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Wow thats a tall order -Im not into looking up commands for you but i will give you a few snippets from my pen drive to make you and your users lifes easier Ok first off, great try on the add user commands but if you use that you'll have issues in 30-60 days when the password expires because "/expires:never" refers to the account NOT the password for that account (Im told if you have AD this isnt an issue but it has been an issue for me) use the attached netuser.exe and the following bat file to prevent the password from expiring (and also disable the administrator and guest accounts) @echo off echo creating Staff user... net user Staff /add /active:yes /expires:never /passwordchg:no /fullname:"Staff" /comment:"Staff login" netuser.exe staff /pwnexp:y echo -------------------- echo adding staff to Power Users group... net localgroup "Power Users" Staff /add echo ------------------------------------- echo adding staff to Administrators group... net localgroup "Administrators" Staff /add echo ------------------------------------- echo Disabling Administrator Account... net user Administrator /active:no /expires:never /passwordchg:no echo -------------------- echo Disabling Guest Account... net user Guest /active:no /expires:never /passwordchg:no echo -------------------- echo done pause the next section of code will uninstall MSN messanger, disable Win Firewall/ICS, and also disable security center so it wont nag your users about "no firewall is turned on" or "your antivirus is 12 minutes out of date" @echo off echo Uninstalling MSN/Windows Messenger... (choose no if asked to reboot) RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\inf\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove echo ------------------------------ echo Stopping "Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)" sc stop SharedAccess > nul net start | find "Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)" > nul if errorlevel 1 echo "Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)" was stopped successfully echo Disabling "Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)" sc config SharedAccess start= disabled > nul echo ------------------------------ echo Stopping "Security Center" @sc stop wscsvc > nul net start | find "Security Center" > nul if errorlevel 1 echo "Security Center" was stopped successfully echo Disabling "Security Center" @sc config wscsvc start= disabled > nul echo ------------------------------ echo Press any key to close . . . pause > nul Heres a snippet that kills the messenger service that lets users send messages with "net send" (we had a problem with it so its gone now) echo ------------------------------ echo Stopping "Messenger" @sc stop Messenger > nul net start | find "Messenger" > nul if errorlevel 1 echo "Messenger" was stopped successfully echo Disabling "Messenger" @sc config Messenger start= disabled > nul echo ------------------------------ echo Press any key to close . . . pause > nul the files in this zip will let your define a set of workgroups to choose from or specify a workgroup Set_Workgroup_Name.zip (zipped cause MSFN forums think .exe attachment=ok but .vbs attachment=bad ) here is the script i use for getting those annoying miscellaneous item that annoy the crap out of me when im settin up a new machine: (it copies to WINDIR temporarily because it easier than reliably finding the current path) Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main] "Search Bar"="http://www.google.com/ie" "Start Page"="http://www.google.com" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Applets\Tour] "RunCount"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MessengerService] "PassportBalloon"="0" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList] "IT"=dword:00000000 What it does is set IEs searchengine and homepage to google (customize as you see fit) Disable the windows XP tour Disable the Add your passport to XP popup ballon (redundant(i think) if your uninstalling messenger but what the hell) hides the user named IT from being displayed on the welcome screen or in the users control panel (customize as you see fit)

well no answer here but pull both your old drive out, install XP again on your new drive and if by the time thats done no one has an answer, then plugin the old drive(s) and start pulling data over

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...a8-931ea6de5ff8 says its for IE7 beta 2 but at this point, why not? and if you cant get Internet ExploitMe 6 or 7 to work there are other alternatives beside reinstall: Firefox Opera

You're talking about ripping IE7 out of vista but your worried about firefox/opera crippling your system? I think you might have got turned around on this one somehow.

yeah we have 2 blades running ubuntu fiesty with dansguardian. which reminds me -i need to upgrade them to gutsy

you could try a 'standalone' version of IE6 but i doubt it'll work as well as IE7 (not to mention the fact that its an out of date IE6) http://browsers.evolt.org/download.php?/ie...ie6eolas_nt.zip but seriously, why not just use firefox instead it can do everything IE6/7 can (including expose your system to anyone that wants in if you load the activex plugin)

yeah you should be able to use 64.233.167.147 www.myspace.com 64.233.167.147 myspace.com

from what i found the A705 uses Realtek AC97 audio so its likely one of these: http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downlo...p;GetDown=false http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downlo...p;GetDown=false

I know its not exactly what you asked but I highly recommend http://www.driverpacks.net/ I use chipset, CPU, LAN and MassStorage on my CDs (no room for the rest) but ive made CDs with all of them in the past and its a HUGE timesaver.

Ill try to remeber to look tomorrow I also had looked at http://webconverger.org when setting these things up but at the time, it didnt look like a workable solution. but i bookmarked it anyways

to fix the no address bar issue in firefox R-kiosk add the following to C:\Documents and Settings\--USER--\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\--RANDOMCHARS--.default\user.js (file prolly wont exist) user_pref("rkiosk.navbar", true); this will show the back, next, refresh, stop, address bar, go button, and search box to remove any of those execute firefox with the -safe-mode switch select disable addons disable R-Kiosk via the addons menu restart FF in normal mode edit toolbar and remove items and reenable R-kiosk restart FF this one is also of some use too (keeps people from leaving a page up on the kiosk) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/616 biggest drawback to turning navbar on it FF can be close with the X button and i cant find the extention i used on my kiosks for removing that -if its a problem lemme know and ill go check one out tomorrow while im at work

Agreed. If gravity did cause any problems horizontally with the platters then one could argue that the read arm would be stressed more in a vertical position from lifting the weight of the read head repeatedly. So either way, youd be stressing the drive. but this is all just speculation, lets look for an official reponse: Seagate/Maxtor/Quantum Western Digital Done. case closed. Somebody inform Snopes they are missing a myth. Edit -oh god I just read that back and realized im never getting laid again after commenting on an arguement about hard drive mounting procedure.

