Re: use of multiple browsers with win2k/winserver2K

Lady:
I don't know if this will help your current situation, but you may want to
file it away for future use:
T I P W O R L D
http://www.topica.com/tipworld
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B U G   O F   T H E   D A Y

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TODAY'S TIP: NETSCAPE 6 VERSUS WINDOWS 2000/NT

by Paul Dmytrewycz

When installing Netscape 6 on a Windows NT or 2000 computer, make sure
you have Administrator privileges. Otherwise you will receive the
following message during installation: "Error 5." No further
explanation is provided after the error message, causing no small
amount of confusion. Users who have already tried installation and
have been frustrated by this error are urged to try again with
Administrator privileges. There should be no problems thereafter.



~ Kathleen Anderson
Spider Web Woman Designs
http://www.spiderwebwoman.com
email: kathleen(at)spiderwebwoman.com


----- Original Message -----
From: "Lady Wistfulee" <ladywist(at)bellsouth.net>
To: <hwg-software(at)hwg.org>
Cc: "hwg-servers" <hwg-servers(at)hwg.org>
Sent: February 25, 2001 3:05 PM
Subject: use of multiple browsers with win2k/winserver2K


> Hi O learned ones...
> (My apologies for a cross post, but I didn't know which list this fit...it
> kind of fits both).
>
> I had a horrible "accident" on my machine last week, that caused me to
lose
> my admin rights on my machine...which resulted in a horrible destruction
of
> my machine's capabilities.  My machine is running Win2K Pro, came that way
> from Gateway.  Our company just made the move to win2k at the end of last
> year & are also making the move to Winserver 2000 at the same time, but
the
> techs aren't familiar with it so no one knows how this happened.  I was
told
> by a tech at work that Netscape version 4 does not support Win2K,
according
> to Netscape, but I can't find where it says so on their site, another tech
> told me Win2K can't have multiple browsers. I obviously need more than one
> browser on my machine,  (I had NN4.08, 6.0, IE5.5 & Opera 5 for about 2
> months  when this all happened).
>
> Last Thursday I left my computer defragging at work, & when I came back to
> it hours later (OK it was the next morning) somehow I had lost all
> administrator privileges for my puter--I didn't know it, just couldn't
> login. It was locked (the ctrl-alt-del-choose lock computer way).  There
was
> a bent (broken) network cable (it looked like someone had stepped on it),
&
> after it was replaced I was able to login (with my ID & password). Later
on
> in the day, not knowing I had lost my privileges, I did a Windows security
> update (I had gotten a critical update notification).  After rebooting, I
> couldn't login.  My administrative rights had disappeared, my machine had
> disappeared from the network, & there were corrupted files, primarily
> something like nmc.exe. They couldn't find my machine on the network
before,
> but replacing the cable seemed to work for me to login.  They said that
when
> I had done the security update without admin privileges that the machine
was
> trying to find the administrator, & without one it corrupted files.   The
> techs decided my machine had to be what they call "re-imaged".  I lost all
> administrative rights for my computer permanently as a result, & now have
to
> make a support call to install the simplest of programs.  I can't even
look
> at my computer's calendar (the one via the systray clock). What could have
> caused this?  Is there a bug in win2k as to having multiple browsers, or
the
> defragging...how do you lose admin rights like that?
>
> It'll be years before I am "trusted" again at work, even though I didn't
do
> anything out of the ordinary (a defrag & a Windows Update only), but I
still
> want to understand how this happened to me.
>
> many thanks in advance,
> Lady Wistfulee
>
>

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