Installation report: SETUP.EXE dysfunctional

This report relates to version 5.02 of the "netinst" install CD. Given that no floppy images are available for version 5 and that syslinux cannot handle the BIOS routines for CD drives on older machines, users of such a machine are faced ...

Message posted on the August 29th, 2009 - 10:10 PM ET

IIS not working on an NT4 machine.

I have been having a problem with an NT4 server that we inherited. Last week (possibly as part of some virus damage) IIS stopped working. From Event Log it looks like the cause is Protected Storage not starting. If I try to Manually start it, I ...

Message posted on the February 25th, 2009 - 11:59 AM ET

Window control elements (minimize, maximize, close, scroll bars, etc) are screwed up

The issue I'm seeing is actually on an NT4 server with IE6-sp1, but I'm asking here because there aren't enough people following NT4 newsgroups any more, and I figure that NT is similar enough to XP in this situation. The problem is that these ...

Message posted on the February 20th, 2010 - 10:58 AM ET

NT4 server - radio buttons and check boxes are screwed up

I've got a machine running NT4 server (don't know if it's "server" or "terminal server" or any other server flavor). The setup dates back to 1996 - 1999 time frame. At some point that I don't know exactly when (pre 2003 is all I ...

Message posted on the February 18th, 2010 - 10:59 PM ET

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