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  1. deskduty

    NTFS Disk Utility

    how about opening a dos prompt and type: chkdsk /f or chkdsk /r
  2. deskduty

    motherboard changed - can't boot 2000 or 98

    some hardware is not happy. remove everything except for ram and video, if that works, then add the rest one by one. if not, replace ram and video and start over... To pin down the problem you need to start with a bare minimum.
  3. deskduty

    BLUE SCREENS

    needs more info...when does blue screen appear, what steps do you take to create it// try chaning video card and ram
  4. deskduty

    FIRE WALL

    depending on the games...different games uses different port. for example, Descent3 will use port 2063 so you need open up that port. You have to find out what port the game uses disable your firewall Run the game open a dos prompt type: netstat it should show you what ports your computer is open
  5. deskduty

    Blue Screen and Memory Dump result in Constant Restart!

    try a different video card
  6. deskduty

    Windows 2000 Scandisk hates me!!

    Your Win2k is on NTFS right? Because of security issues you can't run scandisk on a boot partition when your OS is running. The only solution is to use checkdisk /r or /f as suggested above. Another solution is to take the hard drive out and plug it into another computer with a different...
  7. deskduty

    dont get the option of Domain while logging in

    " duplicate name exists " Windows network some times leaves a ghost of your machine so you can't join...try changing the computer name
  8. deskduty

    Clean install with 2 hard drives

    are you in a multiple user environment? If not then stay with fat32. use NTFS only if you intend to administer security to your files and folder. Fat32 is much more versatile between win98 and win2k
  9. deskduty

    HELP! XP not seeing my external modem :(

    If you turn on the modem after boot, go to Device Manager and try clicking Action...Scan for Hardware changes Another thing to try is to get in to CMOS Bios and change the "Operating system is plug n play" to YES. for the CD drives, look for the file scsi1hlp.vxd and rename it to...
  10. deskduty

    setup-reboot-setup-reboot loop

    it's easy to remove the permission on the boot.ini file in a dos prompt, type: attrib -h -r -s boot.ini that will remove the hidden, readonly, and system attribute. Then you can edit. you can also try boot from the XP CD and do a clean install
  11. deskduty

    Admin password recovery???

    what do you need to get on the computer? If all you care about is the files, then downloading "ntfs dos" and running it will give you access to the file from a dos boot. http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/utilities.shtml
  12. deskduty

    Start Menu Button

    can you be more specific as which names you want to change? You can change any program or file name by right click... Give an example of what you want to change
  13. deskduty

    USER PROFILES

    go to to www.sysinternals.com and download filemon and regmon http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/filemon.shtml http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/regmon.shtml First install and run them as administrator. Then log in as the user and run them. Then look for any file or registry key...

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