One of my operatives is using a Windows 2000 SP4 PC, networked, and she's had problems shutting it down (which I've now resolved) but it's not locking when she's away from her desk, leaving it accessible to all. She assures me it used to lock.Before I delete her profile etc. I thought I'd ask on here in case it's a registry setting or something simple that I've missed.
View 7 RepliesI am running Windows 2000 and computer is starting to lock up and turn off automatically.
View 2 Replies View RelatedA friend of mine asked me to look at his computer, after he was noticing a significant slow down in system processes etc. Its a 3 yr old Dell, 1.79gHz with a 30 gig HD and 256 megs of memory, running WinXP Home Edition. He never really knew much about computers, and as I discovered, he hadn't run his virus checker in almost 2 1/2 years, so that was certainly a dead giveaway that he was having problems.I managed to get AdAware and SpySweeper loaded onto it and ran them both, between the 2 programs I was able to wipe out a good majority of the cookies, the spyware and malware, however when I rebooted, the system immediately slowed down as soon as the desktop appeared and then ground to a halt entirely. The mouse moves, but that's it. I'm unable to Ctrl+Alt+Del, in order to shut it down I have to unplug the power cord, since it doesn't have a reset button.
I haven't yet been able to run HiJackThis! on the computer, I'm hoping running it in safe mode might afford me the ability to do that, but since I'm unable to decipher what it says, I'm going to be needing assistance on that level as well.
If you want the 2k lock box, but not the 2k login box then go to User Accounts and click "Change the Way Users Logon or Off" then uncheck Fast User-Switching but not Welcome Screen. This will leave you with the beautiful XP start-up and shut-down screen but also give you the professional lock box.
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View 8 Replies View RelatedI'm not sure exactly how to explain this, but here goes. something is locking everything I download. I download zip files, and cant extract them, because its locked. I cant delete some of these files, because they're locked. I have an unlocker program, but its not any use when I want to extract zips. It often tells me that there is no locker present, but when I try to unzip, file is locked. I have no clue what is causing this. I am using a dell 2350 running xp. Thanks in advance for your input, and any other info that will be helpfull I will be happy to provide.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am operating Windows 2000 XP on an almost new Dell and my computer keeps locking up. I can be in the middle of a program and suddenly the screen will turn blue with diagonal lines all over it. There are no error messages that come up nor have I had any in the past. The power button will not respond when I push it so I have to physically unplug my hard drive from the wall outlet to reboot. It used to only happen once a month but lately it's been once a week.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI need to further limit the user accounts on a number of XP machines. Something in the lines of GP would be nice but I think that can be done only in domain environment? Anyways my questions is what are my options. I am looking for ways to lock the desktop, user preferences/customization etc.
View 7 Replies View Relatedi have just loaded my computer with a dual boot system both XP Pro on 2 seperate H/D H/D, 1 = Work
H/D, 2 = Home
My Question is when i boot into My HOME computer i can still access the Work H/D.
is there a way i can lock this hard drive so it is only asccessably when i autually boot into it. (i guess like trying to make the whole H/D Private - like how you can make your document private. i would like to do this to the whole H/D.
I'm trying to figure out why my friends internet explorer keeps locking up, this also happens with windows media player and windows explorer itself.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI can't for the life of me figure out how to turn this function off. Every 15 minutes or so, if left idle, the computer goes to this screen that says "Unlock Compter" and below it says "This computer is in use and has been locked".How in the world can I turn this function off?!? It is annoying me to no end!
