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Just went to Windows Update and got this list, so these are the new ones, all of which are "High Priority." 8 hotfixes plus the MSRT makes 9. You can search for KB numbers to get the download page. Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool - October 2005 (KB890830) Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer for Windows XP (KB896688) Security Update for Windows XP (KB902400) Security Update for Windows XP (KB899589) Security Update for Windows XP (KB900725) Security Update for Windows XP (KB901017) Security Update for Windows XP (KB905749) Security Update for Windows XP (KB905414) Security Update for Windows XP (KB904706)

Quite frankly, the difference between burning a CD at 40X and 48X isn't that great, I'd worry more about the DVD specs. Normally specs alone aren't enough, however, I'd trust all 3 of those brands. Personally, I'd go with the best deal you can get.

Nevermind, I just read the NDA I agreed to.

I'd have to say Gateway. About a year ago at work we bought 30 17inch notebooks. We've had to send 12 of them back for repairs. On average it takes 2 hours of "troubleshooting" for them to take one back. Makes sense. They ship a box overnight to us, that gets shipped overnight back to them, and they ship it back once its repaired overnight again. 3 overnight shipments like that can't be cheap. Turnaround is usually 9 days. Its not so bad that these notebooks were completely faulty in their design, its the fact that they have us check for spyware and stuff when we have a screen that wont show red, but just blue and green (the screen didn't even show the Gateway logo correctly at boot time, let's see spyware do that). 4 of the computers just outright died and wouldn't even POST, but they kept having me try and hook up a monitor through the VGA port to check BIOS settings. Of course it never worked. Anyway, our Dell purchases aren't so bad since we get people based in the USA. Regardless, we only call them for hardware problems. I do have one bad story for Dell. I had a hard drive with bad sectors. They had us send the comptuer back with the story that it may be the motherboard and the exact same hard disk came back, with the drive wiped clean and a new dell image installed. I had to use autoclave with 25 passes a few times until the drive completely died and they gave me a replacement.

I concur with Alanoll. Smells of piracy to me. Here's a good link for you http://www.bsa.org/korea/. I had to disable my IP blocker to even get there.

If you really want this bad, look for Winrar instructions and use the "Run After Extraction" for the regedit /S regtweaks.reg The Winrar comment would end up looking something like this: ;The comment below contains SFX script commands Setup=regedit.exe /S regtweaks.reg TempMode Silent=2 Overwrite=2

Yes, you almost have to use Sysprep. With 100 workstations, but all the same hardware imaging with Ghost or whatever can work quite well. If your hardware was different, then I'd say RIS might work better, if you have the server and network capacity. When imagining via Ghost or using RIS, just be careful to double check everything, otherwise you'll end up visiting all these computers again.

I had a similar problem with my MSI board that had both USB 1.1 and USB 2 ports on it. All the ports ran at 1.1 unless I disabled the 1.1 ports in BIOS, then the USB 2 ports would work but my keyboard would not be recognized until I got into Windows, since the BIOS only recognized the 2 USB 1.1 ports for the keyboard. I then bought a Microsoft keyboard that had both USB and PS/2 connectors on it. Since I was running so short on ports anyway, I bought an $8 USB 2 PCI card. Then the machine only recognized the four ports on the PCI card. I was really mad, anyway, I lived with it for a while, did a reformat, and had the same problems. Then a friend introduced me to the Knoppix Linux CD. Under it, the USB 2 ports on the motherboard started to work again. I went into BIOS and reactivated the 1.1 ports on the motherboard and then they all worked fine. So I knew the problem was Windows related. In the end, I belive it was a combination of Service Pack 2 and new VIA motherboard drivers that got them all working properly within Windows. So I'd search for motherboard drivers from outside sources if you must.

No problem, I was surprised nobody else had posted this yet. But I'll share the knowledge I discover, usually somebody else discovers it first, but that's why I like MSFN. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Actually I posted this before you in this thread ---> http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...991&hl=symantec <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Well, at least now its in the thread titled SAV 9 and the thread titled SAV 10. Now nobody should not be able to find it.

No problem, I was surprised nobody else had posted this yet. But I'll share the knowledge I discover, usually somebody else discovers it first, but that's why I like MSFN.

At work we have a volume license with Symantec and got our copy of SAV 10 yesterday. Anyway, all I have to say about SAV 10 is wow. There are some great features for anti-malware of various types. Anyway, all old silent switches work, but here's the best part, integrating up-to-date virus definition files has never been easier. Here is the installer's files: File Size ----------------------------------- 0x0409.ini 5,495 Data1.cab 13,576,266 instmsiw.exe 1,822,520 Setup.exe 249,856 Setup.ini 1,892 Symantec AntiVirus.msi 5,528,272 VDefHub.zip 7,290,006 Anyway, the VDefhub.zip file is the one were interested in. It contains the virus definition files. To update it, just download the latest Intelligent Updater definition file from Symantec (Here), open the Intelligent Updater exe file with Winrar, copy the VIRSCAN.ZIP file out, rename it to VDefHub.zip and copy it over the original in the installer's folder. That's all you have to do. The VDefHub.zip is still in the root of an Administrative Install Point if you make one. Also for those who were wondering, Live Update appears to be up-to-date as well.

Bart PE is great, the UBCD4Win makes it even better. If you use the plugin for the McAfee Command Line scanner, you can use these switches to get a good scan for viruses and spyware from a clean environment (ie no locked files). scan.exe /adl /all /analyze /del /mime /program /streams /sub Type scan.exe without anything after it to see what each of those will do. Basically, this is about the most comprehensive scan it can do, but watch out, that /del switch will delete all files it thinks are infected. I think "/sub" and "/all" may be redundant with the "/adl" switch, but it doesn't hurt anything either. Get McAfee Command Line scanner here: http://vil.nai.com/vil/virus-4d.asp The plugin is part of the official Bartpe, so you'll have to save a copy of it and put it into the plugins folder if you use the UBCD4Win add-on.

