JonWatson

Brilliant as always Gosh, thanks very much!

I have been working on a batch file that does various spyware scans (I found a great script on Anandtech and modified it and added quite a bit of stuff to suite my needs), and I'd love to be able to have it start automatically when it goes into safe mode. How on earth would I do this? Thanks guys! Jon

Brilliant guys, this is super helpful!

It's true, it could be a poor way to do it in the future. However I don't foresee Microsoft making any changes like that to XP, especially after SP3 is out. Vista might be another question, but for now I'm not too worried about it. We don't really roll out a lot of Vista machines. We are based (for now) in a very... simple town, to put it nicely. It's a logging community that grew, basically. Lots of old retired lumberjacks with various missing apendages. For now, so it's not so rube goldberg, I'm using the net stop method. What we're doing is very basic, so I'm not worried. Thanks for the input though, I'll definitely keep it in mind in the future! Jon

I don't know Gosh... I don't think you can get much more efficient than typing "net stop" and "net start"! Cool idea though

You guys rock. Here's something ironic... I sent a customer home with a new computer the other day and he installed a second hard drive with another install of windows on it (and it was screwed up a bit...). Needless to say, his new Windows installation got a bit confused (as did said customer) and things got a little messed up. So he thought he'd run System Restore and try and fix things. Well, he had rushed me to get it done far too quickly and I neglected to reset System Restore (bad idea! I've learned my lesson)... now he has bad clusters all over his restore files, and it's even worse because he restored to a point when his system was incomplete! Point being...I encourage all technicians and system builders to use the NET STOP and START method (or whichever you find easiest) and make sure that service gets reset!!! Thanks again guys Jon

Wonderful, thank you both for your ideas! I don't know why I didn't think of the NET STOP solution... it's been a long day!

Hey guys, Here at the shop, when we install windows a-fresh, the last thing we do (next to scandisk and defrag) is clearing the system restore. To do this we simply turn it off, then turn it back on again. I am in the process of automating our whole software installation/configuration procedure, and I'd like to be able to do that systemrestore thing in batch/registry. Thanks in advance for your help! Jon