View 6 Replies View RelatedI got a laptop back in January, and everything on it was running fine and fast, but as of late, it's been running a little bit slower, and it locks up completely quite a lot now, meaning I have to crash and restart, just to make it do anything. It's windows XP on a HP Pavillion dv1000 laptop. There's still a huge amount free on the hard drive, I think there's about 75% free. I use mcafee internet security suite, spybot S&D, registry mechanic and adaware se personal edition. Adaware, Spybot and registry mechanic say that everything is running normally, but when I run a virus scan on mcafee, it always stops at the same point. It freezes at something like 3759 files, which is something sharedmetadat infected.dat, which I think is something to do with the windows live messenger. Quite often, the computer will be running fine for long periods of time, but when I try to do some things, like a virus scan, its slows right down, or completely crashes.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI recently formated my computer and reinstalled Windows XP Pro SP3 on my Western Digital SATA 500 GB hard drive that I had been previously using as a Slave in another computer. All has worked well untill I tried to defrag my computer. The hard drive is split into two paritions C: drive is an 80 gig partion with D: being 385 GB parition. When I tried to defrag my hard drives, (starting with the D: drive) it got to 68% then locking up. Since then when trying to defrag the D: drive it promptly locks up when it reaches 3% complete. Windows does not lock up when doing a scan disk on either parition however.I installed the western digital life guard tools to which in informed me that support for large hard drives over 137 GB was not fully enabled and asked if I wish to enable it. I said yes for it to enable it and it rebooted and tried to defrag D: drive again, with the same locking up happening at 3%.
Issues that maybe linked to the problem: Avast Anti virus when trying to run a virus scan also locks up on the computer however on the C: drive.My USB Keninston optical mouse for odd reasons I have to un plug it and replug it in almost every time I reboot or turn on my computer as the light on the bottom goes out during mid boot up process at the screen where it has you choose which user to log in as.
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My internet explorer keeps locking up in the middle of a webpage. When all these damn pop ups come up or anything. I ran scnadisk defrage antivirus and everything a few times thinking just a glitch
I bought Vista since I figure I need to do a reformat and used this as an excuse to jump on the vista bandwagon,but here is my challenge with XP.This started about 2 weeks ago...when I launch Adobe Photoshop and go to open a file the program locks up and I can sometimes end the program and other times I need to reboot. I deleted and reinstalled the program and the same thing happened during the installation process. I downloaded a free picture editor (Faststone) and the same thing is happeneing. I also had lockups using the add/remove programs in control panel.
I play a certain game online, and I have dial-up, so 5MB every time I play takes more than long enough to download. I can get to the Temporary folder via the browser options menu, but there's no way to drag files into that folder in case they get deleted. So I was wondering if there is a program or something I can use to prevent certain files form getting deleted.
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View 14 Replies View RelatedPlease dont ask me how I managed it, but with a combination of the XP service, Wireless Zero Configuration, and manually entering my IP address and DNS address etc. in the adapter connection TCP/IP properties fields, I am accessing the net through my wireless modem/router, and all seems well.Now I am reluctant to shut down this desktop, for fear of losing the settings when rebooting, which happened twice before.So, how would you lock in this combination of hardware and firmware configuration, so that it will be retained next time I start up,
View 7 Replies View RelatedHey my computer is totally locking up for no reason i had almost this same problem with my last computer but only the mouse would freeze, now on this new computer mouse and keyboard lock up and usually if im playing music or whatever that will freeze up too no other way to get out of this is to shut it off manually. It does this at random times when nothing but internet explorer or msn is open or sometimes it does it when i have something like bittorrent open i took it to a computer store and he booted it up it didnt freeze when he tryed it so he thought it was ok(i dont think it is) he said try a new keyboard and mouse.
View 4 Replies View RelatedWindows Explorer keeps crashing on me, so when I click on 'send error report' DR Watson Postmortem debugger comes on, but that locks up too. So, I end up having to end Dr Watson's task to unlock the programs and get everything done. Some days I never need to do it, but some days (like today), I've had to do this repeatedly, like, seven times within an eight hour period.
View 7 Replies View RelatedMy main pc is running XP mostly, and has started locking up while using different applications. I have watched it with Task Manager and Process Explorer and I don't see anything out of the ordinary running. So far I have watched Ad-Aware SE, Spybot Search & Destroy, Nod32 and Sonicstage omg. lock up while in use. Is there some way to set up a log file that will tell me what is happening when XP locks up. I would like to have more info on the reason for the problem.I can reinstall but I would really like to understand what is going on. This has never happened to me before.
