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Thanks for the reply CJ I suspected it was a vid driver issue, perhaps I will remove and re-addd the driver.

I am familiar with the toggling off/on of the function keys and that works exactly as described above. I can get both screens displaying the same desktop simultaneously and each monitor displaying the desktop alone, but can't get the extend you desktop option in display properties, it only ever...

Sorry I should of made mention of the vid driver My adaptor is an ATI Radeon Mobility X1300, my monitor is a 17' LCD by LG. This same setup is on an other laptops and the display properties show 2 displays and extending the desktop is very easy to do not so on this Win2k laptop.

I have a laptop docked in a docking station, the laptop runs windows 2000. I am attempting to use the lid of my laptop and a LCD monitor and extend my desktop across the two displays. I have done this on other laptop setups and it has been very straightforward but this time there is something...

Hi I have a question that I am hoping you guys can help me with. I have a NT domain, one of my users used to help with administrating the domain. This user became more trouble than she was worth and no longer has any IT responsibilities. Since her demotion I have had multiple missed backups...

Ya that would eliminate the desktop PC as having any issues if I can connect thru a wired connection, I was avoiding trying to locate 100 feet of Cat 5 but will try that this weekend. I am of the opinion the advanced settings on the wireless adaptor needs tweaking but have found no info on the...

Hi all Funny situation with my home network. I have a Dell desktop running windows XP home. Home network is a DSL connection, wireless router is a Linksys WRT54G. The adaptor in the Dell is a Linksys as well (WMP54G). When I go to run the vpn client (Cisco) for my work network I connect to...

Thanks for the reply kmills A few Googles led me to checking that service, it has been running the whole time, I have stopped and restarted it but still no joy.

Hi All Has anyone seen the run as command fail when using it to open up the AD Users and Computers applet in Administrative tools ? I can get the login box to appear if I am doing anything local to the computer but if I want to add users on our domain controller, I would normally Shift-right...

Hi all Strange issue with a brand new HP laptop running win2k pro on an AD domain. The machine functions fine docked and on the network. Once it gets booted up and the user logs in, he has approx 5 minutes and the system completely locks up. I can't light up the cap locks/num lock keys nothing...

Thanks for the reply. Basically we are still a win2k shop at the company I work for and the ghost image I have for this laptop is pooched (has the sata drivers) and I need to get the machine back to a user asap. I tried just running a standard win2k install and of course the hard drive isnt...

Hi all I installed Win2k pro on a laptop with a SATA drive. I disabled SATA in the bios and the install went fine now I would like to change the controller over to SATA...is this even possible ? I can't find anything mentioning how to do this AFTER the os is installed only during setup (F6 key...

I come from a Citrix setup that easily allowed me to shadow any users session when they were having trouble. I right clicked the users session and selected remote control and after a prompt on the users end I was in on the users session controling their mouse, how do I do this through terminal...

Hi all How do I move off my current domain and join an AD network but still retain access to the old files on the NT pdc. In essence the domain the NT box is tied to is going away, but users still need access to resources on that box. Currently the pdc is used but my users have to...

Thanks for the quick reply...I think I know what happened. I tracked down the fella who supported these machines before me. This machine was originally on an NT Domain "Domain A" there was a need to move the machine over to an AD domain "Domain B" but retain old settings and be able to flip...

I had a user who complained her Norton scans had stopped due to an out of disk space error message. Looking at her C drive I saw it was very low on free space and began cleaning up some files etc. One area I thought I could gain some space in was user profiles. I saw three rather big profiles...

I have a server that ran windows NT 4 on a domain, we stored files on that server and backed them up via Veritas. The server died and I installed a windows 2000 server in its place, I did not make it a member of the domain. I installed a tape drive on the new server and restored my tape...

Can anybody point me in the right direction pertaining to exporting a DNS database so I can send it to another admin not in my domain please ?

Maybe someone can explain to me whats going on here. I had a NT server crash last week (BDC) and replaced it with a windows 2000 member server. I restored the backup data from the old NT box to the new 2K member server and all appeared fine, that is until I set up a mobile user with a...

Thanks for the quick replies, seems they are logging in without missing a beat.