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Here is the problem: I have acquired a Samsung MFP (4521FG) which comes with an installation CD. When I start the CD, the Setup.exe starts in a foreign European(?) language and presents me with choices I do not understand. I have verified in the Control Panel Applet 'Regional and Language Options' - they are set only for English (USA). This strange behaviour happened for another Install program as well in the last one month or so. The 'Text Services and Input Services' is also set for 'English (US)'. The OS is XP-SP2. I called Samsung and they have no clue. I have downloaded the same program as in the CD from Samsung Website and the result is the same. I suspect there is some entry in the Registry that forces this behaviour. I am desperate! Please help! TIA.

I have had similar problems with a WD MyBook USB Hard Drive. Go to http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/usb_devices_view.html and clear all the USB devices and boot again. Make a backup of your device drivers prior to that for any eventuality. Hopefully, this will resolve the problem. Please post back your results.

I recently moved to VISTA Home Premium from W2KS and moved two of my disks to the new system. Unfortunately VISTA Premium is not capable of detecting "Dynamic" type of Hard Disks-only Ultimate can. If I want to convert to "Basic", VISTA warns me that I will loose all data in that process. Is there a utility that can convert to "Basic" type without loss of data, either in W2K or in Vista? TIA.

I recently moved to VISTA Home Premium from W2KS and moved two of my disks to the new system. Unfortunately VISTA Premium is not capable of detecting "Dynamic" type of Hard Disks-only Ultimate can. If I want to convert to "Basic", VISTA warns me that I will loose all data in that process. Is there a utility that can convert to "Basic" type without loss of data, either in W2K or in Vista? TIA.

Thank you very much for the two links - very valuable indeed.

Please advise on this issue: After a hard disk File Allocation Table failure, I reinstalled W2KServer on the drive c: without reformatting the drive. Everything works now, except that in the Documents and Settings, I find additional profiles such as Administrator.Mycomputer.000, Administrator.Mycomputer.001 etc in addition to Administrator.Mycomputer and some folder or other within these additional profiles are updated (by looking at the date stamp). I am the only one with Admin privileges and the only one who logs on to the system. I have thoroughly checked the system for viruses, spywares etc and the system is protected by McAfee and Webroot products all the time. What is going on in my system? Thank you.

The box of Vista upgrade mentions that the Upgrade works on Windows 2000 Professional.

I noticed on the Vista box at the stores that the Upgrade works on W2K Professional. Is the upgrade possible on the Windows 2000 Server? Has anyone attempted it? Thanks for your input.

Hi: I had to reinstall W2KS OS due to some problems of booting and it overwrote the regisry obviously. One particular program that has extensive customization does not run because the registry settings are missing. Unfortunately the program cannot be reinstalled as it is an old version that is not available anymore. A quick look at Documents/settings shows that all settings for the program are still existing on the server under an old Admin User called "Adminitrator" but the current (Adminstrative) user is "Administrator.NewAdmin". Also, using Regedit, I find that the program has several entries in various locations of the registry. My question is how to important all the relevant information for the old Admin account (for this particular program only) into the new Admin account so that I can run the program again. I wish to accomplish the task for this specific program only. Is there a utility that can accomplish this task easily? I am sure there are many Gurus here who have run into this problem. Many thanks.

DosFreak, Thanks for your reply - however, my question was how to identify the CD Rom Drive letter and NOT the Drive letter of the system where Windows is installed (%SYSTEMDRIVE% returns the drive where Windows is installed, isn't it?). Or am I missing something? Thanks again.

Hi, I have a website that runs of the CD that I distribute to clients. I have given a provision for the user to copy all the files to the user's hard disk and run from there. The link in the webpage calls up a dos batch file that looks like this: setup.bat ---------- md c:\Website xcopy *.* /h /s c:\Website del c:\Website\SETUP.BAT The problem is that the xcopy command sometimes copies the contents to the desktop. SO I need to substitute the drive letter of the CD Drive from where the batch file is run. Like xcopy [CD DriveLetter]:\*.* /h/s c:\Website How do I identify the Drive Letter of the CD Drive? It is a long time since I worked on DOS environment and I have forgotten variables substitution. Any help would be gratefully appreciated.

Dosfreak, thanks to you - the problem is solved!

I am putting together a new PC with Soyo Dragon2 2.0 MB and while the system is up and running, there is a motherboard monitor utility in a CD that came with the MB. While installing that utility, the install program terminates with the message "C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\AUTOEXEC.NT.The system file is not suitable for running MS-DOS MS Windows Applications. Choose 'Close' to terminate the application". WTF is this message trying to tell? What needs to be done to install this MB Monitor program? I emailed SOYO but they have not responded. OS W2K Pro. CPU Athlon XP 3000+ with 1GB RAM. I know some of you are smarter than these manufacturers Thanks for your time.

Hi, I recently overhauled a good working home network and landed myself in trouble. Some wrong setting somewhere is preventing me to connect to a Client computer on the network. Linksys Router Windows 2000 Server (Call it computerS) Windows 2000 Pro Client (Call it computerC) Both belong to the same 'Workgroup' Problem: Each do not communicate with the other. MS Windows Network Message box says "Workgroup not accessible. The list of servers for this workgroup is not currently available" Clicking "computers near me" on the Server lists the Client computer name, but double clicking the Client computers' name says "\\computerC is not accessible. The NW path not found" Clicking the "computers near me" on the Client DOES NOT list the Server name, but searching for the Server by name like \\ComputerS lists the Server in Workgroup but cannot access it. Linksys's DHCP Table lists both computers. Both computers can access Internet without any issues. Please help - it is driving me crazy! Many thanks in advance.

Has anyone come across, in a major retail stores, 9.4GB DVR+/R media? I have not. Is there any reason why they are not available at all, while DL Writers are so abundant and cheap?