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neosapience

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  1. Even trying to recover deleted files that have been saved is not always possible. To my knowledge, it is not possible to recover files that were not saved.

    However, there is a teeny-tiny chance that the program your sister was using created 'temp' files of the documents she was working on. These are often left on the hard drive even after you delete the original document.

    Try looking around for .TMP in your Windows\Temp directory or your Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Local Settings\Temp directory (or possibly in the directory where she normaly saves her files). Or just search your hard drive for *.tmp files (but you may find more than you can imagine).

    You can try opening them using notepad or any other text editor.

  2. Perhaps there's a middle ground you can work towards. If you can figure out exactly what it is about Matlab that's causing the migration error, maybe you can find a temporary workaround while you install SP2.

    The problem could be caused by something as simple as a service running in the background or an incompatable DLL file. You could make a smiple script that could disable/remove the problem services/files. People could then run it before and after the SP2 install. You'd still get a lot of help desk calls, but it would decrease user downtime considerably.

    Or maybe the final release of SP2 will work without any trouble. :)

  3. Like most IQ tests, that one is wrong.

    There is absolutely nothing wrong with ANY of those emails, it's the websites they send you to that are fraudulent.

    And before you spout off about the links, I've had many legitimate companies send me emails with very similar links in them. While it may not be a good thing to do, it doesn't mean that the email is a fraud.

  4. Why would you want to get rid of desktop sidebar? It's a great program.

    Anyway, you should just be able to kill the process using the task manager, then uninstall the program normally (or delete the program directly). If you can't stop the process for some reason, try using CopyLock.

  5. Browsers are specificly designed to PREVENT people from running programs through them. If anyone could make a simple javascript that ran a program on your computer, it would allow hackers and other evildoers to kill peoples computers.

    If you want to learn windows automation scripting (which I personally recommend), try out AutoIt. You can easily make a simple script that will do exactly what you're asking for.

  6. part of my job is locking down workstations and setting security policies for network machines, and there are so many places to look and things to set that it's incredibly easy to miss something.

    This is why it's imperative to have a good written security policy. Keeping track of all the security patches, tweaks, programs, settings, etc... can be a huge task, but it's well worth it in the long run.

    bashy -

    If you don't have any alternatives and need to secure your network yourself, I'd suggest you start by heading over to Labmice.net and reading their security guides (particularly this one and this one.)

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