I cant find the version # or date of you AGP drivers in that log but based on the date of the IDE controllers drivers i say your chipset drivers might need an update Name: VIA Bus Master IDE Controller Device ID: PCI\VEN_1106&DEV_0571&SUBSYS_80A11043&REV_06\3&61AAA01&0&89 Driver: C:\WINDOWS\system32\DRIVERS\viaide.sys, 1.00.0001.0001 (English), 8/4/2004 14:00:00, 5376 bytes You can get newer ones here or maybe from your Mobo manufacturer or your PCs OEM (dell/gateway): http://www.viaarena.com/default.aspx?PageI...&CatID=1070 but it could be a hardware issue too did your radeon come with any utilities that allow you to monitor your cards temperature? if not, perhaps someone else here knows of one (i dont run ATi anymore after my 299$ DOA AIW9800 experience -don't ask) your cards drivers look up to date but you could try uninstalling them, running DriverCleaner and redownloading from ATi.com and reinstalling them.

ok heres what i would do: if you are still getting the message about it still being installed: download Crap Cleaner (ok i would do this part because i already have it ) open CCleaner and goto the tools section find Zonealarm in the list (if its there) and hit 'delete entry' alternately, you can delete the 'zonelabs' or 'zonealarm' folders in the registry at this location HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall this will make the program appear to not be installed and should allow you to install it as for the message about not being admin, if you are running windows vista, right click the installer and select 'run as administrator' if that still doesnt work or if your not running vista, hit Start+R and type services.msc look through the list for anything that says zone alarm, zone labs, etc and if you find anything right click it and click stop. then try your installer again. but whatever you do, dont format you entire HD for a tiny software bug

heres what you do: create a fake gmail/hotmail/yahoo account send it an email that says some thing like then login to the account and reply with: then attach a huge gif/jpg that says GOTCHA! stop reading my emails <insert brothers name here> ! Or you could just password the identity/windows profile. But I like my way better.

the file you are looking for is called the hosts file and its located in C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc there will be a line that says 127.0.0.1 localhost the first # is the IP address of the site you want to redirect to and the second is the site to redirect from just add a line (or lines) below that 64.233.167.147 myspace.com that will redirect myspace.com to 64.233.167.147(google) just do me a favor and keep it nice (don't redirect him to porn) another fun trick is to take a screenshot of the desktop, set it as wallpaper and turn off desktop icons and autohide the startmenu to the right side of the screen

http://www.bartdart.com/downloads/contextm...itorinstall.exe from http://www.bartdart.com/ see what you have on your context menus -something in there is causing explorer to crash when hooked

1. upgrade to IE7 2. install firefox and theme it how you like http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/internet/fi...-windows-vista/

have you tried the MS fix? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/826282

sadly, I have completely downloaded the 1.45GB file, installed it, and played all the way through the demo (at least I think i have -i cant find any more missions or things to kill) first off the install process is crap 1.45GB download is a rar self extractor that creates a 1.45GB folder which then runs the install which then installs the game which takes up 1.39GB once installed wasting 3GB isnt really that big of a deal but is kinda pointless to extract then extract again. as for the game itself it runs fairly well with minimal tweaking of the options (most of which didnt require restarts ) gameplay is kinda one dimensional hack and slash with brief seconds of fast paced gameplay (remind you of anything?) Its fun in a Diablo kinda way but its a very very limited demo which may misrepresent the game as being very linear (I really do hope the missions get better) it has "Warts Leg" -it sold to vendor for like 6 Pal it has the loot chest/stash -its next to the merchant I get the impression that this is really more of a tech demo than a gameplay demo.

I dont know what causes it but ccleaner has always fixed it for me. if its office 2k7 then this might work http://wordprocessing.about.com/od/microso...savelocatio.htm and apparently you can do it with a Gp for 2k7 http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us...3.mspx?mfr=true

I would say give Ubuntu a try (Yeah I know its not a MS OS) but on a 233Mhz machine you options are limited to a community supported OS any way you go. (win 98 and ME are no longer supported and 2k is in extended support) http://www.ubuntu.com/products/WhatIsUbuntu/desktopedition

yeah ive had that before but if you clean out the MRU (most recently used) lists it'll fix the problem. I use Crap cleaner for that but there are tons of others. http://www.ccleaner.com/

downloading it now thanks for the heads up. Im gonna have to try it despite the 6/10 because between UT3, hellgate, and Spore there the only things I wanna play that ive seen for the PC lately.

Personally I have to disagree here - Windows should NEVER just BSOD, ever. If it does, don't ignore it . nah, if windows doesnt BSOD then how do you know its working? j/k I just say that because theres a difference between a BSOD on one my machine 'for no reason' and a BSOD on one of my users machines BSOD 'for no reason' on my machine = nothing running, system idle, no hardware changing states BSOD 'for no reason' by my users definition = Burning a cd of songs they just downloaded off Kazaa while unpluging their pen drive after deleting some files from the c:\windows folder that were 'taking up space'