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Yes, it is free. I know because I have a project on there myself.

Everytime that I click next from User Account, the program crashes. Exception Information Code: 0xc0000001d Flags: 0x00000000 Record: 0x0000000000000000 Address: 0x00000000004154a1 There's more information, but it will not let me do a copy/paste operation.

300MB? What did you get? The Library of Congress? The hotfix is 546KB, and it addresses ONLY this issue. It sounds like what you found was some kind of major update that includes numerous hotfixes. And yes, it was provided by Microsoft, and I downloaded it from a Microsoft website. The only thing that it does is enable a fourth button on the shutdown menu which is Hibernate. So instead of having this: You have this: I also developed a registry hack that will add it to Tools > Folder Options > View menu as well. That hack is below: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 ; part 1 - the actual setting for show hibernate on shutdown [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows] [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System] [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System\Shutdown] "ShowHibernateButton"=dword:00000001 ; part 2 - the menu item - to get to it, open any folder and go tools -> folder options -> view [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\System] "Bitmap"="SHELL32.DLL,22" "Text"="System Settings" "Type"="group" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\System\Hibernate] "CheckedValue"=dword:00000001 "DefaultValue"=dword:00000000 "HKeyRoot"=dword:80000002 "RegPath"="Software\\Policies\\Microsoft\\Windows\\System\\Shutdown" "ValueName"="ShowHibernateButton" "UncheckedValue"=dword:00000000 "Type"="checkbox" "Text"="Show Hibernate Button on Shutdown Menu" Later.

I use paint primarilly to convert one image format into another. And example would be a 1024x768x24 uncompressed BMP into a JPeg file. The bmp takes 2.25MB, The Jpec is 100-400K depending on the picture. It's also useful when downgrading the colors from 8 bit to 4 bit. But, if I need to do some serious graphics, then I go through the wait and fire up my CorelDRAW 12. Does the same as Photoshop, and the price tag is much much less.

It can be removed with nLite, etc... etc..., but since I'm installing from a DVD, I perfer to have everything there because you may neer know when someone might need something.

Sorry, but I can't post it here on the board. To do so would violate Microsoft's EULA and put this site in jepordy of being shutdown. Furthermore, this file is a restricted distribution and you must ask them for it like I did. It won't cost you anything because you are specifically requesting a hotfix that already exists even though it has not been published. All that you have to do is submit a support request via their website, give them your name, email, product id, and your problem/request, and they will assign you a case id. When a human reviews it, they will send you a email with the URL and the password to the file. I kinda understand why Microsoft has this hotfix on restricted access. It has not been properly tested so only they only give it to the people who request it. It's a legal thing because you install this hotfix with the knowledge that if it causes a problem, then it's your problem, not theirs. Basic CYA legal stuff. I'm under the impression that they will give it to anyone who asks for it without question, but you have to ask for it.

I'm glad that you could find it because I couldn't. I got a response from Microsoft for my support request. They gave me the URL and password for the file. The file is a self extracting zip file of some sort.

I put a contact to Microsoft to obtain this hotfix. Let's see what they say.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\PCHealth\ErrorReporting] "AllOrNone"=dword:00000000 "DoReport"=dword:00000000 "ShowUI"=dword:00000000 That should stop it. DoReport tells it whether to send an error report to Microsoft or not. ShowUI tells it whether to even popup the UI or not.

How do you use the shutdown reason codes for shutdown.exe? I have found the reason codes on Microsoft's website here, but the problem is the Major reson code. How do you translate the major reason code 0x00020000 into something that will be understood on the command line? I have tried something like this: shutdown -r -f -t 120 -d p:2:17 -c "Your computer has been updated." In the system log, I get this: Event Type: Information Event Source: USER32 Event Category: None Event ID: 1074 Date: 1/14/2006 Time: 11:15:29 PM User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM Computer: WORKSTATION1 Description: The process winlogon.exe has initiated the restart of WORKSTATION1 for the following reason: No title for this reason could be found Minor Reason: 0x11 Shutdown Type: reboot Comment: Your computer has been updated. For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp. Data: 0000: 11 00 02 80 ...€ Any ideas?

I'll check that tool out. Turns out that I have the SOURCE CODE for the takeown tool. It was in the Platform SDK that I have loaded on my machine for my software development stuff. I went through the source code, and it doesn't really do what I want it to do. All it does is set the owner to the Administrator and allows everyone full control over the filesystem opbject.

