Marsden

Boot from your legit copy of XP. Select the 2nd Repair option after selecting Install. This will preform an Upgrade in Place. After hardware discovery you will be prompted for your legit product key, enter it and continue with the repair install. Your user settings will be the same and your data and installed programs will be untouched. Reapply all Hot Fixes and SP2.

Are you making regular backups?

I move several 7 to 8 GB backup files around every night. DVDs are nothing...

Const ForReading = 1 strInputFile = "C:\ComputerList.txt" Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set objTextStream = objFSO.OpenTextFile(strInputFile, ForReading) arrComputers = Split(objTextStream.ReadAll, vbCrLf) objTextStream.Close Set StdOut = WScript.StdOut On Error Resume Next For Each strComputer In arrComputers Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" & _ "{impersonationLevel=Impersonate}!\\" _ & strComputer & "\root\cimv2") If Err.Number Then StdOut.WriteLine "ERROR: " & strComputer & _ " [WMI connection failed]" Err.Clear Else WScript.Echo "Computer " & strComputer & vbNewLine Set colPnPDevices = objWMIService.ExecQuery _ ("Select * from Win32_PnPEntity",,48) For Each objPnP in colPnPDevices Wscript.Echo "Name: " & objPnP.Name Next End If Next

That pretty much sums it up where I live... 12 machines that are 5 desktops, 7 servers, 3 kids and a wife and not a single virus in 20 years!!! That makes it secure enough for me and my family. Caveats... never ran a copy of Win98, 98se, or Me. Total crap! We run SBS 2003 Premium. It works!

Other helpful hints... MS recomends some serious hardware if you are going to use more than 3 Media Center Extenders like: CPU- 3.4GHz RAM- 1GB minimum Component Video (red, green, and blue connectors) are your best connections. MS recommends wired network connectivity. If you use wireless then you want 802.11A or 802.11G with "A" prefered over "G", and you can forget "B." B does not have the bandwidth for streaming media.

CDs and DVDs playing on the MCE cannot be listened to or watched on the extenders. Media Center Extenders cannot access any desktop functionality available to the MCE PC. Media Center Extenders can play videos in the MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and WMV9 formats. Media Center Extender supports remote playback of content that is protected by Personal Digital Rights Management (PDRM) and Windows Media DRM (WMDRM). You can play the following types of protected content. --WMA audio ripped, or copied from a CD using Windows MP with the Copy protect music check box selected. --Premium content WMA music downloaded from websites. --Premium content WMV videos downloaded from websites. TV content that the broadcaster has marked with Copy Generation Management System -- Analog (CGMS-A) bits cannot be viewed on Media Center Extender. This feature may be allowed in a future release of MCE.

Use Diskeeper "Set It and Forget It" and then no need to logon.

Large memory address space... initial support up to 32 gigabytes (GB) of RAM and up to 16 terabytes of virtual memory. Physical memory support will grow in the future as hardware capabilities expand.

There is a huge difference between "can't" and "won't"... I'm not bashing anything. Sometimes the solution to a problem is to move forward. Brings up the question on how many times to you want to beat the dead horse around the block... Are we really helping 98 users by applying more duct tape and bailing wire on a 8 year old OS?

What Screen Settings and LAN setting have you chosen on the RDP profile?

Not with the Ctrl-Alt-Del...

How about upgrading to a real operating system with real USB support? XP is you friend!

Better to throw 98 out and move forward...

Try a journaling file system which is less prone to file corruption. You don't have that protection under 9X anything! NTFS allows YOU to choose your cluster size to fit your needs. 98 sticks you with 4K and that's it. If you can't make ANY application of any flavor (DOS, Win95, 98, 98SE, Me) run on XP then you don't know what the hell you are doing. There is a tool out there... the Compatibility Administration Tool located on your XP CD and can be found in the \Support\Tools folder. Everyone has excuses why they can't do this and that... user ignorance is not the fault of your OS. If you have been using 98 for the last 7 to 8 years and have not bothered to save up for a newer system... that is your problem. By my figures you can get a new system from Dell for under $500 bucks. $500 by 8 years is only $62.50 a year! That is all you would have had to save to be able to afford a new system. That's about 3 movies for two people a year. That is not a huge cost to bare. Can't afford a new system... please whine to the figure in the mirror... the blame is on you! There is no business logic to justify Win98 with all it's short comings and lack of security, especially in today's hostile Internet environment.

