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You can do changes to the registry to that effect. Just make a reg file and call it using reg command on a batch file. As for the keys to change on registry... HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ Explorer\StuckRects2 Value Name: Settings Value Type: REG_BINARY Value Data: (Mine) hex:28,00,00,00,ff,ff,ff,ff,02,00,00,00,03,00,00,00,6b,00,00,00,1e,\ 00,00,00,fe,ff,ff,ff,e4,02,00,00,02,04,00,00,02,03,00,00 SINGLE OPTIONS: 08 = No Settings Enabled 09 = Auto Hide 00 = Show Clock 0A = Always on Top 0C = Show small icons in Start Menu MULTIPLE OPTIONS: 01 = Auto Hide and Show Clock 02 = Always on Top and Show Clock 03 = Always on Top and Auto Hide and Show Clock 04 = Show small icons in Start Menu and Show Clock 0E = Always on Top and Show small icons in Start Menu 0F = Always on Top and Auto Hide and Show small icons in Start Menu 06 = Always on Top and Show small icons in Start Menu and Show Clock 07 = All Options Enabled 0B = Always on Top and Auto Hide 0D = Auto Hide and Show small icons in Start Menu The value you want to change is the 9th binary value. To test it, you don't need to restart or logout, just ctrl+alt+del, kill explorer and start it up again. hope it helps. cogumel0

Go to event viewer and see if any errors appear there, most probably there will be some mention to that. (start > run > eventvwr.msc)

Ok, finally managed to connect to the machine and find some more info: Userenv errors on eventvwr 1058 and 1030. I checked userenv.log and it basically says it couldn't get the GP to update since it couldn't access the sysvol. I think this is to do with GP basically.

No, it is a Compaq, and it's a desktop. Also, it's obviously not connected through wireless.

Hi, I've come across the strangest problem and was hoping someone could just help out a bit. Basically, I got this computer that, when restarted, takes 20m to get into the network. As in, I can't ping it. You can't login to the domain but are still able to login locally obviously. If you do an ipconfig, it returns a valid network ip address and you can ping google and go to websites, but cannot access the server and I cannot ping it. Even more strange, if you try to go to network connections, the network connections form just turns blank, as in not responding. After around 20 minutes, I can ping the machine again, it can join the domain and the network connection window responds properly. Also, during the time you can't access network connections, alg.exe is not started nor can it be started manually (comes up with an error message) as well as other services for network. Once it actually becomes pingable, it will work fine until restarted, when the issue starts again. I've tried using both fix ip addresses and dynamic, does not change anything. Now, when I looked at this, I automatically though hardware issues with the network card... but the problem is this has happened to 5 totally different PCs in about two weeks time, which kind of lead me to rule that out. If you try to login onto the domain when it's not pingable, it will just stay there for the whole 20m saying "loading profile" or something like that. As soon as the machine becomes pingable, it will login in less than 10 seconds. If you then log out and log back in without restarting, it takes about 10 seconds to go back in. Any ideas would be really appreciated.

You can use shutdown command to shutdown a remote computer. Normally what I do is "shutdown -f -m \\machine -t 00 -r" -f = force switch, causes applications to close down without asking for confirmation (such as, there is unsaved data, do you want to save) -m = specifies remote machine, ie: -m \\192.168.0.1 -t = specified, in seconds, how soon the command will be executed, 00 means it gets executed immediately -r = restart command, you can also do -s to shutdown (just don't use -r and -s at the same time, of course). You cannot, however, do a remote logout using this command. Hope this helps at all

Hi All, I know I can change the shell from explorer to something else, but the way that I know is by changing the registry on the local machine node, which means it affects the machine rather than the user. I am actually looking for a way of doing this on a per-user basis (without any login scripts that close explorer after it's been launched, therefore only going round the problem, and not truly fixing it). The idea is to have the shell explorer.exe replaced by outlook.exe, as that's the program that I want to run at startup and the only program I want users to have access to. One last thing, if anyone knows, is there a way of, without an external program, setting it up so that if outlook (or any other program for that matter) is ever closed, it logs out the user? Cheers, cogumel0