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sorry pthomas, I was on trip for my work .... Many users on my network are bad on computers. I thought of that just for better maintenance, adn I didn't know if this was possible to program... For the renaming problem, it is not a problem..... I have to give write access for example on c:\ , but I soon as i made that, many users saved their .doc file on root directory....I don't want that! they have to be disciplined. :-)

I can be usefull when for example you want to allow the computer writing .tmp file on c:\ partition, but restrict the user (with only user rights) not writing his documents there. We can't do that with acl's I think. I don't want to schedule a file deletion, but a restriction of writing there. For example I don't want them to save downloaded virused .exe files in their documents zone, but they would be able to save their .doc , xls, pdf....., would be some kind of security..... another example, I have to let write access to c:\ for administrative working tasks, but when I let them write there, they polluate the computer with their files, and it is very hard to save their data from a computer to another...

I'm working in a school and wanted to oblige people to save their documents in specified directories so that they don't polluate the system partition with pdf files or xls files. It is also easier to backup disks when moving user to other computer and so on.... anybody else have ideas?

hi, Just wanted to know if an ACL program which is able to authorise /or not the writing of special file type in a folder, for exemple c:\docs will only be able to store .doc file, or user can only write .doc files in this folder? OR is it possible to write a program to manage this? Thank you for your answers :-) Sn00f

ok, thank you for your advices. Personaly I also use S: drive letter at home....And I know change harddrive letters causes Problem... But actually those responsible didn't want to change that.... But I'll try to change that ;-) Thank you very much GreenMachine

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Hi, As I asked in a previous topic, I wanted to try XP unattended method in order to install windows 2000 Pro. I'm building the cd at this time. But I have another question: Can I change the hard driver letter automatically during installation ? I explain: I have a new hard drive and I wanted to format c:\drive (autopartition = 0) and create a second partition. This second partition will be d:\ when arriving on desktop. Unfortunately my company wants d:\ drive to be e:\ for DATA and the CD-rom be d:\ -> c:\ : system d:\ CD-ROM e:\ DATA I would like to make a script or something like that to format the second drive (if it is a brand new harddisk drive (a batch file asks the user)), change the drive letter from D:\ to E:\ and copy folders to that drive OR (still the same batch) do nothing and waits the end of the windows installation if it is a used harddisk drive (OS reinstallation) and all this automatically during or after windows installation Thank you all for you answers

thank you for your help. I didn't know there were so many tools like that lol, think I got some days to read all that mess I'll give backup as soon as I have answers :-) BBL :-)

Hi, I work in a school and we would like to buy or try a deployment tool. We have 600+ machines actually on w2k, several hardware, and several variety of software. Users have user rights, some power user rights... We actually use Norton Ghost 7.5 Corporate edition, but this doesn't do all the job we want. Is there a simple tool for deploy patches, hotfixes (kbXXXXXX, qXXXXXX )on client machines without tell the user to click somewhere or do something. They just don't have to do anything ( don't even see what happens if this exists (silent install)). And also we would like to know if these patches were deployed or not (logs or something like that). I'm new to this technology, and didn't try another tool than ghost. Could someone help me please? Thanks in advance.

Thank you for your answers! I'll change that XP to w2k and try ! :-)

Oh thank you AaronXP for your fast answer!! I already used this guide for My home XP installation, but didn't know if this worked with my w2k work installations Thank you again for your great work!

Hi, I just have one question: Does the ultimate XP CD guide work with windows 2000 Professionnal, when I already slipstreamed SP4? I mean with media player 9 for w2k, all apps, w2k answer file and hotfixes for win2k just the command line options, reg paths, Adding Users & Auto Logon? Are these all compatible? Thanx in advance.