupts the IE6 installation on all the Win2K systems he's tried it on. Granted, he's not the sharpest tool in the shed, but he does keep good notes on what he's tried for his customers. I'm hopeful that MS will one day release a fix for the problem - re-installing the OS is not an attractive option. X| Nobody wants to read a diary by someone who has not seen the shadow of Bubba on the prison shower wall in front of them! Paul Watson, on BLOGS and privacy - 1/16/2003

Sorry my other post was anonymous (I accidentally wasn't logged in)... If you would like to find the names of the performance objects, click the Start Menu, then click Run, then type "perfmon". Now, you will see the performance monitor program. From here, you can click the "+" toolbar icon, and it will show you counters and all sorts of other information. You can even see a description of what each counter is actually counting. For a description of the naming scheme, check here[^]. If you'd like to take a look at the APIs required to do this, I would start here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/perfmon/base/about_performance_monitoring.asp[^] Chris Richardson Programmers find all sorts of ingenious ways to screw ourselves over. - Tim Smith

Michael Dunn wrote: The code in the MBR is the very first thing executed I knew this but.... Michael Dunn wrote: so no operating system is loaded at the time. I missed this!!! :eek: I was born intelligent Education ruined me!.