I am troubleshooting Win2000 servers that periodically become frozen
and unresponsive. On the console, you can see the blue Windows
background in the shell and the mouse cursor works, but neither
Explorer nor the Gina appear.

Is there a way to get the actual number of processors whithout using 3rd
party software or opening the box?
Processors using hypertheat-technology fake my normal count procedures.
Any help is welcome.

I hope I have this problem in the right place...
My DHCP server is acting up a bit. I am getting errors on my event viewer
and each day I have to reboot the server. I have set up my staff DHCP scope
but it is picking the addresses randomaly. I deleted all address leases but

I have a Win2k Adv server with Active Directory. I have
logged as Administrator and trying to check the
option "Print background colors and images" in Internet
Explorer --> tools --> Internet Options --> Advanced -->

W2000 Advanced Server SPK4 with net updates:
It seems that W2000 is running but extremely slowly,
taking 10 minutes to go from boot to logon then messages
network connections, personal details come up.

When I restore all of the files in the tasks folder, nothing shows up in the
windows tasks (or explorer's view of c:\winnt\tasks)
But when I c:>dir from cmd, I can see the *.job files.  What gives?  How do
I backup and restore the windows scheduled tasks??!  (this is for disaster

I have Windows 2000 Pro and WinXP clients.
Here I found that the logon script sometimes (not always) doesn't run with
the WinXP PCs,
but the logon script is always alright with the Win2000 Pro PCs.

I have a server with Windows 2000 Server (Upgraded from Windows NT) and I
have the IIS intalled on it. First, IIS was working perfect, untill
something wrong goes with the server so I did a repair from the CD and then
it is up again. When I tried to open IIS it gave me the following ...

Our backup reports the following every time.
Warning: Unable to open
"c:\windows\SYSVOL\domain\DO_NOT_REMOVE_NtFrs_PreInstall_Directory" -
skipped.

here my problem,
We have a two node cluster with  4 virtual Servers.
2 virtual servers per default on each server.
since some weeks i recocnized that the failback do not appear.

I get the following error with an automated backup:
--
Backup started on 15/12/2004 at 22:14.
The 'Microsoft Information Store' returned 'Backup is already active.

Our company would like to keep system admin from touching all event logs. We
would like to give them "view" but not "clear" permission. An central
security supervisor will do the review and clear the logs. How could we do
this?

How can you see the Windows 2000 OS keepalive setting?  

i've got a VBS file that runs a series of sql statements and sends email to
users based on the data.  this script has been running fine as a scheduled
task for a long time, but suddenly stopped working.  it looks like the
scheduled task is getting started, the sql statement runs, ...

I have 5 servers and over 60 workstations on my network....2 days ago 5
machines could not access resources from 1 server...all 5 workstations had
the same messages in their error logs....see below.  None of the servers
showed any errors. I have checked the the net and links ...