Martin Zugec

I think you can install F-Prot with -silent switch? About Virtual PC, just have a look here: http://www.appdeploy.com/packages/detail.asp?id=250

Well, most simple solution is to use RegMon from SysInternals and watch the changes... BTW WMIC command is working quite well on my PC

Quite simple - on linux or any other computer create share, copy install cd to this share, on new server boot to dos, activate network connection and run winnt.exe. If you need any help on this, just ask

Heh, in that case U missed great source of informations http://www.wug.cz/cs/archiv_meetingu/archiv_meetingu_3.xtml - I had presentation about WMIC not long time ago - Meeting 18.11.2004 Praha About ROE - this shouldnt be the problem, Windows use the default (I am using cscript, most people use wscript). If you want to use system setting, you dont need to set anything - it is default option.

Hi! I am preparing one presentation and would like to show example. Problem is I am not developer (AutoIt, Vbscript etc. are not programming languages)... It will be about spyware and I would like to talk about less usual technologies - one of them is using PFR to remove respawning processes (e.g. you kill process and another one will start it again). I created small script for change process exe file with calc.exe and it is working great, I would just like to have something better (bigger caliber ) in my hands - I need to create small .exe file, that will only show the parameters of process that launched it AND give user ability to add this process to PFR for next restart. Could someone help? I will mention his name (it is MS conference)...

2undeadsoldier: Well, games on linux arent the same quality and quantity as for windows... About filesharing - Samba for quite stupid technology till v3, now it is ideal filesharing server for winbased networks! BTW I am MS fan (working for them sometimes), my brother is big linux fan (working for Novell all the time), so we are comparing linux/win products every week

Quite often problem - go to Power Management in Control Panel, APM tab, enable APM. Or you can try followin in registry: Key:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon Name:PowerDownAfterShutdown Value:1 But sometimes you can encountered various problems

WMI is the main management tool for windows (not registry:)) - for example migrating printers is not possible through registry, but it is really easy through WMI. Specially if you like vbscript, I am surprised you dont know WMI/ADSI scripting. About my article, how did you read it? I wrote it in my native language About ROE - strange... After you call VBS, it will launch wscript/cscript, which will last till the code exited. Example: wmic pagefile where "name='c:\\pagefile.sys'" set initialsize=0,maximumsize=600

One small advice, cacls isnt sometimes working as expected, that is why I switched to subinacl. If you want to create GPO, it is also possible - you can specify ACL settings. Most simple way is through importing template file.

1.) You must create some script for DOS I am using personalized one, I can post it if you would like to see example. 3.) try Wmic pagefileset set /? 4.) ROE - RunOnceEx I encountered only few applications, that had really big problems with this - it depends, sometimes you need to monitor processes, or log files etc...

Check your %windir%\Minidump directory - can you see some files? This BSOD is in most cases because of corrupted file system - try running chkdsk from safe mode.

2Takeshi: I think you couldnt repair with bootcfg, it is only way to create/edit it. 2TheeBeets: boot.ini is in c: and is hidden file. If you dont have it, Windows will assume you have windows installed in c:\windows directory. It is for locating ntloader and nt os kernel. If you dont have it, create this file (boot.ini) and create text [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect [boot loader] timeout=3 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS Personally I am adding lines /sos /noguiboot. For more information check www.sysinternals.com, it is probably best article about boot.ini.

2Hulk: In fact you can use Longhorn LUA today, too - try to have a look on SAFER technology (Michael Howards or even better Valery Pryamikov) - this is quite interesting. About renaming Administrator - I must agree, this is working quite well. I am renaming Administrator account on my machines to something harmless (e.g. MS_Support) and creating fake account with name Administrator, that dont have membership in any group and have really strong password. 2Ctwizzy: Renaming administrator is quite important - most people dont know how to receive real administrator name through RID 500, so most script kiddies will burn on this trick.

1.) UDF is not working quite well - use script instead and modify your unattend.txt BEFORE installation. This is working quite well for me. 2.) I dont use regtweaks - I just disable Themes service. If this advice is not enough for you, run RegMon and monitor changes made after you select radio button and click apply. Or you can use InstallRite or similar tool. 3.) Try settings this via WMI classes - this is working quite well. 4.) If you can, use MSI installations, you can modify everything there. Vbscript with ROE should work fine.

Of course you can search... Use VBA - best way is to record macro, than view (and modify) it.

U mean net user %username% > user.log ?

About Recovery Console, I got little bit different approach. On every machine I got required files (cmdcons directory), but dont have it enabled in boot.ini. Instead I got special boot cds with modified boot.ini, so my technicians can use recovery console from local hdd.

Or switch to robocopy from resource kit... I LOVE this utility, give it a try.

Yep... Buy almost any book, where they describe the basics and then study (or download mdb, yep, now you can even got it offline or translate to your language!) scripts in Microsoft Script Center

I am .MPG, too

Well, I am most interested in "next generation antispyware solution" and future SAFER version - and they looks great, more than 100% percent better

Did you try to run some tests on your PC? Try Windows Memory Diagnostic, even it is from Microsoft it is working quite well

It is setting "killbit" to ActiveX - killbit means the activex will be blocked. Using Host file or Restricted Sites you are blocking downloads from pages, using killbits you are blocking products, so they can cooperate quite easily

In XP SP2 you dont need LSPFix - Winsock providers can detect and self repair problems OR you can use command netsh winsock reset

AFAIK only use of Dim is Dim Variable, you cant define variable type etc... Like in VB