Wishful thinking and completely unsupported...

Instead of worrying whether 98SE or Me will support NTFS, just upgrade to Win2K or XP and problem solved. Win98SE and Me get older every day...

You might try the RSOP (Resultant Set of Policies) tool that MS offers included in Win2K3 AD. This tool allows you to play with group policy objects and see the affects your changes have before actually screwing your network up. Open Microsoft Management Console. On the File menu, click Add/Remove Snap-in. On the Standalone tab, click Add. In the Available Standalone Snap-in box, click Resultant Set of Policy, and then click Add.

Basic to Dynamic is a one way conversion process. If you convert to Dynamic and decide you don't like it... you are reformatting and starting over. One of the cool things with Dynamic disks is the ability to hot swap and extend your volumes on the fly... well almost anyway... Extends the volume with focus into next contiguous unallocated space. A dynamic simple or spanned volume can be extended to any empty space on any Dynamic disk. Using the DISKPART command, you can extend an existing volume into newly created space. Using a command line Open Command Prompt. Type: diskpart At the DISKPART prompt, type: list volume Make note of the number of the simple volume you want to extend onto another disk. At the DISKPART prompt, type: select volume n Selects the simple volume, n, you want to extend onto another disk. At the DISKPART prompt, type: list disk Make note of the number of the disk that you want to extend the simple volume onto. At the DISKPART prompt, type: extend [size=n] [disk=n] You cannot extend a system volume, boot volume, stripped volume, mirrored volume, or RAID 5 volume.

Unlike RAID-0, there is no preprocessing done on the data before it is sent to the hard drives. Instead, with RAID-1, a duplicate of everything written to drive 0 is written to its mirror drive at the same time. The benefit of RAID-1 is that if one drive fails, you have a perfectly working backup that can take over until you have replaced the failed drive. You have effectively doubled a single hard drive's mean time between failure by using two in a RAID-1 array. You'll notice that this is the exact opposite of RAID-0, but the downside to RAID-1 is that you spend twice as much on hard drives without getting any additional capacity or performance, just reliability. If you do insist on getting two drives, you are much better off putting them into a RAID-1 array to have a live backup of your data. The performance hit of RAID-1 is just as negligible as the performance gains of RAID-0, but the improvement in reliability is worthwhile... unless you're extremely unlucky and both of your drives die at the exact same time.

ISA 2004 trusts ZERO networks. External or internal makes no difference. ISA 2004 is completely different than what was available with ISA Server 2000. Most importantly, there is no longer a LAT. That’s right, there is no LAT. The next major point regarding the ISA firewall’s Networking model is how it performs spoof detection. The ISA firewall uses its Network definitions to determine if a packet is spoofed. If a network interface defined as the root of an ISA firewall Network receives a packet that isn’t directly reachable from that interface, as defined by the Windows routing table, then the packet is considered spoofed. The practical result of this spoof detection mechanism is that all IP addresses directly reachable from a NIC on the ISA firewall must be defined as part of the same ISA firewall Network. Another side effect of this spoof detection mechanism is that you need to use Direct Access for host to host communications on the same ISA firewall Network. One way to think of an ISA firewall Network is that the ISA firewall doesn’t perform stateful packet and stateful application layer inspection on communications between hosts on the same ISA firewall Network.

Definately port forwarding! If you want a secure FTP client, then you want WinSCP3...

Look here for the MSN Newsgroup: MSN Messenger Newsgroup

What happens when you run ipconfig /release and then ipconfig /renew from the CMD prompt?

I would highly advise against opening Port 23 for FTP. Once you open that port every port sniffer on the net will be hammering your connection...