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• Rename directories, machines and disk files on my store of data, better practice?

  Hello!

  I'll have a go at cleaning our SAN. We have created a standard name and now I want to bury all the old sins...

  So, what is VMware supported for the following scenarios and best practices:

  Question 1

  How to rename the directories on our SAN?

  My idea:

  1. turn off the virtual computer

  2. remove the inventory

  3 Rename the file (mv?) on my SAN

  4 browse datastore in VC and rightclick add to the inventory

  5 start the virtual machine

  Question 2

  How to rename my files (vmdk and flat files) disk, disks in the system (C :) and the data on the disks (D :)?

  My idea:

  1. turn off the virtual computer

  2. remove VM disk

  3 Rename the file with vmkfstool (VMware KB)

  4. Add the disk to the virtual machine

  5 start the virtual machine

  Cordially Jens

  shootking wrote:

  . I would prefer a method with the virtual machine is stopped, rename and configure, then restart the virtual machine. With minimal impact on the machine and the SAN...

  As indicated, you have a few options, which you have linked in the article above, which does with vmkfstools.  However, in my opinion, if you can take the time to stop a migration off line is the simplest and most effective way.  You can probably do two at a time without impact to your environment.  sVMotion is I/O intensive, so if you going that route, to just after hours or a guest at a time.

• Volume letter and empty file system entries in disk management

  I have a D: drive which worked well for a few years. Now I can not access the content. In Explorer, it says:

  D:\ is not accessible the file or directory is corrupted and unreadable

  In disk management, the "Volume" and "File system" columns for this volume are empty. Right-click the product volume icon only help and not the list of other possible actions (open, Explorer etc) that has developed for other volumes. The Status column indicates "healthy (OEM partition). In the graphical display of the drive, it says 94 MB healthy, as it has always done for this volume.

  All other volumes are functioning normally.

  I got appreaciate any advice on how to study why this is happening.

  Can post you a photo of the lower pane in the window Disk Manager disk of sky as a shared file and a link here.

  You can access disk management by typing disk management in the search box above the Start button and pressing ENTER, or by selecting Start, Control Panel, administrative tools, computer management, storage, disk management.

  The letter D is commonly attributed to a DVD player. DVD shows only one size when a DVD is in the drive. 94 mb would not be a size, so it might be referred to or used free disk space.

  Hope this helps, Gerry Cornell

• msmpeg2vdec.dll explorer.exe is originally to use all my RAM and disk i/o

  Hello

  When opening some folders (just by clicking on the file in a different folder is causing the problem too) that contain media files on my system it causes explorer.exe use all my RAM and max on my disk i/o.

  Process using explore and RamMap I see that msmpeg2vdec.dll on my system is causing explorer.exe use all my RAM and disk i/o.

  RamMap using I see the entire file 6 GB + is attempted to be loaded into memory to live. :(

  Full stack of the msmpeg2vdec.dll! Live ThreadedDecode wire then it tries to load the file into memory:

  Ntoskrnl.exe! KiSwapContext + 0x7a
  Ntoskrnl.exe! KiCommitThreadWait + 0x1d2
  Ntoskrnl.exe! KeWaitForSingleObject + 0x19f
  Ntoskrnl.exe! KiSuspendThread + 0 x 74
  Ntoskrnl.exe! KiDeliverApc + 0 x 211
  Ntoskrnl.exe! KiCommitThreadWait + 0x3dd
  Ntoskrnl.exe! KeWaitForMultipleObjects + 0 x 271
  Ntoskrnl.exe! ObpWaitForMultipleObjects + 0 x 294
  Ntoskrnl.exe! NtWaitForMultipleObjects + 0xe5
  Ntoskrnl.exe! KiSystemServiceCopyEnd + 0x13
  ntdll.dll. ZwWaitForMultipleObjects + 0xa
  KERNELBASE.dll! WaitForMultipleObjectsEx + 0xe8
  Kernel32.dll! WaitForMultipleObjects + 0xb0
  msmpeg2vdec.dll! CMFSampleList::WaitForMoreData + 0x2e
  msmpeg2vdec.dll! CH264DecoderSoftware::GetDataFromStream + 0xc2
  msmpeg2vdec.dll! CCoreH264Decoder::GetMoreData + 0x4d
  msmpeg2vdec.dll! GlobalGetMoreData + 0x13
  msmpeg2vdec.dll! getMoreData + 0x1e8
  msmpeg2vdec.dll! GetAnnexbNALUNoEncrypt + 0x33d
  msmpeg2vdec.dll! Parse_One_Slice_Nalu + 0xae
  msmpeg2vdec.dll! Parse_Nalu_Till_Meet_New_Pic + 0x5d
  msmpeg2vdec.dll! Task_PED + 0 x 184
  msmpeg2vdec.dll! StageExecute_PED + 0 x 91
  msmpeg2vdec.dll! TaskScheduler_FindAndExecuteTask + 0x12c
  msmpeg2vdec.dll! ThreadedDecode + 0 x 92
  Kernel32.dll! BaseThreadInitThunk + 0xd
  ntdll.dll. RtlUserThreadStart + 0x1d