View 2 Replies View RelatedWhen I open the Computer Management...Computer Management System tool Shared Folders Open Files I have the headers Open File, Accessed By, Type, # Locks, etc
What is the real meaning of # Locks?
My system is locking up when I try to play games or stream media. I recently loaded Norton internet security on my system and thought that may be the problem. However I disabled it and I still get a lock up.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI went in to gpedit.msc and lock the control panel and it turns out that I've had my own administrator account lock as well. So want can I do to prevent User access the control panel and still let the administrator access it.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI'm not sure if this is the right place to post this but I was told to increase my pagefile size to 1.5GB because I was having problems with the game Sacred locking up whenever I exported a character from bronze to silver mode. How do I do this???? I have never changed this before and if I do change it what effect will it have on my computer????
View 10 Replies View RelatedWe use a USB device which allows us to plug in IDE and SATA hard drives to test and read data. We use one computer for this testing and we test a lot of drives. Well recently the device started locking up the computer just as the computer finishes loading the drivers. I first thought it was the USB in the machine, but mice and keyboard both work in all the ports. I then thought it was the device but I tried it in another machine and it worked as it should. I tired plugging in a flash drive into the machine and it does the same thing.
View 6 Replies View Relatedcomputer would randomly lock up or say no signal on my monitor screen..I bought a new video card thinking that was the problem, it was not. I then had my brother look at it, people told me I had a virus from Limewire or nVidia.com and that I should do a full reformat right away, it would only do a quick one and it still didn't help it and when I tried to do a full one I would get an error that says I should put it in safe mode and disable components or something along those lines.I got a new hard drive, but then I had no mouse or internet. I installed my mother board CD. I restarted it thinking it would say new hardware found. I have reinstalled Windows and reinstalled my mother board CD, I tried my mouse on another PC and it worked fine.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI have two computers, one I use for gaming, the other for school. Both computers had 60gb Maxtor (school with lots of room, gaming with about 10 gb free). My school HD took a powder (the evil clicky noise of doom), but I was able to back up my files prior to that. Me being a quick thinker, I decide to upgrade my gamer puter to a 120gb (don't wanna go too nutso, as I am considering building a much superior computer), and put the good 60 gb in my old Athlon 700. Problem? I cannot get Windows XP Home to complete install on my gamer computer. (Athlon 700 installed just fine with 'good' 60gb).Gamer Computer: Athlon 1800+, 512MB DDR Ram 2100, KR7A Raid MOBO, GeForce3 Ti 200 (128MB DDR RAM), SB Audigy 2(AGP).
It is a RAID mobo, but i do not use the raid functionality, I did not have a problem before(I have my HD and my 2 roms on ide now). I go through the install steps, and I get to the very very end, where it states you are about to start Windows XP, and then it hangs, and thats it.I have tried to ensure there are no conflicts, I pulled out my sound card as well as my network card, and 're-seated' my video card and RAM. I have tried looking at using a winxp bootup floppy, booted into safe mode (the only error it detects is the missing RAID, no conflicts detected there). Heck, I even swapped out mouse and keyboard. I tried putting back the good 60gb back in the pc, and reformatting, but still get the same thing(sometimes the screen is black, sometimes the icky blue of xp, but that's it).I have no idea now. I did make sure that my bios was up to date before taking down the system originally, and it was, so no change was made there. Even swapped out the ribbon cables to ensure nothing was damaged on original removal.
I cannot log into window XP automatically, everytime that i turn on my pc i have to click on my username (eventhough there's no password) in order to let window continue starting the pc desktop. I've check the pc system and the general information shown that the pc is registered to a user name "user" where my window username is something else "Vicky", could it be the reason? How do you change the information on the system General tab
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I have disabled powermanagement in bios, in display settings under the Power settings they are all set to Never hibernate is unchecked but it still keeps going to standby
Every time you open an program or window in my wife's computer it immediately goes into hibernation mode. You can then go back into window/program out of hibernation, but then it immedaietly returns to hibernation.
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