I have a server with software-mirrored
drives (using the Windows Disk Administrator).  Yesterday it suddenly
shutdown and would not boot back up.  It would start to load Windows and get
as far as the blue screen that shows the NT version at the top but then

How should SP6a be installed on NTServer? Can you just run the setup with
the current services running? Are there any "gotchas" going from 4 or 5 to
6a or is the installation of SP6a pretty straightforward? My concern is with
the current apps and any drivers that may be replaced.

I have downloaded the full Service Pack 6a with 128 bit
encryption from the Microsoft site (sp6i386.exe  34.5MB).  
When I try to run this file which is supposed to be a self
extracting file an error messege box says it is not a

does anyone know where to save a batch file for logon scripts??

Hi I'm kind of a newbie here, but I'm trying to boot my an NT pc and just as
it loads winnt.exe it gives the message that the 'Computer is safe to
shutdown'.  Any clues on what's going on?  I've tried booting in safe mode,
but it does seem that the operating system thinks it's ...

Can you install SP6a while users are logged in and then re-boot at a later
time?

Is the sp6a the same for Server and Workstation?
Thanks again

I have just stumbled across a problem on a NT4 machine here. It appears that the
application of hotfix "MS05-002: Vulnerability in cursor and icon format
handling could allow remote code execution" (KB891711) BREAKS OpenGL on the machine.
I had been wondering why screensavers had ...

I cannot install NT 4.0 on a 3 Ghz Pentium 4.
The machine is a 3Ghz Pentium 4 on an Intel BF865GBF motherboard with 1Ghz
ram, in 2 simms, dual channel.
I've read a few other msgs here with a similar problem, only because it

I need to move data to a bigger drive. (non-system drives)  The file
structure has extensive access rights setup.  When I copy or move the data
to another drive all the access rights take on the properties of the new
drive and the old rights are lost.  Is there a way to move NT data ...

  What products do you use so that i can move an existing NT4 OS & data to
a new bigger drive and also resize the partitions without having to reload
the OS. Server Magic for NT isn't around anymore.

Okay here is my situation.
We are an NT 4.0 network running Exchange 5.5.
We are trying to add another Exchange server to our current Exchange site
(v5.5).  During the installation of Exchange 4.0 (to be upgraded to 5.5 once

Hello, all.
I have written a NT service that uses Winsock.
This works fine until I logoff. When logoff happenes, the service just
dies without much clue.  System event log shows that "the service