  I know it's the msmpeg2vdec.dll! ThreadedDecode thread because if I hang just this thread into explorer.exe it stops the disk i/o and freezes at some current RAM usage, it should be. And if I kill the thread all my RAM is released.

  Oddly enough I can open the file just fine itself very well in an application and have no question also. Only when you try to display the file in the Explorer himself this problem occurs.

  Thanks for the help,

  Will be

  PS: Why does my mouse cursor disappeared when editing this post? Boring!

  It looks like the Explorer tent to generate preview thumbnails of the videos. You can try to disable the genration of the thumbnails in the options of Solution Explorer. Now, the Explorer shows only the icon.

  André

  "A programmer is just a tool that converts the caffeine in code" Deputy CLIP - http://www.winvistaside.de/

• We get an error "could not create a new partition or find existing. "For more information, see the Setup log file" error message "while trying to install Windows 8

  * Original title: 8 victory moved - Error Message: failed to create new partition...

  I have Win XP on my Dell Dimension 5150, which is the dual boot with Linux Mint 12 Lisa and this is my favorite of the bunch.

  I bought the DVD of 8 Pro Windows by an Australian retailer.

  Win XP is on a 39 GB partition with other application files. I had to delete several files to get the free space necessary to WIN 8 and finally finished by formatting the partition and passes for a COMPLETE new installation.

  Unfortunately, I now get the "failed to create new partition or find existing. For more information, see the Setup log file"error message. I can't find a Setup log file that I do a boot from the DVD.

  I tried to delete all external drives and other USB devices, including my Modem but my Wired USB keyboard/mouse.

  Two internal HARD drives are as follows:
  Disk 0 Partition 1-110 GB - system (LINUX)
  Disk 0 Partition 2 - 3.5 GB - logical

  Disk 1 Partition 1 - 47 MB - OEM (reserved) [DellUtility]
  Disc 1 2:Win - 39.1 GB - System Partition
  1 3 disk partition: DATA - 39,1 GB - logical
  Disk partition 1 4:OfficeProgs - 19.5 GB - logical
  Partition on drive 1 logical - 39.1 GB - 5:PROJECTS
  etc to score 8 with 9 MB of unallocated space.

  I have tried both 64 and 32 discs with the same result.

  As I have now is no longer no matter what Windows on my computer, what's the next step? If any ;-)

  Hello

  I solved the problem. It seems that you can not install on a secondary partition with in an earlier version of windows. You must restart the computer and run the installation from a dvd or other media.  Once you get the installation running you should be able to install on another partition without any problems.

  Nice day

• RMAN to the ASM and network file system

  Hi all
  
  I use Oracle RAC 11 g R2 + ASM.
  I am new to RMAN, but I am trying to build daily tasks to do below:
  
  1. backup of my database to the FRA located on ASM diskgroup + FRA.
  2. at the same time I want to save my database for Network File System (NFS) to be taken by system administrators to an archive location that I can't access. Since according to my knowledge can't copy files to ASM for outside... so for this I'm planing to use the command format of the NFS mount point.
  3. on daily basis in the NFS file will be taken by a work (that I am not responsible for) to the Archive, and then it will be purged from this location.
  4. I am planing to have my windows of 15 days retention strategy.
  5. on every day, I am planing to cross check my backup and then delete the expired so that taken from NFS in the journal of the archives is deleted.
  
