I have a virtual Windows 2003 server hosted (by Virtual Server 2005 R2) in a physical one. The physical host OS can access the administrative shares of the virtual OS, but the virtual OS is unable to \\<machine>\d$ is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find ...

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with the newer versions of RDC (5.2, and now 6.0), the remote desktop window, since it is usually smaller than my physical desktop resolution, always opens up as maximised and pegged to the top-left corner of the screen. Last time, it would remember the position of the window on the last connection and open up at that location. But now I have to ...

I am experiencing difficulty copying files off a particular server, resulting in my laptop system (just WE, but that is big enough to deal a crippling blow to the OS) hanging while "waiting". Has anybody else encountered these and what are some ways to troubleshoot and avoid. thanks   UPDATE: as updated on same link above, hotfix ...

Due to unfortunate problems between WinXP and my company Toshiba laptop (Tecra M3), I was effectively forced to upgrade to WinVista to attain a comfortable working condition. While on most part (the stuff to do my development work) it is operating fine. There are a slew of driver and software incompatibilties that I have not gone around to fully ...

I suspect this is "by design" to prevent a real human user from habitually enforcing such a rule and thereby forever gaining any awareness of dangers may potentially result from such carelessness. At the end, yes, Robocopy has already been my good friend.

My company laptop has a very odd problem with Windows Explorer. When i right click to show the context menu, and it had not been shown for a long period previously, the menu renders and within a second will start to seize the CPU and work it to the max. Everything slows down including my USB mouse response. The context menu in my own personal ...

Drag-and-Drop is such a core and base functionality in WE that I'd imagine quite a massive loss of capability if it can be disabled. The closest one can get is perhaps drag-drop for the Start menu.http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/03/25/402180.aspx

Seems like this problem was caused by the Group Policy problem that i was simultaneously dealing with.

Ok I have had an X-files situation, and it wasn't a happy ending.