Gee, I haven't had any trouble with the old releases so I've just stuck with what works and not risked errors. If I were on a domain I might worry about security, but I doubt a disk defragmenter could have that serious a security hole in it--but stranger things have happened.

I just tested Firefox 1.0.2 and Thunderbird 1.0.2 in Virtual PC and both install silently just fine using the "-ms" switch.

From the readme: and listed on web as: http://www.ubi.com/US/Games/Info.aspx?pId=1066 Is this going to be the new standard for games? If so, I need to upgrade my GeForce 4 MX 440. I know most will just say I should upgrade anyway, but I might hold out and just wait and build a new computer in 6 months or so. But anyway, they used the Unreal engine, so I find it odd that they support just these recent cards. Since the game has been released for XBox, PS2, GameCube and PC, I wonder if they just rushed the work to release it and covered video cards that were easiest and newest. Of course, that is just speculation, however, the GeForce 4 MX series are popular cards, and Dell was putting them in as a low-end upgrade to integrated video just a year ago. Anybody have any thoughts on this?

The RIAA has always held that portable MP3 players are unlawful. Judge said they could be used legitimately so they're ok. They still argue that they aren't legal, they just know they'll never win that case--otherwise lots of other things often used unlawfully should be declared illegal as well.

From what I understand, in the U.S. if you own a physical CD (you don't own the music, it is licensed to you, much as software is), as of now you may legally "rip" it to your computer, but you may not listen to the mp3 and the CD at the same time, nor may CD and the MP3 be in far different locations--like rip to notebook computer, take to work and leave the CD at home. Technically that's no good. But if you own the CD, a judge/jury is going to have a hard time convicting you knowing how many people just download the stuff. Many aspects of the "fair use" law are not defined very well, RIAA has been trying to scare people away from all aspects of computers for music. Remeber they tried to shut down independent artists from using the online community citing copyright laws. They lost of course.

We buy all Dell's where I work (University of 12,000 students). First thing most tech departments do when they arrive is a format and reinstall. Most have Volume Licenses with Microsoft, so even though the computers come with Windows, they don't legally need them. Dell realy negotiates prices low for the University. Only time we call tech support is if hardware is physically broken, but since we are a University, we get US people. But a bad keyboard took me a hour and 30 minutes before they'll admit the keyboard was bad. Saying "We have 200 of these computers and 10 exact models of this keyboard works on this computer but this one doesn't, and it also doesn't work on any of the computers" just isn't good enough, but eventually they do it. So yes tech support is crap, but if you can get the hardware for a good price, a Dell may be worth it. Overall, the hardware is usually fairly solid. Failed hard drives are the most common of the 1000+ Dell's we have in my departments, but the harddrive failure rate is not much worse then retail drives. Otherwise it is parts that are DOA. Personally, I'd stick to home built.

Beats me. I've never tried to do it that way. At work, we still don't deploy office via the network, so I created a cmd file that basically did the same thing as my inf. Some of the past posts for Office may be some help.

Had the same problem. Slipstreaming the service pack is creating an admin install point with office. I silently install office and then silently install sp1 and any updates. I use the inf method. HKLM,"%RunOnceEx%\01Office",,,"Microsoft Office 2003 Pro" HKLM,"%RunOnceEx%\01Office",1,,"%30%\install\Office2003\PRO11.MSI TRANSFORMS=Office.MST /qb-" HKLM,"%RunOnceEx%\02Office",,,"Office 2003 Frontpage" HKLM,"%RunOnceEx%\02Office",1,,"%30%\install\Office2003\FP11.MSI TRANSFORMS=FP.MST /qb-" HKLM,"%RunOnceEx%\03Office",,,"Office 2003 Onenote" HKLM,"%RunOnceEx%\03Office",1,,"%30%\install\Office2003\ONOTE11.MSI TRANSFORMS=ONENOTE.MST /qb-" HKLM,"%RunOnceEx%\04Office",,,"Office 2003 Updates" HKLM,"%RunOnceEx%\04Office",1,,"msiexec /q /p %30%\install\OfficeSP1\MAINSP1ff.msp" HKLM,"%RunOnceEx%\04Office",2,,"msiexec /q /p %30%\install\OfficeSP1\OWC11SP1ff.msp" HKLM,"%RunOnceEx%\04Office",3,,"msiexec /q /p %30%\install\OfficeSP1\OWC102003SP1ff.msp" HKLM,"%RunOnceEx%\04Office",4,,"msiexec /q /p %30%\install\OfficeSP1\ONENOTESP1ff.msp" HKLM,"%RunOnceEx%\04Office",5,,"msiexec /q /p %30%\install\OfficeUpdate\gdiplus-FullFile-GLB.msp" HKLM,"%RunOnceEx%\04Office",6,,"msiexec /q /p %30%\install\OfficeUpdate\MSCONVff.msp"

The NFS series is one of my favorites. Can't wait to get it! Seems their online account server is goofy or something--overloaded perhaps?

Thanks!

The downloads just keep timing out or failing, even tried some of the other nero ftp servers. Guess I'll have to wait a few days. Anybody know of a different mirror?

I bought an OEM copy of XP pro when I built my computer, and have the nice sticker stuck on my case, but, I cheat and use the Corp edition to simplify life, too many reformats and hardware upgrades. I voted that I bought it, since I do have a valid license, but I am violating the EULA, and for that matter probably the law. But my copy shows up as gunuine on Microsoft's site when I ran their little tool.

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?t...storyID=6455278 It's about time.