  The RMAN I am planing to run it on a daily basis are:
  

  backup incremental level 0 cumulative device type disk tag 'FULL_DB_INCR_LV0' database; -- this will be to the default location (+FRA)
  backup incremental level 0 cumulative device type disk tag 'FULL_DB_INCR_LV0' database format 'NFS/oracle/backup%U';--another copy to be taken to the archive location
  crosscheck backupset;
  delete expired backupset; -- this will delete the backups taken to the Archive location

  Now my questions:
  
  1 what good solutions? take account of the fact that I need backup on the file system of the operating system so that the jobs of system administrators take the backup of their archives.
  2. If a backup is needed, I use CATALOGUE START WITH to recover and then recover.
  3. because my retention period is 15 days, and the backup in NFS files will be deleted on a daily basis, so this retention will apply for backups in ASM, is this a problem?

  Hello

  Easy way is to use the tag. Find the number of backupset is a difficult task.

  Create a template for your tag with a date.

  How to use the Substitution Variables of orders RMAN [427229.1 ID]

  How to use the tag name of RMAN with different attributes or variables. [580283.1 ID]

  You can check which backup doesn't have a copy on NFS using the query below:

  SELECT   BS.RECID BSKEY,
    BP.RECID KEY,
    BP.RECID RECID,
    BS.PIECES PIECECOUNT,
    BP.HANDLE FILENAME,
    BP.TAG TAG,
    BP.COPY# COPYNUMBER,
    BP.STATUS STATUS,
    BP.PIECE# PIECENUMBER
  FROM V$BACKUP_PIECE BP,
    V$BACKUP_SET BS
  WHERE (BP.SET_COUNT = BS.SET_COUNT
  AND BP.SET_STAMP    = BS.SET_STAMP)
  order by  bskey,copynumber
  

• file system question for cam action DRH-AS30V adapters

  The microSDHC card provided with this camera is formatted to support the FAT32 file system, and so is limited to 4 GB files. I need to know if the camera formats cards differently adapters. What cards adapters format camera for the exFAT file system? Thank you!

  Each time an SDXC card is inserted, the action cam uses the format instead of the format FAT32 exFAT. In fact, the device to which you connect the cam action (more an SDXC card inserted) must also support exFAT file system. Otherwise, the action cam / card will not be read correctly.

  If my post answered your question, please mark it as "accept as a Solution.

• I upgraded my card mother cpu ram and hard drive. I reinstalled windows xp home edition has got all of the updates. After 9 latest updates download and installtion went well, I restarted the computer, I get a blue screen and the computer restarts

  I upgraded my card mother cpu ram and hard drive. I reinstalled windows xp home edition has got all of the updates. After 9 latest updates download and installtion was going well until I rebooted the computer and go to page window showing all the icons that I get a blue screen and the computer restarts its self and does not stop. How can this be corrected?

  Hi KevinRy,

  Welcome to the Microsoft Answers site!

  Unplug all external devices.

  Try to start in safe mode. If you can start in safe mode, and then do a system restore to restore the computer to an earlier point in time.

  Change the recovery settings to disable automatic reboot, if you are able to boot up to the desktop computer:

  1.	Right-click my computerand then click Properties.
  2.	Click the Advanced tab.
  3.	Under Startup and recovery, click settings to open the Startup and recovery dialog box.
  4.	Clear the automatically restart check box, and then click OK many times necessary.
  5.	Restart your computer so that the settings take effect.

  Now, when you are going to close and a fatal error occurs, you will see at least and it won't cause an automatic restart.

  Please reply back with the error message you get because it helps us to resolve the error.

  Kind regards
  Amal-Microsoft Support.
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• Checking file system on C: the Type of file is NTFS. The Volume is dirty. -What this means and how do I clean the Volume, please? My computer is Dell XPS

  Recently, when I turn on my computer is starts, guests of the computer and starts check my system files as follows: "checking file system on C: the Type of the file is NTFS. The Volume is dirty. "That is what this means and how can I clean and maintain the clean Volume, please? My computer is Dell XPS

  The computer system continues and invite "CHKDSK checks the files (step 1 of 3)... .

  The system deletes some files and at the end of shows, complete audit files and then show

  CHLDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 3)...

