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I hope I didn't miss something but are you specifying IP address in dotted form? Also is this system SP2? Not that I have answers but it might help other readers

Here's an Outlook Express remover. You'll want to closely examine it since it's a few years old, but OE has changed very very little (not at all?) since I wrote it.

Dumb question. Did anyone do a full file extract with a /X and compare the IE DLL's to see if this SP2 does something unexpected, like applying IE6 DLLs (hences the no-IE7 warning?) (I can remember back in the days when we used to ask "why would a server need a web browser?" HAHA)

You can look into IntelliAdmin. It might help. I have used it, it's a small remote control application. (Yes, there are free alternatives, I know. I needed something that even installed remotely... and this actually does. Pretty cool, eh? To verify a software update, there is also attaching to a remote registry and looking to see if the new programs' key values are in place.

In 2k? Here is my best guess. They make changes on their home machine, export a copy of the registry (maybe use a reg comparison program) and convert the resulting REG file to an INF file. Then they bring the INF file in and right-click and install it. Then they use task manager to "End Process" Explorer.exe under the Processes tab, then restart it using "New Task" under Application tab. (Or log out and log back in). Maybe. Or maybe someone has the admin password. Can you install an INF file without admin rights? I honestly can't recall.

The wikipedia also has a succinct description. Their website IMO doesn't really tell you what the product actually does. Huh?? Competitve needs? Will it "leverage my proactive future-proof infrastructures" and "uniquely empower value-added imperatives?" Bottom line it lets many people use programs running on one computer. The licenses for running MS Office on every single person's computer can get expensive.

Service Pack 2 So... who's gonna be first to test it out on their server?

It wants ASPI. I am going to assume some expertise with Windows from this point onward. You can hack up the NT4 files to add the SCSI driver and ASPI but it is an arduous task. You wouldn't need the floppy though. Grab ASPI here Add it to the installation files, TXTSETUP etc. You shouldn't need to register it. In SYSSETUP, find [DeviceInfsToInstall]. Parse your SCSI driver's INF file to ensure it will install without incident. You can use a Win2k driver if you have to, but if you can find a native NT4 driver, use it. Add the name of the SCSI driver files (and the INF) to the setup file also (TXTSETUP, DOSNET, etc etc etc) This details the $OEM$ method. nLite will also do this for you but I don't know how the feature works as I have never used that feature. Hope this helps

yeah, i want to see them after you've run WITH the flash cab. just for curiosity's sake.

Well of course this post got my attention. No IE? That's a good thing! (Relax, I'm joking) Make sure Explorer shows invisible files. Are those folders truly empty? I won't go into the hows and whys but sometimes, under certain circumstances, the progs are installed but are hidden. Can you send me your IE.IN_, MSOE*.IN_, and syssetup.inf files? Just email 'em to me and I'll have a look, I'm curious about this.

Adopt a written policy with the CEO's sign-off that it's inappropriate misuse of the company's computers. Issue warning when it's installed. Tell supervisors that iPods can act as USB drives, and that can be a security risk (maybe not where you are though). Tell people that bringing MP3's to work is no problem, listening at work is no problem, but iTunes is going over the line -- managing your music collection at work? Grabbing bandwidth and downloading music from the iTunes store? No f-ing way! Another practical solution. Obviously you are in an org where people get admin rights to their machines for whatever reason. Which can boost morale, and can create IT headaches. I don't let my users have admin rights (though I do liberally allow all sorts of apps if they ask) but perhaps try this. Try replacing a critical DLL with an earlier version. Or resedit one and just muck it up... a little bit. Make the software crash. A Lot. If your boss is going to insist that all users have root on their boxes and you have to be the grown up in Romper Room policing after n00bs who load their machines with malware (or worse, don't, because they are advanced home users and do more "sophisticated" stuff like run VPNs that they don't tell you about or pull port forwarding tricks to keep you from seeing their pr0n downloads when they hit Usenet) then you have no choice. This is a game where the odds are against you. Wanna win? All you have is subterfuge, and I'd recommend making an INF and running it on startup that removes iTunes registry data by deleting iTunes keys so even reinstalls don't work for them. Put a shortcut in startup... %SystemRoot%\system32\rundll32.exe setupapi.dll,InstallHinfSection DefaultInstall 128 %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\youritunesregistrykiller.inf ...and call it something innocent and have it do nothing at all for a few weeks so they aren't suspicious. Here are some keys for you to kill to get you started. Note that no names of DLLs appear, nor do any searchable strings, so clever users can't easily pick out what this file is [Version] signature="$Windows NT$" ClassGUID={00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000} SetupClass=Base LayoutFile=layout.inf [DefaultInstall] AddReg = keys.add DelReg = keys.del [keys.add] [keys.del] HKCR,"AppID\{3AA2E692-0A50-496B-A91B-9F7AF63B3511}" HKCR,"AppID\{5011B6DE-E9FA-4518-B5E5-45DE9DD2CDC6}" HKCR,"CLSID\{063D34A4-BF84-4B8D-B699-E8CA06504DDE}" HKCR,"CLSID\{08A6AF6A-8FF2-4a3b-BECF-C2FAC8630BBF}" HKCR,"CLSID\{0A25C695-3765-4B37-9455-4B1C113C2C04}" HKCR,"CLSID\{20ADDA11-8287-44D0-8C63-27CDA87ACC46}" HKCR,"CLSID\{368F81BC-9439-41A8-B532-39C8D7E7D147}" HKCR,"CLSID\{5bdb98cc-b3f5-4d33-9a91-cbc986bea087}" HKCR,"CLSID\{62A560B8-09DB-4cc6-AE1B-9D8F7ADDB8F3}" HKCR,"CLSID\{6C2589C3-96F8-4863-A511-9C33EB2C7E2A}" HKCR,"CLSID\{7312c0a0-a397-4a19-b432-9ac90c4466af}" HKCR,"CLSID\{80EE9910-D470-4AED-AC5D-987046FDB574}" HKCR,"CLSID\{8bb882d5-de37-4630-84e9-cc4bd7c44cb1}" HKCR,"CLSID\{aa9c1a1e-b91a-424e-9e27-3f1967b707f1}" HKCR,"CLSID\{aef7e664-dc9b-48b2-8b35-5422d3f08c77}" HKCR,"CLSID\{B33927D0-89E6-45D8-87C7-27F3DE3EFDE6}" HKCR,"CLSID\{B8DF592B-DE05-49f5-BB21-084F548F12A9}" HKCR,"CLSID\{d4704c9e-adbf-411a-9ef2-87feb99ccf69}" HKCR,"CLSID\{D719897A-B07A-4C0C-AEA9-9B663A28DFCB}" HKCR,"CLSID\{e73e119c-be36-4693-8a47-88c16829008c}" HKCR,"CLSID\{F7A782D3-2DDD-4327-BB70-0D1D0F1E38B0}" As an IT guy I don't advocate killing morale but iTunes seems over the top to me. An iPod is one thing. But buying music and managing your collection is another.

