Recent content by caledai

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    Local Networked Printers

    *FIXED* Thanks All for your help. For some reason - despite everything else I did, I fixed the problem by loging in under the administrators account - even though I am an administrator - and created a single port. From there I logged out of admin, and back into my account and I was able...
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    Local Networked Printers

    I have used the net use command to capture printer ports before, when using dos programs, and to what it does. But its not an economical way of doing this. In one network I have 6 Printers In another I have another 6 Printers In the third network - No Admin Here - I setup at least 2...
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    Local Networked Printers

    Firstly - There are no existing ports apart from the standard LPT/Com/File and 1 which is installed by office 2003. Second. - For a network printer to work with a local queue - and not direct TCP/IP printing because I still go through the server, I need to be able to create a local port. As...
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    Local Networked Printers

    Hi All. I work on several networks, and maintaining which printer exists where is a pain when they have similar names. Before I formated my laptop, I had all my network printers setup as a local queue - similiar to how windows xp auto detects them This meant that I could name them as I...
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    Open SSH Problems

    Not at the Win2k SSH at the moment. However, able to connect via localhost and via the public IP of the router when using a ssh client on the same computer. Unable to connect when on the 2k server to the win2k box running SSH from external via the Dynamic DNS i have. However, I have...
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    Open SSH Problems

    Hi All. Have been attempting to get a successful SSH server running on two of my computers. One is Windows XP SP2, the other is Windows 2000 SP4. I know someone is going to suggest cygwin, but I have already tried this path. About a year ago I had cygwin successfully running on the XP...
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    What's the longest you've gone on a machine w/out reinstalling the OS?

    My Laptop. Had for 6 months - 10 rebuilds (But I experimented with linux and totally f@#$ my com settings playing around with .net and iis.) Current - 2 months - ever since I got hold of sp2 it hasn't been that bad (either than or last few weeks of uni really stopped my screwing around with...
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    expose on windows?

    Mac has task switching. Apple Tab works the same way. Expose is eye candy only if you do not remember the name of the document you are working on. MS Word doesn't have tabs. It seperates everything, andyou can see the document easily. there is a program that allows multiple desktops like...
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    XP looks like 2000 now!

    It may have been changed via the group policy. Is this a domain pc (IE Managed by someone else) or have you been mucking around in gpedit.msc. Because there is an option to force classic views. (Folder, Theme or even Startmenu.)
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    Help with file sharing in XP!

    XP Home or Pro? XP Home. No Solution - I don't know this version, I got rid of it to get the advanced networking functionality. XP Pro. Right click on folder, go to properties and security tab. Add everyone to this list.
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    RAID 1 or Norton Ghost ????

    Ghost creates an image (Backup) of your harddrive at any particular time whereas raid is current data. (Redudancy incase of HD Failure. It is not a backup, as any change to one drive is immediatly mirrored on the other.) Also, another option would be to partition and do to images, one for the...
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    Two Identical Comps, different Commit Charge?

    Is it possible that there is any parasites (trojans, adware, spyware, malware, viruses, worms) on the computer, they can noticably affect the commit charge. Also you mentioned a 'faster' machine. Is the machine just running faster or is there a difference in the hardware somewhere. The...
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    What do you use to backup or copy Win XP ?

    Stuff the system, I can redo that ready to use including all tweaks with 5h work. I just store all important data on another partition and back it up to an external every week (or day if Im in the middle of a project). Examples. Documents, Outlook Data files, Palm Desktop, MS SQL DB's.
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    New Install w/SP2

    Slipstream the sp2. I did this and then installed all the drivers etc. Using the cd takes a least 1h30 less (time for sp2 to apply) and there is no undo files filling up your hd from updates.
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    Windows Update v5.

    Sorry I should have mentioned this, but I tried all those solutions and none of them worked. I was able to manually download that file. Also that pertains to v4. I think the error code has either changed, or that that error code is most common with that problem. Thanks for the help though...