  Once again, it shows the following:

  Deleting Index Entry _64280 ~ 1. jpg in index file 4632 $130

  Deleting Index Entry _64280552_little-mix_211112_get [1] .jpg in index file 4632 $130

  Deleting Index Entry 69gw [1] .jpg in index file 6722 $130

  Remove entries of Index 69 GW_1 ~ 1. jpg in index file 6722 $130

  Deleting Index Entry _64274754_messi_211112_elvis [1] .jpg in index file 6722 $130

  Deleting entry Index _64274 ~ 1. jpg in index file 6722 $130

  Finished the index checking

  CHKDSK is checking security descriptors (stage 3 of 3)...

  100%

  CHKDSK checks usn Journal...

  Windows control disc is finished.

  After all checks, Windows proceed to start as usual.

  I would like to know if I need the dirty Volume, and if so, how can I carry out the cleaning operation.

  Sometimes, at the early stage of the CHKDSK, the computer makes a pe. .. PE... noise and cut.  Then I turn the computer off via the key of the insulation. When I restart the computer, it then runs the check again until the end.

  Please advice me on the following points:

  1 is this normal as he started only happening in recent weeks?

  2. How can clean the Volume in order to show "Volume is clean instead of sale"

  I look forward to hear from you.

  Thank you

  Hi, Dr.,

  Volumes that contain file system errors are known as Sales. To indicate that a file system problem has occurred and that the volume is dirty, Windows XP Professional displays a message similar to the following when you try to open, delete, or rename a file or folder by using Microsoft Windows Explorer or the command prompt:

  Autochk runs if the volume is marked as modified.

  If the file system has marked the volume as dirty, Autochk runs the Startup Repair process. Volumes are marked as dirty, when the file system detects an error on the volume. If Autochk detects a dirty volume, it provides a delay of 10 seconds, and then starts the repair process. If you cancel Autochk when a volume is dirty, Autochk tries to run again after a 10 second delay every time the computer is restarted.

  See Chkdsk for all the necessary explanations:

  http://TechNet.Microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb457122.aspx

  Run the Dell Diagnostics to check the drive failure.  If the disc is a failure, it must be replaced.

• I bought my computer in November 2008 and have never received information for the 'free update to Windows 7 ". How to get it?

  I bought my laptop in November 2008 and then left for an exchange of one year abroad. On his return, I learned that the people who had bought a computer with Windows Vista on it received the free upgrade option to Windows 7. I have studied by the retailer and Microsoft, but did not receive any useful information. Would I still get this upgrade? I have my original receipt to prove my purchase of this computer.

  Thank you!

  Hello

  Yes, he had an offer of a free upgrade to Windows 7, but this time the offer has long expired.

  And it will not apply to the date on which you bought your computer, November 2008; you have to buy your computer between June/July? 2009 and the end of January 2010...

  See you soon.

• Can I change CPU, RAM AND graphics in HP Commpac D220?

  Hello! Thanks to the time to read this topic, I have a question on my hp compac D220 pc so I hope you will tell me the answer!
  IM runing windows 7 now and try to install windows 8.1 but IE NX unsupported. So I decided to change my processor and the extra ram of 1 GB ad, and the new graphics card but I don't know that the graphics card & CPU (last) support my pc.
  Here is my pc in detail.
  1.80 ghz, 180 GB HARD drive and 1 GB of ram, motherboard AMIBOIS, Windows 7 running. So suggest
  me that I buy a new pc or
  change cpu, ram and graphics card.

  Hello

  As it is an OEM machine, you will not be able to replace the CPU this processor is specifically compatible with OEM motherboard. If you are looking to change the CPU, RAM and GPU, you really can both do you a favor and buy a new machine all together, or build your own.

  Kind regards

  Patrick

• Thank you for your order. Your order is processed and you will be informed of the outcome shortly.

  I just bought Windows 7 by using the special academic promotion and after purchasing, I got this message: "thank you for your order. Your order is processed and you will be informed of the result bit. "This is more than an hour there.  When will I actually receive my copy of Windows 7?

  Well, after like 3 hours they finally sent me an email with the product.  I wish that microsoft would have at least sent an order confirmation or something in the meantime...

• chkdisk-type of file system is NTFS, the volume is dirty, what it means

  When I turn on my computer, I see the following: file system to check on C: the type of the file system is NTFS, the volume is dirty.  What does that mean?

  A volume can be marked as dirty, if the system underwent a power interruption (power failure, pulling plug, removing the battery, button / stop), abandoned restart or an abnormal termination.  One of these events?

