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[Jimit Shah]

Hello,

I have a Windows 2000 standard edition dedicated server since past five years. Now I am facing following problems:
- When I click on the start button it does not open.
- When I right click on My Computer or My Network Places then all the options now are not displayed.
- The services.msc function is not working.
- When I right click on My computer and click on manage it gives me the error as "No enough quota available to process this command".
- My Windows is not getting updated.
- When I try to start an MS office application it gives me some exception error.
- Also when I try to re-start my system
- Also when the system starts it gives lot of dll errors.

This is causing a lot of inconvenience to me.

If any body has some solution to this problem then kindly let me know.

Thank you.

[ChronoFDC]

Do you have access to anything? Even insignificant stuff might be useful. Also does any of this change if you boot into safe mode? Do you have any other login accounts on the machine? Do they do the same thing?

To be honest it sounds like the box might have been compromised.

[fastdeploy]

Originally Posted by Jimit Shah

If any body has some solution to this problem then kindly let me know.

You have many problems, not just one.

They all point to needing to run a repair on the OS. In order to do this you need to boot from a Windows 2000 Standard CD and use the repair (rather than install) option.

Yes, you could try to use a recovery console and fix each individual issue but this sounds very much like a systemic problem that is affecting the underlying OS and I think you'd mostly be hitting and missing with that. You would probably spend several days trying to root out each issue when a repair would fix it up and at least get the OS back to a state where it can be updated and your apps work normally in a couple hours, depending on the speed of the machine - and you don't lose any data doing a repair.

It is also conceivable you have a severe underlying hardware problem - bad memory, hard drive on the verge of taking a dive are two probable candidates - but a repair process would probably reveal this too (i.e., if the repair fails due to similar or weird, inexplicable errors that you also see from the running OS this points to a deeper hardware issue).

In short, I'd start with the repair process and move forward from there.

[Cenys]

In that case... with so many failures and different ones... do backup and reinstall it.. you will get less headache and time waste.

Sometimes happens all of this on windows because all the software we install get in to the registry and is not really clean when you uninstall them.

[JDMundo]

Sounds like a harddisk going bad.