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Thanks, good find!

Try this program called macshift. http://devices.natetrue.com/macshift/

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Cdrom] "AutoRun"=dword:00000000

Yes. 500 GB is most definitely a 3.5" HD. The deal is that 3.5" hard drives can not draw enough power from USB so they always need an external AC power adapter. Inside your computer they plug into your power supply. Smaller 2.5" hard drives (such as those commonly used in laptops) don't require as much power and can therefore be powered by USB/firewire alone (sometimes they need to be simultaneously plugged into 2 USB ports.)

I believe that you can use the Office Resource Kit Tools for this kind of thing. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...&displaylang=en

Alternatively you can use psshutdown from Sysinternals. http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/PsShutdown.html psshutdown -d

If you are going to carry it around then I would recommend not getting any of the 3.5" versions. They always require an external power supply which is a bit of a pain. 2.5" and smaller drives can be powered by USB or firewire. Also reliability is a bit of an issue. I've had more problems with external drives than internal.

Here are the registry keys that I use to set my shell to Litestep. You should be able to to apply these to any other shell (provided you set the correct path.) Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon] "Shell"="C:\\PROGRA~1\\LITESTEP\\LITESTEP.EXE" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer] "DesktopProcess"=dword:00000001 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\IniFileMapping\system.ini\boot] "Shell"="USR:Software\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\Winlogon"

Here are the registry entries that you need to change. You could easily accomplish this with a logon script. Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\.Default\.Current] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\.Default\.Default] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\AppGPFault\.Current] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\AppGPFault\.Default] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\Close\.Current] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\Close\.Default] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\CriticalBatteryAlarm\.Current] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\CriticalBatteryAlarm\.Default] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\DeviceConnect\.Current] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\DeviceConnect\.Default] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\DeviceDisconnect\.Current] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\DeviceDisconnect\.Default] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\DeviceFail\.Current] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\DeviceFail\.Default] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\LowBatteryAlarm\.Current] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\LowBatteryAlarm\.Default] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\MailBeep\.Current] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\MailBeep\.Default] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\Maximize\.Current] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\Maximize\.Default] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\MenuCommand\.Current] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\MenuCommand\.Default] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\MenuPopup\.Current] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\MenuPopup\.Default] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\Minimize\.Current] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\Minimize\.Default] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\Open\.Current] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\Open\.Default] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\PrintComplete\.Current] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\PrintComplete\.Default] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\RestoreDown\.Current] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\RestoreDown\.Default] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\RestoreUp\.Current] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\RestoreUp\.Default] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\SystemAsterisk\.Current] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\SystemAsterisk\.Default] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\SystemExclamation\.Current] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\SystemExclamation\.Default] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\SystemExit\.Current] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\SystemExit\.Default] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\SystemHand\.Current] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\SystemHand\.Default] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\SystemNotification\.Current] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\SystemNotification\.Default] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\SystemQuestion\.Current] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\SystemQuestion\.Default] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\SystemStart\.Current] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\SystemStart\.Default] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\WindowsLogoff\.Current] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\WindowsLogoff\.Default] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\WindowsLogon\.Current] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\WindowsLogon\.Default] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\Explorer\BlockedPopup\.current] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\Explorer\BlockedPopup\.default] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\Explorer\EmptyRecycleBin\.Current] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\Explorer\EmptyRecycleBin\.Default] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\Explorer\Navigating\.Current] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\Explorer\Navigating\.Default] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\Explorer\SecurityBand\.current] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\Explorer\SecurityBand\.default] @=""

LAME with these settings should give perceptual transparency for almost everything (while maintaining a decent bitrate.) -V 2 --vbr-new

I recommend pskill. http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/PsKill.html

Use Terminal Services.

Or use this: #NoTrayIcon

Look in this policy to disable the command prompt: User Configuration, Administrative Templates, System To disable the registry editor you can use a software restriction policy to block regedit.exe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Php