I have another issue dealing with filesystem permissions and ACLs. The problem is that I have a directory which every user has write access. The file heirarchy is as follows: \Program Files User Installed Software Software Archive Adabas StarOffice Winamp User ID #1 Adabas StarOffice Winamp Some other user installed program User ID #2 Adabas StarOffice Winamp Some other user installed program User ID #3 Adabas StarOffice Winamp Some other user installed program This is for programs that must be installed on a per-user basis. That's why this directory exists. Now the problem is all users must have write access to the User Installed Software directory in order for the initial logon script to create their directory and take ownership of it. They also have read only access to the Software Archive directory. I'm sure that you can see the security implications of this arrangement. I've been thinking of a solution to this problem, but I'm not coming up with anything. The main problems seems to be that the User Account management interface in the Control Panel does not offer any "hooks" so after it creates an account, it then calls a specified script to perform user specific functions before their initial logon. That would be ideal, because then the initial logon script could then just ask the user if they want to install the software. I have thought about using a command-line script to create the user id, create their software directory, set them as the owner, and give them full control of it. But the problem here is that I cannot set the owner to anyone except myself as the administrator. This means that the initial login script will have to take ownership of the directory when it runs. My questions are as follows: 1) After I create the user program directory, how do I set the ownership to that user? 2) Is there a way to tell the user accounts applet in the control panel to execute a script when a user is created? This should perferably work with the old Win2K user management interface. 3) Is there a better way of doing this? Am I barking up the wrong tree here?

Because Webshots is more than a screen saver. It's a image manager that works with their website and can set the background image on the desktop. I use it on my home machines. It's pretty nice for free software.

Ok... I gather that basically he is abandoning the project. That is his progative if he chooses to do it. But, the source code is available, which makes building your own version quite possible. I have no idea why SourceForge would reject his project proposal though. Kinda asnine on their end. They did accept my project though: Unix based IP/Domain tools. The google translator needs some work. My brain hurts after reading that translation.

New Information I have found that when you export the registry files for HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\StartMenuPage, that you can set a couple of the values to 0xFF and Windows will accept that. StartMenuPin.reg The values that you can do this to are ProgramsCache and FavoritesResolve. Notice that 0xff at the end. That is the end of list marker for the start menu. Doing it this way allows you to set the pinned items on the start menu to anything that you want, and it saves space as well. I'm not sure what FavoritesResolve does, but once set to 0xff, it does not change. I haven't noticed any problems with it though, so it's probably ok to leave it like that. ProgramsCache holds the information for every program that you have executed from either a icon or by Start->Run, and hence it can be very large. It seems though that FavoritesResolve follows ProgramsCache, or it could just be updated when you install a new program that registers itself. At any rate, it's Favorites that hold the actual data for the pinned start menu items. As to the record format, I'm still not sure. It seems to be an array of variable length structures. Variable length because of file names. The filenames are stored in Unicode format hence the ASCII character and the 0x00 byte. It appears that certian bytes may denote the size of the record or point to the beginning of the next record in sequence. That's about as far as I have gotten with it. Hopefully someone with a better clue will take the ball and run with it.

Yes, there is. You can install the modified reg file during T-12 or T-9 during GUIMode setup. Any registery changes during this point in the install become part of the default profile and will apply to all users when their accounts are created. Alternativly, you can change HKEY_CURRENT_USER to HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT in the reg file to write the values into the default profile during First Login when RunOnceEX executes.

Since I cannot read German, I don't know what it says. Can someone please post a translation? Thanks.

That was exactly what I was looking for. Thanks.

How do I set file/folder permissions from the command line in Windows XP Pro? Title Edited - Please follow new posting rules from now on. --Zxian

It is? Where? All that I see at the bottom of the page is Make a Donation, copyright info and hosting info.

How do you add items to the application database?

Through much searching, I found a couple of programs. We all know about createcd. I found on Google that there is a cdburn and dvdburn. You cannot use cdburn on a dvd and vise versa. These tools are in the Win2K3 Resource Kit which is available from Microsoft for no charge. I've been playing around with these tools and they seem to work quite well.

I personally like the built in WinXP defragmenting tool.

Does anyone know of a good CD/DVD burning program that works from the command line, and burns ISOs? I have looked at burncd, it has the features that I want, but it doesn't support ISOs. Any suggestions?

Sorry for the late reply. The only ELF that I know of is Extended Locatable File which is a UNIX executable. Why it has a .elf extension I have no idea. You can probably try going to a file extension database like filext.com. They have 3 ELF definitions there.