Alexiz

Or, you can try the following utility from Ms to test your ports or ports on the remote machine - Port Query: http://download.microsoft.com/download/3/f/4/3f4c6a54-65f0-4164-bdec-a3411ba24d3a/portqryui.exe

May be the problem is not on your computer? May be corporate firewall makes it impossible to use these ports, of course if your comp is on the LAN

1. Update your Windows at WindowsUpdate site 2. If the 1. didn't work then download autoruns from sysinternals.com and explore all apps and dll's that "hangs" upon explorer

Is it OK to stop the DNS Server (or even uninstall it) on a domain controller? This is not the only one domain controller, there are some more DC's in that domain.

Place the Taskbar on the left or on the right of your Desktop

They say (UMAX)- Yes,it's a truble but we arn't going to do anything about it. ;(

2Christianb: I've tried to install drivers for UMAX Astra under that user account but the drivers wouldn't setup until I add this user to Power Users group. After that, I deleted this user from Power Users group and tried to scan something under his account. The problem remains

Got standalone machine with Windows XP SP1 on it. There is also scanner UMAX Astra 2000P. The problem is that only Members of Power Users group or higher (Administrators etc.) could work with that scanner. Otherwise, under account that belongs to Users group there is a message that scanner couldn't be found or something like that. So, is there any way to let common users work with scanner under their Users accounts? Thanx to everybody who answered

In the end of 2003 or at the beginning of 2004 according to Microsoft x)

The matter is that there is an access to Internet on one of the computers. Does anybody know how to directly connect two PC's by means of two ethernet cards and one cable. Thanx a lot

Quote: have you tried a slipsream install of sp3? that might work. What is slipstream?

After installing SP3 on Win2k Server with SP2 on reboot I got this message: "NTLDR not found". And nothing could be done: neither FIXBOOT nor FIXMBR from recovery console helped. Recovery from diskettes didn't fix the problem too. The machine was a DC (domain controller). No specific applications. Only Win2K. I tried again - reinstalled Win2k with SP2 and then SP3. after a few reboots I got the same message: "NTLDR not found". ;( Please help, who knows what's the problem. Thanx

U see there's nothing to do in gpedit.msc - everything in User & Computer configurationiot is "Not configured"!

Gone property sheet for folders (right click on folder --> Property) under Windows XP Pro 8). For Drives and files - everything is OK, but not for folders. Thank U.

Well Iwasn't exact. I meant the property window (selected from the context menu) doesn't appears for folder(s), butdoes appear for files or drives.