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Right-click on the drive; choose Open or Explore.

Sorry - I should've been more clear. It should work as well means that an administrative install should work for your personal uses. Lots of info here. As for versions - that doesn't tell us which type it is - for example, in windows you have xp professional and xp home. Likewise, in office you have 2003 professional, 2003 business, etc. It says the version on the box the software came in, on the hologram'd original cd, and in the application when you click help > about.

IF your computer supports booting off of a DVD, and if you're only using it on that one computer with that one license of office, then I think it should work as well. If you can determine the version (It tells you in help > about, and should say on the disk) then we can help you better to solve the issue. It is possible - I've seen it done. P.S. Welcome to MSFN!

You expect someone to know this off the top of their head? I'm sure you can find it with some research, but that's a lot of information! What do you mean by all products? Does that include every little utility or hotfix? What about things that haven't been released yet? Does MS Surface count? I can tell you a few, but there's more... Windows Vista (January 2007) Office 2007 (January 2007) Server 2008 (Recently) Visual Studio 2008 (Recently)

Depends on the version. Any of the business/professional/enterprise versions you can do an administrative install on. Having a volume license though is recommended or else you'll still have to put in the product key each time since you can't use the same product key over and over again if it isn't a volume license. Another problem you'll run into is that the office installation files take up almost a whole CD worth of space, so you'll have to use DVD's instead. What I would suggest instead maybe is - if this is a domain environment - having a network share with the office installer, then have a batch file that goes something like this for use on the first logon: @echo off echo Installing Office 2003... net use Z: \\server\apps\office2003 cd /d Z:\ start "Office installer" /wait "Z:\setup.exe" echo Done! exit

Perhaps. But there are legitimate uses for *******s, too. Some of the update tools recommended on these forums (ryanVM, etc) use *******s to distribute their packages. Many OSS projects distribute through *******s, i.e. Open Office. It would make sense to at least show it as t******, so that we have a clue about wtf they're talking about. Also, censoring ******* isn't going to stop people from linking to them. Although illegal use of *******s should be discouraged, I do not think this is an effective way to do so.

If you have the silly little side-tasks thing in explorer, that has folder tasks and whatnot, enabled then you'll only see your workgroup when you click on show workgroup computers. Turn it off (tools > folder options, choose the radio button for use windows classic folders) then you should be able to see all workgroups. Try that. If that doesn't work, see if typing net view /domain:<theworkgroupname> shows them. If it doesn't, there's some other problem.

Can you tell us what keyboard you have? Most of them say on the underside - for example, mine is a Microsoft Digital Media Pro keyboard, so I use Microsoft's intellitype software to assign the keys to applications. If it's a logitech, they have their own. If it's another brand, look it up on their website; often you can find software there. Sometimes other companies brand MS keyboards; for example I've seen dell branded MS keyboards, so you may need to look closely to figure out who the manufacturer actually is.

Patch Tuesday... Turning off automatic updates all the way is a baaadddd idea. The potential bad aspects are far outweighed by the benefits of being protected from vulnerabilities. Within hours of a patch tuesday release, malware authors are reverse-engineering patches to figure out the vulnerability, and then using those new-found exploits to catch all of the people who don't update as they should.

If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is... An OEM copy of Windows XP Pro costs me a good $140.

If you have some windows xp and some office 2000 media, you can buy some copies of vista business and office 2007 professional, then use the downgrade rights in the EULA to install XP and o2k using the new keys. That way, not only do you not need to worry about the unavailability of XP and office 2000, you can also go back to the newer products some time in the future if you want to. Also, MS does volume license agreements if you have >=5 computers, so you might be able to get some deal with Microsoft directly by calling them.

I think I explain pretty clearly how it works up above. Do you have any specific questions?

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...;displaylang=en

Use a real encryption tool, like truecrypt. Hiding your data will NOT secure it. Truecrpyt is a cinch to install on the machines you need it on, and you can disguise the encryption file as a normal file of any sort, or just encrypt the whole partition.

The easiest way would be to turn off simple file sharing on all of the computers, thus requiring a password. Without a password and without a domain, there's no way to keep unauthorized users out since there is nothing to stop them.

Do note however that windows 2000 (not xp and up though) sees cores as individual processors. Meaning a quad core processor is seen as 4 processors. Windows XP recognizes individual cores though.

Short answer: no. Medium answer: not without having to go back to a blank user profile Long answer: yes.

I'm pretty sure Microsoft made the core vista fonts available for download somewhere, claiming that they were the "next generation of web fonts" or something and that they wanted to make them available. I don't remember where they were though and don't really care as they are also installed with Office 2007, which I have.

You want to open a web browser on the logon prompt??? Are you crazy???!?!!! At the logon prompt, the account logged on is the system account. Any way that the user manages to compromise that browser means the whole system could be hosed. If it's IE then they could easily have access to everything - everything - on the whole entire system. What is wrong with having them press Ctrl+Alt+Del and click change password?

Just for the record, I use dells frequently and own one myself, and I've never had any problems with them. True, I've never called their tech support since I usually just fix stuff myself, but I have sent a computer in for repair while under warranty and it didn't cost me a penny except for shipping. And... they still sell xp and they also offer linux!!! The other OEM's don't have a linux option for non-business machines.

Well well. Time to boot up the trusty VM, and get out that virus scanner. Excuse my asking, but WTF is this? If I want windows live mail, I'll get it from Microsoft. Anyhow, I'll report back on my adventures with spyware and whatnot whenever at some point.

I only ever get BSOD's when I do stupid stuff, or cause them purposefully. Or when using TI-connect, which has the buggiest drivers ever. The last time I got a BSOD I was trying to play portal on my laptop. Took me about 5 BSOD's and a lot of settings-changing to decide that no, the orange box was not going to run on an intel mobile integrated graphics 945 chip. =/

(Belongs in the forum for whatever OS you're on) Are the computers using Windows XP Professional, Windows 2000 or Windows Vista Business/Enterprise/Ultimate? If so, then you can use group policies to enable logon auditing. Start > run > gpedit.msc, navigate to macihne config > local settings > audit policy. There you can tell it what events to log. To see the logs, open eventvwr.exe, and open the security log.

Humor, Ripken. It's funny. As in laughing. ...Seen it before; still hilarious.

Cluberti! I'd expect you to know this.... The Core Duo and the Core 2 Duo are NOT the same. Core Duos are older, and there IS no Core Quad. Don't get a core anything... core 2 duo, core 2 quad and core 2 extreme are where it's at.