  When XP starts, it automatically checks the bit of impurity on each volume.  You can also tell XP to ignore the bit of impurity on any volume, but this probably isn't a good idea in case there is a real problem that needs to be fixed.  If you have a hard drive where the dirty bit will not be deleted, you could tell XP to check everything just do not.

  If the starting XP detects the volume is dirty, it will automatically run the disk with error correction (chkdsk/p) check and try to fix the problems detected.

  You can check the status of your bit of impurity from a command prompt window.

  To do this, click Start, run and enter in the box:

  cmd

  Click OK to open a command prompt window.

  For example, to query the bit of impurity on drive C, type:

  fsutil dirty query C:

  The sample output:
  Volume c is dirty
  Volume C: is dirty

  You cannot use fsutil or chkntfs from a command prompt to delete the bit of impurity on a volume.

  This does not mean that a disk check is scheduled to run, and you can't cancel what needs to happen in this case because this isn't the problem.

  You also won't solve this problem by editing your registry database - not where is the problem.

  Once a volume is marked as dirty, the only way to clear the dirty bit is to run "chkdsk/r" or "chkdsk/p" when the volume is not in use.  The only way a volume can not be used while XP is just starting to load or from the XP Recovery Console.

  If XP will not run chkdsk correctly when your system restarts or the dirty bit will not erase as it should, you need to look in the Event Viewer log chkdsk and see what is happening and fix it.

  If XP will not always clear the dirty bit, you need to run chkdsk/r of the XP Recovery Console so you can look and see what works and run it again until it works.  If your hard drive fails, you may never be able to clear the dirty bit, in this case, you can also say XP never check the afflicted volume dirty bit.

  Saying XP not to check the bit of impurity on a volume would be risky behavior because there would always be some kind of problem with your hard drive.

  When chkdsk runs automatically restart either because XP thinks he needs to (perhaps your NTFS volume has been marked as dirty) or you have chosen to do the chkdsk command yourself, the results appear in the viewing Application event log.  You should look there for the chkdsk log to see what happened and no problems after running chkdsk.

  To view the logs in Event Viewer, click Start, settings, Control Panel, administrative tools, event viewer.

  A shortcut to the event viewer is to click on start, run and enter in the box:

  %SystemRoot%\system32\eventvwr.msc

  Click OK to launch the event viewer.

  Search the Application log for an event originally by Winlogon, something like:

  Event type: Information
  Event source: Winlogon
  Event category: no
  Event ID: 1001
  Date: 04/08/2010
  Time: 11:25:57
  Description:
  Checking file system on C:

  The type of the file system is NTFS.

  One of your disks needs to be checked for consistency. You
  may cancel the disk check, but it is strongly recommended
  that you continue.

  Windows will now check the disk.

  Cleaning of minor inconsistencies on the drive.
  CHKDSK checks Usn Journal...
  Audit of the USN Journal is complete.

  39070048 KB total disk space.
  28017948 KB in 100571 files.
  56540 Ko 10556 index.
  0 KB in bad sectors.
  236440 KB in use by the system.
  65536 KB occupied by the log file.
  10759120 KB available on disk.

  4 096 bytes in each allocation unit.
  9767512 total allocation on the drive units.
  2689780 allocation units available on disk.

  Windows has finished checking your disk.
  Please wait while your computer restarts.

  The dirty bit fade not until chkdsk /r (or chkdsk/p) tracks clean when the system reboots (as in the example) or when you run chkdsk /r from the XP Recovery Console.

  If for some reason chkdsk will not erase the dirty, you say XP never check the bit of impurity of a player, but that will not set your fault of potentially hard drive, or he could be the player just needs have chkdsk to run on it for some other recoverable error condition.

  A simple power interruption is something that could result in a disc was marked as dirty.

  The event log is where you need to look to see what to do about it.

• What is FAT, FAT32 & NTFS maximum file size of file systems supported? File system of all the methods of the passage of FAT & FAT32 to NTFS without formatting is appreciated.

  What is FAT, FAT32 & NTFS maximum file size of file systems supported? File system of all the methods of the passage of FAT & FAT32 to NTFS without formatting is appreciated. (IE without deleting the files from a particular disk).

  Difference between material FAT & FAT32?

  I have a disk full of files, and it is in the FAT32 file system. As I can't copy large files (5 GB +) in this player, I intend to fix this by changing the file systems. Apparently, it is not possible to do it without formatting. I am curious about a way to do this without destroying the drive.