; AppWiz does not work as a cpanel applet without IE Ohhh!! See I needed context. That's pretty clever. I will email for more detailed info and probably include it in my fileset.You say "... in progress" so let me know how it goes. I really dont' recall. I have no notes about this. Try it and see. I doubt it could hurt anything. I probably left it thinking (I am not sure, this is a maybe) that the Windows CLSID would point to the default browser -- in this case Firefox or Opera -- and any apps that want to display HTML using the native CLSID would therefore be associated with FF or Opera. Probably that is what I was going for. No. You have to delete it in one INF and add it in an entirely different one. Which is easy because IE.INF is first to exectue. AXANT5.INF would probably be a good one to add to I think. It already has some stuff necessary for an install. I am making vegetable soup. Not that that's important. I just wanted everyone to know that.

? I don't understand what this is? Isn't this file normally not in Windows? Isn't it Bankem? http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/trojan.bankem.html

"New member" bump for 2007.

Tomcat76 (you or your brother) how about this at 47 (drools) Whitehorses, you have to get a converter you plug it right in! Can't wait for TAiN's barbecue, Benedict was e-mailing TommyP about some problem he was having with HFSLIP, I guess that's how the invite started. He demanded a deposit when he found out that the HFSLIP mascot is an incontinent monkey. FDV, who is posting from an Internet cafe outside of Brimfield (don't tell the community!)

But Carole Bouquet is fifty!

Yes, and now I'm using Kubuntu (for real) I hear Alanis is already composing a new album full of songs about how badly TommyP neglects here in favor of writing VistaSlip First call Paz, then hang up. Then call Carole and then decide I really DO like grilled cheese, call Paz back.

Hey man http://langeek.org/request.php?7 I did not test it. Dunno if it still works. Must put it in the HFSVCPACK Directory. And here, for no apparent reason, is a picture of me near a glacier with my pants down.

I think Wendy did something with this a while back... PM her, I think she's got info about this. Of course I need to point out that jondercik is 100% right in that NT does not support slipstreaming like 2000 and above. Way back when, when I was installing NT a lot, I got Terminal Server. It had SP3 already integrated -- it came that way from MS. Anyway, I manually replaced loads of files with the SP5 versions (file drivers I assumed to be most important). I got BSODs... so I scaled back and back until I had replaced maybe half. Once installed, the OS was not stable until I installed SP6a and all hotfixes. I recall it took forever finding the right balance of original versus replaced files to get a version that would install without a BSOD. I would say 'don't bother trying to do this manually' with the exception of replacing file driver files. In case you were going to try this manually

The technical reasons behind this are too long to go into here, but trust when we say that it IS fully slipstreamed. For really real. Windows Update scans for Registry entries, not file versions. The proper files are in place. HFSLIP even slipstreams the new and unimproved DX9 binaries that MS issues every month with developer tools that bloat your machine, if you want to use that package.

Bilou_Gateux keeps a list in the HFSLIP forum here. He hasn't updated for January; you might want to drop him a PM and ask him to do so. He's pretty responsive.

allright. let me have a few days to remedy this. i'll fix my fileset and put a fix on my site to restore the association. meanwhile buy a calendar for 2007. it's for a good cause. i am friends with the covergirl but i can't say that any of the others are worth looking at because i don't know them, heh...

Nope. Not that. I wonder where fdv is? Uhh... Wha? Puts down his pimp cup, puts on glasses Ok... Hm. Well, since the fileset six months ago and now, I did do some extra house cleaning. One of the things I did was remove the URL association. Could that be it? What I mean is, you know those Internet Explorer blue "e" icons, with the hidden three letter file type .URL? They are also known as "Internet Shortcuts." Because two exploits made use of them -- buffer overflows -- I delete this filetype so that double-clicking doesn't launch a browser. Since IE is gone anyway it's not really necessary and doesn't add much protection to the user. The way to undo what I am typing about is to create a text file and give it a URL extension, double click, and associate with Opera, Firefox, whatever. It will error out but the URL filetype will be corrected. Other than that, I am not sure only because I don't know what you're clicking to submit results. Let me know more and I'll try to track this issue down further. And now, for absolutely no reason, a hot older woman.

Happy Haile Selassie! Ech, I need sleep.