Martin Zugec

2war: I also vote for ad muncher Great, small and fast program with kind autor

Well, it is user SID... Easiest way is to use WMI to query the SID for specified user. In vbscript use Win32_UserAccount, in batch/cmd use wmic useraccount where name="username_you_want" get SID

2Alanoll: You are the voice of sanity in the wildness of this browser war I am NOT affiliated with Microsoft, but I must say I am getting quite bored with FF fans. Internet Explorer was dangerous browser - BEFORE SP2. Times changed. Firefox was designed to be secure - to not include the security holes from IE. The problem is it introduced new security vectors. You want to talk about security? In past three month, IE have one security hole discovered. Firefox had nine, including two extremely critical! Microsoft is trying to solve this security problems and to not remove functionality - firefox is just disabling the functionality, that is not secure in today implementation. BTW spyware gurus (Ben Edelman or Sunbelt for example) have message for firefox users - 10% of market share is the line, when we will see spyware designed for firefox.

SpamBayes is great choice - just pick up spam filter based on dynamic bayesian filter (like SpamBayes), instead of using static filter (Outlook 2k3) or white/black lists etc...

Well, most of countries were not interested in this OS, that is why there is silence around it.

Great! For people who dont know, you MUST have WI 3.1 for WSUS, so it is quite important update... They had problems with 3.1 version - WFP protection as sunviva mentioned, see http://www.support.microsoft.com/default.a...kb;en-us;898628

Study Use command cmd /k copy /? To see syntax of the program...

Study Use command cmd /k copy /? To see syntax of the program...

It is working, I used it many times...

This (working on XP Pro) will create variable strCdRom with drive letter... If you have more cdrom drives, I can create filter for cdrom name/media loaded for /f "usebackq delims== tokens=1,2" %i IN (`wmic cdrom get drive /value`) DO set strCdRom=%j

Download BootVis from Microsoft, you will see why it is so slow...

Internet connection - you mean Dial-up settings? Or Internet Explorer settings? Please rephrase your question...

Add/Remove program - same as other programs

Have a look here, it will save you a lot of time: http://www.netbootdisk.com/set2var.htm

Well, right now I am just thinking about creating my own solution, because I wasnt able to found any free software Right now I created the core - it is similar to UNIX software, so no GUI and operations based on text files...

This problem is managed by using "profile" file - the "database" file that will find settings for your computer (based on your computer MAC address). From this file it will read informations like PC name and modify the unattend.txt (or winnt.sif), so it will containt the informations you need. Hope so this information helped you, if you encounter any problems just ask

Download Process Explorer from www.sysinternals.com... Have a look at processes - which is causing the problem?

Ehm, could you please explain your request again? I dont understand what you mean

After this summer I will be "challenging" against one guy from Microsoft - we are preparing presentation about deployment, he will talk about professional solutions and I will opposite him with free solutions (USMT, OCS, Unattended/PXE from Linux etc.). Looks like mine solution will be better Except one problem - free management server similar to SMS/Unicenter/Tivoli. Have anyone encountered something that will meet my requirements? Or if not, is anyone interested in helping me developing one (no programming, only batch scripts, in fact I have the core of this product almost ready)...

2BlueMe: Ad Kaspersky na computer resources - AFAIR heuristic is automatically turned on and that is the reason why it is so slow...

Well, the smallest possible size is 4MB (Kernel only) - have a look at Windows XP Embedded, if you want to make smallest possible (but I dont see a reason)

Have a look to ref.chm and look for section [RegionalSettings], InputLocale KeyboardLayout only specify keyboard layour for text mode...

Civerson is right, it is svcpack.log, but I must agree with Raskren - upgrade installations are road to hell!

Have a look at command Netsh.exe...

There is limitation for characters used in OemPnPDriversPath - for XP it is 4096 characters (IMHO), for w2k it is less... That is why Troubles method (Drivers, Network - long names) is not usual in corporate environments, instead the paths like D, V, A etc... Try to delete few lines (just to see if this is your problem)