  Thanks in advance.

  Eguy

  Tuesday, October 9, 2012 16:55:51 + 0000, Eguy wrote:

  What is FAT, FAT32 & NTFS maximum file size of file systems supported? File system of all the methods of the passage of FAT & FAT32 to NTFS without formatting is appreciated. (IE without deleting the files from a particular disk).

  Difference between material FAT & FAT32?

  First, note that there are three varieties of FAT: FAT12, FAT16, and
  FAT32. Many people call just FAT16 FAT, because before that FAT32 is out.
  FAT16 is the only variety used for hard drives, so just
  The FAT was not enough.

  FAT12 (hardly any more used) had a maximum volume size of 12 MB.
  It has been used almost exclusively for floppy disks.

  FAT16 was used on hard disks (or partitions) up to 4 GB and had a
  cluster size which varied from 2 KB to 64 KB, depending on the size of
  the partition. It serves almost never again, because almost nobody does
  a as small as 4 GB partitions.

  FAT32 FAT16 succeeded and has a maximum drive size of 2 TB. His
  maximum file size is 4 GB, which explains why you can't copy a file of 5 GB to
  it. its cluster size is 4 KB up to an 8 GB partition. Beyond 8 GB the
  cluster size develops up to 32 KB.
  NTFS, that's what almost everyone should use on their hard drives
  today. Its maximum volume size is 2 ^ ^ 64-1 and its maximum file size
  16 × 1024 is ^ ^ 6 bytes (much more than the bigger hard drive available
  today). Cluster size is 4 KB, regardless of the size of the volume.

  I have a disk full of files, and it is in the FAT32 file system. As I can't copy large files (5 GB +) in this player, I intend to fix this by changing the file systems.

  Good! You should.

  Apparently, it is not possible to do it without formatting.

  It's not correct. To convert to NTFS, use you the CONVERT
  command. But first read http://www.aumha.org/a/ntfscvt.htm , because
  There is an important question about the size of cluster that is not obvious.

  Also note that conversion is an important step, touching everything on your
  drive. When you take a big step, no matter how unlikely it is
  always possible that something can go wrong. For this reason, there
  careful to make sure that you have a backup of everything you can not afford to
  lose before you start.

  Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP

• Sorting files by information from the file "Properties".

  Hello

  I am trying to find a way to easily copy the highest rated songs from my MP3 player to my PC.

  I have a sansa view player but the player stopped to transfer information "sides" when syncronising with all media organisrers - WMP, Winamp, media monkey etc. I tried all.  The annoying fault with the phone is not repairable.

  I tried to use IDE tag viewers, alternative of Solution Explorer, using Linux - a lot of things, including an extention to explore that adds additional Collins to the columns in the Solution Explorer.  However, when connected to the device and view the files, no information on the sides of the files transferred or is visible - except via a single method: open the records of players in MTP mode in windows Explorer then:

  Click with the right button--> properties--> details.

  In the list of the news is a section called "user rating".  This ranking is a shown as a number '1' on a 1 star and '99' for a 5 star.  However, this information is not available as a column in Explorer, so it cannot be used for sorting the files (more high appreciation over the lowest inside is what Im will achieve).

  This notation from 1 to 99 info soes does not seem to be watched on in any other file browser media organizer. For mp3s saved on the hard drive, all fields are visible, including side but etc, and it's the problem, on the other hand when the file is copied to the PC, it seems to lose this information. If copied files do not have this ' information of the details available and copied the files do not appear to contain this information in their view in Notepad, so I can't even search for files with the string of text 99' in them.» (tearing hair).  MSC mode is also available on the device, but it does not help.

  Does anyone have any ideas how I could solve this problem?  Maybe how I could use this in some way give detailed information to sort the files?  Maybe change the registry Explorer? Another extension for Explorer?

  I just watched something do custom "column in the registry managers."  I don't really understand it to be honest, but it would be a possible solution? Im not a programmer, so this might be beyond my skills, but could write a shell extension is a solution?

  XP pro sp3.

  Thanks in advance for any help.

  Dale.

  Hello, califauna

  Unfortunately, this is not possible by default in Windows XP, I'm aware of all programs or extensions that will do what you ask.

  David
  Microsoft Answers Support Engineer
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